and here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. good morning, pedro, viewers should know we re going to be using the associated press numbers for calls and results. so viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but we re always going to be coming back to the associated press numbers. so let s start off with where the presidential contest stands this morning. the key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state that s being watched closely this morning, it s 49.4% for joe biden, president trump, 49.1%. that number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. that is just one of six key states we re watching this morning. the other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. the numbers in michigan, president trump 49.8%, joe iden, 48.6%. and then the third state in the northern industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. that blue wall that president donald trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key
smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steady gaining in the polls and historically there is a lot of precedent for urge is being candidates to keep gaining especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary and according to data released yesterday, 43% of americans, look at that graph, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. rs and ds are tied at 27. it tie as record for an independent showing making them the largest political bloc in the c
this house and the speaker herself were specifically targets of the defendant. can you definitively say this was politically motivated? yes, it appears as those this was based on his statements and comments made in that house during his encounter with mr. pelosi that this was politically motivated. after years of targeting nancy pelosi with violent rhetoric and imagery, right wing republicans are resorting to vile conspiracy theories and what aboutism to try to downplay their role in the violent attack on her husband. plus, the right wing majority on the supreme court seems poised to dismantle yet another icon of 20th century progress. taking aim today at affirmative action, and surprise surprise, they don t seem too supportive of campus diversity. we ll break down the arguments in the high court today. and how republicans are playing the pundits with skewed polling data, and taking control of the narrative about the upcoming elections. we begin with the latest on
declaring victory. all the candidates have flown on to new hampshire, the next battleground in this primary contest. they ll vote in six days. this morning s washington journal is giving you reaction to the first in the nation voting last night and what s next for these candidates. 202-748-8001. emocrats, 202-748-8000, and independents, 202-748-8002. iowa, new hampshire voters, we want to learn from you how you hawkeye state and how you plan to vote in the granite state. 202-748-8003 is your line. join the conversation on twitter c-spanwj or facebook do dom/csan. good morning. ed cruz has been declared the winner on the republican side or a virtual tie as bernie sanders has called it. this is the results from the new york times this morning. that rate is called on the epublican side, senator ted cruz got 27.7% of the votes. that gives him eight delegates of iowa.t donald trump with 24.3. he ll get seven. 23.1%.rubio, the senator, he too will get seven delegates. side, only
world you might never have expected. google glass experiment. what happens when you spend days walking through the halls of congress with the latest technology, a lot. hello, everyone. it is high noon in the east. welcome to weekends with alex witt. we have developing now at this hour, 22 u.s. embassies and consulates in 17 countries all closed today amid one of the most serious terror warnings in years. most of those are in the middle east and north africa much the state department has issued a worldwide travel alert for americans, it s the first since osama bin laden was killed. it warns terrorists may elect to use a variety of means and weapons and target both official and private interests. that warning in effect through august. security is also being increased across the u.s. out of what authorities are calling an abundance of caution although they say there is no specific threat to the homeland and joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey says the threat is spec