host: greg bluestein staying a look at georgia's sixth congressional district. you can find his work on the website of the atlanta journal constitution. thank you for your time. the "new york times" taking a look at congressional districts across the united states. they found a across the country there are only 15 congressional districts or at least half of adults have a college degree. one of those districts includes georgia sixth congressional district. a district has been republicans for generation. mr. trump won it by one point john ossoff a democrat won 48% of the voting. this is only one that mr. trump won in november. in case your periods, "new york times" highlights the rest of those districts have a college education, many from california, some in virginia, some from new york. you can find out more information when you go to the website of the new york times. back to our call. taking a look best way to train america's workforce. apprenticeship programs is what james interested talking about from marriesville, washington. caller: good morning. guys. i wa

referendum about it's being seen nationally and locally as a test of his .opularity host: greg bluestein staying a look at georgia's sixth congressional district. you can find his work on the website of that. >> "washington journal" continues. host: senate's work on healthcare. the topic of our next look aton, the longer what healthcare might look like in the united states. two guests joining us. by sarah kliff of the website vox. us for this discussion from the "washington reporter louise radnofsky. ms. radnofsky, you didn't write story. your colleague say there's a planned vote on healthcare. especially on the senate side next week. could you give a sense of the white house's role and what they happen if it does happen? the texte time line, is expected this week. cbo score early next week and a thursday.y a vote on the white house said is it is it has the 50 votes. they'll have a firmer sense by end of the week. confident things are direction.the right host: sarah clif kliff of that confidence. ony want to take a gamble this voting. guest: we seen the house a vote back ins march. they

greg bluestein, we'll talk again, i'm sure.te from moments ago on the condition of republican congressman steve scalise shot at that congressional baseball practice. doctors say he remains in critical condition but the word they use is encouraged. they are encouraged by his progress. more on the two capitol police officers credited with saving his and the other lives next. before that lets take a moment to honor this week's cnn hero, former teacher jennifer cox saw firsthand the struggles homeless students face when she started teaching near baltimore. across the country more than 100,000 children live in shelters and cox is doing her part to help. >> kids are never going to learn in school, never going to be successful if they don't feel good about who they are. i think that's a great answer. children don't have a lot of space in shelter life to truly be kids. they are experiencing very stressful turbulent situations. what we are going to learn here today. the best way to better the situation is to offer them opportunities to

john avlon, margaret taliban, political reporter for the journal constitution, greg bluestein. >> john avlon, what do you take of what happened last night? >> first of all, all the money in the world can't fight a plus nine republican advantage. there's a redistricting issue in this country where all districts are not set up evenly. republicans ran someone with experience against a first-timer. all that money and unthus as couldn't over come that deficit. republicans successfully tied the candidate as a centrist, some far left millennial but also nancy pelosi. there are deep issues and brand. >> jason mentioned 0 for 4. essentially you have kansas, you have montana, you have georgia and you have south carolina, all republicans winning. margaret, if you're a democrat waking up this morning, what the heck are you thinking? >> if you're a democrat waking up this morning, it's back to reality. there was this kind of fantasy scenario that many democrats were hope for where there would be this major upheaval and it would complicate health care and mitch mcconnell's plans for a vote and it wo

greg bluestein is a political reporter for "the atlanta journal-constitution." he is in atlantata tonight. shall be r holidays or politics are for "the wall street journal." she isn't new york. and in washington, chris stirewalt. greg, i want to start with you. surprised at theit results tonight? did you see this closing in the last few days? >> we saw at closing but we didn't realize it would be this wide of a margin this looks much easier than it really seems out there in s the field. razor-thin.howed it it was not even close by the end of it. this was a six-point margin where jon ossoff wasn't able to improve on hillary clinton's margin in georgia. >> bret: so, is this aol situation where the polls are wrongai again? >> wait a minutes. >> bret: i am just asking. >> i'm just saying. the poll, we don't care about the topline numbers as much as we care of the movement. in the closing weeks, the movement for karen handel was clear. she was closing the gap. as thehe focus on this race came down to this being cast as make or break,ak do-or-die, if republicans lose-

and greg bluestein, a reporter with the "atlanta journal- constitution" and native of georgia's sixthressional district. thank you both for joining us. i want to start this by looking at the extraordinary numbers involved in this race, the dollar figures. from what we know, as of the reports at the end of may, the democrat jon ossoff brought in $23 million, republican karen handel 4.5 million but outside groups $24 million. how close is this race and why so much spending? >> this race is neck and neck. most polls show ossoff within a 1 to 3 point lead in margin of error. it could be either way tomorrow when we have the final vote. $42 million plus have now been spent on ads alone, many negative. district residents have been pummeled and metro areas have been pummeled with ads about this race which means there is a slim number of undecided voters. >> reporter: what is happening politically? is this extent of spending everywhere or is there somethingn't this race? >> unlike a mid-term election when you have hundreds of races going on simultaneously, both parties focused on each individu

for the latest on what's happening in georgia, i'm joined by greg bluestein.ou know, in nba basketball or college basketball, it seems like you can tell the team that's losing because they start to foul, anything to get the ball back. and i think that metaphor is rich here. why would any ally of handel put out an ad that's so obviously unfair? >> probably to get attention and to get some fund-raising for that super pac. both candidates and campaigns have disavowed that ad and said they have nothing to do with it, but it remains the talk of the town in the sixth district. and the beginning of it were those jarring gunshots, really gets your attention. >> it seems to me from an outsider, and just check me on this, that the only way that handel can win, coming up from the pack of having gotten the plurality of the republican said in the primary, the only way she can win is to have a tremendous upsurge of total voters. because you have to have voters who didn't vote the first time around, because they almost gave it 50% to ossoff. so, is that what's happening now?

go.: before we let you greg bluestein, the president himself giving thought on twitter. handel.ut for karen saying she will fight for lower taxes, great healthcare, strong security. hard worker who never get you have. is that the first we've seen from donald trump commenting on this race? guest: he has waded pretty deeply in the race. back in the first round, he sent attackingf tweets in john ossoff. back inded a robocall the first round. he's campaigned with karen handel. he's waded pretty deep in this race. it makes it harder to cast this him. referendum about it's being seen nationally and locally as a test of his .opularity host: greg bluestein staying a look at georgia's sixth congressional district. you can find his work on the website of the atlanta journal constitution. thank you for