president barrels toward conclusion, we put it all together. i got three men walking down a street carrying ar-15s. the explosive testimony. i heard the president say something to the effect of, i don t care that they have weapons. let me people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my state, 3.2 million voters and just throw them out the window? was he asking you to commit a crime? i don t know what he believed. the unanswered questions. i feel like we don t know the full story on the proud boys about oath keepers. and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies represent a clear and present danger to american democracy, not because of what they did on january 6th. you better run, cops! it s because of what they pledge to do in 2024. a cnn special report american coup, the january 6th investigation. in arizona, the republican speaker of the house rusty bowers is an artist by trade. last february, bowers wa
out among s a crowd of political science at an intersection. that s exactly what i wanted was just to see my sign and have a laugh with people. that s right, lucky us. there is a little something to laugh about. so what s one guy really up to you and what s he doing with the money people are giving him? so the big number of the day is not 1.3 billion, the lottery is over folks. the big number is 100. which is 100 days away from the 2022 midterm elections. just a holidays away from getting answers to some of our most precious and political questions. how will voters react to the fall of roe v. wade and will democrats be able to maintain control of the house and senate? well president biden still approval ratings be a liability to his party? a lot of questions. and we re turning to monica alba for answers. let s start with you. so you ve been following the senate race in missouri where disgraced former governor eric greitens is hoping to win the gop nomination. he previ
the right to abortion. the two candidates to be uk prime minister are going head to head in cardiff at the latest hustings for party members. the former health secretary sajid javid is the latest to come out saying he s backing liz truss to win. hello, and a warm welcome to the programme. we start in taiwan a historic visit from us house speaker nancy pelosi has come to a close. but the fallout from it is just beginning. in the last few hours, taiwan s defence ministry says it scrambled jets to warn off 27 chinese warplanes in its defence zone. remember, nancy pelosi is the most senior us politician in 25 years to go to taiwan. and the visit has sparked fury in beijing, which views taiwan as its own. we ll be going into why, as well as all of the reaction. first, here s a little of what ms pelosi had to say. our solidarity with you is more important than ever, as you defend taiwan and your freedom. we are supporters of the status quo, and we don t want anything to happen to
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
robson was endorsed by mike pence. cnn has not yet called that race. also in arizona, cnn is projecting that rusty bowers, the state house speaker who testified before the january 6th committee, will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trump s efforts to throw arizona s 2020 election into doubt. and in michigan, cnn projects election denier tudor dixon has won the republican primary for governor. she will face gretchen whitmer in the fall. also in michigan, peter meijer, one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump has been defeated by challenger john gibbs after democrats meddled in his primary. and you might recall that trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race and one of the erics has won. cnn projecting eric schmitt will defeat eric greitens, the former president president governor who resigned in disgrace. let s begin with cnn s jeff zeleny in st. louis with the very latest. jeff? reporter: