hour s top stories. defense secretary mark esper fired navy secretary richard spencer on sunday for allegedly seeking a secret agreement with the white house in the case of navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. in his letter of resignation spencer indicated he no longer shared the same understanding of good order and discipline as the president. the pro-democracy candidates in hong kong secured major victories in local elections on sunday. record turnout leading to control of at least 216 of 452 seats. now back to dateline. detective richard birdsall didn t believe for a moment that he was investigating a burglary gone bad. for one thing, a guy doesn t travel 70 miles just to break into a house. but for all his suspicions, birdsall couldn t prove a thing. that is, until a man who knew nick harvey called the police and said nick harvey came to him and offered him some money, several hundred dollars to say can you drive me down to long beach?
it should inform where the house goes. we have to look at this through the lens of what gordon sondland testified to under oath. they re all in the loop, pompeo and mulvaney and some of the others. when we see them scrambling for after the fact explanations, i would leap to the conclusion that it feels like consciousness of guilt. thank you to both of you. coming up, we ll talk about the impeachment inquiry. that s former mayor michael bloomberg joining the democratic race. we ll look at his unusual strategy. a record turn out in hong kong election and a landslide democracy for the pro-democracy movement. more than half of the 452 seats in the council elections, this
arthel, millions have turned out, they have voted, the polls closed some hours ago and it is worth noting that we are seeing something of a historic sea change in the politics of hong kong with something like 3 quarters of the canceled seat results now in, the prodemocracy movement has won around 300 so far of the 452 canceled seats. the establishment candidate have won less than 30 at this point, this is a turning point for the prodemocracy movement and a lot can be put down to a historically high turnout, 4 years ago, only 47% of voters turned out, this time more than 70% turned out, here is what it looked like at the height of the voting, look here.
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452 days from now, we will have a different set of circumstances and it may be to the president s favor or it may not. we will see. martha: ronald reagan did not declare until november so there may be somebody else in in the democrats back pocket that s the on stage right now. i wish i could cross my fingers but i can t. martha: coming up next, twitter puts the freeze on mitch mcconnell s campaign account for tweeting what actually happened to him outside his own home. just stabbed the [bleep] in the heart. this is [bleep] kentucky, [bleep]. martha: wow. we are in their really low point. point. senator josh probably going to join me just a moment. he s leading the charge to reform social media. he is up next. oms