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Lets begin with the breaking news. Political earthquake shakes the foundations of the gop establishment. The House Majority leader, eric cantor, thought to be aligned one day for the speakership, has just said he will instead give up his post after a stunning primary upset by a political upstart, tea Party Influenced College Professor david brat. The aftershocks of the vote are raising huge questions about the midterm elections, the makeup of congress and any last vestiges of compromise here in ...

And yet after four years of dragging their feet, eric cantor said the house would finally vote on a health care alternative in 2014. But that was then. What are the republicans saying now . Speaker boehner, take it away. Nothing . How about eric cantor who promised that vote. [ contradicts chicrickets chirp] awww, the sounds of silence. The hill reports that republicans dont have any health care hearings scheduled. No one going after the law and no folks trying to repeal it. Gez its going to be ...

Establishment. Two georgia races with some famous political name. Those are just some of the story lines in todays primary elections. Were taking a look at five races from the west to the northeast to the south. We begin with the Kentucky Senate race. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell facing Tea Party Challenger matt bevette in the race for the republican nomination. Our chief Congressional Correspondent is joining us from louisville right now. Mcconnell was well financed. It looks like...

Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. The initial underwater search for missing flight 370 is now almost done and its turned up, so far, nothing. The bluefin went down for its 13th mission today. If it keeps coming up empty, the search area will likely be expanded. In beijing, distraught families held a sitdown at the malaysian epbase for 17 hours. They marched there late thursday night and stayed until this evening demanding a meeting with the malaysian ambassador. Following all the...

For the past two nights we covered the Obama Clinton political tap dance. First Hillary Clinton interviewed in the atlantic in which she criticized obamas Foreign Policy. Next, dissect the plate cal maneuvering, is she positioning herself for a 2016 run and separating herself from the president who is currently struggling in the polls. Yesterday, the phone call. Clinton calls obama to clear the air. A spokesman makes a statement saying it was to make sure nothing she said was meant to attack him...

Mcconnell in a very tight race of his own but not without first giving us a piece of his mind. The man who just could be the next Senate Majority leader if things go his way. First the top gop fundraiser, on the new jersey governor for whom nothing seems to be going his way. What happened . Oh, my gosh. This is just like a disaster waiting to happen. Like a ticking time bomb. But hes compounding it. Well, a lot of people are used to his smashmouth talk of politics but right now he needs to be ma...

President s top advisers arrived. Defense secretary chuck hagel, hh secretary jay johnson was here, hhs secretary sylvia bureau well, and dhs secretary, jay johnson, and they were meeting on saturday night to figure out how the feds and states could Work Together to basically find everybody that came in contact with one of the ebola patients and stop the spread of the disease. The new ebola czar ron klain was at the white house not at this meeting according to a readout provided by the press off...

Autopilot and we will be able to fund our responsibilities. So here we are in the house, being blackmailed, being blackmailed to vote for an appropriations bill. Not happy at all. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. Mike, this now moves to the senate. They bought themselves a couple of days here. There will definitely be vocal opposition from the left there as well, right . Reporter martha, no question about that. You can expect possible 2016 president ial conten...

Soldiers being deployed along with 5,000 Police Officers because of the concerns that the schools could be targeted in future terror attacks and theyre being equipped with new gear, heavy weapons and antibiological nuclear and chemical capsules. One of the terrorists targeted that Kosher Grocery to kill jews that may have initially planned to hit a jewish school. Now french authorities are searching for as many as six other members of the terror cell and announced the arrest of another man in bu...

The streets here. Two cops were injured. Well have all the latest details on that ahead. But, first, this morning, we start in the United States senate with the headline isnt that senators passed a funding bill last night to keep the government open for business, the headline is how they passed it. Everything they went on behind the scenes all through yesterday and late into the night to make that vote ohappen. If the story before this weekend was all about Elizabeth Warren then a similar charac...