. >>> charlie rangle wants one more term in office. could be ousted. >>> really interesting race in oklahoma, t.w. shannon has the packing of ted crews and sarah palin. if elected, he could become the second african-american senator right now. he faces a rising star in the house, james lankford. >> tom. >> in south carolina, republicans are choosing their nominee for lieutenant government, state attorney general henry master going up against businessman mike campbell. they are going support from two former presidential candidates. >>> let's bring in our political commentators. one of races that we're watching and there's kind of an interesting development going on with, is this race that's going on in mississippi. thad cochran reaching out to a voting block rather that traditionally associated with democrats. african-americans. talk about that a little bit. >> thad cochran is a former democrat turn republican. i was down in mississippi fo twor days. there's no question, that mr. mcdaniels is an alley cat, he's going after him with all

i spoke to congressman rangle.se race last time, he maintains we won't see an upset this time. >> i don't want to say anything negative about anybody else except they don't know anything about the job. just saying that i've been around and i should leave -- if you got a winner going for you, and by any interpretation i'm a winner -- >> reporter: you're campaigning hard, though. are you feeling the heat a little bit? >> how can you feel the heat when everything's going your way? i'm not taking anything for granted. of course not. people say they're going to vote for me -- i appreciate that. i'm thinking about the vote. hey. as a matter of fact, i'm upon ev not even tired. >> not even tired after 43 years in office. he says he's more fit for the fight than he was in 2012. he was battling health problems and had recently been censured bay the house for ethics violations in 2010. his opponent says rangle represent the district's past and believes rangle's time is up. >> the fact of the matter is in the last few years,

rangle has a 1900. advantage interns of his lead. they are about 2200 absentee ballots to be counted. almost all would have a break for espaillat. that's not going happen. >> whatever happened to low approval ratings for congress and incumbents thrown out come november. should we toss out the polls? >> all politics are local. that's the bottom line. in cochran's race in mississippi, he has delivered for the district. there was no rationale to replace him. rangle has personality, longevity, the experience, he has people like bill clinton in his corner. these things count. >> dominic, thank you for being with us this morning. >> libyans hope for an end to years of anarchy heading to the polls today. this is the second parliamentary election there since long time dictator muammar gaddafi was ousted in 2011. the country has been gripped by violence ever since, struggling without a strong military or police force. elections were called a month ago with claims a general was plotting a coup. the u.n. is calling today's election an important

in congress, powell was weakened by an ethics scandal and that opened the door for a young charlie ranglehe wave of the african-american politicians that represented minority districts and became a count countervailing force in washington. that new power base also practiced an old brand of politics. the politics of who you know and how you help them, so they help you. transactional, local, city politics. when the young barack obama came along as a senator, he followed a different playbook. he cast himself as the leader of a new kind of coalition politics, proudly diverse and drawing on the successes of civil rights movement, including organizing and church relations, but also promising to transcend some of the perceived limitations of constituency and transactional politics. obama was a fairly low-profile member of the congressional black caucus when he came to washington, where rangel is deemed, and though few remember it now, many of those caucus members declined to join obama in his presidential request. for his part, rangel endorsed hillary and they were not very close. a house commit

charlie rangle with supporters in new york. we want to go through other headlines. militants want the islamic states as a staging ground for u.s. attacks. isis want their own country to possibly stage attacks on the united states. is bombing sunni militant targets. we will be talking about that coming up. some argue any u.s. military action in the islamic state of iraq will fall short if it does not hit the group's major stronghold. on bothupy territory sides of the border. tensions between the united states and the vladimir putin. is planning tougher sanctions. also up on capitol hill, many of you are following the story with the irs in the lost e-mails. we covered that hearing on capitol hill. you can see the picture of the chairman, darren issa, leading the hearing. you also have the head of the national archives and records administration further down. david syria oh, quoted as saying notify usequired to when they have a problem that could be destruction or disposal, unauthorized disposal. we covered that hearing on capitol hill. areou missed it and you interest

hands of this man. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: once a supporter who nicknamed ranglingrangle on his position on the powerful ways and means committee. has charlie been in congress too long? >> too long. he is not effective and not able to pass any legislation he can't deliver for the district. >> reporter: do you think you're in this position because of the ethic scandal you went through? is that why you're still fighting for your seat? >> hell no. >> reporter: is the third longest serving congressman and founding member of the black caucus. his ties to the community run deep. >> god bless you and thank you for getting a heartbeat back. >> the love we have for rangel in this district is incredible. >> reporter: thanks to redistricting new york's 13th now includes washington heights and parts of the bronx. it's more diverse and majority hispanics. wrangle charged in the first debate. >> what the heck has he done saying he is a dominican? he wants to be the jackie robinson of the dominicans in the congress which is ambitious but the fact is that jackie robinson was a star

to give people four years of free college and that is this is this is not rocket science i charlie rangleand i have had this conversation many times as a big supporter of a career war veteran chris today tweeted to us. where to go he says how can you have us as universal military service when corporations control our military using them to fight unethical and immoral wars for profit and which is you know the perfect segue from what i just suggested i think that you know if we have had universal military service or at least a universal draft that included military components are rather than just one percent of americans being represented in the military and i don't mean a socio economic one percent just you know very few people are taking up most of the slack in our military. if we had it if it was far more universal then i think there would be a whole lot more indignation about the privatization of our military there would be a hole in no more people would realize how absurd it is to hire a contractor to pay you know one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year for somebody to be a cook on t