tom tillis is the speaker of the house. the establishment candidate. he had one opponent that was backed by the tea party. senator rand paul went in the day before the primary to campaign for him. another opponent had support from evangelical base of the party. he was backed by mike huckabee, the former arkansas governor. this was a real test. the establishment went in on behalf of tom tillis. they propped him up with some money. gwen: not with just some money, a lot of money. >> the key was, could he get above 40%, and, therefore, avoid a runoff, which would have been costly, potentially debilitating, would have been harder to bring the party together. he got 46% of the vote. it was an impressive victory for him. as we looked around, in ohio there were a number of tea party challenges. in the state legislature. john boehner had a challenger. the incumbents and the establishment won across the board, and we'll see whether this is a pattern as we go forward. gwen: this is a cautionary tale not only for kay hagan, but other democrats, too. >> well, it is

tom tillis looks like he's going to be the ultimate winner. but he has to get 40% of the vote, right, to not have a run-off? >> that's right. if he gets the 40% threshold, he will be the republican nominee and will face kay hagan, the incumbent democrat. if he gets even a little bit below, 39%, that will spark a run-off. and i think obviously supporters of the other candidates in the race, including senator rand paul, governor mike huckabee, they've endorsed other people in the race, if tom tillis doesn't get that 40% hurdle or clear it, we have two more months on the republican side to watch a bloody, costly battle in the run-off and finally someone emerges. that would give kay hagan and her team eight to ten more weeks of sort of getting ready for battle while the republicans duke it out internally. >> we all remember how that worked out in the presidential election. ironically, it's mitt romney who i think has endorsed tom tillis. you mentioned other high-profile republicans endorsing -- by the way, bless you on the side of the set. i'm hea

>> right now, tom tillis definitely has the money. although a lot of the money is being spent against kay hagan by outside groups. and we can talk about that more if you like. but tillis has not just the money, but because he's speaker of the house, he has the leadership, the governor's endorsed him. the other senator richard burr has endorsed him. so that -- in a kind of low energy primary that seems to be so far, that helps a lot. >> chuck, if t seems like for the longest time kay hagan wasn't running against a republican. she was running against americans for prosperity. this big conservative group that's running all these ads against her. it will be refreshing to have a real candidate to focus on. is it clear that there is going to have to be a runoff, does tillis have it locked up or do you think he's going to have to go another round? what's the rule that he has to get 40%? >> 40%. a little less than the 50% threshold. the thinking earlier was that it probably would be a runoff and now can tillis avoid a runoff? if there is a run

tom tillis will be here. kay haguen hoping for a republican runoff. also what's old is new again., who is now 40, has some new things to say about the clintons, which made us wonder, what exactly have the clintons said about her in the past? and as the horror of the kidnapping of hundreds of nigerian school girls keeps getting worse, president obama promises to help but is there a limit to what the u.s. will do? good morning from washington, it's may 7, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." and energy secretary fox will be here. are we headed for a transporation cliff at the end of the year? let's get to my first read of the morning. six straight weeks of wonderful primaries. tea party 1, republicans 0. new york's statehouse speaker tom tillis won his primary with nearly 46% of the vote, avoids a july runoff. greg brannon pulled just 27% of the vote and baptist minister mark harris who was supported by mike huckabee and some iv evangelical groups got just 17%. tillis, fairly impressive that he almost got to 50%. he'll be able to focus now on kay hagan on what i call my desert island

tom tillis, the state house speaker, the front-runner, as you mentioned, and people are saying that tillis that magic number. i spoke to a pro in raleigh who pegged it at 47%. i don't think it will be that high but tillis has been steadily creeping up. that's sort of the consensus now that he will break that number and avoid a runoff and if he doesn't, as you mentioned, it's going to go to a runoff in mid-july, which could be a really troublesome thing. jake? >> of course, the precedent here is when ted cruz kept an establishment candidate from winning his primary and the way that the republican party is facing here with tea party challengers and if the lieutena lieutenant governor did not fend off a race and ted cruz went on to win. >> that's right. it's interesting, jake. the funny thing is that a lot of primaries, the national press has made this a traditional establishment versus tea party narrative for a senate race sort of but it's a little bit limited for two reasons. one, tom tillis is actually very conservative. that was texas and came really pushed through a lot of landmark conse

tom tillis wants to knock off hagan. can he do it? >> no question about it. and the gop's chances are stronger because he got more than 40% to delay the distraction and beat his tea party rival 2-1. north carolina was one battle ground state the president carried in 2009. hagan backed obamacare, stimulus and climate issues. this is tillis last night. >> we need to be clear, though, this isn't the end of the prima primary. it is the beginning of the primary mission: which is to beat hagan and make reed a relevant american. >> primary mission on the national level and politics were in place. jeb bush backed tillis but rand paul backed the tea party canada and mike huckabee was behind the third person who failed. in ohio, boehner won with 69% of the vote but that is down from past margins. we will get a much better idea of where things stand between the gop and the mainstream of the party over the next eight weeks. there are a bunch of primarys and the polls show most are safe and the gop is in a good position to take more positions in the house and make take to

what we are saying is the terrible tale of tom tillis' political tragedy. they spent the year hurting the poor, attacking public education, attacking the sick, attacking teachers, young women, labor rights, taking north carolina down the road of tea party extremism. now they want to turn, and lead tyranny. block and ban people's right to protest. chris, one of the rules they put in place is that if you bring a sign in that a legislator finds disturbing, subjective, you can have removed or arrested. if you look like you might disturb. says if you present what they call imminently the possibility of disturbance, but it is not going to deter us, never has in the movement and never will. >> you mentioned tom tillis, speaker of the house, republican, running for senate against kay hagan. do you think he is going to own the full record of that north carolina legislative session as he tries to win statewide election? >> it is his record, he has to own it. he is speaker of the house, one of the most powerful offices in the state, speakers of the house across the co

and their hope is they want anybody but tom tillis. and that moans trying to stoke supporters of greg brannon to get to the polls today. >> brannon has support of rand paul and mike lee, sort of tea party wing of the republican party and united states senate. and so we have tilist. if he gets the 40 percent the party feels he has a better shot against kay haggen? >> party establishment people, the washington graybeards believe this, but to brannon's point, general election shoes that brannon beats haggen as well. i talked to him as well. these are the same people who said rand paul and ted cruz couldn't win their primary. he believes he could beat hag ep as well. it is true he has more baggage weighing him down that republicans are nervous about. but polls show him beating haggen. some republicans say that would change once brannon would be known better. >> that's what makes politics interesting. david, thanks. >>> primary day in ohio. several races taking place. including john boehner facing off against two tea party challengers. ther

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take a look at it. >> i'm here watching tom tillis win his party's nomination for senate. he's making promises but take a look. tom tillis gave tax break for the wealthy and raised taxes on 80% of northern carolinians. >> that wasn't photo shopped. a campaign worker went to his victory party and taped that ad there. and kay hagan made an aggressive case for the medicare expansion at a senate hearing yesterday and she defended the health care law in an interview with her hometown paper say, quote, i voted for it. i think there are common sense fixes that must be made to this bill, but i also talked to people across north carolina who have seen the difference that it has made in their lives." now, embattled senator mark pryor appeared with the president this week touring tornado damage. the president lost arkansas by 24 minutes to 2012 and a lot of people want to read politics into this one. pryor there with the president, ah. come on, folks. it would have been strange if pryor had not appeared after a tragedy. it would have been strange for the president not to visit a disa

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i think when you talk about kay hagan, you talk about tom tillis, people who might not cover politicsdo might go, huh, who are these people, we don't know them. this is why it matters. because north carolina of any state is going to be the microcosm for what happens in 2016 because of demographic changes and just because of what happened with the obama presidency. he surprisingly won there in his first go-around, in 2008, barely. and then he lost in his re-election campaign. >> and it's also going to have, you know -- it's so important because it's going to be who wins control of the senate. >> exactly. >> you know, they need six seat, the republicans, to take over. if kay hagan is considered one of the most vulnerable democrats, tom tillis is, you know, a very credible challenger, and that's exactly >> she effectively won on the coat tails of president obama when he had the surprising end, she was on the ballot, too. she won by 53% of the vote. >> and a win in north carolina in 2008. he didn't carry north carolina in 2012. listen to last night. >> we need to be clear. it's not the en

the current speaker of the north carolina house, tom tillis. social conservative mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas endorsed a baptist pastor in the running as well. senator rand paul got behind a north carolina doctor who has never before run for office. head ed into tonight's voting it was the rand paul endorsed greg brannon who had a chance to have forcing the front runner into a run off. they would love a run-off. obviously the best outcome for them is if they ended up running against mr. brannon. democrats would have the chance to run against someone who says everyone has the right to own a nuclear weapon. just forcing him into a run off would mean the republicans had to keep fighting each other until mid july before they could turn their full focus against kay hagan. democrats would love it. they have been running ads that would arguably boost the doctor guy and hurt the house speaker guy. it's all in the hopes from the left that democrats could maybe pick their own opponent against kay hagan or prolong republican in-fighting. pol

tell us what happened today and tom tillis, responded to what you are doing?n 500 people came today to do lobbying. 15. four clergy. 11 workers. minimum wage workers. one retired teacher went tine -- in to sit in. we did a teach-in while we were waiting for the sit-in. article 11, section 4 of the constitution of north carolina says, provision for the poor, the unfortunate, and the orphan is the first duty of a civilized christian state. therefore the general assembly shall provide for and define the duty board of public welfare. one of our professors, one of our attorneys taught about that tonight. this extreme, we don't call it republican. because, the things they are fighting against. republicans, have actually supported. they have denied, medicaid expansion, to 500,000 people. a young lady arrested tonight with cervical cancer eligible. they didn't support earned income tax credit. george herbert walker bush supported tax credit. they denied unemployment. they have denied teachers their tenure. in court. judges ruling against them. denied voting rights. th

she'll struggle to raise money, struggle to get help if tom tillis is the nominee tonight. >> why though? so you're saying national democrats are likely to walk away from kay hagan, not spent money on her race, thereby leaving it more open to gop control, possible seizure, but why? why would they abandon her based on what wins on the gop primary side? >> tillis is a more moderate kind of republican. he has a high name identification in the state already, but the most important thing in this race is probably the weakness of kay hagan as a candidate. she's a freshman. she got elected in a weird moment in north carolina when barack obama won the state narrowly, but won it in 2008. those circumstances have changed dramatically, so without the advantage of having either a weak republican nominee or a long fight, it doesn't look like she has a very good shot. >> how is it going? what do we know about tillis' results this evening? >> put it this way. he's doing better than he needs to in the places where we didn't think he'd do well at all. >> we're going to go back to chris as we get updates o

tom tillis was facing seven candidates including a libertarian. he will come up against kay hagen in the fall. another closely watched race is really close. clay aiken's run to be the democratic house cant in a district near raleigh. he's leading his challenger by 400 votes. it may be subject to a recount. >>> new questions about what was going on inside new jersey governor chris christie's administration when lanes were ordered shut down. another aide testified to a state legislative committee, she witnessed suspicious activity, but was afraid to speak out. she described bridgette ann kelly as erratic, but doubts she ordered the shut down. kelly sent the e-mail calling for traffic problems in ft. lee. >>> a man followed a motorcade following the president's daughter's at the white house. the secret service says the 55-year-old driver has a past with the u.s. treasury building, which is next door. he's been charged with unlawful entry seasoned is due in court this afternoon. >>> president obama will see firsthand the devastation from the tornadoes

let's look at the tom tillis situation. nen, the face of the tea party candidate, tillis beats him. does brokennen endorse tillis as they face kay hagin. how do the tea party republicans and the tea party members coalesce behind these establishment candidates? >> that's the tricky part. the guys at the top will always endorse. there is endorsements and there is endorsements. it depends on how enthusiastic they're going to be at the top. but it's also the case that the tea party is not one solid voting bloc controlled by the likes of richard daley. you've got individual activists who even if rand paul says now all good republicans must unite, will say why do we need two democratic parties? we might as well have the legitimate one if you're going to have two. it's a tricky proposition. and just getting an endorsement is no guarantee that you get thes at the core of the group. >> you mentioned rand paul. what do you see happening over the next few months as we head into the mid terms in terms of his strength, what he can repres

faction of the gop, represented by jeb bush and mitt romney is backing north carolina house speaker tom tillis, hoping to kel h cut off another tom achen candidate. the man they're worried is greg brannon being backed by rand paul and wants to force tillis into a runoff. and mike huckabee is backing fellow minister mark harris. alice stew wrart is a former adviser to the presidential campaigns of mike huckabee, michelle bachmann and rick santorum. we've got to go to alice first. it's an inside game for you. my question is, how does this thing work? if tillis wins, does he bring the tea partier wing, does he bring in the christian right? do they all join him for the general against kay haguen? or is this going to be a schism in the party that lasts? >> no. he will unite them just as he has done as speaker. the fact that he's labelled as the establishment candidate he thinks is kind of amusing. he reminds me, and reminds everyone, that he used to be pta president just eight years ago. he's certainly not the establishment candidate of the gop. he's not only the support and endorsement of jeb bush

i have compiled a brief list of a few of the highlights of tom tillis's sort of views. he doesn't believe in climate change, opposes increase in minimum wage. even seemed sketchy on whether there should be a minimum wage at all. he supports personhood, helped pass the most restrictive voter law in the country. he banned sharia law. that's vital. >> that's a good thing. >> he is a very far right conservative guy. he led this conservative movement in raleigh which went so far to the right that voters really revolted against it. i actually think for kay hagan, it's sort of a good thing that she now has her opponent and can start to talk about him and defy him. the narrative in the primary was that he was the, quote, unquote, establishment more moderate candidate. the reality is that he is extremely far out there. >> i think she wouldn't have minded if he had to spend more money fighting it out in a primary before she had that chance to define him, but certainly now she has something to focus on. the choice is always the incumbent or unknown, you can always say, well, maybe

tom tillis, a bold conservative who balanced our budget and reduced regulations. >> the chamber is backing gop competitor cochran. >> meet the real chris daniel, trial action lawyer using the courts to seek an enormous pay date. >> a battle between the establishment on one hand, chamber part of that establishment, versus the tea party in the other. >> the tea party and chamber of commerce actually have a lot in common. we believe when a handful of bad actors take over the tea party that things get a little out of hand. >> and reed doesn't shy away from naming names. >> a conservative fund goes out and raises money to try to defeat the senate majority leader. this would be unheard of 20 years ago if anybody did that. they would be run out of town. >> and the club for growth. >> goes out and recruits trial lawyers to run against members of congress that have an over 90% record with the business community. it's absurd. >> create good jobs. >> scott reed was executive director of the gop in 1994 when it won control over the house and senate for the first time in 40 years. in 1996, he ran bob d

looking to you and following up on what michael steele was saying, tom tillis is really the strongestmong the three, in terms of a general election candidate. for kay hagan now, she's got a tough opponent. >> this is in some ways a reversal of what we saw in 2010 and 2012. republican voters often picking the candidate that might be most aligned with their beliefs, the most conservative candidate, but certainly not the most electable candidate in the field. tillis was not the most electable candidate. but he was the speaker of the state house, raised the most money. i think it's important to remember, he not only got the most votes, the highest percentage, but he got more than 40%, which means he doesn't have to go into a runoff with a person running to his right in july. that runoff would have been. that's several more months of spending money, time, and everything else. now all of that focus goes to kay hagan. >> now, if we also look at georgia, you've got michelle nunn. let's talk about the newcomer to politics, a long experience in volunteerism in georgia politics. obviously her fa

north carolina, tom tillis, who is expected to win, has all the bearings and all the marks of the tea party platform. i mean, this is a man who is head of the state senate, has enacted voter suppression laws, restrictions on reproductive health. you name it, a litany of conservative ideology data points. they have been put into place because of tom tillis and he is seen as the establishment moderate which is, you know, a testament to just how far right the tea party has moved the goalpost. >> exactly. >> i wonder what you make of john boehner, that anecdote from governor strickland is so telling, "ted, i can't control these people." john boehner is up for reelection tonight and while he's expected to win handily, there is -- there are some political scientists who will say if he doesn't get -- he won with 84% of the vote in 2012. if that percentage goes down by any measurable margin the tea party will say that is a testament to boehner's weakness and we are hearing once again as we do every two years rumblings that they will try and oust him as speaker. do you they is a possibility at

. >> is the tea party in some ways winning by losing in the sense of tom tillis who won in north carolina last week? the tea party didn't want him. it's not like he was campaigning on a path to citizenship or let's raise taxes or a blank check on the debt ceiling. >> i think north carolina is a great case study for what's happened in the republican party. the party has shifted so far to the right that tillis when it comes to his platform, his ideology, he's in lockstep with the other candidates in the more tea party realm of the party in that primary. i think that's a victory for the tea party, they still may be nominating or pushing scanned dats that are a little flawed. you see chris mcdonnell in mississippi. these weren't top tier candidates, when it comes to who is nominated this cycle, they have tea party platforms. >> maggie made an interesting point about the chim ber spending money. there was people who are not spending money, americans for prosperity, the koch brothers who supported a lot of primary challenges. this time they seem to be holding their fire for the democrats. >> th

here is tom tillis last night. >> we need to be not clear. it is not end of the primary, this is beginning of our pray marry mission all along, that is to beat kay hagan and make harry reid irrelevant in american -- [cheers and applause] >> reporter: this is cast as establishment versus tea party but really oversimplification. the truth is tillis drew social conservatives, tea partiers and establishment mainstream republicans. at one point eight candidates actually running against him. he got 46% in very, very crowded race, martha. martha: what other states had elections. what happened there, carl? >> reporter: not a lot of big surprises, martha. john boehner bested his tea party off significance. got9% of the vote that is blowout by most standards. that is lower than last few primaries. it is very conservative district. john kasich, ohio, didn't have opponent but he will face key lock ga county -- cuyahoga county representative. a awful lot of incumbents across the country are safe this year. we'll see a lot of big primaries that may give us

millions of dollars to ensure their senate nominee won in north carolina, but their candidate, tom tillis, still believes in abolishing the department of education and outlying contraception. in iowa, the establishment has embraced joni ernst who turned herself into sarah palin in order to win that primary. we all know how mainstream that is. so the tea party is not dead. it renamed itself. it's now called the republican party. the "crossfire" tonight, hilary rosen, and republican strategist kevin madden. kevin? hasn't the -- >> you agree, right? >> endorse. >> thank you for your agreement here. >> hasn't the tea party -- >> i do. >> -- pushed republicans away from the mainstream? alienated them from the center of this country? the majority of american people? >> no, look. i mean, what the tea party has done inside the party i think is a great thing on things like accountability and responsibility on issues like spending, deficits and taxes, right? i think what it's done electorally is, you know, and i would say there's a legitimate criticism or legitimate analysis that said, like, about

in north carolina, tom tillis claims victory in the republican senate primary over his tea party challengers. he will take on democratic senator kay hagen in the fall. also in the tar heel state, former "american idol" star clay aiken holds the lead in the democratic house primary, but the margin is just too narrow to declare victory just yet. >>> and in ohio, republicans named house speaker john boehner their party's nominee. boehner defeated two tea party challengers. he is fighting for a 13th term in the house. >>> well, the white house was briefly on lockdown yesterday. a suspicious car was caught trailing a motorcade carrying the first daughters. the driver made it past the pennsylvania avenue barricade and into a restricted area. it turns out the driver had a pass to the treasury department, but did not have security clearance at the white house checkpoint. he was taken into custody. >>> pro-russian groups in eastern ukraine are planning to hold a vote to secede from ukraine. secretary of state john kerry dismissed the effort as bogus and contrived. >> we flatly reject this illegal eff

you have a guy, your establishment candidate, tom tillis in north carolina who came out and said he wants to abolish the minimum wage. how you going to deal with a republican party who's been pulled so far to the right, now your establishment candidates don't want a minimum wage in america? is that popular? >> if we're so wrong on issues, how come we're so right -- >> we haven't had a campaign yet. >> actually all of your candidates, kay hagan is running away from the president. mark, i mean, mark pryor is running from the president. they're running ads against their own party because they don't want anything to do with you guys. >> i want to go back to a point here, too. the president's approval rating is in the low 40s for a reason. how does hillary clinton in a potential 2016 campaign, how does she not -- how does she escape the idea this is going it be a third term for a president whose approval ratings are in the 40s? >> the president's approval ratings are higher than the republican parties's approval rating. let's start there. >> you're not running as the -- you're not running for

similar thing came up in north carolina when tom tillis got nominated. very conservative house speaker. and the -- rand paul backed tea party candidate couldn't get any traction. but have they merged? >> well, in a way they have. i think it's a combination of things. you're saying the establishment has changed. and i agree. the establishment has moved to meet the tea party where they are. but it's also true that the tea party's gotten smarter. the tea party's gotten more strategic. the tea party is much less popular now than they were in 2010 or 2012 even among republicans a majority say they don't support the tea party. and so the tea party has had to become savvier to sort of rebut this reputation that they've acquired of backing losers. and so i think you see that the establishment moving in the tea party's direction but also the tea party gratch tating -- gravitating a little bit. >> the democrats had hoped these primaries would have civil war fights between the tea party and establishment in hopes of creating he bearsing situations. has that happene

between the tea party candidate and the evangelical candidate and a more established candidate, tom tillisis the speaker of the house. you mentioned mr. tillis, the north carolina speaker of the house, and he has the backing of heavyweights, including mitt romney, and he is backed by an techie senator rand paul, and another has support of mike huckabee. outhas this battle played so far? >> well, so far, it looks as if mr. tillis has somewhere very close to that threshold level of beut 40%, at which he would able to avoid a runoff, which would come on bastille day, july 14, and that is one reason there has been so much immediacy to this, because republicans have sort of a stinging memory about the fact that they were perceived to be in line to win as many as two to five seats in 2012 and ultimately lost two seats, in no small part because they nominated candidates who really were not viable in the general election. football,istake free mr. tillis is, again, and established candidate. it looks like he would do better against kay hagan, and that is why you have a lot of focus on this race, bu

. >> hagin's republican opponent tom tillis has been hammering hagin's support of obamacare for months. by the way, this race is one of dozens that will feature ads by the koch brothers. the koch family intends to escalate their 2014 campaign spending to more than $125 million. to put that in perspective i in 2012 the presidential election the koch pac spent 400. million dollars. >>> president obama's former chief of staff has apologized after red light cameras caught him breaking the law. over the past two years the mayor's motorcade has had 20 violations for running red lights. emmanuel has told his drivers to knock it off. easy for him to say. all the fines were dismissed. >>> if you saw the disney movie "frozen" or like the song "let it go" which is michael's favorite, you're going to like this story. governor dewhurst and mr. patrick are now facing this attack ad ♪ i'll try to lie ♪ why should they know ♪ well now they know ♪ he can go ♪ he can go ♪ i good lies to answer for ♪ because danny don't care ♪ what you're going to say ♪ let my lies rage on >> reporter: it's not clear tha

the spotlight on north carolina republican tom tillis winning the nomination. he will face democratic senator kay hagan in november. staying in north carolina for a moment american idol runner up clay aiken holding a slim lead over keith crisco with 99 percent of the vote counted. the race is still too close to call on that one. john boehner defeating two tea party challengers in his bed for a 14th turn in congress. >> 234 audi arabia they break up a terrorist network linked to al qaeda breaking up a large scale plot. they have arrested 62 people in connection with the militant group that is noting to assassinate officials. the group linked to extremists elements in syria and yemen. they are looking for 44 other suspects linked to that terror plot. with trey gowdy at the helm the benghazi select committee is starting to take shape. it will cooperate with the investigation. elizabeth prann is live with the latest on how this committee will all work. >> good morning elizabeth. >> you are right we are getting a clim ps of how the house select committee wiis formin

my winner is tom tillis and senate republican prospects in 2015.process that was thought to be competitive and it enhanced the likelihood that republicans pick up the senate in the fall. my loser is hillary clinton. this is a bad week for her. you have a committee which ensures additional scrutiny on her, on her department, on her actions in the aftermath and lead-up to benghazi and you have the boko haram unwillingness to designate it as an entity while she was secretary of state. it's a big mistake and i think she's going to have to answer for it. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see evidence that teleprompters can be tough. woman: this is not exactly what i expected. man: definitely more murdery than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. son: look, a finger. captain: that's unsettling. man: you think? captain: all

republican tom tillis winning the gop senate nomination.ken and keith chrisco is still considered too close to call. we'll let you know what happens as we got it. ohio, john boehner defeating two tea party challengers that we told you about yesterday. he won that in his bid for a 13th term in congress. >>> the united states now taking part joining the manhunt for the leader of the nigerian terror group behind the kidnappings of more than 270 young girls. the u.s. is now sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria in its hunt for the leader of the group. this as we learn eight more girls have been kidnapped within the last 24 hours. the warlord of that group says he plans to sell the girls into slavery. >>> the republican congressman trey gowdy is now receiving death threats after he's been tapped to lead a select committee to investigate the attack in benghazi. the e-mails threaten to hurt him if he goes forward with the hearings. the hearings will go forward. fox news now confirming that the 12-member panel will in

tom tillis overcame two tea party challengers. he received the votes that he needed for the primary run off. >> this is part of our primary mission which is our mission all along. that is to beat kay hagin and to make harry reid irrelevant. >> rand paul campaigned hard in nortnorth carolina, and even referred to the g.o.p. establishment asl leviathon. in the old testament that refers to a monster. republican reany elmers won nearly 60% against tea party challenger who took challenge with her immigration reform. incumbents. 36 of them were on the ballot in north carolina, ohio and indiana. all 36 won. >>> in kansas the governor's race just got a bit more interesting. close associates of sam brown are now under federal investigation. the fbi is investigating the fundraiser and lobbying activities of brownback's team. brownback was up for re-election this fall has denied any wrongdoing. >>> in georgia, bob johnson has now apologized for saying that he would rather see another terrorist attack than continue to submit to airport search

the frontrunner was tom tillis. there's a lot of outside money come. jeb bush, the former florida governor has endorsed him. his closest opponent is greg branden. he has been endorsed by rand paul. mark harris also has been endorsed by mike huckabee. so you have three very distinct candidates. three presidential candidates divvying up their endorsements. the other thing tomorrow, john kasich, the ohio governor, he doesn't have a republican opponent. >> marco rubio is now in the endorsement game. this ad popped up today. >> washington is risking what makes america great. threatening what makes us unique. corey gardener will help change all that. >> who is surprisingly vulnerable and the democrats are caught off guard by this. this is a big push by corey gardener. for rubio, obviously, he's trying to help, but he's also trying too pick up some 2016 ious in a state that would be very important in a couple of years ago. he's also endorsed another candidate involved in the primary in iowa. >>> a lot to fit in. >>> hillary clinton appeared to enjoy a line of

last night establishment republicans got the hagen opponent they wanted in tom tillis, who overcame two tea party challengers. >> the it's not the end of the primaries, it's the beginning of the primary mission, which is the mission all along, that is to beat kay hagin and make harry reid irrelevant. >> rand paul was trying to demonstrate strength i in a presidential campaign. paul campaigned hard in north carolina for greg branen and referred to the g.o.p. establishment as leviatho. leviathon i in the old testament refers to a sea monster. renÉe elmers faced a tea party challenger who repeatedly took issue with her openness to bipartisan immigration reform, and elmers cruised to victory with 60% of the vote. >>> no. kansas the governor's race there just got a bit more interesting. close associates to brownback because of lobbying actives. over the past three years brownback has been trying to consolidate control over the g.o.p. and republican party lobbyists. brownback who is up for election denies any wrongdoing. >>> bob johnson has now apologized for saying he would rather see anothe

carolina where 61% of the population supports raising the minimum wage, republican senate candidate tom tillis came out against a federal minimum wage hike saying minimum wage decisions need to be made by the state, the preferred dodge of candidates these days. he refused to say whether or not he supported a state minimum wage hike. it's up to states rather than the federal government. that's a nicer way of saying you don't believe in it. there's a reason why republicans aren't running on that belief, because the american people are against them and they know it. joining me new york state attorney general democrat eric snyderman. his office is looking into wage violations in the state's fast food industry. attorney general, you've been opening this investigate that centers on the lack of power that these workers have. one symptom of that is the wages that they are paid. the other symptom is that even the wages that they should be paid are often not paid. >> it's no coincidence that we've been able to make these cases because workers are coming forward where they were reluctant to before. at th

we're just excited, now we can take the gloves off, and tom tillis can take it to kay hagan, and she's's one of the democrats that will likely fall, and that means it will come to the republicans. >> i referenced senator paul at the outset. here's today's front-page story. rand paul diverges from his party on voter i.d. senator paul says everybody's gone completely crazy on this voter i.d. thing. does he have a point? >> you know what, he made those remarks here in memphis where we came together this week and heard from marco rubio, heard from rand paul, a lot of good candidates looking at the white house run in 2016. we'll let them have these discussions. it's important that we do. it's good for our party that we're having these discussions right now. so, you know what, i'm going to let rand paul speak for rand paul and what he means on that. i'm just excited as a person who, you know, is dealing with republican politics all day l g long, really an exciting time for us and we look forward to november. but also the opportunities we have in 2016 with our candidates. >> do you agree with

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the associated press has called the race for tom tillis, a somewhat controversial republican speaker of the house from authority carolina. he will face democratic senator kay hagen this fall. with results still coming in. looks like tillis will beat the 40% threshold to aindividualvoi run-off. endorsed by jeb bush, mitt romney and mitch mcconnell. biggest opponent was the tea party candidate who doesn't believe in public education. republicans need to within this seat if they want to have a credible chance of taking back the u.s. senate. it is good for the establishment that they have their candidate. well, not necessarily. here is why. as speaker of the republican house. tillis had a legislative jenn the inspiration for the moral monday protests as you may remember. thousand of people pro testing out in the streets and in churches week after week. as tillis led the first republican controlled legislature in north carolina in 140 years to pass tax cuts for the wealthy, voter i.d. laws and new abortion restrictions. they also blocked medicaid expansion. today, kay hagen's campaign sen

tom tillis has the advantage in this crowded primary has he tries to hit what is a 40% mark in that state needed to avoid a runoff. tea party groups are divided. there's also a race in the third congressional district that flips the script a bit. ten-term congressman walter jones is facing an anti-war republican who is trying to portray himself in a race against a conservative. although jones is an incumbent, he says his opponent is the puppet of washington. and nebraska is a potentially critical test for the tea party, with everybody from senator cruz weighing in on the side of senator ben sassy but he's facing former state treasure ken osbourne who has support from key insiders inside the party. another big race, at least half a dozen republicans are running for the chance to replace governor dan hideleman, who is term limited and can't run again. and an election that would pick the first woman senator in the state's history. an example of how keeping the tea party out of her race likely helps her in the fall. later this month we've got the big one. in may, maybe the biggest day in 2014

look no further than north carolina where you have someone like tom tillis responsible for all the craziestegislation in the north carolina legislator and now he has to pretend to be moderate. is the etch a sketch on sale at the gop toys store? >> i'm old enough to remember the etch a sketch moment. you asked me if i remembered it so i wanted you to know that i do. and secondly, this is sort of tried and true of everyone who runs in a primary. they go and talk to their base and then they have to go back to the middle remember whether the general election comes on but the problem is there's a bunch of issues they have no compromise movement on. like obama care. they can't turn around after whaling on obama care saying that maybe the medicated expansion stuff are worth keeping nor do i expect them to. on wlooirng increasing the debt let, what they've taken resolute stands it will be very hard for them to do have the etch a sketch moment and convince them that everything they said in the primary campaign doesn't -- >> i want to talk to you a little bit about women in this race. the republicans

speaker of the house, tom tillis got the win over the other candidates. will face kay hagen in the fall. as for former "american idol" finalist, clay aiken's primary is too close to call with aiken leading by about 400 votes. it is not clear if that vote will be subject to a recount. >>> we are learning more about a troubling incident that led to a white house lockdown. access was shut down for an hour after a car followed a motorcade following the president's daughters through the white house gates. the 55-year-old driver holds a press pass with the u.s. treasury building next door and stopped at a check point before he got close to the white house. he's been charged with unlawful entry and due in court this afternoon. >>> happening today, president obama heads to arkansas. he is going there to see firsthand the damage from last month's devastating tornadoes. at least 15 people died in that state. you can see the wreckage there. the president heads for california where he'll attend fund-raisers and receive an award from the foundation that's dedicated to