the big story is that the democrats, the dccc basically made john gibbs' campaign. look, it's the republican voters -- >> it's the republican voters in the end. this is a tough one because, first of all, this strategy by and large in the past has been somewhat successful, whether it's harry reid in 2010 or claire mccaskill in 2012. the opponent you get can matter. it is also true that meijer, if he was re-elected, would vote to make kevin mccarthy the speaker who would probably have a committee investigating hunter biden and doing other things that might undermine democracy. so it's not as though for democrats it's a black and white choice. for someone who voted to impeach trump and stood for that -- it's pushing this about as far as i think you can. >> i think what it does, it makes it seem, democrats are saying these election liars pose an existential threat to democrats. and i agree with them, they do. if that's the case, if it's an existential threat, why are you risking in a particularly red wave year electing one of these guys? >> that's an argument a number o

they thought they'd have a chance to take the seat in november if john gibbs takes the nominee. be counting votes here. as well as those out in washington state as well. >> listen, john king, thank you so much. grading to the floor, to the room, let's talk about peter meijer, talk about what's happening with these house republicans, ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump, facing a far right republican challenged. it's interesting though, we were talking during the break about what is happening with peter meijer, and this could be a real test, or not such a great night when it comes to peter meijer and donald trump. >> right, obviously, donald trump has a little scoreboard of all these folks he is trying to exact vengeance against who voted to impeach him in the aftermath of january 6th. peter meijer one of them. john king was saying people at home might not know meijer, you know where they know the name meijer, in michigan. >> cars all the food. >> exactly. but he is a republican in a different mold then the modern-day trump dominated republican party. and he has been s

when you saw trump-backed john meyer -- excuse me, john gibbs defeat representative pete meyer. meyer is one of the ten house republicans who supported the impeachment of donald trump. you say that race was incredibly tight there. and it was boosted, john gibbs' victory was boosted by about $430,000 ad buy from an outside democratic group, in the last weeks of this race, that really potentially helped this campaign. meyer was blaming that ad buy as boosting his republican opponent there. and this is something that democrats say that they wanted, they believed that john gibbs is too far extreme, too far to the right for a general election matchup in this purple district. but we'll see, once we get to november, whether or not that was a bet that ultimately paid off. jose? >> and vaughn, let's turn to arizona. you caught up with karen taylor robeson last night. what did she have to tell you? >> karen taylor robeson here is still in contentious, when you're looking at these numbers, though, it is not looking good for the carrie lake alternative. karen taylor robeson walked and campa

he was challenged this week by former trump administration official john gibbs. ieve donald trump should still be in office? >> i do, yes. he should have won the election. >> do you believe he won the election? >> i do, cres. >> gibbs won by fewer than 4,000 votes. he spent $334,000 of his campaign, but the democratic congressional campaign committee or dccc spent 435,000 boosting gibbs ties to donald trump and they even created a television ad. >> john gibbs is too conservative for west michigan. hand picked by trump to run for congress gibbs called trump, the greatest president, and worked in trump's administration with ben carson. gibbs has promised to push that same conservative agenda in congress, a hard line against immigrants at the border and the gibbs-trump agenda is too conservative for west michigan. dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> some analysts say that ad actually helped gibbs with some republican voters. that's because it advertises the candice's support for trump which could encourage trump supporters to show up at the pr

we saw it in michigan when they ran $300,000 worth of ads to boost john gibbs over peter my aa congr congressman. here is what they had to say about it. >> i'm not here to whine about the dccc meddling but any party that pretends to have a set of principles and any party that pretends to have a set of values and that comes in and boosts exactly the same type of candidate that they claim is a fear to democracy -- a threat to democracy, don't expect to be able to hold on to that sense of self-righteous. >> what do you say to that? how do tactics like this impact elections? >> well, i think one of the things we have to realize is we're not in a normal moment in american history, american political history. this is not a time to play the typical games of politics back and forth and think you won't get burned. we are living in a time where we need people of integrity on both sides of the aisle. we need people that will stand up for democratic principles, for the people that run elections for election officials all over the country. there are people in the republican party as well as the d

, peter meyer one of the 10 republicans who voted to impeach donald trump, john gibbs had trump's backing and peter meyer lost his job, because of that what he believed was a principal position over party, for that position to impeach trump and he became a target of the former president. >> how about missouri? remember, oh, i just drop my microphone, your member the endorsement from trump for the eric's in missouri, take a look, there were two eric's in missouri, take a look at that senate primary care eric schmidt, 45.7% of the vote, he's the republican nominee, and this is going to remain safely in republican hands now. republicans were very worried that the former governor, the standard scandal plagued erica great and was surging a couple of months ago and they were worried that if he ended up as the nominee, this would take a solid red state and put it in play for the democrats, they spent a ton of money to take great in out, eric schmidt, the attorney general moves on to become the senate nominee. >> really interesting races, thank you very much for recapping that. >>> joining us now

the head says, it is true, john gibbs is an extremist, too conservative for western michigan.choice people of power, he can promote hillary stolen, she's the one who will win that seat, it's far more likely today than it was on monday. don't take my word for it, washington and the political report changed the rating on that race, and they say it is much more likely that a democrat, pro-choice, pro voting rights, pro worker, pro climate will hold that seat. let's remember, both peter meijer and john gibbs want to take away a woman's right to choose. both peter meijer and john gibbs would vote for speaker mccarthy, jim jordan as chairman of the judiciary committee. in other words, people can disagree about tactics, that is normal. and there are always complicated questions in politics. >> the bottom line, we are closer today than we were on monday, to having a pro-choice majority in the house. and the big losers this week are the maga republicans who thought they are on a glide path to the majority. but we have a surprise for them. we are winning today in the united states senat

john gibbs is a weak opponent, extremist, a vicious antichoice record, he can't string a set of policies for western michigan. we will win that seat. we believe that by keeping those dangerous people out of power, we address the larger moral imperative, and that is our job. >> keith, i think in campaigns that you have to make a decision about lines that you are and are not willing to cross, and frankly i think, and not only in this race but in other races, did he try across the line here? your thoughts? >> yeah, i was hoping you would not ask me about this one. it's a risky strategy and there's always a chance that it may not work and what happens if you end up electing these radical right-wing republican maga candidates because you thought you were's -- this is the danger that democrats fell into the trap in 2016 with donald trump, everybody assumed donald trump would be a great candidate to run again senators out he was not just such a great candidate to run against. he wants the election. i don't know if i get indoors the strategy,, although if it works people will obviously view it l

john gibbs the winner in that district with trump's backing there. and then the election denial piece that you've talked about, i mean up and down the ballot in arizona from the secretary of state's race to the senate race, you see here, and kari lake we should note not yet a projected winner. she has a slight lead. we're still waiting for more vote in the gubernatorial primary. but this could be an entire slate of candidates where donald trump at odds with the establishment and supporting these election deniers, some of whom are in position to potentially be overseer of elections. >> governor kasich, you have arizona, michigan, nevada, pennsylvania, republican election deniers could soon be overseeing elections. just how dangerous would that be? >> it's very dangerous, and i hope they all lose. if you can't accept the result of this last election and you want to run, what's that going to do to the process? so i hope they all lose. it's terrible that that happened. by the way, interesting in michigan. this guy gibbs who beat meijer, meijer voted to i

he has drawn a trump-backed challenger, john gibbs here. and meijer has taken the lead. he was t widely considered the underdog coming into this race. meijer has just taken the lead. most of the remaining vote is in kent county, meijer's political base.r' he has a chance to pull this out. that would be significant. of those ten house republicans who voted to impeach ten, a lot retired, one defeated in a primary, one got through a primary but trump didn't haveou anything to do with that primary. this would be the firstth time he wins the first time you have a house republican who voted to impeach trump actually survive a primary where trump endorsed his rival. that's ado huge if, but meijersn the game. that a surprise. you come on the air just as the numbers start to come in in arizona. and what we are waiting on here, let's see here. start with the governor's race. we have one tiny county reporting just scattering of vote -- oh, we just got votes. here it is. this is huge.th okay. what just happened, this is how it works in arizona. maricopa county, where phoenix is, by

he is defeated by a big election denier, john gibbs. so certainly that was a running theme throughout the primaries last evening as we're now just less than three months before the midterm election. >> yeah. and softer in election denialism is stating outright legitimate president. you're where the battle is known. there are senate primary nomination for the republican party. tell us where that came out. >> undindeed, turned out to be much much of a battle at all. eric schmitt was running for the republican senate nomination here, of course. this is to replace retiring republican senator roy blunt. republicans have been nervous about this seat because they fear that eric griton, the disgraced former governor of missouri resigned four years ago amid a sex scandal. he was trying to fight for a comeback here and had the support of the former president that led to the endorsement on the eve of the election for the two erics. the attorney general easily won this race here also defeating six term congresswoman vicki heartsler. he will be the

you have john gibbs, trump endorsed candidate, taking on peter meyers.was one of the ten house republicans to support trump's impeachment after the january 6th capitol hill riot. so there are many races that will really give a sense of trump's influence and power in this important battleground state. >> a lot to watch over the next i guess 72 hours or so. vaughn, shaq, for now thank you both. i appreciate it. meanwhile, we're going to move over to kansas where it's not who is on the ballot but what is getting the most attention on the ballot. for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, abortion protections will be up for a vote. kansas voters will weigh in on what's being called the value them both amendment. it could deny abortion access in the state's constitution, the first popular vote on the issue in almost 50 years. nbc's dasha burns is joining us now from overland park. good to talk to you once again. what do you hear in there from folks on the ground? >> reporter: well, behind me here is just one of just five abortion clini

john gibbs ran much of his campaign to the fact that he believed that the election was stolen. and other, you know, trump lines and hitting peter meijer for his impeachment vote. this was as single or dueling issues as you can get, and yet democrats wrote the -- the campaign committee was clearly looking at trying to prop up who they believe is the weaker candidate. now could this backfire? absolutely it could backfire. and then they end up funding someone who they believe is a detriment to temperatdemocracy. this isn't the only place it's happened. we've seen it in pennsylvania, in several other races where, you know, okay, fine, you think that you boosted the weaker candidate, but you might not have. you might have caught the card here. >> you -- you play the odds, but you still -- there's still a risk. scott, i want your take on it -- here's a quote that stuck with me from last week, democratic congressman seth moulton talking to paul cane of "the washington post." here's what i said, "i think peter's exactly the kind of republican we want to have around, but at the end of t

your party paid for ads for john gibbs, to elevate him.s strategy, to boost election denying candidates who are threatening democracy, and they hope their democrat maybe that can beat them in the general? a democracy is a risk or it isn't. . >> i don't like it, i've been public about that. i think it is very dangerous to play with fire and give wind, give, oxygen to these election deniers. i understand that there is a strategy here that it may be better for us in a general election to be running against an election denier than it is to be running against peter meijer. but i don't like it. i was one of the people in 2016 who, when everybody else was saying donald trump couldn't win, matty, i was saying yes he can and i'm afraid he will. i think it is dangerous to think that we can control what voters are going to do at the end of the day. i just don't like it. >> congresswoman, before we finish, one of the reasons i wanted to speak to today is because we saw the horrible attack on republican gubernatorial candidate leaves eldon. we saw a th

we saw john gibbs defeating peter meijer, someone who was a republican who voted to impeach donald trump. i think that tells us two things. one, the trump grip on the party is still a very real thing. but two, we've seen the lengths that democrats are willing to go to to try to keep control of the house in november. you know, they played a significant part in boosting john gibbs, an election denier, and making it achiefable for him to -- achievable for him to oust peter meijer. the other race is the governor's race. we saw tudor dixon who was the establishment candidate sail to victory after she picked up donald trump's endorsement. you know, another good indication of how he still has this sway with the base. and she has kind of been a little bit cagey on the election denial issue. you know, she said previously that she believes that the 2020 election in michigan was stolen from donald trump, which of course as we know is not true. and she's kind of backed away from those claims in recent days. she's already started to pivot to i think this general election message. i think it's no doub

we've got close to a third of the vote in here where you're looking at john gibbs who is challenging r meijer one of the ten republicans who voted to impeach donald trump. when we look at this last, gibbs laid was getting close to 20 points. it's now down as you can see to about four and a half points. and what is happening here, this is interesting, let's just zoom in here. ottawa county, you can see that this is a smaller part of the district. gives running up a score there. this is the bigger part of the district. cannes county. this is where grand rapids is this is peter meijer's base. if not a lot of the vote gets in for county, it's gonna be a lot more votes to come in here. so a big question mark here is it gonna stay this meyer friendly? but if the vote does stay this meyer friendly in kent county, he can rack up a lot. the other piece of it is the muskegon county, big of must-see can county's of district here. neutral for mayor. so i think what maya has got it too is just run up the score and can't, you can see a bit more coming in here. he's gotta run up the score and can't,

the danger in michigan didn't start with john gibbs. danger in our country was there on january 6th when 139 republicans voted to overturn the election. we're chock full of dangerous people in the congress. the key is whether they control it. that's the larger moral em imperative. we were going to spend 10 or $20 million and probably lose that seat. the big loser here is kevin mccarthy, and he knows it. >> new york democratic congressman and chair of the dccc, shawn patrick maloney who cruised to victory in his primary last night. thanks for being with us. >>> coming up next, the e-mail sent to former president trump's lawyers in april, the "washington post" says was a crucial pivot point in the probe of trump's handling of classified documents. we will bring in the reporter behind that new piece for details. >>> also ahead this hour, nasa is preparing for its first trip to the moon in 50 years. nasa administrator bill nelson will be our guest. l nelson will be our guest. we're here today to set the record straight about dupuytren's con

>> we will start off in michigan, peter meijer goes down to defeat to john gibbs.here was a lot of democratic money backing john gibbs because the idea was that they thought that meyer was too strong in the general election. he does go down to defeat, the second republican to go down to defeat in a primary, tom rice was the other one in south carolina. >> that is a pretty narrow margin. 3,700 votes and change. that would indicate that that 400,000 spend by the dcc might have made a decisive difference. >> we will see if democrats come to regret that this fall. two other races in washington, dan knew house voted to impeach donald trump. right now he would finish in the top two. jaime herrera beutler over in washington's third district she right now is in the top two but we don't have a call there. >> around 50% in. let's move over to arizona. >> arizona, right now none of these races have calls but the trump-backed candidates are leading in all of them. here the trump-backed candidates ahead, the secretary of state race the trump-backed candidates ahead. blake maste

. >> rob: joining dixon on michigan's ballot this fall is political newcomer john gibbs, another trump-backedte who won in an upset last week, beating incumbent congressman peter meijer, who was one of just ten republicans who voted to impeach trump after the january 6th insurrection. gibbs falsely claimed the 2020 election results weren't accurate at a round table at a local nbc affiliate. >> i think when you look at the results of the 2020 election there are anomalies in there to put it very lightly that are simply mathematically impossible. >> rob: he's calling for improved election security. >> the vast majority of americans support common sense measures to increase election security such as photo i.d. and others. we'll focus on those. i think that we'll have a very unifying message. >> rob: some michigan democrat voters are frustrated with the misinformation and the role it's playing in elections this year. >> i have actually worked the polls. i think the elections are very secure. the electronic booth, the poll is not connected to the internet. it's safe software. >> rob: as voters in t

in 2020 doesn't happen again. >> reporter: michigan republicans also chose former trump official john gibbsr incumbent congressman peter meijer who voted to impeach the former president. hoping he would win the primaries. >> the gibbs agenda is too conservative for west michigan. >> reporter: so why are democrats doing this? well, they believe in tight races. trump-backed candidates who still question the 2020 results, they got a better chance of beating them. they've done this in a few races with mixed results and say they'll do whatever it takes to win elections. major? >> complicated politics indeed. ed o'keefe, thank you so much. >>> now to the fallout over house speaker nancy pelosi's high-s visit to taiwan. she left the island today. nancy cordes reports china's saber rattling over that trip is escalating. >> reporter: speaker pelosi left taiwan this morning, but the chinese will not let it go. "those who offend china will be punished," they warned as they vowed to launch live military exercises in the waters encircling taiwan tonight. >> we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses

the person who won that primary is an election denier named john gibbs and he's backed by former presidentgan republicans favored him? >> good morning, margaret. as you said, i lost my primary and that is on me. i take responsibility for that. but it's important to note that it wasn't just former president trump who was in this race. there was about a half million dollars that the democratic congressional campaign committee in their first expenditures of the 2022 midterms dumped in to help boost him. so we had a scenario where not only did i have the former president aligned against me but in a rare showing of bipartisan unity, nancy pelosi and the house democratic campaign committee also united to try to knock me off the ballot. now, this just highlights the cynicism and hypocrisy of our politics today. and frankly, it will be unknowable what that ultimate impact was. but the fact that we have the establishment left and the extreme right locking arms in common cause paints a very telling picture of where our politics are in 2022. >> right. what you're talking about there is an ad that the

. >> reporter: michigan republicans also chose former trump official john gibbs over incumbent peter meijer, who voted to impeach the former president. >> the gibs-trump agenda is too conservative for west michigan. >> reporter: why are democrats doing this? they believe in title races. trump-backed candidates who still question the 2020 results, they have a better chance of beating them. they have done this in a few races with mixed results and say they'll do whatever it takes to win elections. >> garrett: now to some breaking news. indiana congresswoman jackie walorski was killed in a head-on collision in her home state. the crash happened just after noon today on a state road near south bend. the 58-year-old republican was first elected to congress in 2012 and represented indiana's second congressional district. her district director zachery potts, and communication director, emma thomson, were also killed, along the driver of the other vehicle. in a statement, house minority leader kevin mccarthy said the news is devastating and called walorski a dear friend who always put others

the dccc spent $425,000 calling peter majors' john gibbs conservative and trumpy and just play to hismong those hard core republicans. there's blowback on that. we now see from those types of races. what's your thought on the dccc or any party sort of playing at that level in these campaigns? >> well, i think that's -- that merits some consideration and debate, and i think we will have to wait until after december to see the soundness of the strategy, but i think it's important to point out that peter meijer was going to lose that election from the moment he cast the impeachment vote. that die was cast. i don't think the dccc had any effect on the outcome of that race. they're getting a lot of attention because of the unorthodox interference of the race, but i think he would have lost regardless of what the dccc did. jeff timer, thank you so much. i appreciate you stopping by. attorney general merrick garland inching another step closer to donald trump. the ex-president's former white house counsel subpoenaed by the doj. that story is next. doj. that story is next per ble,... i got ra

who voted to impeach the former president conceded that trump endorsed conservative challenger john gibbseared before the primary, calling out the democratic party for taking out ad space to get his opponent a boost. now to missouri where attorney general eric schmidt beat out former governor eric brighton in a packed field of republicans to win the g.o.p. senate primary there. >> now is the time to unify in this fight against the radical progressives. they want to fundamentally change this country forever and right now... [cheers and applause] right now, we need proven conservative fighters to stop them in their tracks. >> meanwhile in washington state republican incumbent who voted to impeach trump is lacking behind perez and open congressional primary. another house republican who voted to impeach dan newhouse holding onto a lead in his washington congressional race and a solid showing on tuesday for the squad up you to congresswoman cori bush defeating a moderate challenger in st. louis and congresswoman rashida tlaib advances to the midterms after winning her primary race in detroit.

democrats have been pouring so much money into his primary competitor john gibbs. tell me about that race. >> pete o'meyer, he's from the west side of the state and he's a vet and heir to the grocery store fortune and he voted for gun control and he voted for gay marriage, and he voted to impeach donald trump. so one of tram's former, you know, henchmen moves back to michigan to run against meyer. the democrats, the democrats are running adds calling trump's guy too conservative. that way all the trump conservatives are definitely going to vote for him because the democrats don't want to take on moderate peter meyer. it's really interesting. kennedy: and meyer, he's been on the show many times, combat veteran, thoughtful congressman -- >> good dude. kennedy: yeah, i like him. he took a seat in a very specific district, politically dissimilar to a lot of the country and dis-thinkers there. talib, will she get voted out of office because of redistricting there? >> that's the whole thing with peter meijer, that very conservative seat on the west side is 50/50 and demo

john gibbs is too conservative for west michigan. gibbs called trump the greatest president.s/trump agenda is too conservative for west michigan. >> the democrats spent more on gibbs' campaign than he spent in the entire race. myers accusing the democrats of helping his opponent and subsidizing his campaign. and the ads' messages, raised gibbs' appeal, among the c conservative voters and gave him name recognition he could not af afford. and the left has spent tens of millions entertaining multiple gop primaries across the country. in my home state of pennsylvania, josh shapiro ran an ad that appeared to elevate the maga candidate. >> he was accused of passing barricades and police lines. >> now, he says he could overturn future election results and let politicians hand-pick the winners, ignoring the vote of the people. >> as governor, i can descertif any and all machines in the state. >> he is way too risky for pennsylvania. >> what is the left's goal in theory to boost trump-endorsed candidates so democrats don't have to face moderate republicans in the fall? it's a controve

a tough opponent in the primaries so democrats helped fund adds for his republican challenger, john gibbs, a relative unknown with a history of tweeting qanon theories. referring to his vote to impeach, myers in his concession last night said "i'm proud to remain true to principles even when doing so came at significant political costs." we're watching results of primaries not in including the arizona's governor primary. you can follow me on facebook at scott mcgrue tv. >>> a follow up this morning and a story of reincarnation or coming back from the dead. a corpse flower at uc santa cruz didn't bloom when it was supposed to. scientists were certain it wasn't going to bloom but it did bloom over the last 36 hours. at one point during the build up of excitement, bob riddel went over there thinking he could sniff the flower. it's supposed to have an o boar you can't unsmell. if you're interested in getting a whiff, the arboretum is open at 8:00 a.m.. >> maybe you want to smell pumpkin pie. it's only august but some cases it looks like fall is coming early summer isn't even close to being ov

the dccc poured half a million delays in ads to boost his opponent john gibbs. strategy shows what's wrong with american politics right now. >> in a rare showing of bipartisan unity nancy pelosi and the house democratic campaign committee united to try to knock me off the ballot. now this just highlights the cynicism and hypocrisy of our politics today. the fact that we have the establishment left and the extreme right locking arms in common cause paints a telling picture where our politics are in 2022. >> what is your take on this? >> the democrats are so desperate they are ore playing in republican primaries. they'll have tight races. we need four to win back the house. if i were in michigan going against barrett i would be mad. she will lose that seat. if i was in michigan, i would be mad they spent the money on the primary. he will lose his seat and i can go through a bunch of democrats in tight races and the democrat party played in the republican primary? place your money, great. we'll take back the house. they don't believe in their candidates and no mess

half a million dollars to try to buy this election and rye to fool conservatives into voting for john gibbswhere democrats are trying to put their thumb on the scale by helping a republican -- the hope is the republican wins a primary who cannot win in november. >> we saw congressman richey torrez saying over the weekend he was displeased with some of these maneuvers. it seeds the moral high ground for democrats. it's a risky strategy. it's a two-pronged strategy. right now, that's an iffy situation. >> that's the polite way to put it. let's look at the arizona governors race where you have the broadcaster saying she's channeling trump. if i losing with someone's cheating. and then you have karen robson. where are we as we get deeper inventory primary season? who's winning? >> so far, trump's winning, and arizona will be a big test to that. i think liz cheney is going to be an even bigger test. nobody is hiding how many different money streams there are after republicans as well as democrats trying to left her up. i think when you really zoom out, democracy is hugely on the ballot today. i

dixon, she will face incumbent democratic governor gretchen whitmer in the fall and house candidate john gibbs defeating peter meijer and voting to impeach trump after the january 6 riot. is america ready for a return to the right or trump's version of it this november. get into it. tonight's man panel washington examiner and senior political columnist and resident fellow and our fellow tonight, tim kearney is back. democrat strategist and former biden campaign surrogate, yeah, you know what, frank seizure sis old blue eyes and kevin is young blue eyes. >> he's got a smile that can light up the style and georgia libtorial candidate gait and host of the podcast shane hazel. welcome back, everyone. >> thank you. kennedy: what a strange night, tim kearney. what does it say about the state of the republican party and the former president's sway over it? >> well, i think guys like -- i'm not a big meijer, however you pronounce the grocery store guy in michigan. i'm not a huge fan because he tried to beat justin amash, who's my favorite congressman. kennedy: amash retired. >> yeah, but meijer tried

democrats have spent money in the michigan third congressional district primary race bolstered john gibbsump backed candidate against the incumbent peter meyer in that race. they continue to intervene in races all over the country backing far right candidates they deem are beatable. gillian. >> gillian: thanks. the state board of education is warning two oklahoma school districts officials there appear to have violated a new state law that prevents critical race theory from being taught in public schools. one of those complaints was against tulsa public skoo. accused of holding a training sessions for teachers elements shaming white people for past offenses in history. in the state's education secretary blasted tulsa school officials. it was over two library books titled gender queer and the other flameer. they were available to middle school students but have since been pulled from shelves. >> this is a tactic we've seen of the far left. they are pushing critical race theory schools and sexualization of kids and one of their end goes is to teach kids to hate america. >> gillian: let's br

primary race, democrats have spent about half a million dollars to boost trump backed candidate john gibbsthe 2022, 2020 election was stolen over peter meyer. today representative meyer blasted candidates that they deem too extreme and easier to beat in november. meijer says as the january 6 co continueses to warn, their party dues are helping elect the same villains they're against. martha? >> thank you very much. bryan llenas in michigan. on this story, we told you that this is what would happen, right? now there's a brand new study that confirms i'm. roughly 1.3 million public school students never came back to their school after they went home to zoom learning and that number is a historic drop in this country's past in a decline, a withdrawal of public schools that we've ever seen. with that, we bring in a man at the center of the discussion. ian pryor, excessive director of fight for schools. he worked in the trump administration's department of justice. good to have you here today, ian. thanks for having me. >> some of these students moved to different schools. some of their parents

laura culp is the trump backed candidate in this race and in michigan incumbent peter mayor against john gibbsing half a million dollars to boost gibbs with ads, a move we have seen in a number of different states backing trump candidates. when we looking at very closely in michigan and this is really a toss-up. he goes up against challengers, ryan kelly. kelly faces charges for his role in the january 6th capitol riot in this race. the winner of this primary in michigan should take on the incumbent gretchen whitmer. she is seeking a second term after getting national attention for controversial policies during the pandemic. we are going to go into arizona and there are a number of close races there. two basic races for governor and senate. the republican bid for government features dueling endorsements. the former president going for carry leg of the former vice president going for taylor robeson. and they are trying to seat on the unseeded incumbent senator mark kelly on the senate side. following from phoenix tonight, good evening, alecia. >> this may be 2022 but in arizona there is a whole

john gibbs, great guy. defeated rhino congressman, peter myer this week. we're 45 wins and no losses. is that good? >> joe, some hair raising comments there from trump. but you have to admit, he is on a role. >> it's his party. respectfully to my friend, charlie, the republican party is no longer conservative. it's authoritarian. vict viktor orban is popular. tucker carlson is one of the world's biggest cheerleaders for authoritarians and they echo the republican party base. and we better as a country, get our arms around this because the job now, jim, is to defeat them. >> i agree with that, joe, and you know, a lot of folks might be looking at their tv screens now saying why are you showing trump? why are you showing this stuff and sticking your heads in the sand. thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >>> right now, the senate is on track to vote on the democrats healthcare and climate bill. we'll bring you up to date in a few moments. and a top democratic senator will join me live, next. feel the rush ofof performance at the lexus golden

or would have been in the primaries so democrats actually helped fund his republican challenger, john gibbs. a relative unknown with the history of tweeting qanon theories. myer in his concession last night said "i' proud to remain true to principles even when doing so came at political costs". this is just the primary talking about it on twitter, you can find me at scott mc grew. >> thank you scott. a follow up this morning and maybe not a story of reincarnation but maybe back from the dead. that rare court flower that scientists thought would never bloom, it finally did over the last 36 hours. we sent bob down there and it was expected to have an odor you just can't unsmell. if you're interested in getting a whiff for is o all, a recent campaign by friends including doja cat brought the mexican pizza back to taco bell's menu after the chain pulled the plug. huge demand come buned with supply chain demands forced the item off the menu but now taco bell says the supply chain issues are resolved and it will return on september 15th. >> i don't think i've had one i want to get one when i hear

cnn predicts election denier john gibbs will win this race. what is your big take-away from last night's races? >> kansas was a big story. the lesson there is read any poll about abortion attitudes over the last 40 years and you wouldn't be surprised that a majority of the people didn't want roe overturned and wanted abortion rights protected. i'm willing to bet that not all of those voters were democrats. i'm willing to bet some of those were republicans. so instead of democrats throwing money at candidates, they should make abortion their top issue. we just had a test case. the turnout is the huge story of that. i couldn't think of another issue that was going to be a greater turnout driver than this one. that just proved correct last night. >> let's talk about in terms of the ballot. let's look at arizona. all of these different election deniers, for senate candidate, for secretary of state, for governor, for attorney general, they are winning their primaries? what happens if these folks win in november? >> most notably, the secretary of st

he's facing trump backed john gibbs. he says president trump won here in michigan, biden did not win in 2020. and someone who says that because of trump's endorsement that he believes he'll be victorious tonight. you put all those factors at play we know we're expecting the result later tonight, and we expect it to be unpredictable with candidates saying it'll likely be close and it'll come down to the wire. >> shaq, you got a chance to speak with john gibbs, what did he tell you? >> reporter: i spoke with myers and gibbs. i want you to listen to what he told me and a gaggle of reporters after he came out to vote. he claims that president trump won in the state of michigan, and he was asked about his confidence in this election now he cast his ballot, and i want you to listen to a little bit of that exchange. >> on the issue of election security are you prepared to accept tonight's result if they don't go your way? >> we'll see what it looks like. if it's obviously the election is on the up and up, there'll be no problem

than in michigan you had peter mayor who is the incumbent congressmen facing john gibbs, also endorseddent trump. i think we can get some numbers on that michigan race if we check in here -- yes. 8% in but you have roughly 1200 votes separating the two with kids in the early lead. one other thing to show you a quick, this is not a race that is a congressman-senator-governor, this is a ballot measure in the state of kansas and it has to do with abortion. whether the state should do away with abortion rights in the constitution of the state to. now it is no -- no gets 63% of the vote and yes is at this .37%. you've got about 30% of the boat in. that is a big vote about abortion. they could have repercussions other places but kansas as you know pretty red. started to get results in arizona really early we probably aren't going to get numbers until about 11:00 p.m. >> sean: on the yes vote, one that we in the state legislature then would be empowered to make the law or restrictions or whatever law they wanted on that level if, in fact, it was yes? >> the way this ballot measure is written

peter meijer won another ten republicans who voted to impeaching lost to election denier named john gibbs. democrats spent hundreds of thousands of dollars boosting gives us ties to the former president in order to make him their opponent in the fall. mister gibbs is hardly the only election july are in the ballot last. night arizona republicans nominated all slate. truly in keeping with the man for orlando said on election night, kari lake, candidate for governor, declared victory in a race that has yet to poll even now. >> there is no path to victory for my opponent, and we won this race. [applause] >> she leads now. she has not won yet. however election deniers have won the republican nod for u.s. senate seat, attorney general and secretary of state arizona's top election official. as for conservative republicans state house speaker rusty bowers who refused overturn 2020 election rivals all's, he lost his bid to supporter of the former president. cnn political director david chalian, barbara birkenstock, strategist david urban, campaign adviser the former president. david chalian, what

guess the cynicism here is that the democratic congressional committee spent more money boosting john gibbsfeated peter meijer, then gives his whole campaign. the democrats spend about 100 -- [inaudible] . >> i'm afraid we lost charlie. i want to take a guess. maybe he was ending that sentence with, maybe we need a little campaign finance reform? just a guess. charlie sakes, thank you so much. i'm sorry we lost a signal. when we come back. he gave voice to baseballs most iconic moments in over 60 years. we'll remember, legendary sports caster vince, when the 11th hour continues! our continues! hepatitis c? don't just treat it. crush it with mavyret. conquer it with mavyret. cure it. with mavyret. mavyret cures all types of hep c. in only 8 weeks. the virus multiplies daily and can damage the liver over time. mavyret stops hep c and cures it. if you've had hepatitis b, it may flare up... ...and cause serious liver problems during and after treatment. tell your doctor if you've had hep b, a liver or kidney transplant, other liver problems... ...hiv, other medical conditions... ...and all your

he's running against john gibbs, who democrats are trying to boost in hopes it will be easier to beatining me now, the managing editor of axios, and lauren lopez, white house correspondent for pbs news hour. so laura, first to you. trump endorsements, some have been material in a lot of these races, arguably put some over the top. others he can game it and come in when someone is already a leader. what will the test be, i suppose, in these elections tomorrow? >> well, for me the big picture in these elections is as you mentioned with tudor dixon in michigan, she's repeated the election lies. we see that in arizona across the board, whether it's the gubernatorial candidate, the secretary of state candidate, or the senate candidate trying to go against mark kelly, the democratic incumbent. they are all pushing election conspiracies and trying to control the election apparatus in those states. so tuesday is about whether trump's efforts will determine how successful his efforts have been to get these election deniers and loyalists, as the republican nominees. >> margaret, where does that

he was seeing a primary challenger in john gibbs. we know that former president trump endorsed in the republican primary to take on democratic governor whitmer, they are siding with tutor dixon, they appeared together on a telephone rally yesterday and we know that's the race that is expected to be extremely close and according to the secretary of state's office, there are already warnings that because of the large number of absentee ballots in the state, the final result may not happen tonight and it may be a long night of counting votes here in michigan. >>> a major u-turn in congress today. the senate majority leader schumer now says senate republicans have reached an agreement to pass the pact act. it would provide health and disability benefits to veterans who suffer from medical conditions as a result of their wartime exposure to toxic burn pits. this comes a week after a group of 25 republicans flipped their votes and blocked the very bill that sparked outrage from veterans and the activists and comedian jon stewart. today he

the person he lost to, john gibbs, when i was in grand rapids told me he thought the election was stolen saying that. and i said what about the fact that there is no evidence that the election was stolen. he said it is like the mafia, for evidence that the mafia was killing ed people but we believe it happened. and so these are the kind of things that they are saying to the electoral and they are being k rewarded. >> so what is the cost when you mainstream militia members, anti-semites, white nationalists? >> it is a very tenuous time for american democracy going into the next elections because we still have a portion of the country and most importantly a portion of the political leadership as you guys have been describing that is not accepting both the results of the past election and so they are going to be using that same strategy going forward. there has to be for politics to function and for democracy to function, there has to be basic acceptance about results of elections, especially when all of the experts and those involves in administering them say that they are conducted fairly

ballot in tomorrow's primaries, anderson, two in washington state -- has trump backed challenger, john gibbspromoted donald trump's lies about the result of the 2020 election served in the housing and urban development cabinet agency in the trump administration. he is the conservative choice here. meyers and the fight of his life, and democrats, anderson, are actually meddling in this republican primary. they're spending money trying to pump up gibbs, because they think will be easier to defeat in november. but that's playing with fire, across, because they're promoting unknown election deniers who could potentially win the seat in november. >> yeah. appreciate it, thanks. be right back. m boston. ♪ it means, “ok-to-beer-fest”. another sam octoberfest? nein. make it ten! i like this guy. (cheers) we just moved. so there's millions of - dahlias in bloom. over nine acres. when we started, we grew a quarter of an acre. now i'm taking on new projects on the regular. there are millions of ways to make the most of your land. learn more at deere.com ♪ got my hair got my head ♪ introducing new one a

in michigan third congressional district, loses to john gibbs. herrera butler in washington's third congressional district, and dan nu. house in washington's fourth congressional district. we do not know yet whether or not they'll be advancing to the next round, that both in washington both of these candidates were in the top two primaries. and daniel nuhouse is also in it top because he's actually running first, but those races have not been called on. >> let's talk about arizona where the trump backed candidates are doing well. he's hoping for a clean sweep. what's going on now? >> if we look right now the only race in which the trump backed kantd dt has been called, but kari lake is in fact the head, and the arizona sents republican candidate blake masters endorse by trump, he wins, he gets the check mark. mark finchem backed by trump, he gets the check mark. then the attorney general republican primary, the trump backed candidate again gets the check mark. so trump at this point if the results hold will sweep. he also gets a win in arizona wh

also in michigan, nbc news projects john gibbs the winner in the republican primary for the state's third congressional district. he is the trump endorsed challenger to republican congresswoman peter meyer. in missouri, the state attorney general eric schmitt easily won the primary. former president trump gave a half hearted endorsement in that race saying he was supporting eric, no last name given. schmitt will face trudi bush valentine. let's go back to arizona, steve kornacki, and look at that governor's race being watched very closely. the dynamic has changed a bit overnight. >> yeah, it did. it was the overnight hours on the east coast. basically what happened here was carrie lake, the trump backed candidate did extremely well in some of these counties in the same day vote, the election day vote. that is to say the folks who went out to the polls yesterday and voted in person. that's what was counted overnight. lake was trouncing karen taylor robson. that vaulted carrie lake somewhere around 4:00 p.m. east coast time into the lead over taylor robson. you see the margin at over 10,000

guess the cynicism here is that the democratic congressional committee spent more money boosting john gibbso defeated peter meijer, then gibbs'whole campaign. the democrats spend about 100 -- [inaudible] >> i'm afraid we lost charlie. i want to take a guess. maybe he was ending that sentence with, maybe we need a little campaign finance reform? just a guess. charlie sykes, thank you so much. i'm sorry we lost a signal. when we come back. he gave voice to baseballs most iconic moments in over 60 years. we'll remember, legendary sports caster vince scully, when the 11th hour continues! ontinues for years, california's non-gaming tribes have been left in the dust. wealthy tribes with big casinos make billions, while small tribes struggle in poverty. prop 27 is a game changer. 27 taxes and regulates online sports betting to fund permanent solution to homelessness. while helping every tribe in california. so who's attacking prop 27? wealthy casino tribes who want all the money for themselves support small tribes, address homelessness. vote yes on 27. tonight, remembering a broadcast legend. vin

this week, he lost to a trump-backed challenger, john gibbs. >> any leader of any organization has toalty from the people. >> reporter: in just ten days -- >> the people of wyoming are going to tell her, liz, you're fired! get out of here! >> reporter: liz cheney's political fate on the line, the co-chair of the january 6th committee, who has made the case against the former president, is facing off against a trump-endorsed prun. >> we're fed up with january 6th commission. >> reporter: with 2024, chaos causing implications. >> and vaughn joins me now. good morning. good to see you. you covered those races in arizona so closely. you know some of these candidates would go back and desert fie the results of the 2020 election. if elected, what power would these officials and others have to influence the vote as we move forward? >> reporter: yeah, just take secretaries of state. they're the ones in charge of running their state's elections and making sure they're fair and accurate. we saw in 2020 these secretaries of state come under pressure to find the voter fraud. brad rathlisberger, t

his trump-backed challenger, john gibbs, is a total election denier as well, has promoted donald trump'slt of the 2020 election, served in the housing and urban development cabinet agency in the trump administration. and he is the conservative choice here, meyers in the fight of his life. and democrats, anderson, are actually meddling in this republican primary. they're spending money trying to pump up gibbs because they think he'll be easier to defeat in november. that's playing with fire, of course, because they're promoting a known election denier, who could potentially win the seat in november. >> david chalian, jeff zeleny, appreciate it. thanks. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ "shake your thang" by salt n pepa bubbles bubbles bubbles bubbles there are bubbles everywhere! as an expedia member you earn points on top of your airline miles. so you can go see even more of all the world's bubbles. new astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid free spray. while other allergy sprays take hours astepro starts working in 30 minutes. s