that suggests that at this point mcdaniels well money backers are probably abandoning him. as you also pointed out, with travis childers, democrats said privately they had data showing that he could potentially beat senator chris mcdaniel if mcdaniel was in fact the nominee but the numbers show the opposite thing with senator cochran. so the big question in addition to see what childers himself does is what national democrats do with their money. well, i guess the only shot here is if somehow mcdaniel tries to generate some sort of write-in or third party or independent kind of candidacy if he s that bitter. do you sense the bitterness is that big? reporter: i do think that there is probably a limitless pool of bitterness here. it s really hard to overstate the anger that was on display in the room at mcdaniel headquarters last night. i mean it s also if you think about how close this runoff was, to have it split that way, yes, cochran won but in some ways this isn t a total vict
let s go straight now to hunt who has been following it on the ground there. before we get there, i want to play a little bit of what childress said earlier, as i was alluding to. i don t think there s any question that many democrat votes yesterday for senator cochran. frankly, he asked for their vote. i ll be asking for their vote in november just as i did in my primary when mississippi democrats gave me 74% of the total vote. i ll be back asking for them, again. all right. as you ve been watching this, very interesting. at least from the outside. and probably more interesting from where you re at. the cochran campaign energizing black democrats for the open primary. did it basically doom the democrat childers in november? democrats will privately say that this made the road for travis childers a lot harder. he was convinced to get into the race basically by the prospect
jon: breaking right now, dramatic 911 calls today of a woman claiming to have been kidnapped by a an escaped murderer. he is center of a massive manhunt. i m jon scott. jenna: i m jenna lee. good to have you here today. the woman tells 911 that she was briefly taken hostage by timothy buffington. he walked off a work assignment on a colorado work facility saturday night. the woman made the plea moments after managing to escape. 911. i was kidnapped and i just got away. we need some assistance. as soon as possible. because he is armed. and he will shoot. who has he threatened? he was threatening me and people that have, that is the the point. are you sending help? yes, ma am. jenna: live in our new york city newsroom with more on our lead story today. jonathan? reporter: jenna, seems incredible but it does appear this convicted murderer just walked right off of the ground of the ramble williams correctional facility in pine bluff, arkansas, south of little rork. he
nominees, travis childers on what is now an uphill fight against cochran. and republican james lankford and how he ended up crushing what turned out to be a mini tea party push in oklahoma. also this morning an nbc news exclusive with former president bill clinton as he tries to beat back the wealth of criticism that has been facing his better half on her book tour. good morning from washington, it s wednesday, june 25th, 2014. let s get right to my first reads of the morning. isn in a reminder that campaigns still matter, six-term senator thad cochran beat back a challenge from state senator chris mcdaniel winning nearly 51% of the vote. in a runoff, mcdaniel got 49%. we all have a right to be proud of our state tonight. thank you very much. thank you for this wonderful honor. before this race ends, we have to be absolutely certain that the republican primary was won by republican voters. there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary that s decided by l
and what we have tonight is reflected as a consensus for more and better jobs for mississippi workers. a military force and the capacity to defend the security interests of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] those were our principle grounds, planks in the platform for the campaign, but you are the ones who helped reach all the voters, made sure that they knew that they were important to this election, because it s a group effort. it s not a solo. and so we all have a right to be proud of our state tonight. [cheers and applause] thank you very much. thank you for this wonderful honor and wonderful challenge that lies ahead. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] the democratic nominee, travis childers issued this statement tonight. one thing is clear tonight, senator cochran does not have the confidence of his own state let s lone his own party. they voted for change in washington. if we are going to change washington, we need to change who we send to w