closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get the
night in america where democracy was on the ballot. first a stunning rejection by voters in conservative kansas. voters defeating an amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights and the result wasn t close. kansas is the first state to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. perhaps even more significant was the voter turnout here because nearly 700,000 votes were cast in tuesday s primary and that dwarfs the voter turnout in the state s 2020 presidential primary election. five states in all held primaries on tuesday, one other big take away here was a slue of election deniers backed by former president trump, they were winners. and here to break down the numbers is cnn s senior data analyst harry enten. hey, john. good morning. what we got? let s start in kansas which brianna was just talking b my goodness gracious, sometimes i get surprised by results and this is one of them. i did expect that no would win, that is that they w
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:
famous playoff win over the cowboys. throwing in the end zone, caught! reporter: scully s popularity often exceeded the players. late in his career, he served as grand marshal of the rose parade and ballgame. in 2016, he signed off for the last time as a regular broadcaster after 67 seasons calling dodgers games. weeks before hanging up his mic, scully riveted a crowd at the reagan blackberry. if i have a trademark, it would be to call the play as quickly and as accurately as i possibly can, and then shut up and listen to the roar of the crowd. even to this day, when that crowd roars, i m that little 8- year-old kid, crawled underneath the radio, back in new york city, listening to alabama-tennessee. may he rest in peace. thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues.
and listen to the roar of the crowd. and even to this day, when that crowd roars, i m that little 8-year-old kid curled underneath the radio back in new york city, listening to alabama/tennessee. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is wednesday, august 3rd. i m brianna keilar with john avlon in for john berman this morning. good morning. good morning. overnight, what is being called a political earthquake, a resounding win for abortion rights in the state of kansas. voters overwhelmingly rejecting a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion in the state. it was also a win for election denialism. in several key primary races. in arizona, kari lake is leading karrin taylor robson for governor. lake was backed by trump, while