Tonight, the battle for the white house is all but set. And 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 Council Hur over his report on President Biden. Then, 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 230 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 President Trump at this point is very close will 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. To the big board where Steve Kornacki is standing by. What can you tell us . Reporter any minute now, we expect to start getting results from the state where polls have now just closed. That is Washington State. You see the characterization of this republican contest here. Nikki haley dropped out. Her name remains on the ballot. And one of the things in washington, remember, this is extensive mailin voting. Almost universal mailin voting in Washington State. And in georgia, there was heavier mail in voting. Some of those were cast before nikki haley dropped out of the race last week. So her name is on the ballot and a lot of people participated in this primary probably still thinking she would be a candidate on march 12th so keep that in mind. We expect her to get some votes but we also expect donald trump to get the clear majority as he has in ever other contest. As he did on super tuesday. All he needs from Washington State are 30. It is even less now. Let me show you where we stand. Three more were added to trumps totals. He has now swept all of the delegates from georgia tonight. All of delegates to mississippi. Now actually he is only 27 delegates away from the 1215 needed to win the republican nomination. And again, 43 at stake here in Washington State. 27 gets trump there. You will get a lot of batches. What we saw in georgia and mississippi is trump winning so overwhelmingly here, it doesnt take many of those batches to get the race called. So, assuming that is what happens here, fairly shortly, should hit that 1215 mark and what you will see is what we already have for joe biden. Aened that is the declaration will appear on your screen that donald trump is the Presumptive Republican nominee. We will see a check mark next to his name. Both parties officially nominate their candidates at their conventions. That will take place this summer. They will have a roll call of the state. We are talking about pledged delegates in the republican race and in the democratic race. Delegates who are bound at that convention to vote based on their allocation in these primaries. So donald trump will have more than that number. Locked in. Pledged delegates. Bound to vote for him at the convention. That is what he is closing in on. We will wait on that and show you what happened earlier tonight. In mississippi, trump over 90 gets all 40 of the delegates. To georgia, 59 delegates at stake. More than 90 and trump gets them all. You see haley getting double digits here. 13 again, remember. A lot of these votes were cast before she dropped out of the race. We are seeing in georgia what we have seen in other states throughout the primary process. The haley vote has been the strongest and the trump vote has been the weakest in the big suburban areas in the city of atlanta. But outside the city of atlanta. Those are trumps weakest counties relatively speaking tonight. We have been asking the question throughout the primary season. We have known since 2016 trump struggles in the suburbs. That trump can lose General Elections because of the suburbs, this reflect any new weakness or the weakness we knew was there . We wont know the answer until november but it is a story line. Just checking back in on washington, we dont have our first votes there. Joe biden clearing his partys threshold. It took georgia for biden to do that. Almost all the vote tallied now. 95 statewide. That did as we say, give him the check mark and make him the presumptive nominee of the democratic party. He was in mississippi the only name on the ballot. That is the result you get when you are the only name on the ballot. On the democratic side, they are also having a primary in washington. On the republican side that will take place later tonight will be the caucuses in hawaii. 19 delegates there as well. Here we go. Votes coming in now in washington. Okay. We have 23,000 votes in. Statewide here. And here is trump running at 83 . Nikki haley at 13 . In terms of the allocation of delegates, if you get a simple majority statewide, you get 13 delegates off the bat statewide. The other delegates are given out by congressional district. Each district is assigned three delegates. If you get a simple majority, you get all three. So theres 30 delegates, 13 at the statewide level. You can see trump, there is, oh, here it comes. I think you are 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 were right, steve. He got the numbers. Yeah, look how fast it starts to come in. This is the state of washington where it is done all by mail. They had 1. 4 million between both parties primaries that came in prior to today. So they can get those processed and counted. Trump easily passed that 50 threshold statewide. And so, right there, he gets a big bunch of delegates. Congressional districts as well. Again, he only needed 27 here to hit that number. Right now, he has gotten 31 of the 43 by our decision best. That makes donald trump the presumptive nominee. Each party now has a candidate who has reached the threshold. Crossed the threshold of pledged committed delegates to the convention to ensure a first ballot nomination. The question we had earlier in the day, was this the earliest that has ever happened . A lot of folks have been looking at the biden trump rematch and says this feels like it will be the longest general Election Campaign ever. Is it . Here is the interesting thing about that. The date by which both parties, candidates, hit this threshold, we are 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. Those were coming into today tied for the record by this metric Of Longest General Election ever. That was bush, gore in 2000. Bush kerry in 2004. Well, it is 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 set a record by one calendar day. This is the earliest both candidates have crossed the threshold. And this will be the longest general Election Campaign of the modern era. I know when you say that, it is a subjective feeling for a lot of people and they may feel it is 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 Leadoff Panel tonight. Much to discuss. Mike joins us. He has covered President Biden. His family and his inner circle of advisers for over a decade. Katie is here. And glenn. Former federal prosecutor. Chief law explainer for The 11th Hour. President biden has secured the nomination. His campaign is now fully moving into General Election mode. Whats the game plan . It is remarkable. These two men, donald trump, President Joe Biden have been circling one another for the better part of the last year. This is the General Election both campaigns had expected. Maybe not the majority of americans expected. And frankly, not that the majority of americans wanted. But it is what we will see the next year and i find it very interesting what is on the president s schedule tomorrow. He will be headed to wisconsin. He has a mix of official and campaign stops. What do we know as he is now the presumptive nominee . President biden will be in the state and the president has really upped his game. He has stepped into a new year starting with that state of the Union Address last week. He ramped up his travel schedule. His campaign has ramped up its ad spending and you are going to see them with the full court press, the president , the Vice President , 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 that the president thinks he has helped lead over the last four years but preserving and protecting our democracy for the foreseeable 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 dc today. The capitol hill testimony of former special Council Robert hur. I want to share a bit from gabe gutierrez. Reporter Tonight The Fire Storm over President Bidens handling of classified documents is reigniting. Reporter robert hur, a former trump appointed u. S. Attorney testifying about his report. Recommending no charges. We identify evidence that the president willfully retained classified materials. 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 would present himself to the jury as an elderly man with a poor memory. I did not sanitize my explanation or disparage the president unfairly. Reporter but hur was grilled by republicans. Joe biden broke the law. Because he is a forgettable old man who would appear 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 that you would ignite a political fire storm . Politics played no part whatsoever in my investigative steps. Reporter he said the president could not remember the year his son beau died. But the transcript released it was the president himself who brought up his sons death as nbc news previously reported. The president asked what month did beau die . Oh god, may 30th. Others respond, 2015. Then the president asks was it 2015 he died . Why did he say it was robert hur who brought up his death . It shows he was being asked by the Special Council about the book he wrote about his sons untimely passing. Reporter classify documents were found in his home and all were returned. The democrats heard what they want today hear and the republicans heard what they wanted to hear. Did anyone actually learn anything 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 Council 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 onto assess how somebody who will not be charged with a crime might appear to a jury. Guess what, he is never going to be siting in front of the jury. So i dont know why he had to gratuitously say i think a jury would think of him as old and forgettable. But there is insufficient evidence and he would never appear before a jury, that to me, steph, felt like hur was engaged in a little clear them and smear them. Thats the way it came off. Well, glen, that is sort of like how can these two things be true . That robert hur says joe biden has a photographic memory and at the same time, his memory is impaired so much that he would be sympathetic to a jury . How do those things square . I dont think they do square and the questioning was pointed about how. Hur had to acknowledge he used the word photographic memory. And 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 siting in front of a jury. Mike, when donald trump was investigated, he fund raises 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 Council for him . Well this has been a difficult issue obviously. Think back just a month ago when special counsel hur released his report. A bomb shell that added to the anxiety of whether President Trump was up for this reelection race. That the president was an elderly man with a poor memory. I was able to read the full transcript of the interview the Special Council based that assessment on. It was released publicly before the Special Council met today. And it led to the democrats on the panel and the white house certainly amplifying. The idea that the full picture revealed in that interview in october was much different in their view than what the Special Council had conveyed. This is not something they will lean into, that they will campaign on, they feel like this was a moment perhaps to try to move beyond this. To put this beyond them. There will be republicans certainly made it clear today. They are not done with this investigation. They will try to continue to do what they can. To continue to frankly smear President Biden. To use the investigation to launch political attacks on him. But the president will be trying to keep his focus on the core issues in this election. The economy, and democracy itself. Glen, lets talk about depositions in general. Republicans keep bashing President Biden for saying he couldnt recall this or that in his interviews but dont lawyers across the board encourage clients who are being deposed to say i dont know, i dont recall so they can wrap things up . Its a fine line. And a lawyer should never council his client to feign a lack of memory. But i do think the safer course is and you tell your client, i told witnesses this as a prosecutor. Dont try to fill in gaps in your memory. If the truthful answer is i dont recall, you are obliged to give the truthful answer i dont recall. I always told witnesses listen, i dont recall. I dont know. Im not familiar with those facts. Those are appropriate answer as long as they are truthful but dont pretend like you dont remember something that Everybody Knows you remember. Katie, this hearing was obviously not an official part of the republicans biden i impeachment inquiry, but they were looking for anything they could use. I dont think either side found anything of substance. There are many times when hur just didnt reply or didnt speak. It was an opportunity for politicians to get clips of themselves. Being for their constituents. Pro or anti biden. The republicans did score some wins when Congressman Jiapal said this exonerates President Biden. This will be a clip that plays all throughout the election season. And the democrats came back with their own hits. They kept saying over and over again, reading from hurs report, this is what makes President Trumps behavior as alleged in the indictment serious. They could use that as a clip, President Biden had not been as bad as President Trump. So, everybody was out getting their campaign material. I would say the republicans, they did get possibly things that will be more effective with their base. Katie, former doj official Jack Goldsmith wrote in your paper that Special Councils are supposed to conduct sensitive investigation thats are and appear to be fair and apolitical but they have failed at that goal and should no longer exist. You covered the doj. What do you think . So i thought this was really a fascinating op ed and it is something that merrick garland, the attorney general, he sort of touched upon in a different way when he became the ag. He never said special counsels shouldnt exist but the Justice Department, the men and women of the Justice Department should be able to handle the trickiest cases because the American Public should have faith in the rule of law. And in the professional behavior of our law enforcement. What Jack Goldsmith is arguing is the idea of a Special Council was supposed to preserve that. Create a little critical distance. With an almost third party with takeover. Clearly if yo