can t be on the ballot? how does that work? what is the limiting principal for that? we don t need to have judges making these decisions. we need voters. if they don t run a free and fair election in colorado, i ll drop out, too. the court will make that decision. he supported an insurrection. i don t want to support a candidate that won t be on the ballot. it will create more animosity and help trump because they re doing this. neil: rocky mountain slide? the debate off the rails. colorado s top court takes donald trump off of their presidential ballot. will other states follow? who stands to benefit the most? what if i give you a hint? his initials are djt. the guy that raised money off of so-called obstacles that has raised money off of this in the past and going on now. is history repeating itself? we follow the money, you decide. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so it goes yet again. another controversy for the former president and another potential money
nightly news with lester holt. good evening from houston where i am on assignment working on a story for a future broadcast but our top story tonight, the flooding catastrophe in kentucky where officials say at least 19 people have died including children with a toll expected to climb. authorities are not even sure how many people are still missing with fresh concern about more life-threatening flash floods this weekend. urgent rescues in boats and from helicopters continue with crews saving hundreds already. the governor telling me on thursday it s by far the worst flooding disaster in his lifetime 6 more inches of rain are expected in parts of the already devastated region. northeast tennessee, southwest virginia and west virginia also in the storm zone. all of it accentuating a climate crisis that is causing more intense and frequent severe weather emergencies around the world we have it all covered tonight beginning with maggie vespa in hard hit kentucky. reporter: i
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
objected to turning over the tapes to the justice department and the supreme court said, yes, executive privilege is a thing, yes, it could apply here but when we look at the conversation it does not because it s meant to protect confidential communications between the president and his advisers as to legitimate policy and strategy discussions, but not as to potentially criminal discussions, not to just shield any manner of embarrassment or wrongdoing conversations. so we could be setting up for a legal battle here. all right. we will be looking to see how that plays out and how long that takes. ellie, thank you so much. thanks, buddy. be well. ahead we re going to speak with congressman adam kinzinger, of course, he is one of two republicans on the january 6th committee. so what is he going to say about the primaries? what is he going to say about cipollone being subpoenaed by a grand jury? we will be getting that. first on cnn, the defense department reportedly deleted a pote
none of the damages surprise you? nothing surprises me after ten years at ktwo, pete joined the staff of then congressman dick cheney as press secretary, eventually moving to washington when cheney became defense secretary, propelling pete to pentagon spokesman and an adviser to cheney during the first gulf war good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, i m pete williams in 1993 pete joined nbc news covering the justice department and the supreme court, breaking stories on spies like the cia s aldrich ames and fbi s robert hanson investigators say he was arrested sunday night in the suburban washington park in virginia after dropping off a package of classified information for his russian handlers investigators say he would signal a drop by putting strips of tape here on this sign pete s steady hand guided the network and viewers through some of the most difficult news events in history. the bombing of the federal