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Interview and said you've got to pick who you're going to hire and be grateful to have that trust. now we have to live that trust out and keep it. >> oklahoma congressman james lankford cleared the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. he's the republican nominee in the race to fill the rest of senator tom coburn's term. lankford's win was a defeat of sorts for sarah palin, ted cruz and the other conservative populist crowd who decided to parachute into oklahoma and campaign for t.w. shannon and who never really explained why they picked shannon over lankford. both are conservative rising st...

Years later, pollution was still a problem. >> the chesapeake bay is fighting for survival. more than 100 major companies and sewage systems dump their waste into the scenic waters. runoff from surrounding farm fields feeds still more chemicals into the bay. >> last week the governors of maryland, pennsylvania, virginia and delaware all signed a new bay restoration agreement. it's the fourth pact that's been signed in 31 years and now the federal effort to clean up the bay is under fire. 39 lawmakers and 21 attorneys general are asking a federal court to block the epa's plan to clean up the ch...

Nominees, travis childers on what is now an uphill fight against cochran. and republican james lankford and how he ended up crushing what turned out to be a mini tea party push in oklahoma. also this morning an nbc news exclusive with former president bill clinton as he tries to beat back the wealth of criticism that has been facing his better half on her book tour. good morning from washington, it's wednesday, june 25th, 2014. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. isn in a reminder that campaigns still matter, six-term senator thad cochran beat back a challenge from state sena...

>> before this race ends, we have to be absolutely certain that the republican primary was won by republican voters. there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary that's decided by liberal democrats. >> you can tell mcdaniel is not ready to concede. according to our friends at smart politics, cochran's win marks only the third time that a second place mississippi u.s. senate primary finisher came back to win the runoff. the last time was 80 years ago, an incumbent in second and then winning, unbelievable. at this hour mcdaniel still refuses to concede, as you heard. more on the m...

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