poised for a big wave? high inflation, gas prices, the continuing covid pandemic, president biden s party is facing voters in a very bad mood this year. all republicans need to do to win the senate is to pick up one seat. it sounds easy enough, but are they actually in the process of shooting themselves in the foot? how about former president donald trump, is he helping or hurting the gop effort? and if he does end up hurting it, will he end up hurting himself, when it comes to 2024? what about the end of roe v. wade? is it mobilizing democrats? and then, there is that major shift that we saw in 2020. hispanic voters abandoning democrats and voting republican. it is accelerating even more this year. 99 days to go. let s get to it. let s start at the place where at least, for me it s all gonna end in 99 days from now, or i should say, it will start to end 99 days from now, because elections no longer take place in one night. it will be election week this year. i think that is
and out west, two people dead in their cars as an explosive wildfire in california rips through a national forest. crews struggle to contain the blaze. and it s primary day in five key states with just three months till the november midterms. in kansas today is the first direct vote on abortions post-roe. sharice davids will join us today. and we begin this morning with a strike that took out one of the world s most wanted terrorists while still in isolation from covid, president biden announced that al qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in kabul, afghanistan, where he and his family had been hiding. justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer no matter how long it takes. no matter where you hide. if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. this morning the white house released this picture of the pr
speaker. at home we re watching a major test of former president trump s influence over the republican party. in the five states where voters are headed to the polls today to vote in primary elections, all eyes will be on the slate of candidates who the former president endorsed and have embraced the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. will that message resonate with republican primary voters? today will also be a big test for these three house republicans who were among the ten who voted to impeach the former president. will they survive after taking a critical stand? one of today s biggest tests will happen in kansas where abortion rights are on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. we ll have the latest into the massive implications of that vote. let s get right into it with nbc s steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what are you looking for this morning? a couple things, jose, you touched on. i think this referendum in
delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. al zawahiri, the second in command to osama bin laden during the 9/11 attacks as well as the attack on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 and the uss cole in 2000, killing 17 service members, took over the terrorist organization after bin laden s death in 2011 and was killed on the balcony of a taliban-linked safehouse in kabul, afghanistan. to those around the world who continue to seek to harm the united states, hear me now. we will always remain vigilant and we will act and we will always do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of americans at home and around the globe. i ll be joined this hour by white house homeland security adviser elizabeth sherwood randall and intelligence committee chairman senator mark warner for more on this major national security development and the future of al qaeda and the taliban. a
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