desantis, picked charlie crist, a former republican himself, as their nominee this fall. also, new details surrounding former president trump s handling of classified material. cnn learned overnight that the national archives told trump s legal team months ago that it wanted intelligence agencies to conduct a damage assessment on more than 700 pages of documents found at mar-a-lago. we ll get into that. also, a big announcement expected today from the white house, sources say president biden could cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for some borrowers and extend that moratorium, the pause on loan payments through the midterms. much more on that ahead. we have got our correspondents in florida and new york covering all the angles of tuesday s primary. let s begin this morning in new york with cnn national correspondent jason carroll. jason, you were out there yesterday as voters were going to the polls. you ve got new york s 19th congressional district offering, maybe
who has been speaking of a this. i wave my magic hand and it is declassified. have we heard them say anything about getting access, no. i would like to know why that is. have they made an effort to get access? they were even offered access to the unclassified information so that they could do an inventory. we haven t heard anything about that either. i think we can agree that if there is silence from the trump camp because they actually think it doesn t help them, that means i really want to know what it was and what the answers were. mark, thank you very much for joining us and thank you for having gregory peck as atticus finch over your shoulder, i wish we could have him in this discussion. harry lippman, thank you very much for joining us. and we re gonna go right to steve who is covering tonight s primaries. steve, what is the latest? we ve got suspense here. i think some unexpected suspense potentially in york s 19th district, this is the special election here for a seat congr
access? they were even offered access to the unclassified information so that they could do an inventory. we haven t heard anything about that either. i think we can agree that if there is silence from the trump camp, it s because they actually think it doesn t help them, that means i really want to know what it was and what the answers were. mark, thank you very much for joining us and thank you for having gregory peck as atticus finch over your shoulder, i wish we could have him in this discussion. harry lippman, thank you very much for joining us. and we re gonna go right to steve who is covering tonight s primaries. steve, what is the latest? we ve got suspense here. i think some unexpected suspense potentially in york s 19th district, this is the special election here for a seat in congress. democrat pat ryan right now, you see the advantage over the republican mark molinaro. keep in mind, the way the vote counting is taking place here in new york 19 is most of these counties
governor in new york. and underscores the democratic message on abortion. ryan put the supreme court ruling of roe versus wade front and center. claire mccaskill, why are we talking abe a special election in the hudson valley, 19th district of new york, do you believe we can take something away from this nationally? well, i am worried that we are going to go there and think that this thing is under control. because we ve had such startling results in kansas around this issue. we re now seeing a swing district like this, where he put on his yard signs, choice is on the ballot. his name was much smaller than that message. i think we are most democrats believe this is going to change the entire complexion of the midterm elections. that it is going to be about
did. again, this isen simply not the pattern. i mth showing nebraska, minneso, the 23rd district, the 19th district of new york, four-straightw special electio where democrats have clearly outperformed joe biden in his numbers from 2020. so, we ve been talking all year. biden s popularity isn t good. thela country s mood isn t good when it comes to the economy. typically the out of party power does well in midterm elections. we have the strongest single piece of evidence in this 19th district special election tonight, alicia, that in spite of all ofa, that i think it s worth asking questions about can the democrats hold on to the senate and even could the democrats hold on the the house this november. steve kornacki good to see you in your natural environment. thank you for bringing us all of that. for more on these fascinating story lines i am joined by distinguished panel made up of new yorker and two floridians. christina greer, assistant professor of political science.