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Today as voters go to the polls for the runoff in georgias sixth Congressional District where jon ossoff and karen handel are neck and neck. Handel has a slight advantage in the final real clear politics polling average. 49 to 48 . 48. 8 i should say for ossoff. This is in a district where tom price won with 61 last november. A margen of 23 points. But where President Trump won with roughly 48 and by a margin of about 1. 5 points. Now, the race has broken fundraising barriers with ossoff pulling in more than 23 million and handel personally raising over 4. 5 million. Most of that with outside ...

That is seven months before the chief of staff makes this -- or removes ron porter. the next follow-up is in november. that is three months. so it is not like 15 days, 30 days. i can see confusion over a short period of time. but i don't care what was said today. two questions you need to ask. when the fbi did the background investigation, did it include the information in july or in november about physical abuse of a former spouse. question one. that is a yes or no. i don't care what the story is. yes or no. question, two, yes or no. if that information was included in the file in july or nov...

Jared kushner security being downgraded. this official saying we have had enough. let's go home and kelly wanted to rehash the saga. and again, leaves this question out there, why did john kelly not handle this the way you would normally expect the chief of staff to handle this. >> yeah, jim acosta appreciate that. joining me now is david martosco. >> well, it felt to me to go to sarah and raj. i gave them a very complete read

General was willing to sweep things under the rug because he needed porter. if general kelly says now he didn't know about the physical abuse, that doesn't make sense. >> right, and your last point gets to the question, if dailymail.com hadn't do this reporting would the actions had been taken that were taken? unlikely. we don't know the answer to that. >> hard to know. by the next day they were still supporting him from the podium and it took general kelly i think 14 hours after we ran the story with ms. holderness's gruesome black eye photo. >> david, stay with us. i want to continue the con...

Joe." white house press secretary sean spicer reportedly is leading a search for his replacement as part of a bigger plan to shake up the white house communication office. spicer and reince priebus have reached out to laura ingram and david martosco. spicer would move into a more senior role. the talks are still preliminary. politico noted that president trump has yet to approve any plans for that communications overhaul. spi when questioned spice why it wot