Tonight on 361 big night thank two big stories. Motors making President Biden the Presumptive Democratic nominee with donald trump just hours away from the republican nod. Meaning that by the end of tonight, the 2020 24 race will be officially set to georgia in the last hour, putting the president with the 1,968 delegates, he needs the former president expected to reach the 1,200 he needs with Washington State later tonight the other big story tonight, former Special Counsel robert hur, telling the House Judiciary Committee why he didnt indict President Biden i didnt over his handling of classified documents. And also taking fire from both sides of the aisle for the decisions that he did make that first the election and Breaking News Polls have just close in mississippi and cnn can now make a projection cnn projects that former President Trump will win the state pudding him that much closer to 1,215 delegates. He needs to secure the nomination. We can also project that President Biden will be the winner on the democratic side, neither outcome, obviously prize, but significant in terms of the Delegate Count. So i want to go to cnns political director David Chalian, who is tracking all of this. So where do things stand right now for the former president david . Yeah, anderson, 40 delegates at stake and mississippi tonight, donald trump wins all of them because the rules are that if you get over 50 of the vote in the state, it is winnertakeall hes going to get over 50 of the vote as The Last Man Standing with no real opposition in this campaign. So add those 40 delegates to where he isnt. So this is where donald trump finds himself. Now, you noted 1,200 and upper righthand corner there. He needs to secure the republican nomination. Hes now at 1108 ed for delegates that puts him 31 delegates away from securing the Republican Party nomination. That will likely happen when washington vote, when Washington States votes come in later this evening in the 11 00 eastern hour. Obviously, as you noted, anderson, this is not a surprise, and this is not the balloon im drop moment. Thatll happen in the convention in milwaukee in the summer when the delegates make it official. But donald trump securing the nomination and joe biden doing the same. Thats a pivot point in this campaign. What about President Biden . Yeah you said he went over the top in the last hour, georgia, a Major General election battleground, say put them there, he gets 35 more delegates out of mississippi to his total tonight because he won that state is you just projected so look at where joe biden is to date, hes now well over the 1,968 needed to win. Hes at 2000 and lemon delegates uncommitted as 20 delegates in this race right now. But joe biden has secured, he is renomination again, all but the official work at the convention in chicago for the democrats this summer when the delegates meet there. But this rematch is set and we are going to continue daybyday for months now watching these two gentlemen go through these general election Battleground States making their case to voters. All right, David Chalian, will check in with you shortly for more on the white house reaction, the president s big night, lets go to cnns mj lee. So how does the Biden Campaign responding . Yeah. Anderson, weve just gotten a statement from President Biden saying that he is honored to officially have clinched the democratic nomination for president. And echoing some of the language that we saw from the state of the Union Address last week, he said the country is currently in the middle of a comeback but he goes on to say, amid this progress, we face a Sobering Reality Freedom and democracy are at risk here at home in a way that they have not been since the civil war. Donald trump is running a campaign of resentment, revenge, and retribution that threatens the very idea of america. He goes on to say, voters now have a choice to make about the future of this country. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others territory . Down now, anderson, the Biden Campaign, of course, fully expected that they would cross that threshold tonight. But the fact that it was the State Of Georgia that put the president over the top is sort of the cherry on top for this campaign. Remember the president defeated former President Donald Trump in that state in 2020. That was the first time that a democratic president ial candidate had won that state in some 28 years. And theres no question that this state in their minds is a Battleground State going to november, its a state that they want to win. Theres a reason that the president actually went there over the week of over the weekend as one of his first stops as a part of his postState Of The Union tour and zooming out. Of course, anderson this evening is of course, symbolically really important. Its also just one more moment where the campaign is hoping that voters who have not been tuned in so far, well start to tune in and actually realize that the 2024 race is in fact going to be between President Biden and donald trump, mj. I mean, obviously some voters were tuned into the classified documents hearing in front of congress today. How concerned . Our is the Biden Campaign about that Controversy Dogging the president through the election season. I think its fair to say that the white house and the campaign are really in a different place than when the first the robert hur report, i should say, first came out last month. There was so much anger, so much frustration and nervousness about this report and all of the age and memory issues that the report went through. But i think now that the hearing is over and particularly after that state of the Union Address last week, that many of his supporters said was so successful, i think we are seeing some of that anxiety dissipating at least for now. And obviously despite robert hur himself saying that he isnt exonerating the president. Weve seen the white house literally saying case close. They think the president is innocent and they are fully ready to move on from this. Jay lee, thanks very much. Kaitlan anderson, im here with john king. Where else at the magic wall as we are looking ahead to the general election, now that were having these two presumptive nominees starting officially tonight. I mean, you can see what President Bidens mindset is and where hes going, given the fact that he is literally going to wisconsin. And the next few days. So look where hes going, right . Hes going to wisconsin hes got michigan on the schedule. He spends a lot of time in pennsylvania. Hes talking tonight about a win in georgia why is that important . Well, this is the map last time he got 306 electoral votes, but kaitlan, if you look at where David Chalian, our Political Team have looked at where are we right now very early, emphasized, very, very, very early its in march. We have so many questions. We havent answered about thirdparty candidates, trumps running mate, will there be trials this year . Theres so much more vote conventions with a long way to go. But right now, look where hes going, right . He battleground, we now call pennsylvania a Battleground State. We lean michigan red for Trump Wisconsin is a tossup. Georgia. We lean red for trump meeting. Theres public polling showing if the election were tomorrow trump would likely win. So we lean it that way. So the map is not as favorable right now to joe biden. In fact, our projection has trumped actually getting to 270. So if youre the president added states, what are you doing right now . Playing on your strengths, youve just clinched your the presumptive nominee and addressing your weaknesses by getting out into the Battleground States, talking about the issues and to the people you need to talk to. Trump has to do the same thing even in the results in Georgia Tonight, in some areas, nikki haleys getting a high vote in the suburbs. So thats what you do now that youve clinched what are you got to fix . Yeah. And trumps obviously keeping a close on the senate as well. But the other notable part of this is were looking at this 2020 rematch coming in 2024. It was all about the margins and we see what a critical difference that makes it. So i think that raises the question about these thirdparty candidates because, you know, joe biden, did it face any wellfunded challengers like President Trump did for President Trump. But what does that mean when it comes to the margins here, lets take a look. Lets start with the green party, which is more established. It already has Ballot Access in 20 states. It could get more as we move on, but its already guaranteed in 20 states, including michigan, wisconsin, and arizona right . Battleground states, maine, always a very close competitive state. The Green Party Candidate will be on the ballot. Ask Hillary Clinton about jill stein, michigan 2016. Thats not a pleasant conversation, right . So thats just the green party. Then you switch over one. Were watching very closely is Robert Kennedy jr. Now, were waiting for these to be certified, right . Hes on the ballot in utah. He says a super pac working with his Campaign Says you have enough signatures, no reason to doubt them. We just have to watch the state certify this in arizona, a Battleground Michigan battleground, georgia, a battlegrounds. So again, if you have a Green Party Candidate and Robert Kennedy jr. On the ballot, just like you had gary johnson and jill stein in 2016. Another one more possibility were keeping an eye on. Its been less effective so far, is cornell west who right . Now says hes on the ballot, south carolina, utah, oregon, and alaska. But again, how many thirdparty candidates, which states, how many ballots, how many states do they get Ballot Access in which states, if they are your michigans, youre was pennsylvania, georgia, nevada, your arizona, than they could make the difference. Whos the most worried about that though, because theres arguments by people on both sides, neither of them want them in the race. Trump has gone after rfk junior, but so has the white house. So who is it worse for . I guess. So let me come back to the national map and just say that who knows, right . That i think is a great question in the sense that you have an incumbent president so the green party just go back to 2016 and you come to the president ial election and you just come in here to michigan. Trump wins by 10,000 votes. You can say gary johnson, most pure libertarians, lean republican rights, Less Government get power out of washington. So maybe thats a republican vote oh, gary johnson had run before its an interesting, but just look at that number. 51,000 votes, right . 51,000 votes, 10,000 is the margin in the state. Donald trump wins by 10,000 in the state if you look at the math right now, youre the kennedy name. You say, oh, democrats, however, in my travels, you mean a lot of people who voted for trump in 2016 and some again in 2020, who are attracted to Robert Kennedy. Listen to joe rogan for example, things like that. Hes looking at Jesse Ventura and Aaron Rodgers as potential Running Mates according to the New York Times tonight, what does that tell you . Those arent democrats . Those arent democrats. So thats potentially, thats why you have to go statebystate. What State Ballots are they on . How competitive are those states . And then shoe leather reporting, polling, other data to find out who theyre drawing from. Yeah, well see all the jets feel about that. John King Anderson back to you, kaitlan. Thanks, got cnn political commentators of all stripes here with me, van jones, karen finney, Alyssa Farah Griffin and david urban. Van. And whats your reaction to President Biden clinching the nomination . Well, here we go. Here we go. I mean, its going to be a long one by the longest general elections in history. Usually, you have a little bit longer to get to get ready, but i think a lot of democrats were nervous, were concerned word despondent fearful. And then we saw red bull biden last week as like, oh, this guy can actually get out there and do some things. And so i think people now want to get out and find a way forward. But i do think that you got a lot of doublehaters is going to be a contest. Where are the doublehaters go . People who dont like biden, people who dont like trump are they going to go third party . Can we get him back on our side . Theres going to be a lot of tug of war over a very small number of votes and five or six states. But i think this week, Biden Clenching build a lot better than when it thought a couple of weeks ago, just in terms of the length is karen i mean, it the ugliness with which it was so much time lets just get like punch after punch after punch. You know, i will never forget when trump got in in 2016 saying that Campaign Headquarters and thinking is this the floor or the ceiling when hes talking about mexicans being rapists and murderers. And as weve seen, right, there was a penthouse phil, i mean, so yeah. Look, i think both well, i cant speak for donald trump, but i certainly think the Biden Campaign is mindful of that. And i think as you saw on the State Of The Union speech, very mindful that in addition to the attacks on trump, theyve got to continue to put forward a positive message and its interesting the statement that President Biden put out tonight, thats one of the clips thats a little bit of a summary from his State Of The Union message. Its one of the clips that have that some of the outside groups have been testing that did very well. It looks actually, he put out a statement on x, formerly twitter lets take a look. We will Record Number you ready ready to protect our freedom . Are you ready to win this election thats what in the statement your done. Yeah. When he talks about the future and defending democracy, i mean, again, i think thats the other dynamic were going to see in this campaign. Joe bidens going to try to take on trump, but also talk about the future and try to win over those voters that family was just talking about who are in the middle, who are tired of relitigating 2020. And who actually want to know what are you going to do . So thats going to be part of that effort. Couple of other things. Social security, medicare, not surprised that did very well in the testing. When he talked about this sort of economic populism that did very well. So those are just going to be some of the themes that you well here because theyre resonating with voters of all stripes. Its shingle was at how democrats seem a lot more optimistic since the state of the Union Address. And thats just been what, one week or so. We have so many weeks to go, like the emotional Roller Coaster that this isnt going to be fine already exhausted by the idea, the way like pouring one out for the 6. 10 americans myself included who didnt want this rematch. Here we are. It is going to be very long, eight months ahead. And yes biden got momentum out of the State Of The Union. I think he outperformed a lot of folks expectation, but maintaining that for the next eight months on the campaign trail, traveling across the country, thats exhausting. Ive been there for it. Hes going to have to do that to prove hes ready. Now, donald trump is in an advantageous position right now to chalians point, he would win if the election were today. But some huge vulnerabilities, the rnc has an absolute disaster. Hes behind in the money race. Joe biden is massively outraising him. And on top of that, youve got this nikki haley factor, these voters who just are not sure theyre ever going to be able to be with him. Bidens got plenty of vulnerabilities, but trump does as well. He isnt sold his daughterinlaw, though at the rnc. So that should clear who has a huge experienced, Fundraising Campaign building but campaigners, trumps defense, shes done shes done an ac