Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Thats right, katy. You know, the president tweeted sunday in response to our article that he is not worried about don jr. , but people who have been talking to him on the phone say in fact he is worried about his son. He is worried about a lot of aspects related to this russia probe, which is getting closer and closer to him, to his family, to his associates, to his orbit. Its uncomfortable at the moment. There is some concern that he has that his son may be found to have violated the law somehow, you know. One person speculated maybe his son could have perjured himself in interviews at some point. I mean, the president just doesnt know at this point what could be in store for his son. It is a source of concern and its one of many things thats fueling what were seeing, which is a real public lashing by the president of mueller again and again and again, tweeting more than he has before about the wit
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Wild card . Why . He picked his pal, kris kobach, over the partys choice, who has a slim lead in polls over kobach even though trump is backing him. The proposition is this. Could trump put this governors seat in play by picking the controversial kobach . Youll remember him of gu dayzy voter fraud fame. Remember that commission to find fraud that found none . Thats him. Trump remembers the loyalty. The gop would like to forget he exists. Its also a crucial test for the other side. Democratic centrists are fighting the growing progressive wing for the future of the party. Then theres something im calling the x growth factor. What can democrats do to peel off trump voters . What do i mean by trump voters . Voters who are disaffected and who picked trump for being an antipolitician. What can they do for that . Lets get after all of this right now with chief National Correspondent john king monitoring it
them are held by republicans, republicans are on defense, if they re worried about this district, no matter what happens in the next couple hours, every one of these republicans goes to bed tonight a little more nervous. john king, thank you very much. let s put the returns up there, we ve had another flip. look at this now. troy balder son, 131 votes ahead. danny o connor was ahead. as john king just told you. you have 89% in, 11% of the precincts still have to report. this could go either way. what s the big takeaway? we have that for you next. stadium pa : all military members stand and be recognized. sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. no matter where or when you served, t-mobile stands ready to serve you. that s why we re providing half off
danny o connor leading 50% to 49.4%. 75% of the vote in. let s look at these counties because that s where this gets so important. number one, danny o connor is doing what his team thinks he needs to do most of all, keep it above 63%, 64% in franklin county. that needs to be more than a third of the vote. if he can hold that number, they think he can win. why do they think that even though it s so close right now? here s one of the issues. the reason this got closer is delaware county started to report votes. it s up to 24% now. and the republican jumped ahead. troy balderson jumped ahead. look at the margin there, 51 to 48. is that enough for troy bal balderson? probably not if the numbers stay he here. watch drelaware county to see i balderson can stretch that out. suburbs, exurbs closer in, more affluent republicans. that s where danny o connor needs to run strongest. here s the problem for troy
100% is in here opinion 100% is in here. we re going to watch as we re counting this out. delaware county, only a little more than half of the vote in. does his campaign want that up. you ve been talking about the suburbs all night. a third of the voters live down here. 94% in. so what kind of space does that leave, what is 6%? it s 6% of precincts. if it keeps coming in like this is it enough to offset if troy holds his lead here? what s the math. that s the part we don t know. that tells us how close we are, this has slipped from 65 plus just below 65. watch the percentages and do the