stacey abrams will be my guest. and then new reports trump s top white house lawyers both subpoenaed by the department of justice over january six. plus he got the message is right there. you know a perjury is right? alex jones and is misinformation factory facing justice for his sandy hook lies. you must tell the truth while you testify. this is not your show. all in starts right now. good evening from washington d.c.. i m mehdi hasan and in for chris hayes. do you know the last time kansas went democratic in the presidential election? it was 1964 when lyndon b. johnson carried 44 out of 50 states plus the district of columbia. since then, republicans have won the state of kansas every four years for the last 54 years. in 2016, donald trump won kansas by 20 points. less than two years ago in 2020, he won by nearly 15 points. kansas is a red, red state, and yet last night we saw a huge win for liberals in kansas. voters resoundingly rejected and an amendment remov
rights protections for their stay constitution, voting it down 59 to 41%. now just to put that in a little bit more into context, to put the entire political earthquake into context, that ballot question was supposed to be an easy win for the antiabortion side. was not even supposed to be close. a recent poll said the 47% of kansans plan to vote yes on the amendment compared to no gland vote no. and republicans were supposed to cruise to victory with their demographic advantage. last night, most of the primary races were for republicans. there was not much incentive for democrats to even show up, aside for this one ballot question. and it was a strategic and very cynical question to put this question on the primary ballot, instead of the general election. proponents of the measure were hoping and planning for a low turnout. the question itself was intentionally garbled to confuse people. the text read in part quote, to the extent permitted by the constitution of the united s
if harry thanks for coming on. these deletions keep getting normalized as bureaucracy or bad records management. but it is actually illegal to destroy federal records is it not? whether intentionally or by mistake? look i think it s beginning to and the coincidence that you alluded to with the wild quote that we could put a bigger turn on it because all three of them are people who are likely to have important evidence about january 5th and sixth, most recently cuccinelli trump was calling up and badgering to seize voting machines. so those tax ought to be really probitive and yes at this point a mystery would be putting it kindly. we are almost at the dog ate it phase and it s not passing the smell test but it s simple in this fact mehdi. we ve got this going on and
alluded to with the wild quote, we could put a bigger turn on it because all three of them are people who are likely to have important evidence about january 5th and 6th, most recently woof and cuccinelli trump was calling up and badgering to seize voting machines. so those texts ought to be really probative and yes at this point a mystery would be putting it kindly. we are almost at the dog ate it phase and it s not passing the smell test but it s simple in this fact mehdi. we ve got this going on and what has to happen doj needs to open an investigation. i think it will. it could be sprawling, it could be simple. but the people in charge have to be put under oath and just, you know, get to the bottom of it and fast. note, that the officials in both cases are saying, we did not do it. we gave it back just as we were