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thanks for staying with us. there is a growing international focus on nancy pelosis big trip to asia after warnings from the white house and the pentagon against her going to taiwan, a major red flag for chinas leaders, who have again today threatened potential military action. here at home communities throughout kentucky still underwater at this hour. at least 30 people are dead as catastrophic flooding, continuing rain, high temperatures and another wave of storms hampering the despe...

angeles. congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a life time republican businessman turned democrat. in a special recall election in san francisco, bodine lost his job as the district attorney of that city earlier this evening. in south dakota, nbc news projects that incumbent republican governor christie gnome won. in iowa, senate race michael franken -- excuse me, different screen i believe from what were seeing. defeated former congresswoman abby. franken will now look...

production of solar panels. you are watching "fox and friends first," im carley shimkus. >> todd: im todd piro. americans say it is the key factor in determining how they plan to vote in midterms. >> carley: seven states are holding primary elections today. alexandria hoff has the latest on the energy and economic crisis, but brooke singman kicks us off with a look at some of the races you are watching today. >> brooke: a big day of primaries with the midterm five months away. this mor...

>> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. this is a fox news alert facing almost certain defeat for his party in the midterm elections five months from now, sgrooid has become desperate. hes decided to leverage the murder of 19 children in texas last week for political advances. he just spoke at some length from the white house about the need to disarm the population >> this isnt about taking anyones rights. abouts about protecting children. about protecting famili...

Bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. Brian, well accepted it over to you. Our thanks to steve kornacki. We ask only that you not stray from the big board. We will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. Checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. And President Trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own Attorney General of his recusal from the Russia Investigation. Presi...

Also today, marks the 50th anniversary of robert f. Kennedys assassination. He was celebrating a win in the California Democratic primary, at the Ambassador Hotel in los angeles, only to be gunned down moments later. Welcome to this special edition of morning joe, its wednesday, june 6th. With us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Your piece in the daily beast is amazing, well be reading from it. Nbc News National political reporter, Heidi Przybilla is with us. And au...

So the top two finishers yet to go forward get to go forward. It wasnt clear for republicans that they would have anyone at the top of the ticket so they could drive out support for their candidates in november. Now it looks like certainly for governor, there a t the top of the ticket. A businessman, john cox will be there. Then on the senate side, he will face gavin newsom. On the senate side, diane fine seen would face Kevin De Leon Dianne Feinstein would face Kevin De Leon or jim bradley, not...

What was it . Was it the trump endorsement thats thought to have put cox over the top and gotten him into the top two . Reporter its hard to say. Hard to know whether democrats decided to vote strategically here to try to get a republican on the ballot. We dont know. What we do know is the results speak for themselves. What gop feared that they might not have a candidate at the top of the ballot, the gubernatorial ticket, that fear is put to rest. John cox makes it through, as you pointed out, d...

The democrats are worried about the jungle primary system, concerned that too many hutt districts they hope to flip this fall. Already some evidence that may be the one big contest has been a republican has made it o the ballot, which could help with downlot races in november. Kyung lah, a lot to get through. Walk us through, so much talk about this socalled jungle primary and how this was going to shake out in california. Walk us through it. Well, there are a lot of certainties and theres a lot...

Very ripe targets this november. These are seven republicanheld seats. These are seven dtricts tt all voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The question, california, theyve got this top two primary system, everybody, regardless of party on the same ballot, top two regardless of party advance. Were democrats, are democrats going to get shut out of any of these distri let us take you throug results. In the 48th district, the incumbent is dana rohrabacher. Hes pulled well into first place. Top two mak...