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Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. A busy night of primaries from coast to coast. Voters in six states going to the polls and right this minute the polls closing in georgia and kentucky. And in Kentucky Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is facing Tea Party Challenger matt and in georgia a crowded Republican Senate primary, seven candidates battling for the seat left vacant by retiring senator Saxby Chambliss Senior National correspondent john roberts is live in atlanta. John . Greta, good evening to you. You would think that replacing Saxby Chambliss with another republican would be a no brainer here in georgia. The democrats are fielding a very strong candidate in michelle nun. The daughter of the former popular senator sam nunn it looks like she will put on a real fight. Republican leaders are urging voters to vote for the right candidate or throw away what could be a sure thing. So far in the polls, the establishment candidate david purdue has been leading the pac followed behind by jack kingston, a solid conservative with moderate appeal as well as karen handel a darling of the Tea Party Express and then congressman phil gingre and paul broun. Both of them following tea parties as well. David purdue is running as the outside candidate. Only one of the top five who hasnt Held Elected Office previously. He said is he a unifying candidate. Running on broad appeal. Here is what he told me. If we focus on what we disagree on. We have hard time going up against anybody this fall. What theyre looking at out in the state right now, someone who can lead common analogies across the Republican Party Reasonable Solutions to bring democrats across to vote for reasonable things to get this economy moving to solve this debt crisis. Its likely that david purdue will get the most of the vote today and the turnout has been very light. You dont know which way its going to break and could face karen kingston or hand leon. No one expected to brake that auto barrier in georgia tonight. Couple other big races we are watching kentucky where Mitch Mcconnell is expected to easily hold off a challenge from matt ben the Tea Party Candidate there. He has spent recent days why he gave his speech to a cock fighting rally than Mitch Mcconnell. Then there is oregon where pediatric neurosurgeon. Dream candidate for the Republican Party and best person go up against the incumbent senator jeff merkley there. Opponents have drudged up old Police Reports exhusband and boyfriend last year accused her of harassing behavior and stocking them. Apparently Andrew Miller the exboyfriend who filed the police report made up. He is contributing to a pac that is supporting her and against her opponent. Not sure where that relationship stands right now. But she is trying to say much to do about nothing. This is all personal business. Not involved in my senate campaign. Not likely to effect her results in the primary tonight because its a mailin ballot in oregon. Most of the ballots already cast before this news came out. Certainly, greta, it could be a factor in the november election and one that she is going to have to do some quick patchwork on. The headline there would be never dull. Anyway, john, thank you. And now to kentucky. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell easily beating primary challenger Tea Party Favorite businessman matt bevin. Kentucky enquirer reporter scott joins us live. Scott . Thanks for having me. So the race is called in kentucky . Pretty much. The polls have just closed and in the western spartan of the state. Mcconnell has got a pretty easy lead against matt ben, the bevin. It would take a miracle for matt bevin to overcome that. But matt bevin gave at least for a little while he rattled the Senate Minority leader a couple months ago it looked like he was giving him a little bit of a run for his money. He was. But, he never seemed to be able to get enough traction to close that gap. I mean, take down incumbent senator from inside the party, i mean, thats an uphill battle and i really dont know how you could actually succeed in doing that without a major gaffe on the incumbents part. Okay. Take me ahead to the general election. Now senator mcconnell has an opponent in of course the election in november. Who is the opponent . Democrat allison lund green grime. She is the secretary of state in kentucky. The polls show them neck in neck. It will be a close race, which is not something that mcconnell hasnt seen before. His last election against democrat candidate bruce lunsford, mcconnell won by six points. But that was a close race as well. But, grimes is is a very strong candidate. Has a wide appeal and in kentucky, democrats actually outnumber republicans. Even though the state tends to vote republican in national races. Grimes does stand a chance to be able to unseat mcconnell. Scott, thank you. So, what could tonights primary results tell us about the november mid terms and should either the republicans or the democrats be terrified . Joining us our Political Panel the weekly standards john mccormick, easton and ricke senior klein is senator mcconnell, does he really is a tough race come november . He does. Of course he does. Its going to be probably the most expensive election in the history of senate elections. Very possibly anyway. And the democrats are going to pour money in to try to defeat him. One of the lessons we are seeing for the primary season incumbency still matters. Tea party unable to knock off any incumbent none on the democratic side either. Strangely thats going to benefit democrats more than republicans. Mcconnell may benefit from that. In his own race its going to be tough for him to keep that seat. He does have senator next to his name. People may hate congress but they are still electing their member of congress back at least for the ballot. Most intriguing race for you tonight . The mcconnell race is intriguing. This was not a done deal a year ago. Matt bevins provided a real threat to Mitch Mcconnell. And, keep in mind, that the establishment mainstream republican part of the Republican Party has watched over the past two election cycles, they have watched potential senate pickups go by the wayside because ofTea Party Candidates who could not appeal to a electorate. And thats been a big problem. So, what did Mitch Mcconnell do . A, he came out shooting fast. Senator rand paul back him . And thats the other key. Thats the subplot and to me the most intriguing subplot in all of this is rand paul. It was very smart on Mitch Mcconnells part to cozy up to rand paul to put him on the Senate Foreign relations committee. A prime spot for a freshman senator. Rand paul came out supporting him. What is rand paul going to do leading up to 2016 . He is clearly, you know, wants to be a president ial candidate. What role is he going to play in this schism between the establishment of the party and the tea party part of the party . John, your favorite . I agree that kentucky is is an interesting race. You know. You have heard a lot about how the tea party, their influence is winning how they are losing. What struck me about this race is the tea party is sort of a victim of their own success. They have taken out the real liberal republicans in the party back in 2010. Had you people like arlen specter in pennsylvania. A real liberal against conservatives on judges, you know, for things like cap and trade. Liberal on abortion. Same thing with Charlie Crist in florida. Chase them from the party. They ended up becoming Arlen Specter ended up becoming a democrat. Charlie crist independent and now a democrat. If you look at kentucky what you are struck by is matt bevins doesnt have a good issue against Mitch Mcconnell. He has 87 conservative rating by the club for growth. One of the main groups attacking him. So, when you are attacking the guys with you 87 of the time, i think you can declare victory. I think thats really the striking thing about this race. Its a little weird that the candidate for senate, pediatric neurosurgeon has got the stalking charges. I dont know but but i think thats a little weird. A little weird is exact ely right. Whats key here is this was a huge republican opportunity someone talking up. This seems like a clinical democratic attack. We know from reporting out of the oregonian. Im sure democratic attack. None the less, still a little weird. Not just one stalking, its two. Exhusband. Thats right. Three different Police Reports. The boyfriend has now made amends. Thats right. We will see if she can overcome. This six months to make the case. Always going to be tough in oregon o. To get back to what john said though, exact ely right, the tea party is losing battles but they already won the war. That is so important in talking about the tea Party Challenges that are out there, they have already shaped the debate to such a degree. Thats why they are not winning. I would push back on that a bit. Not only are we looking at the michigan mcconnell race but we are looking at georgia where the two candidates most associated with the tea party and were actually had some extremist statements about science and abortion, you know, shades of todd aiken again. They are at the bottom of the barrel. Its the more establishment candidate that are purdue and kingston. Run off. I think the tea party is a little bit back on its heels in terms of the Republican Party going into 2014. Okay. Panel, stay with us. And now the American Legion is outraged accusing the white house of distorting its position on the v. A. Healthcare scandal. Now, yesterday, White House Press secretary jay carney repeated ely suggested the American Legion had praised the Veterans Affairs department for the resignation of robert petzel. The top official in charge he was of the Veterans Health system was requested to resign by the American Legion. [ buzzer ] the American Legion says it looks as petzels steps at addressing the leadership problem at the v. A. So i think that undercuts the assertion that that is not a meaningful development. The American Legion. The American Legion. The v. A. Issued a press release on september 200th saying he was leaving. That is almost 8 months ago. I will refer you. I dont care what the American Legion has to say. Im asking what you have to say. Well, i would point you to the American Legion. Well, what did theAmerican Legion actually say . Well, the American Legions National Commander called petzels resignation a continuation of business as usual. And joining us the director of the National Legislation for the American Legion lewis kelly jr. Thank you for having me. Whats the story . Is jay carney dead right or dead wrong on this . We were confused. We were caught off guard. I thought that our press release really spoke to the issue. We were very displeased. We didnt think that this resignation was as genuine as it could have been. There could have been some tougher calls here. So, you know, for the white house to spin that in such a way that made it looked like we agreed with it i think was disingenuous. Why do you think the white house did it . Apparently jay carney, i read a john carl said it nine times or mentioned it nine times. Nine times in one press briefing to get it wrong why did he do that . I dont know if he misunderstood. I cant speak for what he was thinking. I know what the American Legions intentions are. Reform at the top of the v. A. Leadership take charge of whats going on over there straighten this out immediately. The American Legion has been a long standing partner with v. A. Over the years. We want to make sure that its run correctly. And calling for the resignation of someone who is getting ready to leave on retirement anyway, it might have been better if they would have said hold on, you are not retiring now, we are going to hold you here until this investigation is done. That might have been a stronger statement. Should shinseki resign . We called for secretary shin shin shin shinsekis resignation. We were disappointed. We felt that the secretary was woeful ely unprepared for that we felt he was ill advised and we were disappointed in the amount of knowledge the secretary had about the goings on and some of the documents that were presented to him buy the senators that he didnt know, yet his under secretary that was sitting right to his left knew all about it and we were very disappointed. How can you just say disappointed though . In this is his job and he hasnt done it it he had notice of this apparently, right . This is not something new . In Washington People say well, we are disappointed. How can we not just calling obviously he should resign. Why not be more forceful about it. Trying to be polite. People are dying. They are not getting medical care. Every single veteran is volunteering to help us. We make the call and they go. Why should would he be polite and nice. Heads roll and fix it fast. Thats right. On the day that we called for secretary shinseki under petzels resignation forceful. Laid it on the line systemic breakdown in the leadership of the department of Veterans Affairs. The time has come our leadership and our membership has called for resignation. You said jay carney disingenuous. A polite person. I would be like screaming from the treetops if i thought that he misrepresented the real position and was disingenuous. I might say lied or whatever. How come you are not angrier . Because it it was such an egregious move that were confused. We dont know what possibly could have motivated him. Its not like our press release was a private affair. Not like we didnt issue it to the world. Its on your web site. Why doesnt he look at your web site . We were caught off guard. We did not understand to you that possibly could have been misinterpreted anyway. Is this the tip of the iceberg or are we at the end of it. We are finding this is the tip it of the iceberg. When we called for these resignations, we had no idea how deep this went. And now as more and more centers come forward. Whistle blowers come forward feel like they will be protected we are seeing this is a lot more widespread than anticipated. Too bad whistle blowers have so much fear. There is a lot of heartache and a lot of bad things happen when, you know, if they cant come forward sooner. Thats right. And we are hearing stories every day about whistle blowers that are are coming forward once again. Who said that they were reciprocated against when they spoke out to begin with. We have one person who said i refuse to carry a secret list and i was suspended for several days. And they were getting away with it until now. Until there is such a bright spotlight being shown on this issue that now they are starting to pay the price. Would you like to hear from jay carney why he said that . We would love to hear why he said that. Maybe he will give you a call. Yeah, i dont think thats going to happen. Maybe, who knows. Lewis always nice to sigh. 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