It is looking like a biden trump rematch. Steve kornacki is here with the latest on tuesdays primary results. Plus, the heated moments on capitol hill. Both republicans and democrats grilling Special Counsel hur over his report on President Biden. None, is the Clock Ticking on tiktok . The bipartisan effort in the house to block the app. Whats at stake in this bill, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle, live from new york city. And we are now 238 days away from the election, and it is a very, very big night for the candidates. With tonights primary results, nbc news is now officially projecting that President Joe Biden has won enough delegates to be officially named the democrats presumptive president ial nominee. And donald trump at this point is very close to doing the same with the republican nomination, but nbc news projects it is too early to call that one. With that, you know where we are headed, right to the big board, where Steve Kornacki is standing by. Steve, what can you tell us . Yeah, stephanie, we are waiting, because any minute now, we expect to start getting results from the state where polls have now it just closed, that is Washington State. You see the characterization of this republican contest, hear him ever, nikki haley dropped out, her name remains on the ballot. And one of the things in washington, we saw this earlier tonight in georgia, remember, this is extensive mail in voting, almost universal mail in voting in Washington State. In georgia, there was heavy early voting, some mailin voting as well. A lot of those ballots were cast before nikki haley dropped out of the race last week. So her names on the ballot. And frankly, a lot of people participated in this primary probably thinking if you still want to be a candidate on march 12th, or might be. So keep that in mind when we see numbers. We do expect her to get some votes. But we also expect donald trump to get the clear majority here, as he has in every other contest, as he did on Super Tuesday in every other state, except vermont. All he needs from Washington State or 30 actually, its even less now, we just got through a minute, let me show you exactly where we stand, he needs three more, just attitude trumps totals, hes now at 1000 1188, sweeping all of the delegates from georgia tonight, all the delegates from mississippi. Thats brought him to 1188. So now, hes only 27 delegates away from the 1250 needed to win the republican nomination. Again, 43 at stake here in Washington State, 27 against trump there. And it was heavy mail in voting, as i say. So a lot of, times you will get pretty big batches of votes reported out throughout the state, pretty early after poll closings. What we saw in georgia and mississippi is trump winning so overwhelmingly here it does not take many of those badges to get the race called, to get the delegates allocated. So assuming that is what happens here, fairly shortly trump should get those 27 delegates, should hit that 1215 mark. And then what we will see is what we already have for joe biden, which is a declaration will appear on your screen that donald trump is the Presumptive Republican nominee, and youll see a check mark next to his name. What does that mean . Of course, both parties officially nominate their candidates and their conventions. That will take place this summer. They will have a roll call of the states. They will formally become the nominees then. But we are talking about pledged delegates here, this is both in the republican race and the democratic race, delegates who are bound at that convention to vote based on their allocation in these primaries. So donald trump well have more than that number. That is what the 1215 means, locked in pledged delegates, bound to vote for him at the convention. Thats what hes closing in on. Were gonna check back in on, Washington City have any initial reports, theyre just waiting on that, show you quickly what happened earlier tonight, as i mentioned in mississippi, 40 delegates up for grabs their. Almost all the votes are counted. Haleys name remained on the ballot, trump over 90 , gets all 40 of those delegates. Go over to georgia, 59 delegates at stake on the republican side, more than 90 in. Trump gets them. You do see haley again getting double digits here, 13 , again, remember a lot of these votes were cast before she dropped out of the race. But we are seeing in georgia what weve seen in other states through this primary process, the haley vote has been the strongest, relatively speaking, the trump vote has been the weakest relatively speaking in the big suburban areas, in and around in the city of atlanta, but outside the city of atlanta, the metropolitan areas, those are trumps weakest counties relatively speaking tonight. Weve been asking questions about the primary season. Weve known since 2016 that trump struggles in the suburbs, that trump can lose General Elections because of the suburbs. Does this reflect any new weakness . Or does this reflect weakness that we already knew was there . Its frankly a subjective question. And its an important answer. But we wont know the answer until november. But obviously a storyline, the suburbs and trump, the major storyline in this election. So again, just checking back here on washington. Still dont have our first votes there. And to show you on the democratic side, as you mentioned, stephanie, joe biden easily clearing his parties threshold tonight. It took just georgia for biden to do that. Polls close there just after 7 00 eastern time. Almost all the vote tallied now. No surprise here, Biden Running in the mid 90s, 95 statewide. So he got all 100 delegates early in the night in georgia. And i did, as you say, give him the track mark, make him the presumptive nominee in the democratic party. He also in mississippi was the only name on the ballot tonight. Still telling some of the votes there, but thats the result you get, only name on the ballot. And again on the democratic side, they are also having a primary in washington, also waiting on the results for that. One other contest on the republican side that is going to take place later tonight would be these caucuses in hawaii, 19 delegates there as well. So that is one more opportunity for trump to collect delegates tonight. But we do suspect, and here we, go votes coming and now in washington, as i said. Okay, weve got 23,000 votes in statewide here. And heres trump running at 83 , nikki haley at 13 . In terms of the allegation of delegates, if you get a simple majority statewide, this 50 plus one, you get 13 delegates off the bat statewide. The other delegates are given out by Congressional District. There are ten Congressional Districts in Washington State. Each one is assigned three delegates, thats a total of 30 delegates that are given at the Congressional District level. If you get a simple majority in a Congressional District, you get all three. So theres 30 delegates that will be awarded at the Congressional District level, 13 at the statewide level. You can see trump already, 7 of the vote is now counted statewide, and theres oh, and here it comes. I think theyre getting it, stephanie. You got it, steve. Nbc news is now officially projecting that donald trump has won enough delegates to be named the republicans presumptive nominee. You are right, steve. He got the numbers. Yeah, again, look how fast it starts to come in. This is a state, washington, where its basically done all by mail. So they were able to get so many these ballots. They had 1. 4 million between both parties primaries that had come in prior to today. So they are able to get those all processed and ready to be counted, they can release a big batch of votes, a big number of votes early enough. As we say, trump easily here passed that 50 threshold statewide. So right there he gets a big bunch of delegates and Congressional District as well. Again, he only needed 27 here to hit that number. Right now, hes gotten 31 of the 43 by our decision desk projection. So that makes donald trump the presumptive nominee on the public inside. Each party now has a candidate who has reached the threshold, cross the threshold of pledged, committed delegates to the convention to ensure a first ballot nomination. The question we had earlier in the days is this the earliest that thats ever happened . Because a lot of folks have been looking at the biden trump rematch and saying this feels like it is going to be the longest General Election and campaign ever. We asked mathematically, is it the longest general Election Campaign with ever . And heres the interesting thing, if we use this as the metric, the date by which both parties candidates hit this threshold for talking about tonight, this delegate threshold, in the year 2000, and in the year 2004, that occurred with 239 days to go before the General Election. So those were coming in today, they were tied for the record by this metric Of Longest General Election ever. That was Bush Versus Gore in 2000, Bush Versus Kerry in 2004. Its just an hour before midnight on the east coast. So it is still march 12th by our calendar here. And between now and election day, there are 240 days. So we have just set a record by one calendar day, stephanie. This is the earliest that both parties have had their candidates across that threshold , and at least by this mathematical threshold, this will be the longest general Election Campaign of the modern era. But i know when you say, that its also a subjective feeling for a lot of people. And they may feel its more than a day longer than all the others. Just what everyone was hoping for, steve, the longest official election season ever, joe biden versus donald trump. Steve, thank you so much. I want to bring in our lead off panel tonight, much to discuss. Michael memoli of course joins us, nbc News White House correspondent. He has covered President Biden, his family, and his inner circle of advisers for over a decade. Katie benner is here, pulitzer prizewinning reporter for the New York Times. And glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, msnbc legal analyst and Chief Law Explainer for the 11th hour. Mr. Mentally, you know im going to you first. President biden has secured the nomination. His campaign is now fully moving into General Election mode. What is the game plan . Well, steph, its really remarkable, these two men, donald trump and President Joe Biden, have really been circling one another for the better part of the last year. This is the General Election that both campaigns had expected, maybe not a majority of americans expected, and frankly, not that the majority of americans wanted. But its what we are going to be seen for the next year. And i find it very interesting, steph, what is on the president s schedule tomorrow. He is gonna be heading to wisconsin. Hes got a mix of campaign and official stops. What do we know as donald trump is now the presumptive nominee . Whats gonna be happening later in wisconsin the summer . Its a republican convention. President biden will be in the state where donald trump will accept that nomination, as we now move into this General Election phase of the campaign. And the president has really upped his game. Hes really stepped into a new gear, starting with that state of the Union Address last week. Hes ramped up his travel schedule,s campaign has ramped up its ad spending. And you are going to see them at a full court press, not just the president , the Vice President , the cabinet, a whole army of surrogates go there to make the case to the country for four more years for President Biden, but really, this is a Campaign Running on two pillars, about continuing the economic progress the president thinks he has helped lead over the last four years by preserving and protecting our democracy for the perceived future as well. He came out swinging at the State Of The Union and he has been punching ever since. Now lets turn to the other big political story in d. C. Today. The capitol hill testimony of former Special Counsel robert hur. I want to share a bit from my colleague Gabe Gutierrez on todays hearing. Reporter tonight, the firestorm over President Bidens handling of classified documents is reigniting. You exonerated to . Him no i did, not exonerate. Mr. Hur, its my. Time reporter Special Counsel robert hur, a former trump appointed u. S. Attorney, testified about as a report recommending new charges. We identified it evidence that the president willfully retain classified materials after his vice presidency. We did not however identify evidence that rose to the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Reporter hur defended, including damaging details, about President Bidens mental acuity, including that the 81 yearold president had diminished faculties and represent himself to the jury as an elderly man with a poor memory. I did not sanitize my explanation, nor did i disparage the president unfairly. Reporter but hur was grilled by both republicans joe biden broke the law. But because he is a forgetful old man who appears sympathetic to a jury, mr. Hur chose not to bring charges. Reporter and democrats. You chose a general pejorative reference to the president. You understood when you made that decision, didnt you, mister hur, that you would ignite a political firestorm in that language, didnt you . Congressman, politics played no part whatsoever in my investigative steps. Reporter hur road President Biden cannot remember when he was Vice President or even the year his son beau died. The president said he was outraged hur asked him about his son. Frankly, when i was asked a question, i thought to myself, its none of their darn business. Reporter but the transcript hur ofs this interview, released today, confirmed it was the president self and brought up the president s son, as nbc news previous report. The president asked what month about, i, agada, and others responded 2015. The president then asked, was it 2015 he died . Why did the president say it was robert hur who brought up his sons death on the transcript says otherwise . The transcript clearly shows the president was being asked by the Special Counsel about the book that he wrote about his sons unfortunate and untimely passing. Reporter classified documents were found at President Bidens old offices, his delaware home, in his garage. Over returned. Glenn, it seems like the democrats heard what they wanted to hear, and the republicans heard what they wanted to hear. Did anyone actually learn anything today that changed their Point Of View . You know, steph, i would say not anything of substance. But the real beef i have with what Special Counsel hur decided to include in his report is once we know that it was his assessment, there was insufficient evidence to bring a criminal charge, why in the world do you go on to assess how somebody who will not be charged with a crime might appear to a jury . Guess what, hes never going to be sitting in front of the jury. So i dont know why he had a gratuitously say, well, i think a jury might view him as old and forgetful, but wait a minute, theres insufficient evidence to charge. Hes never going to appear before a jury. That to me, steph, felt like hur was engaged in a little clear at them and smear them. Thats at least the way it came off. Well, glenn, that sort of like a how can these two things be true, that robert hur says joe biden has a photographic memory, and at the same time, hes memory impaired so much that he be sympathetic to a jury . How do those two things square . Well, i dont think they do square. As some of the questioning was pretty pointed about how. Hur had to acknowledge that in the transcript, he used the word photographic memory. And yet, somehow that was absent from his report. What was in his report is how a jury might assess joe biden after he concluded joe biden would never be sitting in front of a jury. Thats the piece that felt really unfair to me. Mike, when Donald Trumps investigated, he fundraise off of it, he makes it central to his campaign, the government is out to get me. How is President Biden approaching his issue, the issue of the Special Counsel, for him . Well, this is been a difficult issue, obviously. Think back just a month ago and Special Counsel hur released his report, which was a bombshell, really adding to the anxieties that so Many Democrats had felt about whether President Biden was up for this redirection praise. Hurs assessment that