amy mcgrath a retired marine lieutenant colonel ran for congress in the six congressional district in 2018. mike is retired marine lieutenant colonel, a farmer and former newspaper editor. we want you to join the conversation with your questions on twitter, send an e-mail, use the web form, make sure to check the box that says you're not a a robot or you may give us a call. .. the last few days in kentucky and across the nation, protests have erupted in response to police killings of george floyd inminneapolis , rihanna taylor in louisville were shot eight times while she was in her home and today we understand the killing of david maccabee, a business owner in louisville. elections in minnesota's said last week during one of governor andy bashir's press conferences and i quote when he was talking about racial injustice and alleged police brutality he said it's not the minority population that's been silent but rather the majority has been death. so i have a question and we will start left to the right, representative booker, you first. how have you actively sought to be part of the s

amy mcgrath, charles booker. mcgrath with a lead of 7,000 votes. but this is going in one pretty clear direction right now. amy mcgrath's direction. i'll take you through what we're looking at here. remember, the actual primary, the in-person voting at least, was last week in kentucky. they had some votes that were cast in person last week, but they had a whole bunch that were cast by mail. sometimes week acsballots only n last week. county by county, they're releasing the final vote totals. we said the ball game would come down to these counties right here, where louisville is and lexington is. this is more than 1/3 of the vote in the entire state in these two counties. booker's home base is louisville, the biggest one. lexington, that's where the university of kentucky is. basically, let me show you what happened here. if you go inside lexington, booker won the county. he was expecting to win this bigger. we had, for the last week, some numbers from fayette county, where lexington is. those numbers were the in-person votes cast last week. in the

you or amy mcgrath?> i think he'd want to run against someone calling themselves a pro-trump democrat but he's going to get me. and fed-up kentuckians. he's built power for himself. we're done with that. and his days are done. >> jefferson county, that is your home town of louisville. you have more than 760,000 residents. there's going to be just one polling place today. however, we've seen a huge number of early voting. how does the one polling location impact your chances? >> well, it is very concerning to have one polling location for an area the size of louisville with hundreds of thousands of people. that's why we've been vigilant making sure folks know what's going on, what the process is and mitigating a lot of confusion. we've been having shuttles running. i've had buses going all week making sure folks get to the polls. we're working to make sure folks get rides to the polls. and we're going to be watching as people are standing in line. make sure they can vote. if they need a chair, we'll get t

so mcgrath is going to be winning this and will go on to face mcconnell. this is what elections are going to look like in a lot of states this november. i think it's something to keep in mind. for the last week we were looking at very, very partial, very incomplete results. for instance, i'm going to show you this one right here. this is fayette county, lexington, second biggest in the state. booker ends up winning this county by six points. for the last week, though, we had very partial results that showed booker ahead by 50, five zero, points. that was from the same-day vote. very small share. that was released right away. that had booker up 50. that vast sea of mail-in ballots, though, very different. and it cut a 50-point booker lead down to six. so keep that in mind. i think everywhere across the country, we're probably going to get partial results, election night right away and then an ocean of mail-in ballots that could be very, very different. >> and that became a tight race after the protests on breon na taylor. she said she had not gone to a prot

mcgrath is going to win this.hink what's interesting here, though, is there was a split here in when the votes were cast, how the votes were cast. i think you got to keep in mind, as we head to november. take a look at this. these are the three biggest counties in kentucky. this is where louisville, lexington, cincinnati's suburbs here. last week was the official primary date. some people went out and voted in person at polling places a week ago today. the folks who did that, i mean, look at this. in the louisville area, booker won by 57 points. his home base, but 57. he won by 51 in lexington. that's where the university of kentucky is. he won by almost 20 points here in this big county in the cincinnati suburbs, but there weren't a lot of people who went and did that last week. now, these were numbers we had for all of last week. what we got today was the mail-in. it's just night and day. look at this. 37-point difference, the mail-in ballots in jefferson. he won them by 37 points less. from 51 down to 5. he act

amy mcgrath, perhaps you remember her from 2018.of the female candidates who democrats got behind. she narrowly lost a race for the house in kentucky. she decided to run for the senate. looked like she was the odds-on favorite for this nomination, but charles booker, a member of the state house in kentucky, got in the race late. he has gotten some momentum late. bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, alexandria ocasio-cortez all endorsing him. there is a big financial disparity here between these campaigns, mcgrath, nearly $20 million, booker, only a couple hundred thousand dollars but this is an interesting test, this late momentum that's behind booker, this sudden focus, grassroots emphasis on black lives matter and all those issues. the question is, could this lift booker to an upset victory tomorrow in the democratic primary? by the way, one thing to keep in mind here, kentucky's got mail-in voting for this primary, got a lot of people who have requested ballots but in terms of in-person voting tomorrow, lexington and louisville, the

amy mcgrath has raised money to do so. she faces a surging charles booker, who's made racial justice a big part of his campaign. the democratic presidential primary may be over but this is a reminder there's a struggle going on down the ballot nationwide. >> ed o'keefe, thank you. spain reopened its borders this weekend. in some places the pandemic is making a comebackor foreign cor elizabeth palmerer has the latest. >> reporter: in beijing health workers stemmed in thousands of delivery drivers to try to stamp out coronavirus. again. it was declared gone in early june. then it came back. underlining just how tenacious this infection really is. the latest kbrim milestone in this pandemic came late last week when the w.h.o. reported

he's running against amy mcgrath, combat pilot. she seemed to be the consensus choice heading in. i'm talking mitch mcconnell type money. as you look at the politics in the last few days in louisville, there is a shift. i leave the politics and numbers to you, sir, but there's something happening here in louisville. the other thing that's happening is with mail-in ballots and i spoke with somebody who works for the county, they sent out 260,000 mail-in ballots in just jefferson county. the last gubernatorial election they sent out 2,400. a difference of 268,000 mailin ballots for an election happening in 11 days. as you remember those pictures from atlanta, keep that in mind. i think people are going to try

there is a big financial disparity here between these campaigns, mcgrath, nearly $20 million, booker, only a couple hundred thousand dollars but this is an interesting test, this late momentum that's behind booker, this sudden focus, grassroots emphasis on black lives matter and all those issues. the question is, could this lift booker to an upset victory tomorrow in the democratic primary? by the way, one thing to keep in mind here, kentucky's got mail-in voting for this primary, got a lot of people who have requested ballots but in terms of in-person voting tomorrow, lexington and louisville, they had 2,400 polling places in the state. there are 177 tomorrow. there's one for the county where louisville is. there's one for the county where lexington is. these are the big population centers. these are big polling places. it's an expo center and a football field but that's one

amy mcgrath, that's going to be the democratic nominee against mitch mcconnell. defeated charles booker. mcgrath came into this race about a year ago, got a lot of national attention, made a big name for her running in the midterm election for the house. charles booker got momentum late. mcgrath wins this very narrowly. when the votes were cast is sort of the story of this primary. this was the in-person vote. official wli last week was primary day. three largest counties in kentucky, and what do you see here? among the people that went out last week and voted, big, big booker margins. he had the late momentum, got all the attention in the last week of the campaign. seemed to make an impression on the people who voted at the last minute. compared to the number of mail-in votes, not a lot of people went to the polls. some did this weeks ago, before booker got that attention, got that momentum. and it was a totally different story here. this is jefferson county, still won the mail-in vote, but that's 1/3 the margin he got on primary day. the margin was reduced by 4

the actual primary but because the race was so close to each other they had just now declared amy mcgrath who was the establishment candidate the winner but here's what makes this amazing is it this case with amy mcgrath all along was supposed to be the clear for a democratic senatorial candidate but with the recent protests as well as the shooting and that lugo briana taylor you had a tro the booker a mislead grow in popularity to where was such a tight race that they had to go to the absentee ballots to count so that is all about engagement right now in a state like kentucky where senator mitch mcconnell will be facing any mcgrath come november let's move to colorado where today is actually the voting day people can drop off their ballot or go to the polls now what's incredible about it colorado is that in 2018 they had a really good number of people turn out for the primary but it's being beaten almost by double in 2020 and that by the democrats republicans are still along the same trend but democrats are trending more than $2.00 to $1.00 in voters were 23 percent independent still not

this is a completely different race than the one where amy mcgrath was an early biden supporter.as a lot of establishment democratic support. aoc has been supporting booker. he's a more progressive candidate, and he's obviously got the impetus of the anti-police movement against him -- behind him, rather. >> thank you for having me. good to see you as well. yeah, charles booker has really come in and shaken up this race in very conservative kentucky. but the shooting death of breonna taylor who was shot in her apartment in the middle of the night by police sent an unrest through the community. charles booker went out there in the streets and protested. while amy mcgrath is the establishment candidate, another 88,000 have already voted early, the polling shows that charles booker is surging ahead. really riding the momentum from these nationwide protests. so while it is very close, charles booker has really come out of nowhere and shaken it up in a way few expected. unless you talk to folks on the ground who say there's always been this ripe opportunity to take advantage of all th

it is something that charles booker talked about again and again and amy mcgrath was the hand pickedte of the establishment. she still is, but she stumbled over her reaction to protests. so what we have now is mcgrath is leading with the votes that were counted so far, but those are largely in rural kentucky. so the cities here in louisville, as well as in lexington, that is what is going to be key here in terms of absentee and vote by mail. so we may not know the results of this election until next week. one thing is clear -- mitch mcconnell the republican senate majority leader, he won handily last night. trying to win his seventh seat. what he doesn't know this morning who he'll be running against. >> yeah. and before we go, i'd be remiss not to mention, mj, north carolina and the newcomer mad can cawthorn defeating lynda bennett. someone who had been endorsed not only by the president, but by mark meadows as well. tell us about him. he has a remarkable story. >> he does. and as you said, you know, the reason that this sort of is a national fascinating story is because lynda benne

. >> it's amazing how quickly the political tides may be turning, but amy mcgrath, she was a front-runner of course in the democratic primary but state representative charles booker has been gaining momentum after breonna taylor, the 26-year-old emergency responder, was killed by police in louisville in march. the winner, they are going to go on to highly watched race. that is the race against senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in the fall. cnn's senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is in louisville. adding to the drama state election officials decided to close most voting precincts. what's happening there? this has happened in other states leading to allegations of voter suppression. >> reporter: good morning, jim and poppy. no question that voting in the era of a pandemic is entirely different and it's not that state officials decided to change most precincts but they decided how the vote will be conducted. this primary was schedule to be conducted last month so they had to readjust because simply there's not an availability of poll workers to work in all the precincts. 3,700

note: miss mcgrath, you are for medicare for all, are you? lt. col.grath: look, i believe everybody sitting up here in the studio believes that health care is a right of all americans and all kentuckians and we should have affordable and assessable health care. we differ on how we get there. i believe we should have reasonable common sense solutions where people are not thrown off their health care if they like it currently. i propose something like the public option. this is a government plan you could buy and if you like your current plan and your current plan from your employer or private plane is fine, you don't have to buy it. fine, you plan is have to buy it. this will be an uncle sam plan. everybody should have that option and it would provide -- it would also bring prices down because the private insurers would have to compete with the public option. i think these are things we can get done if we can get out people like mitch mcconnell who are bought off by the insurance industry. we should tackle prescription drug prices because we know we ca

mcgrath has outspent booker on to $1 million. meanwhile, in new york city, progressive congressional candidate, former middle school principal, jamaal bowman is challenging 16-term democratic congressmember eliot engel in his bronx district. this comes as trump again attacked mail-in voting, falsely claiming it leads to fraud and that "because of mail-in ballots, 2020 will be the most rigged election in our nation's history," he tweeted. despite the fact that he kneels in his vote. -- malales in his boat. we'll have momore on today's primaries later in the broadcast. chaotic scenes broke out in washington, d.c., monday night after park police in riot gear descenended on anti-racism protesters in lafayette park, deploying pepper spray and rubber bullets. protestersrs attempted to toppla statue of andrew jackskson in lafayette park, , which is steps from the white h house. trump has previoususly cited jajackson as his favorite president. jackson was a slaveholder who in 1830 signed the indian removal act, forcing 16,000 native amer

mcgrath? >> i have not. >> and why? with my family and i've had some family things going on this past weekend, but i've been following the news and watching. >> reporter: booker turned that moment into a tv ad. while she's dramatically outspending him, $14 million to his $1 million on advertising alone, the closing momentum is on his side. the race is playing out here in trump country, where the president won the state four years ago by nearly 30 points. >> president trump and mitch mcconnell, delivering for kentucky. >> reporter: from the streets of louisville to small towns like campbellsville, booker is making the case for progressive change. his policies closely align with bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, both of whom have endorsed him. >> we've got to be that change. we've got to bend that arc. >> reporter: do you wonder if he's too progressive for kentucky? >> sometimes i think about that, but it's time for a change. everything is evolving, man. >> reporter: a more urgent test is the mechanics of voting. while

we didn't care about politics we just wanted to serve our country. >> reporter: earlier this month mcgrathas asked if she had taken part in protests >> i have not. >> and why >> well, i've been with my family and i've had some family things going on this past weekend >> reporter: she was asked again today. >> i did participate i went to louisville and i was in central park for a memorial service for breonna taylor and george floyd. >> reporter: in a louisville polling place today, mixed views. >> i felt like she would be the best person to get in >> we need some change i really like charles booker a lot >> reporter: so far no major problems reported tonight at the polling places savannah >> kristen, thank you. >>> up next a young skater with a powerful message. >>> before we go tonight in our latest installment of "nightly news kids edition" we'll introduce you to a remarkable young skater touching others with a touching routine. kate snow chats with katelyn saunders about her message. and one girl's act of kindness for nurses on the front lines. our new episode is streaming now. that is "

mcgrath takes that moderate path, she can win by taking and flipping those suburban voters. charlie booker takes the progressive path, making the argument he'll bring more people into the fold that will challenge mcconnell. >> another great subplot the president telling us that mail-in ballots are full of corruption, people of kentucky saying not so much. daniel, thank you very much for spending some time with us on a busy day on your beat. as we watch the effects of the black lives matter protests on a race like that in kentucky there's a renewed presence by police today in lafayette square across from the white house, as you may know overnight police used pepper spray and shields as they clashed with protesters just across from the white house after demonstrators tried to topple the statue of andrew jackson about an hour after president trump threatened arrests and prison time for monument vandals. . with us now is axios political reporter alexi mccammond. men and women across this country, all kinds of men and women have been in the streets of cities and towns, day and ni

mcgrath? >> i have not. >> and why? >> well, i've been with my family, and i've had some family things going on this past weekend. but i've been following the news. and, you know, and watching. >> booker turned that moment into a tv ad. while she's dramatically outspending him, $14 million to his 1 million on advertising, alone, the closing momentum is on his side. the race is playing out, here, in trump country. where the president won the state four years ago, by nearly 30 points. >> president trump and mitch mcconnell, delivering for kentucky. >> from the streets of louisville to small towns like campbellsville, his policies closely align with bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, both of whom have endorsed him. >> we got to bend that arc. >> do you wonder if he is too progressive for kentucky? >> sometimes i think about that. but it's time for a change. everything is evolving, man. >> a more urgent test is the mechanics of voting. while tens of thousands have voted early, only one polling place will be open tomorrow

. >> eamy mcgrath is the choice.les booker is now riding a wave of momentum. >> reporter: you have said that you are campaigning from the hood to the holler. explain that. >> i'm trying to build a movement here by speaking to our common bonds and there's a reality that there are so many souls in the hood that you would see in the places of the hollers of eastern kentucky and the mountains. if we realize our common bonds, we can change the world. >> reporter: with a political awakening, mcgrath has struggled to find her footing. >> have you been on the ground with the protesters or in lexington or elsewhere, miss mcgrath? >> i have not. >> and why? >> well, i've been with my family and i've had some family things going on this past weekend but i've been following the news and, you know, watching. >> reporter: booker turned that moment into a tv ad which she's dramatically outspending him, 14 m million to $1 million of his own. this is playing out in trump country. >> president trump and mitch mcconnell delivering for

take the lead in kentucky we won't get the official results until tuesday but he's up against amy mcgrath the democratic party darling but what really happened is the protest definitely changed the course of the race because i mean mcgrath wasn't out there protesting and charles booker was leading the protests and he has a more progressive agenda more radical agenda and people are attracted to that now because of the protests the same thing happened. not a small fact that he's a black man and it true i think that is is important right now i'm sorry to mention that also we have the black candidate jamal bowman who is taking the bronx in he unseated an incumbent that was there for like 30 years just ready to die and he he has lived in maryland for over 30 years and he hasn't really been part of the community whereas jamal bowman was really working as a community activist in the bronx and imagine that knowing the community you're going to represent i don't know yeah it really helps and people want to see that more and more they're going to ask for that more and more so we're going to see thi

what you see is that mcgrath, amy mcgrath with a small lead over charles booker of about six points heregoes into that lead, basically some of the counties, not all of the counties in kentucky, but some of the counties in kentucky have released the vote that was cast in person yesterday and then the early vote. there were some folks who went in and voted early in person in kentucky. all told, about 25% of the people either voted yesterday or voted early. and we have some of that in here. some of that's accounted here. what's still to come is the mother lode. it's the mail-in ballots, hundreds of thousands of those. those will be counted basically a little less than a week from now. the key thing to keep in mind with these numbers, one thing to say, jefferson county, the biggest in the state. that's where louisville is, that's where booker is from, and fayette county, that's where lexington is. there's only a couple of precincts that reported in lexington, none from jefferson county. those tend to be two of the stronger areas from booker. one way of looking at this is if the very, very pa

who is one of the biggest voices in our commonwealth, many thought was going to run and beat amy mcgrath and mitch mcconnell is endorsing me, because we're building a coalition that says no matter where you're from, what your pro-noun is, how much money you have, that you matter. and that's the momentum. look, we just broke $1 million in fund raising. we're at $600,000 that we raised in the last couple of days. >> charles booker, thanks for sharing time with us tonight. that is "all in" this evening. "the 11th hour" starts right now. >>> good evening. day 1236 of the trump administration. 148 days to go until our presidential election. exactly two weeks to the day after george floyd's death at the snknee of a police officer. and demonstrators are back on our streets as we come on the air tonight. we're looking specifically at marches and rallies under way from new york on the left to portland, oregon on the right, on both coasts and many places in between. the public what they have taken to calling defunding the police. the phrase even appears in large yellow letters on the newly named b

mcgrath leads by over 2,000 votes. and in november.nd in new york, two democratic incumbent seats could be in jeopardy. in the state's 12th democratic primary incumbent carolyn maloney is leading and longtime eliot engel over jamelbowman. michael adams projects the total turnout for tuesday's primary would exceed 1 million, including 800,000 mail-in ballots. that final figure would shatter the state's record over primary voters in 2008. "the washington post" is reporting that. so the uptick that reveals an overwhelming shift to absentee voting in the blue grass state, despite president trump railing against mail-in voting. meanwhile cancellations forced officials to staff more than 0 00 polling elections, rather than 3700. voters still waiting to cast their ballots at the time when polls closed at 6:00 p.m. and hundreds were able to file into a kentucky football field. in louisville, the judge ordered the sole polling place at the exhibition center to reopen its doors after a large group banged on the doors to keep them out. when polls

he is a dynamic speaker, a dynamic leader and amy mcgrath had some missteps here.the outcome of this and amy mcgrath is narrowly leading because of the early returns, but it is going to be taking at least a week to determine the absentee and mail-in vote. that was the majority of the votes here cast yesterday which is interesting. i talked to the republican secretary of state who agreed with absentee and mail-in ballots, and i asked him will you do that in november and we'll see what the pandemic is, john, and the pandemic has changed primaries so many ways as well as the mechanics of casting the votes and that's where we're not sure who won yet. we have to have patience in the time of pandemic voting. >> we'll have patience and one more quick one before we go, gentlemen. the president's streak is over and he likes to brag and it's not that big of a deal and he likes to brag about the fact that when he endorses candidates they'll win and the candidate in north carolina, he got 65% of the vote and 66% of the vote and he's 26 years old and he'll be able to take the s

malgraduati mcgrath stumbled when she said in a debate that she had not gone to any black lives matterrotests because she was visiting family. meanwhile, eliot engel is getting trounced by former school principal jamaal bowman in new york, but that race is too early to call. also last night a win for two republican candidates opposed by president trump. in north carolina republicans choosing 24-year-old investor madison cawthorn in the runoff for the seat of mark meadows. thomas massie who often clashes with the gop was renominated for a sixth term. in presidential politics, the first "new york times" national survey shows joe biden with a commanding 14-point lead over president trump among registered voters, this as former president obama yesterday joined former vice president joe biden for their first joint campaign event of 2020, fundraising event, that is, and slammed the trump administration. >> we have seen over the last couple of years a white house that suggests facts don't matter, that a deadly disease is fake news. there is a great awakening going on around the country. parti

my insulin, somebody like mitch mcconnell, could care less if we die and my biggest opponent, amy mcgrathls her a pro trump democrat doesn't have a clue about the challenges we face. i'm excited to build the coalition, from the mountains of appalachia and the hood where i'm from, and that's why we are going to win the race. >> in louisville, where you represent, there's been a lot of pro at the times and i want to talk about the death of brie eo taylor. and before we talk about that, we talked about protests happening across america and unlikely places. places you may not anticipate there to be a black lives matter protest. i wonder what the view of this moment from a perspective of someone running statewide at kentucky at this moment is. >> well, you are exactly right. right before the segment, i was in astil county, with folks that were demanding justice for black lives, it's a part of eastern kentucky, where it's over 99% white. what we are seeing across the moment is an understanding that we are interconnect. if we fight for the challenges that face my community, we will lift all kent

between booker and mcgrath, polls closed in most of kentucky at 6:00 tonight.s been sort of interesting to watch over the course of the day. dozens of voters were briefly locked out of the one single gigantic polling place that they opened today in louisville. they only had one polling place for all of louisville because of the shortage of poll workers. so the top two most pop ulous counties in the state only had one place to vote. at poll closing times they locked the door because although people were lined up, they hadn't made it inside the building. eventually a judge did step in, and those doors were reopened until 6:30, and those voters who had been in line were allowed inside to vote. again, we're watching these numbers as they come in. at this hour, amy mcgrath appears to be leading charles booker but this will be a fascinating one to watch. we're also closely watching a handful of congressional primaries in new york where there's the potential for upsets among some longtime democratic incumbents. 16-term congressman eliot engel has been running for his

and of those numbers that's where mcgrath right now has a 4-point edge over booker.ay came out of louisville. jefferson county, a quarter of all the vote in this primary is going to come from jefferson county. that is charles booker's base. if there are no votes coming in from louisville, and he's within four points of mcgrath, that's a good sign for him. also, there are barely any votes that have been reported from the lexington, the other populations in fayette county, it is called. that's expected to be strong for booker. not a lot of votes from his strongest, biggest areas and he's within four points on the same day. the other issue here in kentucky is all of those mail-in votes, those haven't been touched yet, those have been coming in, they were post marked by yesterday, they'll still be counted, so there is a lot more to come, we're probably not going to know officially for a week, but, again, i think the most notable thing here is the votes that are coming in right now, booker's two strongest areas not represented in the votes and he's within four on the same

to put this in perspective, amy mcgrath got in this race a year ago.ade a big splash, made a name for herself nationally in 2018 with a near miss run for congress in kentucky. look at the money she took in. nearly $20 million. as of a couple of weeks ago, a couple hundred thousand for booker, now in the last couple of weeks goe s he's got a flood national attention. there is a burst of momentum for booker. we'll see how that plays out. that's the other issue here in terms of numbers, what shaq is talking about, the turnout for this, look at this, 890,000 people requested, took the step of requesting mail-in ballots in kentucky. normal primary in kentucky, you're getting 650, 670,000 votes. 890,000 requested them as of yesterday, more than half a million returned the ballots. nearly 90,000 have gone and voted in person early. they were allowing that in kentucky. already nearly at 600,000 as of yesterday. kentucky, certainly very possible for them to go over that, perhaps well over that today in terms of turnout. we say not just kentucky, though, in term

on the democratic side amy mcgrath face a strong challenge from state representative charles booker. the winner takes on mcconnell and the fall. the latest numbers show mcgrath with a 10 point lead. >>> new yorkers are casting ballots as well as a number of high profile congressional races. those include the first reelection bid for democratic representative alexandria a cossio cortez. elliott ingle is facing a challenge on the democratic side and many voters voted absentee. >> it is really important specifically for voting for your community and voting for the representatives that you think will best represent you as a person that lives in this community. >> pulls in new york just close about 15 minutes ago. because of the large numbers of absentee ballots, complete results could be days away. >>> twitter says they will give most of their employees election day off with pay. they plan to give other employees a paid day off to vote in their national elections as well. twitter advice employees in an email today. the u.s. elections every four years will be a holiday going forward. >>>

. >> are you worried at all about amy mcgrath losing the primary in candidate? >> she's a strong candidate, she's giving mccoconnell a run r his money. the republican party put $10 million into kentucky. she's doing very well. i believe she'll win the primary and give mcconnell a run for his money. okay, yes? >> the vice president in a "wall street journal" on said declared there suspect a coronavirus second wave and panic of a second wave is -- >> dr. pence is not someone i would go to for medical advice. thank you, everybody. ♪ >>> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events. you can watch all of c-span's public affairs programming on television, online, or listen on our free radio app. and be part of the national conversation through c-span's daily washington journal program. or through our social media feeds. c-span, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >> tonight on "american history tv," beginning at 8:00 eastern

. >>> a week after the kentucky primary cnn is projecting amy mcgrath as the winner and facing off with mitch mcconnell in november. it was a closely watched primary race and mcgrath defeated narrowly charles booker. >>> coming up, we'll go to texas where concerns are growing that a steady rise in new infections there could soon overwhelm hospitals throughout the state. p for a fingerstick. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what you're doing. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us. the course structure the it just suits my life perfectly because i am a mom, i'm a wife. and i was able to complete those short courses- five to six weeks- and then move onto the next until i reached my goal. throughout our history any time something bad has happened to us ...we've recovered. we fall, we rise.

everybody thought that amy mcgrath would walk away with this. booker is very much a progressive. the death of george floyd and hasdeath of breonna taylor really generated a lot of enthusiasm, not only among african-americans but among those who decide that they need a more progressive candidate. it has lit a fire under his campaign. in a recent poll, he was ahead for the first time, but the suspense will last for a long time. the last of the mail-in ballots will not be counted until a week from today. >> thank you very much. a judge in brazil has ordered president bolsonaro to wear a face mask in public or he could be fined $400 a day. the known number of infections has passed one million. the world health organization fears that the real number could be much higher because of insufficient testing. >> this morning, her father is dead. like so many families around the hasd, coronavirus pandemic removed the traditions of burial from this family. died one of many who have because of the virus. >> the disease caught us in a moment when we were completely unprepared. we are still unpr

mcgrath leads.seats could be in jeopardy in the state's 12th congressional primary. democratic incumbent carolyn maloney is narrowly leading patel. in new york's 16th congressional district, eliot engel trails progressive jamal bowman there. kasie, what are the surprises you see in these races and democratic races across the country last night? >> so, i think it's tempting to read this as, you know, progressives have -- voters are looking for somebody that's more progressive, that's not part of the establishment. i think it's a little bit of a mistake to look at it that way. i think it's a rejection of the calcification of our politics of people that have been in office for decades, in many cases. the kentucky race is fascinating. we still have a lot of counting to do in that race. it really could go either way. but the turnout in that primary election shattered previous records and charles booker was someone who caught onto this last-minute energy. was really a part of the protests swelling in loui

amy mcgrath was the early democratic favorite.inds herself in what could be a tight race with state representative charles booker. his campaign -- in the past month booker has gained the endorsement of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren as well as others. charles booker joins us. good evening. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> mitch mcconnell is running for his sixth term. what is your strongest respect for someone who has voted for mccom five titles to choose you now? >> well, this is a matter of survival, and you're right. he's been there lock time. he was elected two weeks after i was born and he's been screwing us my entire life. folks dealing with poverty. i've had to ration my insulin. i'm a type i diabetic. mitch mcconnell is the barrier to progress. we need to get rid of him so we can transform my future. standing up for humanity for all people is letting the world know that we're ready for a change. we needed it yesterday and we're building the movement to win. >> do you think kentuckyians want to get rid of him?

. >> amy mcgrath is a first choice.ry winning was seen as a foregone conclusion, but booker is now riding a wave of momentum. >> you said you're campaigning from the hood to the holler. ek plain that. >> i'm trying to speak to our common bonds. there's a reality there are so many similarities in the hood that you would say in the places in the hollers of eastern and kentucky and in the mountains. if we realize our common bonds, we can have an awakening. >> reporter: mcgrath has struggled to kind her footing. >> have you been on the ground with people? >> i have not. >> why? >> well, i've been with my family and i've had some family things going on this past weekend. but i've been following the news, and you know, and watching. >> reporter: booker turns that moment into a tv ad. while she's outspending time, $14 million to his 1 million or advertising alone, the closing momentum is on his side. the race is playing out in trump country where the president won four years ago by nearly 40 points. >> president trump and mitc

that is after mcgrath blocked a republican version of the police reform legislation earlier this week. >>> 4:10 is the time right now. earlier this week, it was hot. steve, i opened up all my windows. if we see cool air, will be hot this afternoon? >> steve, i saw fog coming in this morning. it was dancing around the bay area. >> there is a lot more of it for you guys. that will take us into the weekend. each day, inland temps have been creeping down. unless you are far into the north, that is a fog bank, there you go. that is a june fog bank. it has really kicked in. if you look west and southwest, these temperatures are high today. the forecast high for sunday is a big drop. they are coming down the system for june. we have a breeze in oakland and berkeley hills. that is up to 24 miles per hour. the on show breeze is in place. 50s and 60s around the thames. it is up and down the coast. it is not going anywhere anytime soon. if anything, there could be some drizzle as we go towards a saturday for some. cooler for friday, cooler is back in town. it will be blustery to windy. it will b

amy mcgrath ahead of charles booker with few votes in.'re charles booker, louisville, his hometown, the biggest town in the state, that's a quarter of the vote. we may not get anything from there in days. so louisville, lexington, that's number two. that's where the university of kentucky is. charles booker's hopes rest on those two counties. we may not get them in tonight. but if he can be competitive without anything from those counties, that could be a good sign. we will see. but now, joining me on the ground in louisville, kentucky, the heart of jefferson county, jack brewster has been covering this for us -- shaq brewster. shaq, one sort of mega polling site today. as the polls were set to close at 6:00, there was some drama there. take us through what went down. >> reporter: that's right, steve. at about 6:00, you had people literally running to the polls, people at one polling location in jefferson county was at the kentucky expo center. it's a large convention center, which mean there is's a large parking lot. apparently, there wa

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