coal mine moment for the democratic party. last night, there was a special congressional race in south texas. it saw a very deep blue sea turn bright red. now, republican mayra flores easily defeated her democratic opponent by eight points in district 34. now, get this, it s the first time in 150 years this district ever elected a republican! in 2012, obama won it by 23 points. 2016, yeah, hillary won it by 22 points. biden only won it by four, but now republican mayra flores, she won it by eight. all right, that would be a 12-point swing in two years, a 30-point swing if you go back to 2016. keep in mind, this is a majority hispanic district. it borders mexico to the south along the rio grande valley. now, mayra actually immigrated to the u.s. from mexico making her the very first mexican-born woman to be elected to congress. she s also married to a u.s. border patrol agent. she made border security a huge focus of her campaign. take a look. too many to many, the borders
the price like you promised or will joe biden get on his knees and beg and plead and hem and haw for oil that he is unwilling to drill for in america. the answer is likely obvious. we will have more on this with former secretary of state mike pompeo. along with the look into saudi arabia s attempt to cleanse their toxic image, multi-billion-dollar golf tournament featuring record setting payouts to major american golfers. and newly unearthed audio that s been extracted from a laptop from hell shows hunter biden bragging about the influence he has over his father. we have that tape straight ahead. also we are monitoring primary results in four states, south carolina, north dakota, nevada, maine along with a runoff in texas. we ll keep you posted on the numbers as they come intimate and thankfully the midterms are only five months away and we have a chance to stop the devastated policies of joe biden. with democrats running the entire show and the washington swamp, this country
participate in vent which is what they were planning. people don t want everyone to forget what happened in orlando six years ago. senseless. happens all the time. really we need to pay respect for things like that. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. . it is 19 days since 19 young children were slaughtered in uvalde, texas, with 2 teachers and the senate is taking a step to gun safety. here are the provisions under discussion. funding for mental health resources. red flag laws. expanded background checks. addressing the boyfriend loophole and straw purchasing and clarifying the definition of a firearms dealer. if there s attempt to filibuster the legislation you need ten members from the gop and the democrats to end it. saying we can t fail the american people again president biden is pushing for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, strengthening the background checks and enacting safe storage and repealing gun mrveers.
to torrestaurants in italy. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. there s a growing sense of urgency among members of congress ahead of monday s second hearing on the january 6 insurrection. they say their investigation paints a tdamning portrait of former president trump. trump and his supporters have been pushing back hard against the narrative. we get more from jessica sh th needer in washington. reporter: they set the stage tor for what s to come. some republicans are working to discredit the findings, while the former president is responding to this. the president responded with this sentiment. maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. reporter: today trump responding. i never said or even thought of saying hang mike pence . this is either a made-up story from someone looking to be a star or fake news. we want trump! reporter: and his months-long efforts to discredit the election, leading to what t
the capital in an attempt to o overturn the twenty twenty election results. for more , let s go to chief congressional correspondent chadress pergram. good afternoon. the committee aimed to tieye the riot to formerd president trump. the panel played new audioudpr and videotape of those close tof the president that included former attorney general bill barr who said there was no fraud in the election. y wyoming republican liz cheney invoked a painting in the capitol which shows president george washington resigning his military commission. p cheney says former president trump did all he could to stay in office with this noble act. washington sete the indispensible example of the peaceful transfer of power what president reagan called nothing less than a miracle the sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every american president except one . there was dramatic testimony from u.s. capitol police officer caroline edwards. she sustain