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daughter was killed in a car crash. a scholarship was created in her honore. but now its one of more than 100 130 scholarships that have been changed or on hold now because of a ban on diversity programs at public universities in texas. and weve all heard about the 40 acres and a mule promise made after the civil war but did any freed slaves actually get any acres? ill speak to an investigative journalists about what she found with her team. so thats coming up all right. >> looking for...

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Republican victory tonight. probably will be. you look at just history alone. the tide of history. i see no way that democrats would hold on to the house. that said, the polls are breaking in all different ways. i saw a group of new polls last night with massive sample sizes, a bipartisan poll, and i mean, the senate races in these swing states are breaking different ways. i spoke to people in florida who are always right. they say expect a massive republican win in florida. ron desantis is goin...

Independent women voters last month favored democrats by 14 points. now that same group independent female voters back republicans by 18 points. thats a 30-point swing. >> remember, we talk about relatively small sample sizes. some of that may be that youve got sort of margin of error is very high for these kind of things. what it shows is movement. movement -- were seeing movement across the board. cnn -- "the new york times" poll showed that the generic ballot is moving in the republican way. ...

Campaign ads, is trying to make it seems as if he also has donald trumps endorsement. hes aired ads with trump in it. he has quite interestingly the endorsement of joe manchin, the prominent democratic senator. he cut an ad for mckinley who has a traditional voting record. hes being whacked on his vote for the infrastructure bill which obviously joe manchin championed. there hasnt been a ton of public polling there. i think mooney has a healthy lead in some of the polling, obviously small sample...

Reforms were really popular with them as well. so while defund or decreasing funding for police was not particularly popular with a number of -- with black voters and with all voter groups, those reform options were really popular. >> um-hmm. one more question for you, eliza, and, rev, im going to come to you. talk about the data that you use, because part of the problem of trying to understand voters of color is that the data sets can be super small to begin with, but then when it comes to part...

Lot. >> professor, that certainly has been the trend line with republican success, making inroads among hispanic voters. thats point one. point two, do you think what happened in virginia is a portable skill that they can move on and put on the road in 2020? or was it a one-off? >> what we saw with youngkin and latino voters -- let me just put this out there. the data is a little spotty because of the sample sizes. but what were seeing is that about a third of the latino vote in virginia went fo...

They have left, yes. they feel that they are prepared for the legal battles and challenges. this is something months ago the president said he was hesitant to do this. now this is the only thing that will move some people off the sidelines. >> monica, thank you. let me bring in dr. peter otez. im going to put up here just various quotes from some red flags and an fda briefing document about the johnson & johnson booster in particular. theres a lot of booster confusion this morning and this after...

Johnson, determining that no matter the booster, all study participants saw a substantial uptick in antibody levels after a booster shot. and for those who got the johnson & johnson shot, the study finding antibody levels were higher if they followed it up with moderna or pfizer versus j&j. >> while this is really exciting, its based on very small sample sizes. so it gives us a window into, you know, data that well see over the coming weeks. >> reporter: but antibodies are only one part of immun...

Continues in congress and bidens poll numbers continue to drop, the battle between youngkin and mcauliffe appears to be tightening. a monmouth poll claims to have mcauliffe up, most of the polling in virginia seems to have the democrat up. most pollsters think their sample sizes are a bit too blue-heavy. our friends at the cook political report relate moved the race to a toss-up citing the souring national environment for democrats. last night in their debate mcauliffe try to distance himself fr...