sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i've got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven't worked today yet, but i looked at what i'm working on. let me take you right back, because i'm always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family, in environments where there wasn't actually much to play with. it was sometimes quite lonely, and you had to use your imagination. do you think that was important in your development? it probably was, and i've never really thought about that. it probably was, but at the time it wasn't part of my plan. i mean, i had no intention or thought about being an artist. and the period you describe, i was seven when the second world war started. i was evacuated for about three yea

sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s.

blake masters. he's a 36-year-old venture capitalist, and protegee of billionaire trump supporter and right-wing kingmaker peter thiel. since masters won his party's endorsement earlier this month, he's been systematically trying to rewrite history in terms of what he stands for. but unfortunately for blake masters, the internet is sometimes forever, the most recent example of, this published late last night by cnn's kfile compares a current version of lake masters campaign website with the one that existed just a day before he won his primary election. his website used to have the following language, quote, the 2020 election was a rotten mess, if we had had a free and fair election, president trump would be sitting in the oval office today, and america would be so much better off. all that has now been deleted by mr. master's website. the stuff about the election being iran must not somehow free and fair, gone. and then there is his position on abortion. nbc news was the first to point out the masters, quote, south and his rhetoric, rewriting or raising five of his six positions. including this one. i am 100%

another place where republicans got the weaker nominee, you have a blake masters, the top aide to peter teal, the mega donor --maga donor. he put a lot of money into the primaries. and are watching to see what he is going to put in the general election. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome back. no excitement in the room.

guest: the senate primary features blake masters, a protege of peter teal, the entrepreneur who has funded lot of republican candidates from -- he endorsed him in that race. there are a few other candidates, the attorney general. the trump endorsement is looking like it's given masters a lot of momentum. host: how is mark kelly looking? guest: any democrat, senator kelly is a first-term democrat, is going to have a challenging reelection in a swing state. his hope is that some of the more -- if masters is the nominee, some of the more moderate suburban swing voters might vote democratic because they don't want to vote for the more far right trump candidate. arizona is a good example of trump aligned candidates doing well in the primary, but democrats will have a renewed opportunity to win tough races because republican nominees may be too extreme. host: let's talk about the missouri primary. guest: trump likes eric. he was deciding between eric schmitt and eric greitens, the disgraced former governor who is leading in the polls for quite some time. it looks like schmidt, the attorney gener

and in the senate, blake masters funded by peter thiel is going to beat lamon and rusty bowers who you during the january 6th hearing is projected to lose by a wide margin. let's go to steve. steve, too close for the governor's race to call. what's it look like where you're sitting? >> yeah. kari lake had overnight, the last four hours or so, kari lake got a lot of good news. if you remember from 2020, the way they do the vote counting in arizona, the polls, they started releasing results about 11:00 p.m., the initial vote reported out everything that had been cast basically up until monday of this week. remember, extensive early mail voting in arizona. what you saw with the first batch of votes late last night, karrin taylor robson actually opened up a lead, close to ten points over kari lake. that is what we thought about what she might need to have a chance to win the primary. we knew she would have to do best with that group of voters. that's the least sort of trump-friendly group of voters you're going to get. what happened then, overnight, they counted up the number of votes that

another place where republicans got the weaker nominee, you have a blake masters, the top aide to peter teal, the mega donor --maga donor. he put a lot of money into the primaries. and are watching to see what he is going to put in the general election. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome back. no excitement in the room. hello? ok. yes we do. today is a great day for middle-class americans and for the economy. we are excited to have domestic policy advisor and a deputy director of the economic council . i apologize. it is not the first time. they are here with us today. the ambassador will discuss the president's announcement today as you just heard him. to provide what we did say, the announcement he did today to provide reading room to student loan borrowers. then she will take some questions. they have about 15 minutes. giving you a heads up. they do have to leave to go to another meeting. with that, they will take it over. >> good afternoon, everyone. as you heard from president biden a few minutes ago, the administration is taking a number of important steps to provide student lo

you have a relatively normal republican, not a crazy person like peter teal backed blake masters or drigure out what he owns or that you don't serve tequila with raw asparagus. that should be a felony. >> go ahead, i'm sorry. >> in north carolina, you have a dead tie with a very strong democratic candidate who is won statewide before. sherry beasley and a supreme court justice against a guy named bud. and look at ohio. nobody expected ohio to be as competitive as it is. this is turning out to be mitch mcconnell's nightmare if the democrats can motivate the base, which i think the mass shootings in schools and especially with the supreme court has done and how the republicans have responded to it, do not underestimate the turnout that could occur because of the anger over the extreme laws that these republicans are trying to put in place all across the country right now to make rape victims and incest victims have mandatory forced births. >> you're clearly amongst democrats feeling they are in a much better place today than they were even a month ago. and there have been a whole conflue

blake mars won the republican primary in the state of arizona. peter myer of michigan, for example, the guy who voted to allow men to play in women's sports because he's sensitive lost. the republican primary for arizona's gubernatorial race has just taken the lead. she's not like your parents' republican party. in the state of michigan, nixon is the republican nominee, taking on whitmer in the fall. congratulations on your win. you're a candidate who won because you had ideas people liked. you're not part of a party apparatus. am i right? >> absolutely. coming out of nowhere with this idea that family is important has seemed to be striking a nerve in the state of michigan. we've come out there and said, look, we lived through the shutdown, the worst shutdown, and we want to come around parents who want to actually be in schools, and now we have a lot of parents that are paying attention, and want to be in schools. we want to come around our police officers, restore rule of law, go back to having safe cities in the state of michigan, and maybe even try

in the senate, blake masters endorsed by the former president and funded by billionaire peter teal ised to defeat businessman jim lamon and attorney general mark brnovich. rusty bowers testified during the january 6th hearings is projected to lose his primary for the state senate. >>> on the other side of the race for the democratic nomination for governor katie hobbs cruised to victory and in the senate mark kelly ran unopposed. now to missouri, where the state's attorney general eric schitt easily won the republican senate primary. it's the race that featured two erics. the other being former governor eric greitens who actually finished third behind congresswoman hartzler. on monday, former president trump gave a halfhearted endorsement in that race saying he was supporting eric but didn't specify which one. the eric that won scmitt will face busch valentine this fall, a nurse and heir to the anheuser-busch fortune. greitens dogged by personal scandal loses badly. >>> we'll have much more on these primary races later in "way too early" and of course on "morning joe." >>> now oversea

blake masters, who was a silicon valley chief operating officer for trump ally peter thiel's companyill face democrat mark kelly, a former astronaut. kelly has already received the endorsement of nearly 50 prominent indepedents and rebicans, incuding a few republican mayors, who were turned off by the options on the gop side. independent voters are very important in this state. they make up about 34% of voters in the state. and one big question is whether those voters will put off by these candidates' conspiratorial views, and like they did in 2020, swing the other way. judy: jessica, let me ask you about another state where we are seeing this divide play out in the republican party, this is in michigan. at is standing out to you about? jessica: i don't think i was particularly shocked by any of the successful candidates in michigan. i will say that the dead -- dynamics and michigan are really interesting. the person who won for republican nomination for governor has been asked, but has dodged several questions about whether or not she believes the 2020 election was stolen. she said

guest: the senate primary features blake masters, a protege of peter teal, the entrepreneur who has fundedot of republican candidates from -- he endorsed him in that race. there are a few other candidates, the attorney general. the trump endorsement is looking like it's given masters a lot of momentum. host: how is mark kelly looking? guest: any democrat, senator kelly is a first-term democrat, is going to have a challenging reelection in a swing state. his hope is that some of the more -- if masters is the nominee, some of the more moderate suburban swing voters might vote democratic because they don't want to vote for the more far right trump candidate. arizona is a good example of trump aligned candidates doing well in the primary, but democrats will have a renewed opportunity to win tough races because republican nominees may be too extreme. host: let's talk about the missouri primary. guest: trump likes eric. he was deciding between eric schmitt and eric greitens, the disgraced former governor who is leading in the polls for quite some time. it looks like schmidt, the attorney general

blake masters in arizona and j.d. vance are both candidates that peter thiel, a trump millionaire, decided he wants to buy. these are two he has brought in -- retail candidates. mcmaster is double digits down. very extreme candidate -- talk about that and i think mark kelly is sitting on the kind of money he is, a lot happier these days. although the whole ticket in arizona is an election denying ticket, which i oppose. j.d. vance. tim robbins doing much better than expected. herschel walker. donald trump, who lost, the gift that keeps on giving for georgia democrats. rachel record now about his former wife -- [indiscernible] -- a terrible candidate. on the state front, brad raffensperger and governor kemp. there's four seats there that are not looking great. [no audio] [please stand by] >> people were talking about the huge red blowout. the number one reason is instead of having your number one issue being the economy, biden's poor ratings, trump is back in the front seat, driving the clown car for summary republicans. if you are in a swing state, that is a nightmare. i have been in a swing state when tru

trump has endorsed blake masters, who has worked for tech billionaire peter keel and receiving his financialking to voters. >> the left is driving this country into a ditch. ifm owe sick of it. you know what else i'm sick of? weak willed establishment republicans who have just let it happen. no more of that. >> also on the ballot jim lehman self-funding his campaign. he would not have certified the 2020 election when president biden won here and while not trump endorsed he promises an america first agenda. >> we want our energy back. we want to get back mining in america. >> arizona attorney general mark brnovich did certify the 2020 results here. that's part of his job. he says he is still getting plenty of heat for that but also reminds voters he is actually from here. >> i think the day in age when people can buy a senate seat shouldn't be here. in arizona we have a long history of rejecting self-funders. >> here is a look at the real clear politics average of polls. masters has a double digit lead over both competitors, turnout is critical and chick an owes is on the ground registering.

blake. he had not complied with an arrest warrant. so that's what we could call peter nora ro territory. when police approached, he was not seen threatening or attacking. he was documented walking away, and that's when police shot him in the back seven times paralyzing him. they rushed to use force in this disturbing scene. >> we are not showing the entire video under our standards of practices. now every example is not the same. but some of of the commentators are. we just showed you trump ally and lawyer lindsey graham, who actually recently blew through and did not comply with an ordered court appearance in georgia. we'll see if he shows up. now in this report, we showed him insinuating that a, quote, gentleman should have complied. should have yielded when asked. just showed you mr. blake. that was senator graham talking specifically about jacob blake. >> i don't know why the gentleman didn't yield when he was asked to yield. >> he didn't yield in response to the shooting. that's the wrong answer legally. graham knows it's illegal for police to use lethal force on a person simply bec

blake masters winning is considerable. in some ways most far right candidate backed by peter teal, also an election denier, mark kelly's camphey feel good about, but nothing is for sure in a midterm where traditionally the out party's passion is highest. it is really the secretary of state race, also interesting the fact that kari lake running the top of the ticket, trump-backed election denier, we have not called that race for her yet. that race is much narrower than the other two, traditionally down ticket items. >> we're still waiting for that one. >> more to come. >> the james webb telescope captured an amazing new detail. look at this thing. isn't it beautiful? the clearest image of the so-called cartwheel galaxy. this ring created more than 440 million years ago giving astronomers new insights into this rare type of galaxy. let's bring in cnn's space correspondent kristin fisher. all right, kristin, this might be my favorite picture so far. each one is better than the last. >> and this is just -- i think it is like the fifth or sixth of many that we're going to be getting from webb over its roughly 20-year life span.

peter theil playing in this? he's a billionaire that created blake masters. it is creepy.this guy. what is the sense among the base of the republican party about what this guy is trying to do on what is a core position for them? >> well, i would hesitate to answer that question because i don't have the polling. we haven't done enough interviews to firmly say, okay, this is what republicans are thinking or the grassroots are thinking. but you are right, generally in both parties, but when it comes to abortion, when you have very committed single issue voters and you start to go wobbly on it, it's a problem. we're going to find out if that's true here. certainly mark kelly has now the money and the organization to be able to press this forward and make that clear to so-called pro-life or antiabortion voters. what we don't know is what the peter theil's position on this, the billionaire tech giant. he's not only funding and has propped up blake masters in arizona, he's also done the same for j.d. vance in ohio. vance has had a few stumbles, but the difference is arizona is be

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blake masters. he is the former top aide to peter, the mega donor, and j.d.as also running a super pac, so these are candidates we are watching for a lot of money in the primary. we are watching to see what will have an in the general election, and he is not done that. masters has run a very far campaign to the right. he flat out said, donald trump on the selection. he was dystopian and away, and walking through deserts and bemoaning how everything is terrible. then there is a shift after he won the election in the first primary, and it featured his wife for talking about how great he was as a family man and how he wants to make the country better. there were problems with approval, especially with women. kelly has been leading in poland, but the primary happens so we want to see what will happen post labor day, there is another place where republicans have not been incredibly optimistic about their chances there. in the governor's race is another place where you do have an election denier and conspiracy theorist, and she was a former tv anchor, and she won t

the senate republican primary, blake masters had trump support, he will take on mark kelly in this critical senate race in the battleground state has the backing of peter teal's, and i want to show you also this critical contest a little further down the ballot for secretary of state, mark fincham, who also had donald trump's backing, is a compete complete election denier, he is now the republican nominee to become secretary of state in arizona and have oversight over the elections there. you asked about trump. i want to show you one other contest that we tracked last night, and that was in michigan, because peter meyer, the republican from the grand rapids area here, lost his primary to john gibbs, 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 misso

blake masters writing his trump endorsement, setting up one of the nation's most closely watched senate contests against mark kelly. in michigan tudor dixon beating gretchen whitmer. congressman peter meijer one of ten republicans voting to impeach president trump losing his primary to john gibbs, a fervent election denier whose candidacy was boosted by democrats with hundreds of thousands of dollars in tv adds. in missouri attorney generic schmitt easily winning the republican -- eric greitens resigned four years ago amid a sex scandal. >> god has a plan. doesn't always work on our timeline. >> reporter: now, the surge of supporters coming together to support abortion rights here in kansas, independents, democrats, libertarians, even some republicans is certainly causing alarm among republican strategists across the country watching this race here. they still believe the midterm elections will turn on the economy and other issues. jake, this simply adds a new question into the equation, has that supreme court decision simply upended the narrative of this campaign. it's something we won't know until, of course, a november election. but michigan also has abortion rights on the ballo

blake masters, easily won nomination for the u.s. senate in arizona. kerry lake won the nomination for arizona governor. dixon won the nomination for michigan governor. 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 t

blake masters won the republican senate primary and will face democrat mark kelly in november. masters was endorsed by donald trump and bankrolled by his former boss, the billionaire tech investor peter thiel -- who spent $13 million on the campaign. the white supremacist site vdare has praised masters as a "immigration patriot." masters blamed gun violence on "black people." in other results from arizona, mark finchem won the republican primary for arizona secretary of state. finchem is a state lawmaker and a member of the far-right oath keepers who has been subpoenaed by the house january 6 committee for his actions in washington, d.c., on january 6 and for his involvement in attempting to overturn biden's victory in arizona in 2020. another election denier in arizona, kari lake, is leading in the republican gubernatorial primary, but the race is too close to call. meanwhile, rusty bowers, arizona's speaker of the house, lost his bid for state senate seat, losing to a trump-backed candidate. last month the republican party in arizona censured bowers for telling the house january 6 committee that trump and his lawyer rudy giuliani pressured him to overturn biden's 2020 election vict

gurue peter teal, a man who says he does not believe in democracy and america really started going downhill when women were given the right to vote. it goes without saying that senate candidate blaketers believes the election was stolen. and he blames black people, frankly, end quote. then the republican primary for secretary of state in arizona. the trump backed candidate there is an election denier who says he'll only accept the results of tomorrow's primary if he wins tomorrow's primary. he was at january 6th himself, and he says he's a member of the right-wing pro-trump paramilitary group, the oath keepers. members of which are on trial right now for seditious conspiracy because of their role in the january 6th attack. all three of those trump backed candidates have a very good chance of winning their republican primaries tomorrow in arizona. meanwhile, missouri, the republican primary for u.s. senate there features the state's former republican guv ner who was forced to resign from that job in about five minutes in a scandal of blackmailing his mistress. more recently his ex-wife has accused him in court of physically abusing both her and their kids. and he's released an ad t

peter thiel, a man who says that does not believe in democracy and america really started going downhill when women were given the right to vote. goes without saying that that set of candidates, blake masters believes the 2020 election was fill in the blank, stolen. he also says the january 6th attack on the capitol was a false flag operation which was actually carried out by the fbi. when it comes to gun violence, in america, blake masters says he blames quote, black people, frankly. then there is the republican primary for arizona secretary of state. that is the official who runs the states elections. the trump backed candidate there is an election denier who says he will only accept the results of the primary if he wins. he was at down to a six himself either white. he says he is a member of the right-wing militia, the oath keepers, members of which are on trial right now for seditious conspiracy, because of their role in january six. remember, seditious conspiracy is the most serious thing you can be charged with, it's a tradition, we have to be working for the other side in a war for it to be treason. suspicious conspiracy. guy says he's a member. again the polls close in ariz

guru peter thiel a man who says he does not believe in democracy and then america really started going down to hill when people were given the right to vote, womp womp. it goes without saying that blake election was stolen he also says the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol was a false flag operation carried out by the fbi when it comes to gun violence in america he says he blames, quote, black people, frankly. end quote. then there is the republican primary for secretary of state as the official runs the states elections the trump backed candidate there is an election denier who says he will only accept the results of tomorrow 's primary if he wins tomorrow 's primary he was that january 6th himself and he says he's a member of the right-wing pro trump paramilitary group the oath keepers. numbers of which are on trial right now for seditious conspiracy, because of their role in the january 6th attack. all three of those trump backed candidates have a very good chance of winning the republican primaries tomorrow in arizona. meanwhile, missouri. the republican primary for u. s. senate there, features the state's former republican governor, who is forced to resign from that job aft

>> guest: the senate primary features blake masters who is a protÉgÉ of peter field, entrepreneur, billionaireho has funded a lot of republican candidates, endorses blake mastersat in that race. there are aa few other candidates, jim lehman the attorney general mark brnovich a right now the trump endorsement is looking like it given masters a whole lot of momentum. >> host: how is senator mark kelly looking? >> guest: any democrat, senator kelly a first-term democrat comes going to have a challenging reelection in a swing state. his i hope is that some of the more, and the case of masters if masters is the republican nominee, some of the more moderate suburban swing voters might votein democratic because they don't want to vote for the more far right, the trump year candidate. arizona is a good example of trunk line candidates looking like they're going to do well in the primaries but democrats think they have a new opportunity toop win otherwise tough races because the republican nominees may end up being too extreme. >> host: talk about the missouri senate primary. >> guest: trump likes eric