It is Election Night in america. Much of america. In new jersey, Chris Christie reelected to a second term as governor. We are awaiting a victory speech from governor christie. Likely within this hour. In virginia, nbc news project, democratic Terry Mcauliffe pulled off a narrow victory. Defeated, Ken Cuccinelli, with 96 of the vote in. Mcauliffe, has 47 . And libertarian candidate, has 7 . Nbc news also projects that Democrat Ralph Northam is winner of the lieutenantgovernor race. Political director, chuck todd is at the headquarters in tysons corner, virginia. Chuck, how did this race find its way to a Terry Mcauliffe victory and rather narrow one . Well, a rather narrow one. I think we can be reminded. Virginia is virginia. A swing state for a reason. This is as virginia goes. So goes the nation. Its ben that wen that way for decade. When you look at the last two weeks. You can on one hand, look at the result tonight. And say the minute, Ken Cuccinelli was nominated. He was going to
Potentially 70s in luray and manassas. Here comes monika with timesaver traffic. Good morning, everybody. Im very happy to say were starting off this Early Morning rush hour really nicely. There are no big deals to report around town, including on i270 coming in from frederick down to the point where the lanes divide. Were in great shape early thompg. Lets take a early this morning. Lets take a live in in prince georges county. This is at Central Avenue on the beltway and looking good basically both loops between 95 and the wilson bridge. Lets go back over to the maps. This time i66 on the inbound side and from manassas to centreville. Your lanes are open. Same story on the beltway west side of town and i95 coming in from springfield from dale city, nice and quiet overnight and now as well heading on to 395. Back to you guys. Just about 4 28. Virginias race for governor was even tighter than the polls had projected. Yesterday it was a 6 margin and it shrunk from there. But Terry Mcauli
Tucker carlson tonight. For the latest findings in that investigation we are joined by matt finn, who is in texas for us tonight. We have learned the shooter himself had three Gunshot Wounds to his body, including one to his head, which the Medical Examiner says was selfinflicted, so the shooter killed himself after his deadly rampage here at this texas church. Weve also learned that the shooter recently repurchased four guns. Authorities say all the sales were legal. If there is no information in databases that would have flagged the shooter, and that aligns with two pieces of information we learned today. If first, Academy Sporting Goods in san antonio, texas, released a statement saying it sold to guns to the shooter, one in 2015, and one in 2017, and that the shooter passed the National Criminal Background Check and that that Sporting Good store is not cooperating with law enforcement. Also, the u. S. Air force did not submit the criminal records to the fbi, as required by pentagon
Sources familiar with the matter that flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal egs poeb of his son who like his father is currently under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller. Flynns concern could be a factor in decisions about how to respond to muellers Ongoing Investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key Trump Campaign advisers. Im told as well, don, that flynns wife lori she shares his concerns about their sons possible legal exposure and that you can well imagine. And what legal questions is the special counsel focusing on regarding flynn . So this is somewhat revealing. I spoke to two witnesses interviewed by the special counsel investigators and they tell me that the questions regarding flynn focused on his and his sons business dealings, including their firms reporting of income from work overseas. There is a log. Its called the foreign agents registration act. It requires those americans acting as agents for
And the first lady visiting the pearl harbor memorial when they were there. So as he heads to tokyo, lets take you there, kevin cork is out and joins us from tokyo right now. A couple of issues, kevin, number one on north korea, is it fair to say that the white house is looking at trying to build up a consensus during this trip on what to do with north korea . Its a good question, frankly, connell. I think the fair answer is simply no because as much as they would love to have consensus on north korea, i think the best scenario, white house officials will tell you, simply getting to a point where they agree with partners on the region to proactively against north korea without Consulting Partners in the peninsula and that may be difficult to do, thats part of the conversation the president will certainly have with Prime Minister abe as he makes his way to japan. As you pointed out within the last hour, the president did leave the 50th state, beautiful hawaii, departing hawaii not long