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>> plus, a florida federal judge has thrown a wrench into the doj's investigation of the documents, many of them classified, seized from the former president's home at mar-a-lago. granting trump's request for a so-called special master to review the evidence. this temporarily prevents the justice dedepartment's investigative team from accessing thousands of documents taken from mar-a-lago. we'll have more on that in a moment. first, drew griffin joins us with the details of this newly obtained video from georgia county. we should note, taken the same day a voting machine was breached...

140 kids staying home. ed lavendera, thanks so much. still ahead, this hour, today republicans hope to choose a candidate who can keep the governor's mansion in massachusetts. republican but a unique challenge in a state that leans heavily democratic. in everything but the governor's office. we'll have more on the race coming up. mom: hey! cheap flight alert! daughter: hawaii! can we go? dad: maybe. i'll put a request in monday. sfx: shattering glass. theme song: unnecessary action hero!

Governor baker, but the republican party here has made it harder and harder for the sort of republican that i think governor baker is, and that we used to describe as new england republicans. meaning folks who are fairly restrained fiscally but, you know, not so invasive in terms of -- intrusive in terms of personal issues and so-called social issues. >> with that dynamic in mind, we'll see what the results are, but diehl, who is the trump endorsed candidate in this primary, if he wins, is he a weaker candidate for republicans in the general in the fall? >> well, it's hard for me to know. you ...

Down, massachusetts voters head to the polls today. the most high profeel race there, the republican primary for governor. trump endorses geoff diehl faces businessman chris doughty. charlie baker opted not to seek another term. the winner expected to face maura healey, whose only challenger on her side of the ballot dropped out of the race. i'm joined by deval patrick. he serves as professor of practice and co-director of leadertiate at the harvard school. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. good morning. >> so massachusetts is a funny state. when it comes to its politics. deep blu...

32 points. republican. and then biden beat trump in 2020 by 33 points. that's like 65 points swing there. how do you explain that in massachusetts? >> well, you know, it's funny. so many people describe our commonwealth as reliably blue. they tend to be from outside massachusetts. in fact, there are more unenrolled, we call them, independents in massachusetts than there are registered republicans and registered democrats combined. i think that means here in massachusetts people aren't buying 100% of what either party is selling. frankly, i think that's the case all over the country. so we have...