congressman jack kingston up against businessman david purdue this is for the saxby chambliss seat theywill replace michelle nunn. this will be interesting to watch. we will have update throughout the night on that race. thanks for inviting us for "special report" tonight. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. here is greta. >> crisis after crisis exploding in ukraine. in israel and right here at home at the u.s. border and now expanding across the nation. so where is president obama in in the middle of all of this? jumping on air force one and fundraiser hopping. congressman alan west takes the president to task in just minutes. first, more grim news for president obama. a giant legal set back for obamacare. >> huge day for the rule of law here. >> this is a big blow to obamacare. >> this decision ultimately could gut the heart out of obamacare. >> if this ruling stays in place. it would essentially obliterate obamacare. >> all of the people that got subsidies healthcare.gov are essentially in violation of the law.

casey, this is a very big deal race now, the saxby chambliss seat. >> it is. with something of an unwelcome surprise for the campaign that perdue pulled out at the last minute is upsetting for her because perdue carves this lane for her that she was a volunteer and who could run away from washington and running against jack. her challenge going forward, perdue is pivoting already trying to tag her with an up popular president and she's going to have to walk a careful line of criticizing the president's policies but not at the same time alienating the voter base that she needs to get out here and she needs to expand the electorate in the atlanta suburbs and african-american voters there. i think in the bigger picture, if you step back a little bit, the outcome of this primary is not necessarily what democrats wanted in the beginning. if they had been running against a rep paul brown or some of the tea party candidates, this poe tn tensionally would have potentially would have been an easier race for her. >> kasie hunt all over the case, thank you very much. >>

thanks to senators chambliss and wicker. senator mccain? >> thanks to senator chambliss and wicker. shows if we live long enough that -- thank you, general dunford, and -- >> this is an in joke. i have to explain all this. >> it's the only appropriate mark of respect that i have ever gotten from them, my two colleagues. i thank you. i thank you, general dunford, for your outstanding service. we've had the opportunity of encountering many times over the past 12, 13, 14 years, and i appreciate your service. and i really am reluctant to get back into this, but, you know, the -- people keep trying to say that, you know, in 2008, we said we'd have everybody out, that we really wanted to stay in iraq. and the fact is that the president of the united states, there was never any public statement the president made, the united states made, saying he wanted to stay and have a residual force in iraq. the fact is, senator graham and i were there and know full well if we had really wanted to, we could have kept a residual force there and paid a heavy price for not doing so, and we were on the gr

this is an open senate seat being vacated by saxby chambliss.he winner will face democrat michelle nunn the daughter of former georgia senator sam nunn in the general election. let's go to senior national correspondent john roberts who has been following this race from atlanta. good evening. >> good evening, bret. you would expect jack kingston is winning the south and the state of georgia. his district is in the coastal city of savanah david perdue is winning mostly the central and northern part of the state. however, i just got off the phone from the matt who runs the insider polling in atlanta. he suggests that prerace kingston is underperforming could be a big problem for him. big four counties still ready to report a will the of the cobb, decatur and fulton, whoever takes those counties. i talked to both of those candidates, i said to them regardless hough wins, will you support the other person? they both said absolutely. bret? >> thanks, john. stay with us all evening at america's election headquarters. we have results as they come in. ba

we'll speak to senators saxby chambliss, john boone and tim kaine later in the program. >>> plus a brooklyn bridge mystery. what went on here? white flags flying high along the east river on the brooklyn bridge? who put them there and why. >>> up next, the field is said for georgia's u.s. senate race. are both sides taking a page from the 2012 playbook. first bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> it hasn't been the hottest of summers. we've seen little periods here and there. no prolonged heat. what we are watching do day, one very hot day across the country and then, just like that, the cool will return. so here is the pattern across the country. the one spot that is hot and will stay hot over the inner mountain west. we have one little surge of heat and humidity coming up the east coast. for areas from virginia through new england, you can feel it this morning when you step outside. today it's going to be hot. we'll be about 92 in d.c., 90 in new york city. we haven't had many 90-degree days. only one in central park. this will probably be the second. look at chicago. that's the co

chambliss: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. chambliss: mr. president, i rise with my colleague, senator isakson, today in support of judge julie carnes who has been nominated by the president to serve as a circuit court judge for the 11th judicial circuit. judge carnes has been a federal district court judge for the northern district of georgia since 1992, and she has been the court's chief judge since 2009. her time on the district court has prepared her well for going to the 11th circuit, but her preparation started long before she was confirmed to her current seat on the northern district bench. for starters, being a judge is in her blood. as senator isakson referenced, her father charlie carnes was many things to many people. he was a navy veteran, a state legislator, and a loving father, but for those of us in the georgia legal community from whence i came, we remember him best for his 20 years of service as a fulton county state court judge, the last 17 years of which he served as chief judge. after growing up in atlanta, judge julie ca

feinstein and i don't i mean i you have your but i assume she was a person who jumped in there was saxby chamblissactually charged leahy you know he was basically saying that he it's going to be difficult to pass the bill in the senate because he wants a full complete debate remember the senate was got like a week to get this bill through right now and he says he just doesn't want to hear you know senator leahy side of it so you're seeing the pushback already from various minister and you mention this let's talk about the timing because we're inching really close to the august recess that all congress members are going to be taking can this realistically get passed and what happens if it does well it can if they if they kind of you know put themselves in the gear and do it if it becomes a priority i mean leahy chose to kind of step commuting go right to the floor with the bill. leave the way congress is gone about you know their activities in the last years i would be very surprised if we don't get this passed by the end of the week you know it might be more of kind of leahy just saying look i tri

government the bill which was written by senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein and senator saxby chambliss has been dubbed cis up or the cyber security information protection act keep in mind this is a lot like cispa controversial cybersecurity bill from last year so would strengthen and legitimize the n.s.a.'s surveillance programs allowing sweeping data mining of internet users in the u.s. and force companies to hand over private data without a search warrant already the bill has been heavily scrutinized by privacy advocacy groups who say the legislation lays out broad deaf. missions that could be open to abuse for one they say it lacks department of homeland security oversight and they argue it doesn't include a mechanism that ensures user data won't be shared with agencies like the n.s.a. who could use it for non cyber security purposes of course that concern is heightened now just a year after the release of thousands of n.s.a. documents outlining the full extent of u.s. surveillance programs today's bill passed in a twelve to three vote and a full vote is expected later this year. it

purdue is up 50 to 49%, and the winner of today's run off faces saxby chambliss who is retiring and we will keep you updated through the hour. new developments tonight. the state department's failure to secure things and ungodly. hillary state department had been warned not to take up residence in adjoining buildings and didn't take any action. christopher stevens and three others were killed as a result on september 11, 2012. adam housley has our report. >> multiple sources with direct knowledge of the 2012 terrorist attack in benghazi, libya, tell fox news that within three weeks of the renting the consulate compound, members moved into the house next door and then use that location just to the right to plan an attack. one source telling fox that we warn them but nobody knew what to do and nothing was done. according to another intelligence source, american security personnel also asked for at machine-gun to mount on the roof for added protection and also for sandbags, but were turned down repeatedly because it would upset the locals and new shooting positions were pathetically unple

this is for the seat being vacated by saxby chambliss. kingston is trailing purdue.. purdue is expanding his lead now. the winner will face michelle nunn, the daughter of sam nunn in the election. let's go down to john roberts in atlanta. is casey running out of votes here, john? >> he really is. we're expecting them to take the stage with liz family in about five minutes. not sure what he's going to say. a little too early to call it, it looks like he's moving in david purdue's direction. running out of votes. southern counties, his strong hold, most of those now fully reported. it's down to the four big counties, and david purdue is leading in all of those counties. big problems for kingston. he underperformed in some of the counties that he won big on the 20th, he needed to win fulton and gwinnett. karen won those on the 20th, they are not voting for him the way he needed. >> we'll watch this race and we will have results here on fox news channel. this is a big race for the fall general election. it could mean the balance of power here in washington. now back to h

today will be facing off against michelle none who some dems believe can turn the seat blue of zaxby chamblissnd of the -- >> don't you love it when it's political season? this is a very important race because the contest for november is surprisingly competitive. whoever runs today's runoff will be going up against michelle none. she's well financed and has a lot of name recognition. she's going to be a tough can date. david per due is running as an outer hoping to capitalize on the anti-incumbent sentiment that has been rifling through the republican party in this primary season. >> i've asked the question, are these guys that have been up there for a long time, if they're going to make a difference, wouldn't that have done it already? >> we have a career politician been there for 22 years. i offer up a citizen approach which is more akin to what the foundereds had in mind. >> jack kingston has been hammering per due on his business record, particularly his time as ceo of pillow tex which went bankrupt. the campaign was recently forced to return more than $80,000 in campaign contributions tha

the ranking minority member, right now, saxby chambliss of georgia, is the vice chairman. >> the republican leader on the house floor said, tip, as far as we can tell you, you're going to run the house but let's make this a bipartisan committee. he says -- you flash forward to 1994 and the republicans actually won and controlled the house. the ranking democratic chairman of the senate said to the incoming new chairman, we shouldn't have a partisan committee. this should be a bipartisan committee like in the senate. and the chairman stared and said, "why is this only a good idea when you're in the minority?" so we have once again hit the right balance. there's advantages to both. in a bipartisan committee, you have to shave a lot of edges. in a partisan committee, things can get out of hand. so that's the structure we've ended up with. one of the major findings is this issue of getting too cozy. the idea was to only serve on the intel committee for x number of years. on the house it's eight years if you're a regular member and 10 years which you're the chairman ranking. >> i will tell you ou

saxby chambliss declined to comment. fred flight served 25 years at cia. and calls the senate's $50 million probe of interrogation techniques a colossal waste of taxpayer money. >> cia did somethingstupid. they did monitor computers that senate staffers were doing. they shouldn't have done that. the senate intelligence staffers who broke the rules and stole these documents, they also have to be held accountable. >> however, the justice department found insufficient evidence to open a criminal probe into the staffs of either cia or the senate panel. bret? >> james, thanks. investigators finally have been given access to the crash site in eastern ukraine of the malaysian passenger jet shot down two weeks ago. correspondent steve harrigan has the latest from kiev. >> reporter: after being turned back four days in a row, a small team that included dutch and australian investigators and european monitors finally reached the crash site, weaving between front lines held by ukrainian government forces and others held by russian-backed rebels. a cease-fire around t

this year, saxby chambliss decided not to run, opening up the door for michelle nunn who is continuingt. last night, businessman david perdue defeated jack kingston in the primary runoff. michelle nunn, who easily won her primary in may, is now six points ahead in a land mark communications poll. joining me now is msnbc political analyst karen finney. care, it is hard to believe, but a democrat is rising in the south, in the deep south in a senate campaign, and it really seems like it helps an awful lot to have sam nunn's last name there. >> absolutely. the name recognition, although purdue has name recognition. but the key thing is the african-american vote. one of the things we've seen in the state is the percent of eligible white voters has decreased, african-american voters has increased. this is a state where they're spending money to register and hopefully turn out the african-american voters. so in addition to the name, which will help with moderate white voters, which barack obama did not do well with in 201, if you can turn out a good percentage of african-american voters, tha

senator saxby chambliss said he's disappointed the administration didn't release more.n to what he had to say. >> still classified but i think at the end of the day, all of that classified information will ultimately be released and, you know, whether it was the russians themselves that pulled the trigger or russian separatists trained by russians, it's all in the same and ultimately goes back to vladmir putin. >> is it all on putin. should the administration go to the u.n. and put all their cards on the table? >> well, you know, from the start, i thought within a matter of a few hours we would know where the launch point was. it was clearly turned out to be inside the separatist region, and we would be able to confirm this was a lethal shoot down. the day before when the separatists shot down more than 20,000 feet an ukrainian nationalist transport aircraft, we knew it was a combat zone. an active air defense zone. i think one of the questions the international community has to seriously look at now is not putting off limits every air space there's a war going on. but

this race is less attention and saxby chambliss's open seat and sam nun's daughter headed the point of project. and a vast amount of money and polling suggests even with perdue or kingston. i tend to think it's georgia in a midterm election and a republican will have a slight edge here but this is a competitive race that i think both parties will spend money on. >> michelle nun does have a shot at this. unusual case, indeed. >> absolutely, absolutely. i wouldn't have said that three months ago. >> she has run a really good campaign. >> yes. >> thank you, chris. we ole see you tomorrow. follow the show online, on facebook and on twitter. >>> on this tuesday, the heat is on in the middle of the country and the humidity's way up too. very hot day chicago, too, with a high of 93. starting to get warmer in the east, too, with the typical afternoon storms in the southeast. have a great day. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or

. >>> polls are open this morning in the republican runoff race for a chance to replace saxby chamblisspportunities they have in the fall. a sigh of relief when two business-minded establishment favorites, jack kingston and david perdue qualified for the runoff. not much public polling. clearly, perdue thinks he has to go negative. >> jack kingston's pro-amnesty vote is bought and paid for. largest backer, who has pumped almost $3 million into tv ads is openly pro-amnesty. >> referring to the chamber of commerce's support for the immigration bill last year. kingston has repeatedly said he would not vote for it. perdue is also targeting evangelicals. >> you need to head to the polls on tuesday because our values are under attack in washington. david is a god-fearing man who shares our beliefs. >> meanwhile, kingston has suggested that perdue is out of touch with the state. kingston mailer accuses him of doing business with terrorists. sweetheart insider appointment to the georgia port authority because of his cousin, sonny, being governor at the time. early voting on the republican side

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senator chambliss did not vote for it.le opponent, she ran the points of life foundation for george bush, sam nun is somebody that's been a friend to many republicans. do you feel as though you have to position yourself as if you're running against something that's almost extinct, and that's a conservative democrat? >> not at all. people in the state are very clear, this is 2014. we've got a crisis on our hands. the people of georgia know that and they want something done about it. that's why i'm sitting here. i was the outsider in the republican primary. now you're going to have two outside voices in michelle nun and myself. we'll be able to talk about the failed policies of this administration and talk about smaller government, lower taxes, and how to get this economy going again. that's what people of georgia want to talk about and we'll be able to do that this fall. >> jack kingston did call you last night, did he not? >> he did. yes. he was very gracious. we've been tough competitors in this runoff. but we've agreed t

still, one intelligence official said we do not know who pulled the trigger but senator chambliss said intelligence he's seen shows either way, russia is to blame. >> vladimir putin should be held accountable regardless of whether it was a russian soldier or a russian sponsored separatist that pulled the trigger. russia either shot down the plane itself or gave separatists the order and ability to do so. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence believes the missiles came from this base in russia and were smuggled into ukraine in recent weeks as part of a general buildup of rebel forces after they suffered setbacks at the hands of the ukrainian military. photos which u.s. intelligence could not independently verify posted on social media in the days before the shoot down show a missile launcher moving through towns in rebel controlled parts of ukraine. u.s. intelligence did not know about the missiles until the day of the shoot down when it detected a surface to air missile launch at the same time the airliner disappeared from raider. the day after the shoot down, there was a launcher with one of

chambliss' office confirmed the trip. the itinerary of the trip has not been finalized. he is currently the ranking republican on the senate intelligence committee. that's al cayman's column in the washington post. another live hearing today beginning about 15 minutes ago is political activities in the white house. the house over sight and government reform committee is meeting to talk about political activities in the white house. the house comes in 15 minutes on c-span 1 on c-span 2 is the hearing on the israeli-palestinian resolutions. right now we want to show you some video from yesterday. senator dick durbin, senate whip came to the floor to talk about the meeting that the senators had with the three central american presidents who are in town. they are meeting with the president today. here's senator durbin. >> first the child refugee crisis on america's boredders a human tragedy. two weeks ago in chicago, i met with 70 of these children.as a it was a meeting i won't forgete these are children. some are infants. how they ever made it to the united states is nothin

chambliss: i rise today to talk about the deteriorating situation in syria and iraq. however, before i address the situation in the middle east, i'd like to talk briefly about russia and the downing of the malaysian airline flight 17. last week we watched in horror as news came of the almost 300 civilians who were callously murdered. i've seen the intelligence on this attack and it is very clear that russia bears the responsibility for the death of these civilians. vladimir putin should be held accountable regardless of whether it was a russian soldier or a run-sponsored separatist that pulled the trigger. russia either shot down the plane itself or directly gave separatists the order and the ability to do so. russia and its proxy separatists in eastern ukraine are well armed as was clearly demonstrated last week, and they are also very irresponsible. president putin continues to flout the international community by sending heavy weapons and fighters into eastern ukraine. in addition, russia is supporting bashar assad's regime in syria and failing to comply with some

that is followed through in terms of cut in half one of the things he said in answer to senator chambliss is an important mission we have had in afghanistan is actually an sharing battle qaeda could not replicate 9/11 and the way we have done that is keeping pressure, continued pressure not only on those that would want to threaten us in afghanistan but for example their counterparts in a haqqani network in pakistan. if we go down to half at the beginning of 2016 ct presence has been beyond the wall, correct? absolutely and it would be in 2015. what happens in the beginning of 2016 if we cut them in half? where are we located? >> 2016 senator in accordance with the plan right now we would have a couple centric approach so centric approach to so the bases outside of kabul would be closed or transferred to the afghan forces or the afghan government by 2016. >> so if we do that, that's pretty soon actually if you think about it. i would be the beginning of 2016 if we go to a kabul-based presence. what does that do overall tour ability to keep pressure on most networks on the ct mission assum

that is an assessment that senator chambliss, somebody who has reviewed the classified intelligence on this matter, agrees with. >> pretty extraordinary statement i heard the in the direct way i've heard it from you. you just said vladimir putin and the russians are culpable. so that leads to the immediate question which is, what do you do about it quite you mentioned what the president did nine days ago. that was before the plane was downed. so what will be done to hold the russians and hold president bush accountable for the downing of that plain? >> i think the fact the president impose this sanctions regime in coordination with allies the day before that jetliner was downed is an indication of how aggressive the president has been leading the international community to confront the bad behavior of the russians. so glad you mentioned that in your question. the question you're asking now is relevant which is what is the response going to be in light of this terrible tragedy. the president was pretty clear he anticipated this would be a head snapper for the international community in

he'll now face democratic nominee michelle nun in the race for seat of saxby chambliss who is retiringwin control of the senate in the november midterm elections. >>> the department of homeland security says it has arrested 192 immigrant smugglers along the u.s./mexico border. these arrests were made in a month-long crackdown called operation coyote. it targeted smugglers involved in the current wave of children that are arriving from central america. dhs agents have also seized some $600,000 from human smuggling organizations. >>> another recall to tell you about. chrysler recalling about 800,000 suvs for possible faulty ignition switches. the recall targets 2006 and 2007 jeep commanders and jeep cherokees from 2005 to 2007. chrysler says the ignition could turn off in the switch is bumped causing the engine to stall and air bags to stop working. chrysler says it is aware of one accident linked to the problem. thankfully no injuries though. >> year of the recall. >> it is the year of the recall, 2014. >> put it in your books for that. >>> coming up next on "new day," as families in am