we re back with tonight s breaking election news from north carolina. nbc news projects that republican dan bishop will win the special election in north carolina s 9th congressional district. joining us now is charlie cook, he s the editor and publisher of the cook political report. he s an nbc news political analyst and columnist for the national journal and just who we want to be talking to tonight on a special election night. charlie, your reaction to what we ve seen in north carolina tonight. you know the old line that there s nothing more exhilarating than having been shot at and missed, well, republicans have to be really exhilarated because, you know, they ve come this is a district that not only did donald trump win by 12 points but mitt romney won by 12 points so they should be coasting. instead, they win by two points which is more than we expected, really, as of the last few days, 5,000 votes. but the thing is, this would have been an apocalyptic story for republica
he s never once tried to change the mind of a voter who did not vote for him. right. here s the thing, lawrence. there s no one in america who doesn t know how they feel about donald trump. there s no undecideds. i don t want to hear anyone say i m an undecided voter next fall because i know you re lying. everyone knows you re lying. what s really key about these polls is it s not just that democrats are leading but they re leading in the high 40s, which means that the undecided numbers are very, very low and it means that a lot of the top three democrats could actually beat him. but the other question, and this is always what really, really concerns me. there s a big difference between donald trump losing in a head to head against bernie sanders or losing in a head to head with warren or losing in a head to head with biden. and these generic numbers showing him losing or people not wanting to have the job. this will get closer as the attacks start going and once there s actually a d
in democracy, they want something better for their own country, if this is correct and the president is casting doubt on the value of this even as he has quite publicly castigated the intelligence agencies, comparing them to nazis, it means sources are going to dry up, both human sources as well as some of our sister intelligence agencies around the world, who won t different us their most sensitive information if they think the president can t be trusted with. there are real world consequences to this perception of the president as being untrustworthy with the intelligence, untrusting of our intelligence agencies, skeptical of the value of intelligence itself. that just makes all of our jobs that much more difficult and the country more vulnerable. chairman adam chif, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. thank you. and we have breaking news. nbc news projects that republican dan bishop has won the special election in north carolina s 9th congressiona
advisor s office who will have the experience, the judgment as well as the preparation to hit the ground running. and with all that s going on in the world, that is exactly what we need. let me ask you about this story that has broken in our news in the last 24 hours, major news organizations including nbc news reporting on the extraction of a spy working for the united states within the russian government. this occurred during your watch as national security adviser. according to the stories, that s when the harvest of the information was coming in from this spy. and there was a first consideration of extracting him during your time in office. what can you share with us about that and what elements of the reporting could you confirm for us? lawrence, i can t discuss classified information. i ve never done it in my career, and i m not going to start now. is there anything that you would caution the public about in what they re reading about this story now? no. i don t want to g
the amount of student loan debt i have i m embarrassed to even say i felt like i was going to spend my whole adult life paying this off thanks to sofi, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel as of 12pm today, i am debt free not owing anyone anything is the best feeling in the world, i cannot stop smiling about it 309 days after the initial vote we can finally declare a winner in north carolina s 9th congressional district. republican dan bishop narrowly