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
in missouri the battle of the two trump endorsed candidates called eric has been decided. and we seem to projects that missouri eric schmidt has won the republican nomination for senate, defeating the former governor eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for tua publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jerry her rather butler s leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe can t. and congressman dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, let s go over to the big board and see what s going on right now. i say you ve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are looking at. a bit of a potential surprise here in arizona, kerry lake, the republican backed by donald trump, former newscaster up there in arizona, had let in the polling in this race, and i think came in today as the favorite. you can see we got a lot of the vot
released right away in this first hour, all the votes that were received by about yesterday. that s basically what you are looking at here to start. so what was expected that vote would be the most favorable vote for karrin taylor robson so she needed to take the lead, she needed to build a little bit of a pad, because it was expected that the vote that was cast today, and then the final votes that will be kind of not till tomorrow, would be more favorable to kari lake. robson succeeded and getting a pad here. a pad of eight and a half points. it may well end up being enough to hold off lake. we are going to see some of the same day votes getting added here. like its number take up a little bit here. but robson came in today as the underdog. right now at 60% in, has a real shot at this. over the next couple hours, we re gonna see a trickle of the vote that was cast today get added to this. but that is basically gonna stop, and then maricopa county is the biggest one. here the
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The very program that youre trying to cut. I want to get off. But if you take away my ability to get off, what can i do . Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff Senate Republicans are giving repeal another try, trying to see if there is