that ballot, when they go into that voter booth. it will say because kansasian value women and children, the constitution of the state of kansas does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion. so one could argue that this is clearly skewed from an anti-abortion perspective. this is called the value them both amendment. and even if this was not the number one issue for many state residents, they have just been bombarded by canvassers both for and against this amendment for the last several weeks. how much will the outcome of this vote in kansas tell us about the potency of this issue in the mid terms? it s a key question, victor. democrats are hoping this will be an issue that will galvanize voters. and illustrate republicans have become too extreme. that is their hope. polling suggests the issue has become sort of a boost for otherwise disspirited democrats. they seem to be having success with how they re talking about ab
which eric. could have been eric greitens, could have been eric schmidt. could have been a little known erik mcelroy, a third eric who happens to be in the same race. in any case, brightest and mitt claimed that they and trump were endorsing them. can t make the stuff up. meanwhile polls are still open in the state of washington where to republican members of congress are facing primary challenges over their votes to impeach donald trump. jamie herrera butler and that new house are still of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump after the january 6th attack on the capitol. republican voters in their district are deciding today whether to toss them out for it. congressman herrera butler s primary is also worth keeping an eye on because her trump backed challenger has well documented tied to white when extremists and white nationalist. he told an interviewer quote, i don t think that is anything wrong with there being a white people special interest group. and quo
so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it s one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it s certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it s very safe to assume that much of this intelligence was gathered from the sky through visual methods, drones and satellites as well as through what s known as signals intelligence, basically intercepting communications. but this was a months-long process. the white house saying today that this took most of the year, and president biden was first briefed in april when there were indications that zawahiri had moved not just to afghanistan but to
correspondent, steve kornacki, steve my friend, good evening to you. we are getting results and from kansas. was influential onto wet levels. one because of the elections that are going on. but to because they have got a referendum in a primary, about abortion. it s the first time in america people are going to the polls after roe v. wade has collapsed. this is the first one of these that we have seen in the statewide level. we will see some more this november. i think we will see many more in the years to come. here it is and kansas. the proposal is a constitutional amendments that would say that the constitution of the state of kansas does not allow for, does not provide for, a right to an abortion. that with then if this passes, that would open the door to the legislature enacting a ban, if it wanted to, a severe restrictions if it wanted to. it would open the door to that. so what you are seeing here with 11% or so, more than 10% of the voting early. no is off to a good start her
changes to the constitution of the state of kansas and could restrict the people through their elected state regulators from regulating abortion by leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion. is this intentionally convoluted? that was obviously a mouthful. yes, it was from the very beginning this has been a very confusing amendment. not only because of the wording, obviously, a very confusing amendment. you know, funding of abortion, government funding of abortion, as well as exceptions that aren t actually protected. the supporters of this amendment really did make this as confusing as possible. not only that, they put it on a primary ballot in august, when turnout is roughly half what it is in the general election. typically something of this magnitude when you re taking the constitutional rights and freedoms away from half the state should be put on the november election ballot. who wrote this? how did it get on the ballot?