salas and divide republicans enough that they can knock valadao out of that second spot. knock him out completely. keep him out of the general election. getting much more, in their view, beatable candidate in the general election. so, let s see what happens as the result started coming here. again, valadao, a republican incumbent who voted to impeach trump. and the other incumbent we re keeping an eye on. he s in the 40th district of california. young kim, also is a similar dynamic here. young kim, a freshman congresswoman, one of the first korean woman elected to congress. democrats have spent trying to boost a pro trump challenger and knock her out of that top two spot. you can see though she is leading by ten point with those mail ballots counted up now. steve, stay close. we are also covering this evening, the january six committee gearing up for this thursday s hearing, republicans are now split on how they re going to defend trump. nbc news reporting one wing of the party once
sort of present himself as a moderate, he s won over democratic votes, won over independent votes. if he is in danger tonight, given the nature of how they dot california primaries that would be the danger for valadao. the democrats all get behind rudy salas who is running here. does he consolidate the democratic vote and potentially deny valadao some of the democratic votes he s gotten in the past and open a path for the pro trump mathys to clean up among republicans, pro trump republicans. if there s low turnout here, and salas can consolidate the democratic vote, maybe, we ll see tonight, there is a scenario where valadao gets in trouble. let s talk about the mayoral race in los angeles. why is it being watched so closely? you know, for all the reasons kornacki listed this is one of
we want to do our jobs, we want to make the tough calls. we shouldn t have to give you know, do our jobs and give up our lives or the lives of our family members. reporter: so judge salas is pushing for legislation that would make the addresses of judges not available to the public to help with privacy there. kate, this is an ongoing issue for judges all across the country, but this investigation continues. kate? sure does. thank you very much for that. so with all of this that we are talking about this morning there is cautious hope in washington. senators on both sides of the aisle expressing some optimism that a deal on gun safety measures could be within reach but the reforms being discussed do fall short of what president biden called for in his prime time address last week. cnn s lauren fox is tracking this for us on the hill. lauren, what are you hearing from lawmakers now? reporter: lawmakers returning to washington today after a week-long recess, kate, and this is th
countless other individuals, judges, american bar associations, everybody has been urging for the passage of law to protect our federal judges. senator tom cotton on the program shortly has actually introduced a bill that would make it illegal to publish a judge s address. but why can the white house not consider the argument that judge esther salas made right there, publishing the addresses is not a good idea. short sighted response to the loud extremist liberal dark money groups from the left, but judge salas is an obama appointee, across the spectrum, once the address is out there you have so many people that may be angry how they ruled in one
knowing that this might be the last time that you would be with him? no, no. i just kept seeing hold on, hold on. and i knew he was such a fighter. that there was a part of me that if anyone can do it, daniel. will had mark been shot, to. multiple times. i know mark was screaming, call 9-1-1. patrol officers with the north brunswick police department arrived within minutes. then deputy chief joseph battaglia was at a family picnic when he got the call. in north brunswick, she things are rare. so, this one especially caught him by surprise. it was at the home of a federal judge. what details are you given about what has happened at this house? they told me that there were two individuals were shot and it was the house of a judge salas. do you know right away who salas is? yes, i m familiar with a name. yes. judge esther salas was the first latino judge appointed in new jersey. appointed by president obama in 2011.