i want to start by playing one other little clip from gary chambers.e he's been speaking a lot of truth on his social media. here's gary chambers again. >> in east baton rouge parish, there are 129,000 eligible black voters. only 12,520 showed up to vote. in orleans parish, there are 145,000 eligible black voters. only 16,000 showed up to vote. in cattle parish, there are 73,000 black voters. only 6,955 showed up to vote early. there are 900,000 registered black voters. 96,000 black voters have showed up so far. that means for every black person in louisiana right now that you see, when you see ten, only one of them voted. >> angie, the victory margin for kennedy, senator kennedy, he only got like 800,000 some odd votes. meaning that there are more black voters registered to vote in louisiana than his victory total. you have talked a lot about this, about owning our power and figuring out how to make voting connected to this. what do you make of all this? >> i think it's really simple. and this isn't a conversation about us shaming black voters. it's a

his democratic opponent was gary chambers, but jon kennedy will be returning to the u.s. senate.all, but now and an nbc now describes this as which kathy hochul is now in the lead. but kathy hochul in the lead too early to call. similarly in the main governors race. the democratic incumbent is janet mills, it is too early to call between her and republican challenger, the former governor of maine paula page. it is too early to call, but nbc news's election that's now characterized incumbent janet mills as being in the league. and the new york governor's race and then made governor's race we have democratic incumbents they're both in the lead although they are both too early to call. it's fascinating although i think the thing that is the clearest, i'm gonna do one more, i wanna repeat chris hayes's line, there is a tax on republicans who were picked by trump. they can say whatever they want to book trump, but he really isn't good at picking candidates. >> here's the other thing. the media fell into this trap it was that democrats can't win with inflation where it is. that was wro

in louisiana, senator john kennedy, republican senator incumbent will defeat gary chambers.ht remember, he smoked a joint during a campaign ad. john kennedy will hold on to that seat, cnn projects. and then in missouri, the attorney general, eric schmidt, will become the next u.s. senator from the state of missouri. he defeats heiress truly bush valentine. let's take a look at the ballot apparently the senate. you know it's 100. sees right, now democrats have 40 of those seats. republicans have 43. there are 17 seats remaining. that is what the rest of the night is about. in order to control the u.s. senate, you need 50 seats, plus one. republicans need to pick up one net democratic seat. we are about to head into a another round of votes. every contest counts. with the battle for control of congress still undecided. just minutes from now, at 11 pm eastern, polls will close in california and idaho and oregon and washington state. this will be another chance for the parties to pick up some of the 218 house seats needed for control of the u.s. house of representatives. a total

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chamber's leadership. he returned to the analysis -- we turn to the analysis of jonathan capehart and his colleague gary abernethy busy week. i want to start with the news just today. you have the attorney general of the united states appointing a special counsel to investigate a former president. it's an extraordinary moment. i wonder as you watch the way he did it, what does this say to you about how the department of justice is viewing this? >> this is huge news. the justice department views this as significant cases that need to be looked into by significant person in american life and american political life, a former president who just announced he is eking the republican nomination for the next presidential cycle which the attorney general said was the thinghat happened that necessitated this move. i think it should say to the american people and the attorney general also announced we have been investigating, but we are taking this so seriously that we are giving it to a special counsel who is quite literally out of the justice department. he's over at the hague if memory serves. this person will be in cha

chamber. democrats continue to pick up house seats, but the math is against them. republicans only need seven more seats on control the house, which they are widely expected to do. cnn's gary tuchman is in las vegas with the latest on the nevada race. but we begin with cnn's kyung lah in phoenix. >> reporter: the vote count here in maricopa county is still continuing, but cnn is now projecting that senator mark kelly, the democratic incumbent, will defeat a challenge from republican blake masters. the vote count here is 82% complete as workers here, you can see, are still going through the ballots. about 265,000 to 275,000 votes still remain to be counted. the masters campaign had hoped that this latest vote result would be the turnaround, clearing a path, a possible path to victory where he could catch up and overtake the democratic senator. that simply did not materialize. senator kelly released a statement after multiple news organizations projected that he would indeed win saying, quote, i'm humbled by the trust our state has placed in me to continue this work and we're also getting reaction from republicans here in the state of arizona, the party here increasingly has