Our projected winner in new york, and not by a small amount, either. Theres the current percentage of the vote in. On the republican side at the closing of polls, not only did we project donald trump, we projected a substantial victory for him, which has come true. John kasich in second, ted cruz in third place. Thats been the events of the evening. Brian williams and rachel maddow, by the way. And we watched both of the winners tonight, the democrat and the republican, speak in terms of, you know, well go on to win this thing, and to the vanquished, were sorry. The difference is, the Sanders Campaign, right here in river city, in this studio later this evening, laid out their path to the nomination. This was a remarkable thing that happened here on this broadcast. You think about what just happened tonight in new york. The Sanders Campaign lapped the Clinton Campaign in terms of spending. They spent over 5. 5 million trying to win new york. For context, nobody on the republican side w
[ applause ] that our Great Service members have the tools, equipment, training and resources they need to get the job done. As George Washington said, being prepared for war is the best way to prevent it. Katy tur is earning her pay today. Shes still with us. You were listening to the boein event. Youve covered him for, what, a year and a half now. Talk about the change in tone from yesterday to today. This was a very different event. We would see this on the campaign trail where he would go off at a rally and next day be back on message, back on prompter. That was mostly steve bannon getting in his ear saying, bud y time to get focused. Youre going to lose this election unless you really adhere to a message as much as you can. We saw that here today. Its unclear who got in his ear, whether anybody did get in his ear. Its been a tumultuous week for the president. Hes been facing down one controversy after another. Today was his chance to really try to turn the news cycle in his favor.
Briefing but that wraps things up for me this hour. Ali very well she, i wonder what you have to talk about. Honestly, from the time i got up from my office to come and replace you this news has developed. This was already a particularly busy news day. Breaking news that chris has been reporting on from capitol hill. Arizona senator jeff flake says she is not seeking reelection according to the reporting of the Arizona Republic. Garrett headache is on the hill. Hes working with casey to get to the bottom of what the story is. Garrett, one could have sniffed out this sort of situation given the op eds, the book, the criticism of the party, the criticism of the president thats been coming from jeff flake in the last several months. Ali i was talking about this on another show here this morning. Jeff flake was doing this sort of bob corker thing before bob corker was. And he was in the position of trying to run for reelection while being a voice for traditional conservativism voting for e