and china ramps up military drills and raises fears of a dangerous stand-off with the u.s. after house speaker nancy pelosi wraps her risky visit to taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. we begin with a powerful message sent by kansas voters on the issue of abortion. with the critical midterm election around the corner. jeff zeleny reports on the conservative state s surprising vote to protect abortion rights and other results from a big round of primaries. reporter: a surge of kansas voters sending an overwhelmingly message to protect abortion rights. it was the biggest sign yet of the backlash to the supreme court s decision to send the question of abortion back to the states. and here in conservative kansas, voters delivered their answer loud and clear. we don t want the government m making our reproductive health decisions for us. reporter: sharice davids
trump allies to overturn the 2020 election. two top aides to vice president pence appeared before a grand jury last month. subpoenas have already been served to several people who schemed to create fake slates of electors, saying trump won the 2020 election in several swing states. earlier this summer, fbi agents seized lawyer john eastman s phone and raid ed his home. this is more than what did john eastman do, the attorney that came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election, and it probably has a very deep interest on what the president did. reporter: cipollone s subpoena is significant because he was close to the president and in the west wing on january 6th. i think i was pretty clear there needed to be an immediate and forceful response, statement, public statement that people need to leave the capitol. reporter: cipollone sat for several hours of a closed-door deposition with the january 6th select committee.
saw today that paul manafort is going to skral. that s a stark reminder of where this could all end for him, too. you know, donald trump seemed. reporter: cool and collevery and collected today, but the thing we have to remember is of all the people who have come on to the radar, michael cohen was traveling the darkest biways of trump s life for a long time. back chen his home and office were raid ed, i ve never seen trump so spooked. that was the day he was with his cabinet and described it as an attack on the county tr. that was your key and your clue to just how many secrets michael cohen possesses and just how afraid he may need to be about cohen flipping and talking. so, with the update of the materials seized, i was talking about the shredded documents. they ve got one device, they re trying to get others. 731 pages of communications. from encrypted messaging apps. michael cohen texts a lot.