hell of a lot more bills. we ll sort through the republican s successful removal of a proposed $35 cap on insulin in the private market. and president biden and the first lady are in eastern kentucky surveying the damage from last week s floods. we ll have live coverage. and there are renewed concerns either potential nuclear catastrophe for ukraine and europe after weekend shelling near europe s largest nuclear plant in ukraine with the international atomic energy agency sounding the alarm of the very real risk of a nuclear disaster. we begin with ali vitale and jillian tet. 11:29 p.m. saturday night they finished after 4:00 sunday afternoon. reporter: this whole process from the time they started with the motion to proceed vote on saturday until the moment they passed it on sunday was about 22 hours continuously of work in the senate. this is a building that s rarely working on the weekends and certainly not stretching for 22 hours at a time. but that s what it to
d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
be clear. and i think that that s just a natural reality. that didn t turn out exactly how i wanted it to. it sure didn t. and as republicans like glenn youngkin and daniel cameron lick their wounds, democrats celebrate big victories in yesterday s elections. with voters sending a clear message to republicans abortion is still a big problem for you. also tonight, ivanka trump. found a baby sitter, allowing her to take the stand today in the new york civil fraud trial. bringing with her a three-word phrase that got a lot of use. i don t recall. plus, breaking knew tonight, the pentagon says the u.s. has carried out another air strike in syria following attacks against u.s. personnel in that region. but we begin tonight with a message for republicans i don t know who needs to hear this in the republican party since y all keep trying even though voters keep telling you over and over and over again, but abortion is a big problem for you. that should be the message rep
crushing roe v. wade. you remember the scene in red kansas last year. voters rejecting that amendment to ban abortions. it was the first state to hold such a vote. then you had the predicted red wave crashing for perhaps multiple reasons but this certainly didn t help. then you had wisconsin where a liberal win on the state supreme court after running on the issue republican chair says republicans need to own. you see the receipts and you see that sometimes political change will affect what the courts are trying to strip away from people, which is something that had been settled law for half a century. it s a story we will stay on. i want to fit into a break. we re not done. the virtual world we re playing with, diversity and, yes, some hope with the future. i like to end the week i should say end the hour with
state to see just how much of a role abortion is playing among voters there. and with just three weeks to go before the election. reporter: perhaps the most vulnerable democratic incumbent governor in the nation is here in reliably red kansas. it s also the place where this summer voters overwhelmingly opted to protect abortion rights. the vote on august 2nd made it very clear how that can be, that kansans tend to elect to the governor s office, a moderate, common sense, thoughtful person to run their state and make sure the basic services are provided for them. reporter: governor laura kelly has tried to brand herself as a bipartisan leader. if you ask me, the middle is the best place to be. reporter: meanwhile, her republican opponent, attorney general derrick schmitt has criticized her handling of covid-19 lockdowns. laura kelly won t stand up to