about five minutes we will talk to derek anderson. derek anderson is running for the seventh. she looks very vulnerable because of her policies and who she represents and how it's been redistricted and derek anderson you might have seen him on "60 minutes." he was one of the last green berets out of afghanistan. the disaster that has sent president biden president biden's poll numbers down possibly for good. a little bit later we are going to talk to glenn youngkin. he would are also going to talk to jeff cats. a great political reporter from wrva and talk about how this state has gone from red to blue to purple and now we are going to find out with governor youngkin he is an anomaly? is he a great candidate at the right time to beat the right matchup terry mcauliffe or is virginia changing? that's at what is at stake starting one hour ago in these midterms. >> steve: brian, you are at mclean's restaurant. have you ordered a breakfast yet? >> brian: no. this is a working moment. i will tell you everybody else. >> steve: what are you waiting for? >> brian: i don't like to get s

. >> competition includes bryce reeves and derek anderson both vowing to bring glenn youngkin's policies daily, weekly basis. is he trying to set that vision for virginia. we need that same vision at national level. >> we have tomorrow brace our history like governor youngkin teach bad and good history. >> tonight's primary may have major implications. republicans see spanberger's seat and norfolk as toss-ups meaning the winners in november could ultimately help decide which party controls the house. after redistricting the district now leans conservative. also considered to be the only endangered democrat to serve on the january 6th committee. >> the work of this committee is more important than something like my own personal re-election. >> tonight, four candidates are vying for the g.o.p. to challenge luria and all four are running on military background in heavily military community. the democrats we mentioned in our story luria and spanberger are running unopposed. their battle after the polls close tonight. both are going to be spending so much money and energy either trying to hol

joining us live from a virginia small business, republican congressional candidate derek anderson. ete, after two years of covid where the biden administration, the democrats have forced people into their homes, we have small businesses shutting donation wide because they just can't afford to stay up and running, now we're seeing record high inflation at over 40 years, we're seeing gas prices going over $5 a gallon and people just can't afford to go eat out. it's costing the average american over $460 a month just to live. that's not to go out. that's not to go on vacation. that's just to live. we're seeing small businesses specifically here in the seventh congressional district that are feeling it too. we're at gormel's where maria and matt, two good friends of mine, had to deal with two years of covid and the democratic governor in virginia tried to implement all of the mask mandates. and they had a simple concept. they say you know what, why don't we let our customers pick and choose whether or not they want to wear a mask or not and the government here in virginia came down and

okay, cheesily eating derek anderson anderson is a green beret. vegaga very interesting background. law enforcement background, lcounty supervisor in prince william county with his big counties across from from washington, d.c. she helpedwi lead the latino coalition in virginia that supported clintono who won last november when this district moved sean , it went from a plus one democrat to about a plus seven democrat. but yet glennnn junkin won 5 but yet glennnn junkin won 5 so again, republicans think they can do some damage here come november. and i'm just f going to finish off here with this comparison here , sean. this is okay. alain luria. she's in district two in around southeastern virginia. she's on the january 6th committee. so she wasn on the panel today. joe biden wonon her district by about five points, but shek won by about six points. and when republicans talk about a climate that is favorable toward them in novemberer, these are districts they look at. they think anywhere between f six to eight pointsor is a possibility for a targeted npick up in november. luria's is

we heard from derek anderson, we was on fox earlier today.s. >> we have to teach our bad and good history. at the end of the day we're rich with a lot of good history. we need to make sure that children are being taught what to think, not how to think. reporter: this primariry happening down south in the second district much the commonwealth, which is the norfolk area. state senator ken keegan is front-runner. the winner takes on democratic congressman laura. this is a primary. hard to tell what turnout will be like. this place have only 50 turnout. possibly more for the primary. we'll find out for sure. neil: mark meredith following all of that in virginia. we're keeping track what is happening on the administration front to deal with inflation. we told you already about how the president might be considering a federal gas tax holiday but it is not apparently getting in the way of something else progressive told him to consider, maybe ahead even of that, forgetting student loans or at least a good chunk of them, after this. ♪ your shipping m