Bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. Brian, well accepted it over to you. Our thanks to steve kornacki. We ask only that you not stray from the big board. We will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. Checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. And President Trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own Attorney General of his recusal from the Russia Investigation. President trump wrote on twitter, the russian witchhunt hoax continues all because Jeff Sessions didnt tell me he was going to recuse himself. I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted. So many lives ruined. And sessions knew better than most that there was no
report would be positive, as we learned the next morning. But when aide mentioned sessions, trump abruptly ended the conversation and unmuted the television in his office, dismissing the staffer to resume watching
it s almost a regal power. and i think he loves that, that fiat. i will say, brian, i ve been skeptical about this theory that some of these pardons are meant to send signals to potential russia investigation witnesses. and then i read this washington post story tonight with this remarkable quote from newt gingrich essentially saying just that, saying that these pardons should be seen as a message to potential mueller witnesses, saying that help is on the way and trump is willing to wave the magic pardon wand. i was kind of gob smacked that newt gingrich would say that. newt gingrich talks to the president. i don t know if that is what the president thinks, but i recommend people look hat story because did change the way i thought about this initially i thought trump just liked the power for what it was. i do think that s true, but it makes me wonder what else is going on here. sometimes refreshing to see people getting more direct these days. so, joyce, the power to pard indeed go
this is ourl count. if you look at the website at the board of elections in orange county, they maintain they have a few more votes they are reporting. what they are showing is keirstead is running in second place. to their calculations, by 500 votes over scott baugh, republican, making his way into second place t get two republicans into the general election. and they have harley rouda moving up a little bit, 900 behind keirstead. there are reports srl online. dave wasserman knows these things very well. he is doing a lot of sleuthing and says there may be a tabulation error that could result in a number of votes going ros way. obviously that is a huge, huge
report would be positive, as we learned the next morning. but when aide mentioned sessions, trump abruptly ended the conversation and unmuted the television in his office, dismissing the staffer to resume watching cable, according to a person familiar with the an. we are tracking developments on paul manafort, his mounting legal problems in the russia investigation. earlier today a judge scheduled a june 15 hearing on whether to revokemanafort s bail after prosecutors alleged he tried to tamper with potential witnesses while on pretrial release. nbc news reporting it this way. according to monday s fbi aft, two people who were part of a broader effort to lobby on behalf of ukraine told orat manafort, while on contacted them in an effort to influence their testimony and to otherwise
he tries at every chance he gets to tear cities down, and eventually he ll be gone one way or the other, and we ll move on. at a briefing this afternoon, the white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, repeatedly blamed the eagles for what she called a political stunt. our own peter alexander asked sanders about the president s seeminglnsistent views on free speech these days. so i guess my question is simple. so if the white house supports the baker s right of free speech, why doesn t the white house support players right to free speech? the president doesn think that this is an e mply of free speech. he thinks it s about respecting the men and women of our military. it s about respecting our national anthem, and it s about standing out of pride for that. jill colvin and jonathan lemire of the associated press write of trump s decision to disinvite the eagles, quote, it was another sign that trump intends to continue to fan a culture war he has stoked and which he ha