kansas, the referendum on the ballot regarding reproduction rights. steve kornacki will be at the big board throughout the night to break down the results in kansas as well as primary results in missouri, arizona, michigan and washington state. do not go anywhere, you do not want to miss. assistants tonight s read out. good evening from new york, i m charles filling in for chris says. polls of just closed in missouri, michigan and parts of kansas. voters are still casting ballots in arizona washington state. it s a big night especially on the republican side. we ll get to steve bernanke and the just a moment here the big races that we are watching tonight. in missouri it s eric greitens forces eric schmidt, for the republican nomination in the u.s. senate. greitens is the former governor who resigned in disgrace and
states, washington, arizona, missouri, michigan, and kansas, and we are covering all the results as they come in. i want to bring back nbc news national political correspondent, skip kornacki at the big board. steve, what is the latest on these races? well the math of kansas is still empty here but we do have our first county with some results in this abortion referendum here. this is proposed constitutional amendment that would say that the constitution in the state of kansas does not allow for the right to, does not provide their right for abortion. we have one county now with some of its results. this is shawnee county. you can see it s worth a peek at the state capital, you can say that no is doing extremely well in this early report. but there is some key context and i think you need to keep this in mind as these results come in, potentially come in, slowly in kansas tonight. kansas allows for and has extensive vote by mail, and early voting, in a lot of the big counties in kans
laws that it s trying to take effect now. in some states it is going to be very different kind of legal battles but you will see lawsuits everywhere. maya and doctor, i thank you very much for being with us thi thank you very much this morning. steve bernanke with primary results. and there s steve. ith primary results. and there s steve.
with no democrat support, if the democrats, when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real health care bill, i would be totally open to it and i think that s going to happen. okay, steve, should he have expected or was it realistic that democrats would work with him on this? no, this is not anything that was part of the republican strategy, republican leaders said we are going to pass this, with republican votes, we re going to do it the republican way, there was no outreach here, they were saying, look, we got the majority in the house, the majority in the senate, that s the trifecta we have been waiting for. the votes were there, with just the republicans if you could corral 215 of them, but they couldn t get 215 of them from their own party. this is president trump on the times of obamacare. i guess i m here, what, 64
their ideological opposition. i think he was rather humble today. he s been humble. i mean i was surprised by that, i mean i thought he looked quite presidential taking that defeat. i do think he did. he deflected blame and said that democrats didn t vote. well, there was that. as you said to steve, that was not in the cards, democratic support. we re going to wait and see what happens tomorrow morning, is there a tweet storm at 6:00 and we have a different presidential tone, but, you re right, he was subdued today. we all watch our twitter feeds like crazy, anyway, thank you, john. speaker paul ryan said that obamacare is still the law of the land, still seven years later, we will look at how we got here. that s next. hi my name is tom.