much for joining us. cnn s primary coverage continues right now with laura coats and abby philip tonight, too big checkmarks. one has all already happened, and we re expecting the other any minute now. and when it does, you can officially lock in your matchup cards for what might be the most important election of our lifetime welcome to a special edition of newsnight. i m abby phillip in new york, and i m codes and washington dc, it s a short time ago. joe biden made official well, the obvious and he will be the democratic nominee come this november. he is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win? well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. look at all of states, state of georgia, one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. it s also a state we re done for trump tried to deny democracy and say, well, donald trump is on trial for election interference. and tonight the president put the november choice and qui
welcome to a decisive primary night edition of the source. i m kaitlan collins here in washington along with anderson cooper in new york. okay. and kaitlyn, the primary dominates this hour with president biden clinching the nomination just a short time ago, and the former president expect to do same just about two hours from now when results start coming in from washington state. and of course, the other big story anderson here in washington is the reaction to former special counsel robert hur and his testimony before the house judiciary committee today, taking fire really from both sides of the aisle, as he explained his decision not to prosecute president biden over his handling of classified documents while he was out of office. first, this pivotal primary night for that, let s go straight to cnn it s david david chalian. so where does trump stand in the delegate count? and when do we expect them to secure the nomination? he s so close. anderson he needs 1,215 de
the most important election of our lifetime. welcome to a special edition of newsnight. i m abby phillip in new york, and i m laura coates in washington dc. it s a short time ago. joe biden made official well, the obvious yes and he will be the democratic nominee, come this november. he is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win? well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. look at all of these states. state of georgia, a one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. it s also a state we re done on trump tried to deny democracy. i say we re donald trump is on trial for election interference. and tonight the president put the november choice and quite the story stark terms. are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down so who are the others he s talking about? well, it s pretty obvious one person, it s donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. now from locking up the nomina
actually pushed back and yell back at the president. and what could be a very tense speech at the same time, democrats view this speech is very high stakes. they see the poll numbers, they see people concerned about the president s age and fitness for office. and some hope that his speech tonight will reassure those skeptical voters are you worried that the age issue though, is significant liability for him there s nothing joe biden can do to change the numbers after his name? what he can do is be a sharp, funny, aggressive, real presence, authentic, and people s minds. i don t know if an old white guy can come out and say he s not an old white guy, right? you are who you are. well, if he s a liar, he should be called out. we ll see how he how he talks tonight. and then i ll decide then of course, marjorie taylor greene was one of those republicans who did you yell loud ad joe biden last week calling it last year, calling him a liar on the house for making very cl