rights. on his republican opponent focused on inflation and crime. in florida former republican governor turned democratic congressman charlie crist will challenge republican governor and potential presidential candidate ron desantis for the governor s mansion. chris will be here to talk about his uphill battle. the senate candidate in florida is congresswoman and former orlando police chief val demings winning the nomination to challenge marco rubio. and in new york s bitter feud between two powerful democrats for one manhattan seat because of redistricting, jerry nadler defeated caroline maloney. also on the political front, president biden is back from vacation today and will be announcing an extension on student loan forgiveness, a decision unlikely to please partisans on both sides. and a somber independence day in ukraine as the country also marks six months today since russia invaded with boris johnson showing up in kyiv and president so lent skit addressing the u.n. $
bellwether, where voters made abortion rights the centerpiece of his campaign in a swing district. molinaro tried to tie democrats and the white house to high prices and the economy as well. ryan s win appears to show, once again, that abortion rights are a powerful motivator in helping democrats get people to the polls. as meet the press first put it out this morning, this red wave is looking much more like a ripple. and roughly 1,000 miles south of here in florida we now know who will take on republican governor ron desantis in november. it is a familiar name in that state, charlie crist. he s been the governor there before and he s running again. he told our colleagues on morning joe his plan to defeat desantis relies on not playing dirty. i m going to beat him because i m running on love and love always wins. and if he wants to run on hate and culture wars and dividing people and making people hate each other, that s his turf. it s not mine. he s trying to tear my s
they thought releasing it helped their case? also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, they re even a risk to national security. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with politics lead and damning new details in the battle over the classified documents trump and his team took to mar-a-lago. we re learning officials from the national archives directly told donald trump s legal team in may that they were so concerned about what the trump team had taken with them and how those documents were being stored at mar-a-lago that top u.s. intelligence agencies had been called in to do a damage assessment, as in damage to national security. now, to be clear, t
embracing its worst impulses? when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, the general six committee released brand-new video, showing just how reluctant donald trump was to condemn the violent insurrection incited. now, remember of course it took trump hours to publicly denounced the violence, and tell them up to go home. three plus hours when he finally did so, he released this truly deranged video message from the rose garden. i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. it was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. but you have to go home now. we have to have peace. we have to have law and order. we have to respect our great people and law and order. we don t want anybody hurt. it s a very tough period of time. it s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. this
new york i m ayman mohyeldin it is election night in america, and we are going to go straight to steve kornacki at the big board who has some breaking news for, us just in the last couple of minutes. steve, take it. away yes, even for folks who are watching this, hour we said we would get one big batch of votes, to san francisco about 12 minutes ago, we did. it s the mail-in vote, this is the recalled of the district attorney, just about dean. and you could see it s two thirds more of the vote over 60% voting yes an nbc news has now declaring that the district attorney of san francisco has been recalled from office. the margin from these mail-in ballots are just so enormous, you could see here nearly a 23 point spread in favor of him calling in for ops office. there just aren t going to be enough votes to overcome that. even if you were to do well with what is to come. he is getting absolutely blown out here. he will be recalled from office. what does that mean,? immediatel