all right. there's the results so far of today's poll question. wow. 26,000 and change is the republican nomination already over, 52-48. 52% agreeing with my guest in saying, yeah, the voting hasn't begun, but it's pretty much a done deal. here's some of the social media reaction that has come in during the course of the program. what do we have? the 43% self-labeling as independent means the electorate is even more sick of politics as usual as it was in 2016 when trump was nominated and later elected. as a clear rejections of dominant political parties, their practices, and leadership. th thomas, you know who's -- who's elated to see 434 tieing with a -- 43 tieing with a previous tie, people with labels are thrilled. joe lieberman, there it is 43% -- i'm one of them -- 43% self-identify as independent as compared to 27% who say no, i'm an r or i'm a d.
all right. there's the results so far of today's poll question. wow. 26,000 and change. is the republican nomination already over. 52/48. 52% agreeing with my guest in saying, yeah. the voting hasn't bekbun, but it's pretty much a done deal. here is some of the social media reaction coming in during the course of the program. the 43% self labeling independent means the electorate is more sick of politics as usual than it was in 2016 when trump was nominated and later rejection. thomas, let me say this you know who is elated to see 43, which is a record high for independents as gallop has been doing this, tieing with a previous high. i got to believe the people that no labels are thrilled to see this. joe lieberman -- there it is. 43% -- i'm one of them. 43% self identify as independent as compared to 27% who say, no, i'm an r or i'm a d.
water. washington state was hit with wildfires after wildfires in northwest canada forces evacuations last week. the governor of washington tieing it all back to climate change. >> the fact of the matter is there's a beast at our door and that's the beast of seems like s on fire. we need to defend ourself from climate change. we need to decarbonize our economy so these fires don't ravage us. there's not enough wildfires in the world to protect us if we don't stop climate change. >> joining ut is professor michael mann, director of the penn center for science and sustainability. good to see you again, might beal mann. let's start with tropical storm hilary. this is a first. why is this storm so abnormal for california and what does it say for what lies ahead? >> the governor laid it out pretty clearly.
the exception of the police vehicles because this road was closed to passenger vehicles yesterday. and it is exclusively now going to be used as a road for convenience vehicles and convoys of supplies and other kind of official vehicles that are coming through the area to help in the recovery efforts. now that is creating a lot of frustration. it is hard to navigate around the island and people are being sent to another location which would take them much longer to loop around and eventually make it back to where they're trying to get to, to town. so that is creating a lot of frustration and anger among people here who are tieing to get back. i want you to hear from them directly while they were waiting in that line here yesterday. >> they told us that three miles back, or it could have been a bull horn or on the radio. just pathetic. >> but the route they're trying to make us take is a dangerous
predicate for the georgia rico statute. so this does not auger well for the individuals like rudy giuliani, sidney powell, and others, and donald trump of course. that this may be part of a major rico indictment of all of these individuals, tieing in all of the other facets of what they did in georgia to try and change the -- >> right. and you mentioned this rico case and fani willis has tried a number of those. they are in her wheelhouse. he's expected to seek a dozen indictments this week. we know that. this is racketeering and conspiracy charges what you're laying out and these are wide-ranging cases. there is a lot of layers to them. as an assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york, were the first to prosecute a mafia boss. so you have some experience at
>> a short but very powerful statement from the special counsel, jack smith. evan perez, you have been covering the story from the beginning. let me get your analysis of what you just heard. >> wolf, we expected that the special counsel was going to be a man of very few words. that's, of course, what you heard there. one of the things that he did there is he connected what the former president was doing, what he perpetrated by spreading lies about alleged fraud when he knew, according to prosecutors, when he knew that there was no evidence to support his claims of fraud. what he has done in this indictment is tied the violence, as we saw, on january 6th, of course the very vivid pictures that we have seen of police officers defending the capitol, defending the lives of members of congress as they were trying to fulfill their ceremonial function of certifying the vote, tieing all of those acts there
republicans urged the judge to throw out his plea agreement. nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill this morning. what reaction are you hearing there? >> reporter: that was the first ask from house republicans, who want to see this plea deal taken out of the arrangement. that's, of course, not what's happening as we watch in court as it continues on this morning. but what's notable, i think, is the way we're now watching house republicans in some ways try to move past just what they have done in using the power of the gavel to go through multiple investigations into hunter biden, attempting, but at this point, not being able to do so in terms of tieing his father to hunter biden's business dealings. that's still something that they're pushing forward on. now, though, we're hearing from the speaker of the house about what maybe could be more power than just having the majority and the power of the gavel. that's a potential impeachment inquiry and here is what mccarthy said about that yesterday. >> you understand what impeachment inquiry is?
what are you talking about? who is the insane person here? why are we restoring insanity? he ties himself in knots. he engaged in these elaborate dances. chris christie just called him out, just directly said, you weren't there, you didn't watch it, you didn't know what happened? it's not a matter of whether you enjoyed it or not. people died that day. again, in the republican primary, given the mentality of the republican primary voter, that's probably not going to score chris christie a lot of points. it's interesting to watch the contrast between these two guys, chris christie bringing this blunt fire and ron desantis being unable to express an opinion without tieing himself around the axle. >> tim, what i remember about republican politics may be totally irrelevant at this point. that's how old i am.
the pace, are you serious? oh my goodness, glorious and free. >> nick taylor with the 72-foot eagle putt yesterday to be the first canadian in 69 years to win his national open. he claimed the title after a four-whole playoff against tommy fleetwood and made the longest putt of his pga tour career. that's a heck of a shot. >> that was the sports news of the weekend, making it clear to both of you. >> not the red sox? >> the red sox taking two out of three? we turn to paris where novak djokovic got his 23rd grand slam championship at the french open, tieing with nadal and now moving throw over federer with a straight set
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