i should tell you it looks like johnson's base, hennepin county, is accounting for a lot of the votesoutside of that base he is early on running ahead of pawlenty. >> ten points ahead running in the early results? >> yes. >> wow. >> disproportionately, we're talking about johnson's base here, hennepin county, that's a part of that. you get outside of that it looks like he's running about five points ahead. but yeah, this would be -- he was the republican nominee in 2014. it's been a while since pawlenty's been active. we've seen that sort of anti-establishment thing. so we'll keep an eye on that. and you set it up too as well there. in the attorney general's race, these are early numbers. keith ellison, a number of opponents. but keith ellison you see basically, you know, better than 3-1 over his nearest opponent right now on the democratic side. there's talk here about a quarter of the vote certainly based on 2016, about a quarter of the vote in minnesota comes in early, maybe a little bit more here. there was talk that maybe that late-breaking news would affect the same-day vote. bu

. >> reporter: hennepin county attorney mike friedman cleared officers schmidt and kelly from wrongdoinglevins' disregard for police instructions and his allegedly pointing a gun at officers justified the shooting. >> i'm certain in rapidly evolving situations -- >> reporter: but as friedman made his announcement blevins' family and community activists shouted him down. they claim blevins was not a threat and accused officers of escalating the situation. >> these officers were not afraid of my cousin when they approached him. that's clear as day on the video footage. >> did you see a drunk black guy with a gun around here? >> asking people in the car, what's up, did you see a drunk black guy? >> reporter: the minneapolis community is still grappling with recent deadly shooting of unarmed black men fillando castile and jamar clark. neither officer was found guilty from either incident. but following the release of this footage the head of the police union called these officers' actions hierarch. >> they deserve the highest award, the medal of honor. >> reporter: both officers are still on

he said hennepin don't do anything.he says okay, he said before i say, i just want to know, you will pay for this. pretty sad -- let's put it this way, i never told the story after he was dead except to a few of my friends. he said your cockamamie story, "the new york times" is going to have 1.6 billion extra pages added to it. not the publisher, the editor. another page, the back is going to be a house that in your 7000 words. that's all we can have. they're going to be on that page. you have to understand something. she knew. you saw the banner headline. it doesn't do that. those days "the new york times" when they took on the cia. they have the exact opposite view of the cia. they buried the story. first thing i did was run through the files. it would be sure to run despite to run this by helme the head of the cia. you've got to be kidding. this is in the 60s before i was there. i saw that. in other words, they pay, they paid obeisance to the leadership. it feels -- i don't know how i can say this in simple words. it

both been critical of trump but he comes back to a guy more conservative who said i've been here in hennepin voters. i haven't been hanging out with wall street bankers getting rich. pawlenty traded his sam's club shirt with tailored stuff. >> bill: kris kobach winning in kansas. back to shone. the democrats have yet to articulate a clear message at all aside from the unsatisfying stand-up to and resist donald trump, end quote. is that a winner? >> look, that will work in some districts. in other districts. the two best avenues democrats have to go down this year, culture of corruption, number two, health insurance. those will work in the largest number of districts and they'll show scott pruitt and chris collins and keep doing that stuff and it will work in the largest number. >> bill: i think we'll keep doing this stuff for a while. 88 days i think. see you real soon. >> sandra: it has been almost a month now since mollie tibbetts went missing. vice president mike pence is offering his prayers and met with her family yesterday in iowa. what mollie's family had to say about their meeting wi