tonight major new developments in the january six criminal investigation. the former administration s top white house attorney, pat cipollone, who allegedly warned about dire consequences for key aspects of the former presidents election scheme, he is now facing the prospect of appearing before a federal grand jury. he s not the only one. also potential fallout from those missing secret service text messages, on or around january 6th, late word that the agency might temporarily disable texting on employee phones while it fixes gaps in how it retains these messages. first, though, that could be a far-reaching, what could be far reaching repercussions from primary elections from five states last night, and deeper kansas a ballot to strip abortion rights lost by a wide margin. hailing it as a bellwether for november. in a decisive vote, in a decisive victory, voters made clear that politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights of women. the voters of kansas sent
your show, alex jones on the stand today, when he found out, he was like, do you know how we got your text messages? and he was, like what? man that was some you know what. if this script scripted, i would have been like, that s not gonna happen. but then you look back to the lawyers who were sort of like chewing on a thumb nail at that moment. i want to know what that conversation was like after, but not because i m sympathetic in some way to somebody who would torture those families in sandy hook for so long. kyrgios is one thing but to catch him in the lie the way they did unbelievable. amazing to watch. thank you, laura. i ll see you tomorrow. have a good one. goodnight. this is don lemon tonight. we will have more on the fallout from the scandal over those other text messages they were talking about, those missing secret service texts. sources telling cnn the secret service may disable temporarily text messages or the firestorm over missing texts over january
preserved ever since the gunman killed 14 students and 3 adults on valentine s day 2018. and in texas, we re on verdict watch. jurors are now deliberating in the defamation trial against conspiracy theorist alex jones. they re deciding how much money he should pay to the parents of a 6-year-old sandy hook victim for repeatedly pushing derange conspiracies that the murder of 20 first graders and six adults did not happen. the judge in the case denied jones s request for a mistrial after it was revealed his lawyer accidentally sent two years of cell phone records and text messages to the parents legal team. the parents lawyer says multiple law enforcement groups are now seeking those texts, including the january 6th committee. request from various federal agencies and law enforcement to provide that. absent a ruling from you saying you cannot do that, i intend to do so immediately following this. i believe there is absolutely nothing, nothing that he has done to fulfill h
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
wait. hurricane harvey is moving in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house and immediately went to social media. what kind of things? pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were. willing to trade one night of freedom. he said i m ready to talk. let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell you everything. in exchange for the terrible truth. if he couldn t have her, nobody could. crystal was a young mom and brought the search for crystal to a halt, but an investigatior brought a series of clues and as flood waters receded, he discovered the same deadly storm that slowed the investigation had also flushed out crystal s killer. here is dennis murphy with before the storm. the woman captured on security camera moving ghost like from one room to the next is 37-year-old crystal mcdowell, a real else state agent from baytown, texas, it s