the blood alcohol content is much greater and pass point 0.08, it can be very significant, mercedes, colin, thank you so much for joining us tonight and thank you for watching news night. laura coates live starts right there good, evening, i'm, jim acosta, infowars coates on this tuesday night, we begin with breaking news and that's so-called maga civil war in virginia's fifth congressional district. >> congressman bob good. tonight, the head of the ultra conservative house freedom caucus is fighting for his political career results in the primary there show i'm neck and neck against his back challenger john maguire, the race at this point, you see it on your screen right now. it is too close to call. now a good loses, it will be a major win for donald trump. no doubt. but what if good pulls this one out? >> you saw those numbers a few moments ago, is close. >> what then after all, trump did try to put his finger on the scale in this race to try to exact revenge on good. the sin that good committed it was endorsing governor ron desantis in the primary against trump. good. try to make up for it by eventually endorsing trump. look at does he showed up even showed up at trump's criminal trial in manhattan that did not work good was also one of the eight republicans who voted to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. mccarthy has not gotten over that he too has spent time energy, and money to try and get revenge on good. and joining me now, former republican congressman from colorado can book congressman thanks so much for being with us what's your impression of watching these? results come in? you served alongside bob good in congress. and as a member of the house freedom caucus. this one tight. i mean, for trump getting involved in the race and getting behind the challenger in this race, it's pretty darn close. >> well, it's an impressive performance by bob. >> good frankly that bob has been outspent one by mcguire's side, not necessarily on the candidate himself, but kevin mccarthy's, but a lot of money in this other donors and put a lot of money in this the primary endorsement that i can they can happen this race. >> donald trump's endorsement was against bob, so to be as close as he is at this point is impressive. bob came out very strongly against funding ukraine. it's another issue that i think upset voters in his district and certainly donors in his district. so it's a close race. i don't think that donald trump wins this race even if his candidate wins, because it is so close to play, people didn't ignore all the other factors involved and just go with president trump's at nights yeah. and i wonder congressman, does this fit in with this phenomenon that we've seen in some of these republican primary races in the presidential contests, where you see nikki haley even though she's been out of the race for months, getting 20% of the vote i'm from the commonwealth of virginia. i trump is not that popular among republicans in virginia in certain parts of the state. sure but i kind of wonder if there's some of that going on. what do you think i think clearly donald trump is taking 80% of the primary vote, but the primary vote is a very small percentage of the overall vote for a general election. and even in this race that the primary vote in virginia was a fraction of what the vote is in this particular primary that we're looking at right now, the turnout as much better in this congressional primary. >> so i think that donald trump has some coattails and i think especially when you get to the more rural areas like bob good's district, you're looking at a higher percentage of people paying attention to president trump, but i don't think he carried the de in this particular race. >> yeah. >> and we saw a good supporting trump for years, even showed up to court for trump's trial in manhattan. but trump calls hello, i'm a backstabber for endorsing desantis i mean, what message do you take away from that? i guess you understand some of this all too well. >> i, think i do understand a lot of this. i'll tell you something donald trump should be focused on trying to unify the republican base going into the general election and not picking fights like this. this is a silly fight for him to try to exact revenge and make republicans and bob good's district mad, even if the bob good loses, their are still going to be republicans who remember this that are supporters of bob good, that will go into the general election and question whether they should vote for president trump or not. he should be out unifying and not dividing at this point. >> right? i mean, he's out on the campaign trail saying, i am your venture. i'm your vengeance, i am your retribution and he's even doing it inside the republican party congressman, you said people who continue to say the 2020 election was stolen are lying to america. maguire was at the january 6 rally bill, says that trump was robbed what do you think about all that and why is it that that election lies still lives on i have no idea why that law there's on other than the fact that donald trump can teach continues to perpetrate that lie. >> i think the key is to move on and focus on the next election and get past the last election. i don't think anybody is going to vote in 2024 based on what happened in 2020 if anything, people should both sides should have a higher turnout and should be more diligent in terms of poll-watching and making sure that everyone can agree that this election has great integrity. >> all right. republican congressman ken buck of colorado. thank you very much for your time tonight. we appreciate it thank you. all right. let's go out to cnn's meloni's unknown at bob good's primary headquarters melanie, i mean, we were just talking about this with the congressman moments ago for donald trump to get involved in this race and endorse the challenger to bob good. bob good is holding his own tonight and he may squeak this out. what, what's going on? >> yeah, it's really neck and neck right now. and in fact, i'm standing here outside the watch party here in lynchburg and they are wrapping up for the night and sending people home because the race has been too close to call. and bob good. just put out a tweet and he said the entire dc swamp was aligned against us with over 10 million in attack ads, but with your help, we were able to make this race too close to call and i think it is worth reflecting here on just how much national attention this race has gotten. normally, this would be a relative at least sleep erase. we probably wouldn't pay that much attention to it, but donald trump got involved and that's why so many people are paying attention as a reminder, bob, good did endorse ron desantis initially over donald trump. he did eventually thorough support behind donald trump after ron desantis got out of the race. but trump really never forgave him for that. and so he was actively campaigning for john maguire. he was railing against bob good on social media. he did a tele town hall last night for john maguire. he even told the bob good campaign stop using signs that had donald trump's name on them. although we should point out, we saw some of those signs earlier tonight inside and then in terms of other enemies that bob good has made inside the gop up kevin mccarthy is another one. bob good was one of those eight house republicans who voted to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker. so kevin mccarthy and his allies have also been going after bob good's. so really the aws seemingly have been stacked against bob good leading up to this moment, he was outspent by his opponent. this has become the most expensive house republican primary, primary race in the country. there's been a ton of outside spending from other groups, so we'll see in the end where this ends up. he couldn't still hold on again, the race has not been called yet. it's really neck and neck here, but in the end, we're going to see this as a test of natalee trump's influence in the gop, but also a test of the strength of kevin mccarthy's revenge tour yeah, that revenge tour is that some prep sets? >> there's no question about it. and melanie, i mean, this might be within the the margin where they have to have a recount in this district. so we may not know about this for some time, but congressman matt gaetz, who has been involved in some of this too, he's called this the most important primary very in the country. what's at stake for the freedom caucus if good loses this would be a huge defeat for the house freedom caucus. >> bob good is the chairman. they've never seen in their history as a group. >> one their own chairman go down in a primary, sophie, if he does lose its going to have roberta reverberations inside the gop and warren davidson, we should point out he is a member of the freedom caucus. he's actually endorsed against bob good's. so not even the freedom caucus has been totally aligns when it comes to bob good and it just shows how complicated and deep the division students are inside the gop. it's been interesting to see these sort of odd bedfellows come together united against bob. good, we had some members who are from the so-called main street caucus. we had chairman you had marjorie taylor greene, donald trump, kevin mccarthy, all of these different forces, combining to dry, to defeat him. but it just too soon to tell whether they've actually associated are not jim. >> yeah. i mean, i love that part of virginia as a great party part of the state, but i mean, they're really fighting over it. it's something else, sorry, meloni's and dona. thanks very much. we do have a live shot. we want to share right now. i'm john mcguire's headquarters. they haven't taken things down yet. >> you can see there's a sign on the podium that says john maguire, trump, and doors. >> so let's discuss some of us joining me now, republican strategist. sure. michael singleton and democrat radek strategist. chuck roger should michael, you like all this in fighting is this is this good, does this bode well for the upcoming november elections? me like i think you've got to figure these things out. >> jim, foreign president could be a little temperamental at times, i think bob good is finding that out the hard way. you don't say it was interesting to me. i wonder why did he actually endorse desantis? i thought that was really, really the odd when he did it at the time, i had always been of the mindset that donald trump was always likely going to be the presumptive nominee. so that was a a risky take my position, but also, i think from mccarthy's position, a good as sort of not been, i guess, a good, faithful member of the republican conference. he ousted mccarthy in many ways. he is caused are left at some republicans would argue for the conference to lose some seats because of the constant and perpetual infighting when the party wants to keep those season potentially expand them in november. so if he were to lose those tonight, i don't think it would necessarily be bad. >> yeah. the chuck, you'd like this. i'm sure you also like eugene wimmen. we should note who's been on this program launched in on-scene at a bunch he's won his democratic primary and that congressional district hoping to replace abigail spanberger was running for governor of virginia. lot of interesting reason. there's three big races there tonight good race is something for democrats they spent $15 million fight with each other. that's $15 million. they could be used against democrats. so as a democratic strategist who's working on 20 congressional races, if they want a lot their money on fire and fight each other how long that's fine with me and share mike, i do want to ask you at a rally in wisconsin earlier today, trump tried to clean up some of his comments that he made about milwaukee last week when sources say he called the host city for the rnc, quote, horrible, here's what trump said today. >> let's listen to that i love the lucky i was the one that picked milwaukee. i have to i was the one that picked at these zion people that they he doesn't like ball luck at love, milwaukee. i said, you got to fix the crime. we all know that you've got to make sure the elections on us. but i'm the one that picked the lucky he said it all clean up on. i'll six i guess. this is according to the new york times. new york times reporting trouble. now stay in milwaukee for the convention. after initially planning to stay in chicago, trump appearance currently was going to stay in chicago during the convention. >> i mean, these are these are not positive things for winning a swing state. >> well as johnson, they remember in places like wisconsin, it's good to clean up earlier versus later, jim, what's constant is a very important state. it's a state that the former president lost by 22,000 votes. it's going to be, i would argue a key state in order for him to potential italy return to the white house. i mean, i think the campaign has to have a battleground state strategy. you're looking at georgia, arizona, and nevada wisconsin, and maybe you want to play hard and pennsylvania potentially michigan, but you cannot win if you're trump without winning potentially wisconsin. so i'm glad he's staying there. i think he's recognizing that i need to do a little clean up and make this up for the potential voters a little bit. >> yeah. >> and today, chuck, i do want to talk about this. trump was encouraging supporters to vote early by mail or vote early in general. that's a complete reversal from the past. i covered them at the white house when he was trashing early voting and vote-by-mail accusing democrats of harvesting and so on. let's listen to trump now she said, once you get rid of the balle and voted mail-in voting is largely corrupt. >> if you are in mail-in voting, you automatically have fraud have you have well, there's mail-in voting and florida one here if you have it, you're going to have now he's saying he wants us if orders to do it i mean, what do you think he needs it to win and that's what they've all realized and he's got some adults running this. you're going look, we can't have any more of this stuff if you want to win states where there's a big mail-in ballot like arizona and nevada, and all of these states that he has to have in georgia mail-in is a big part of it. there's a lot of senior citizens that he is counting on that vote by mail that are permanent absentee voters is what we say. and that's like money in the bank to us could political consultants because they vote every election reelection that's controlling for favor. do we have time to run the lindsey graham sound from earlier tonight on fox news. i want to play this because this is some of the mental gymnastics that we're beginning to see. about trump's conviction, his felony conviction being called a convicted felon? now, listen, lindsey graham earlier on fox to take a listen so the next time you hear the word felon in this election i think the felon in this election is joe biden. >> what he's doing to the country is criminal felon in this. election as joe biden, the polls are coming back now, polls that are had time to late is no late right now. so i'm just is it the sleep deprivation is only 11 reported? days, only two bits milk and cookies time for me, but i'm just what you're starting to see really have an effect that's why they're trying to do all of this jiu-jitsu to dry to say what eight that bad, don't look over here, look over there like they always do because the numbers don't lie in the lumbar are starting to move. and it started moving up the phone. they convictions. and they're upset over their own out that's a bruce lee enter the number eigenstate numbers are moving is still early. i still think that there are several issues that president biden is still struggling on. he still struggling to shore up his based on granite were five months ahead and do that. i think the party needs to continue to make the case. jim, about why the american people aren't satisfied after the past four years. >> but to have lindsey graham say joe biden is the felon, i think the felon in this election is by that is that jim look, if if you're asking me as a strategy if that is what i would advise a message to bizarro, i can assure you that would not be the message that i would advise. again, i think the message that i would advise tough though that's i think the main issue is that this is i don't know if we've fully absorbed or that the public is fully absorbed or body politic that our system has fully absorbed. one of the candidates is a convicted felon and it's just gonna be one of the gym i don't think the party should focus on what we just saw in that clip. what senator graham, i think the message to the american people should be, are you satisfied over? the past four years economically, are you satisfied about the state of immigration? are you satisfied about the potential foreign conflicts to in the future potential trump aggressions from russia, aggressions from china. i think the answer for the average american voter is no. that should be what republicans joe biden is running $50,000,000 at ten, everybody, he's a felon because it works. yeah. >> that's why he's doing it. yeah. are you doing if it didn't work? >> well, yeah, it works because it does enable democrats hi to focus on the issues that i just mentioned. >> all right, guys, it's late. i'll let you go home. thanks a lot. bridge. i thought it was laid in that because of the sleep deprivation i i listened to that somebody thought surely that's not what he said, but that's what he said. okay. guys. thanks. for me, j. and we're going to of course, keep you updated on what's happening in virginia, right now, that fifth congressional district tight as a tick we're going to keep our eyes on that and bring that to you if if anything breaks on that, more breaking news just had baseball legend, hall of famer willie mays just a legend in this in the sport. he has passed away at the age of 93 bob costas is here to react to the life and legacy of the say, hey kid, we'll be right back the assignments are. >> going off. >> the tornado here you cannot now, you, cannot outrun it. it really is a terrifying experience. >> it is the stuff of nightmares you could hear and feel it my eyes and my throat or burning i'm thinking i'm going to die and i thought that was it i would urge with liev schreiber sunday at nine on cnn liberty mutual customize my car insurance and i saved hundreds with all the money i saved thought i'd by still so many oh, look, no line at the hotdog stand only pay for what you need. i mentioned in the last room for hundred and 90 bucks. i put the last from a week ago. >> i talked yesterday, some sites panic, you into booking there the last room. >> instead, trivago compares hotel prices from hundreds of sites. so you can save up to $50 a night hotel trivago whether you're moving across town or across the country? 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