since roe was struck down. but it s been a grueling battle just to get to today. political divisions creating a lot of contentiousness you typically don t see in a place that s known for being midwest nice. that s because the range of issues that have so clearly created dividing lines across the u.s. are playing out right here pitting neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and we know abortion is one of those issues. but in addition to dividing people, will it also motivate them to get to the polls? will it drive turnout among women? and does it help one candidate over the other? looking forward, will today s vote be be the first bat until a culture war to change the complaining the complex of the midterms. democrats may already be gaining an advantage. here s why i say that. take a look at this. on june 23rd, that s the day before roe was overturned. the generic congressional battle showed republicans up by almost 3 points. today their advantage has slunk to less
killed in a safe house in kabul. it was carried out by a cia drone strike. and president biden met with his national security team to discuss the operation. you can see in this photo, just by the president, a wooden box on the table that contains a model of the safe house used by al zawahiri. national security council john kirby spoke about the intelligence that led them to find al zawahiri, after a two decades long time. yeah, just an incredible amount of painstaking work went into this. and i want to be careful about the intelligence stream. but basically, we were able to track the movement of mr. zawahiri s family to kabul. trying to understand both the habits of this individual, but also confirming that this individual was in fact mr. zawahiri. and once we had that in place, then it was really a matter of presenting the case to the national security team and to the president, of course, for the president to make a decision and then, he obviously made that decision. it
rolling out a new lawsuit to protect abortion access. why that is a significant moment for this administration. we ll go live one-on-one with one of the top homeland security advisers on that drone strike that killed a top al qaeda leader. we have a lot to get to in the next 60 minutes. let s start off in washington. with our team of responds following every move as voters are voting. vaughn hilliard is in phoenix, and shh keel kweel brewster is out there. we have so many people looking at arizona. this is a thing that everyone will be talking about tonight. is dlt dth going donald trump going to be able to sweep in arizona? s tell me what you re seeing on the ground. reporter: the polling right now indicates that kari lake, finchom for governor and attorney general are top front runners. but the big question is from both camps on every one of these campaigns i have talked to is there are a lot of questions about who ultimately shows up here in this final 24 hours. there
as a progressive place. then there s the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party s nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who s pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to voted to impeach president trump. there s more at stake than a typical primary night, and a lot more issues. as the political guru s de la soul put it, issues close like an elevator door but open once we get to the next floor. as the stakes is high, you know the stakes is high. fact check, true. the stakes is high. it is primary election day in missouri, and several high profile races could help bring voter out to the polls. histor
during a call with house gop leader kevin mccarthy while the capitol was under siege on january 6th along with congressman the three had been facing trump s wrat. republicans in two of those states, arizona and wisconsin, set to make their picks for statewide offices in the next few weeks. arizona today and wisconsin next tuesday. amid a rift between donald trump and mike pence that dates back to january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, two gubernatorial candidates in arizona and wisconsin backed by trump will face-off this month against those endorsed by former vice president mike pence. who split with trump after refusing pressure to reject the results of the 2020 presidential race. but make no mistake, this year s republican primaries have been shaped in large part by who donald trump is endorsing. and competition for his endorsement took a surreal turn last night when trump endorsed eric in the missouri primary. just eric, no last name, you know, like beyonce