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Breaking overnight from georgias sixth congressional district the only thing settled there this morning is nothing is settled just yet. a special election to fill a seat held for decades by republicans now headed to a june 20th runoff between 30-year-old democratic first timer john ossoff and republican karen handle. this is a widely republican seat since the carter administration. >> its been held by newt gingrich and tom price whose departure to become health and human services secretary set o...

Role. i think he was facing becoming a bellwether of his own if he ran again in 2018 in what is already likely to be a pretty difficult midterm climate for republicans. >> even in utah? >> i dont think that utahs third district was going to be a problem for jason chaffetz. i dont discount theres more to the story than look i want to go make some money and spend time with my family notwithstanding all the time he spent away from his family while in congress. i spoke to republican insiders in utah...

Editor of cnn, zach wolf. so much talk leading up to this about how it was a bellwether for either party and here we are the next day wondering was it donald trump tweeted, we talked about it, glad to be of help. was he of help and what changed in this dynamic given the national sentiment? >> i think hes happy to say he was of help, but i dont think theres any way to view the 48 plus percent that john ossoff got other than something as a referendum on trump. he didnt quite get to that 50% but cl...

Breaking overnight from georgia sixth congressional district the only thing settled there this morning really that nothing is settled there, a special election to fill a seat held for decades by republicans now headed to a june 20th runoff between 30-year-old first timer john ossoff and karen handle. >> this seat has been widely republican since the carter administration. its been held over the years by newt gingrich and tom price whose departure to become health and human services secretary set...

81,000 votes last fall, 55,000 special election. two out of every three democrats who voted last fall turned out and voted in the special election but just over 1 out of 3 republicans who voted in the fall turned out and voted in special election. there could be real problems. tom price got 201,000 votes. lets look tonight to see how many people turn out to vote and what the aggregate republican and democrat vote is. >> shannon: the president tweeting out on this. its a big potentially bellwethe...

>> no, no. >> kates right on this -- >> im sorry, say it again? >> kate is -- >> just kidding. keep going. >> the most interesting thing about that tweet is that is the presidents message generally speaking on domestic issues and only bought him a 1 1/2-point victory in this race in november. so, turnout in special elections are weird and different. well see what happens. but that was to me -- >> for the democrat on the panel, sorry. >> i think its a sign of the republicans running scared right ...

Wasnt that big of a deal! its not a bellwether. >> its a man bites dog situation. >> not supposed to win -- >> situational. >> we are situational here. thank you so much. all right, remember this violent clash at a trump campaign rally? protester in there being pushed out, pushed around. its now at the center of multiple lawsuits, including one from a trump supporter in the middle of the scene who he says inspired him to do this. it gets complicated. when they thought they should westart savin...

Of the vote to move on. if he doesnt, there will be a run off in may, i believe, between the top two vote getters. even though the district was 2% more for trump than before, you know, so its a smaller margin, it still tends to be a republican district so he really, if he wants to win this, hes going to have to get the 50% and thats tough. >> right, weve seen the bellwether in kansas about the vacated by there. great to see you btoth. happy easter time. rocking easter yellow. we like that. >> i ...

Afraid to say this. he has given me a lot of leeway to just say what i think and interpret what he thinks. im a strong voice by nature. im sometimes a bull in a china shop, and, you know, he allows me to do that. >> surprising, is it, jamie, because she for all practical purposes has become the leading edge of the trump administrations foreign policy? >> she absolutely has. i mean weve seen her out there over and over. she is not a wall flower. she has been very, very vocal. look, if you go back...

Into kansas and did an in-person campaign rally last night at a private aviation hangar. polls closed tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time in kansas which means were watching the results trickle in. even the fact they couldnt just call it at poll closing for the republican, that itself is news in this kind of a race. and this is just one race. well see how it turns out. but sometimes these individual races have a national message. 1974 was a famous one. six months before the watergate scandal force...