one year ago, president volodymyr zelenskyy stood defiantly with his cabinet in kyiv as russian forces attacked the ukrainian capital. ukraine has defied expectations and showed the world tremendous tenacity over the past year, fighting back russian forces time a time. today, there are no signs that europe s biggest land conflict since world war ii will end any time soon. we will be covering this come somber anniversary throughout the morning. at home, we re following the federal response to the train derailment in east palestine, ohio. transportation secretary pete buttigieg toured the scene as investigators appear to pinpoint a possible cause for the crash. he certainly had challenges for donald trump, as well. yes, he did. well, i m glad he came here. if he is now ready to join us in stopping the deregulation of dangerous trains like this one, then, yeah, we can work together. we ll have more of what he had to say and what is in store for east palestine today.
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
Defeating a Labour Amendment to the queens speech. It should also win the final vote on that queens speech tomorrow. So it will then have shown it can survive. But thrive . Not so clear. In the last 2a hours or so, weve seen raggedness of thought and ill discipline of purpose. We thought the goals for this government were to deliver brexit and reduce the deficit, but unity on both those looks to be disintegrating. Chancellor Philip Hammond made a thinly veiled joke at the expense of borisjohnson last night, and appeared at odds with david davis over transitional brexit arrangements. And more confusion today on austerity. There were hints that the Public Sector pay cap would be dropped, and then those hints were played down later on. When a teacher loses control of a class, its hard to get it back. Is that where mrs may finds herself at the dawn of this parliament . Well, nick watt, our political editor, is with me. First, there is Public Sector pay staff and the morning story was one t
Conspiracy laying out to them, hey you face pop possible culpability view you don t cooperate and tell us the truth. this is lead some of them to tell the truth. we obviously congress does doesn t of the ability to charge anybody so, my guess is that they have taken our foundation of evidence of the select committee and of bildt about it, having an even stronger showing of indictment of criminal conduct. an if ur investigation was the floor not to ceiling of the facts, the universe of facts that were there? i m holding honing in on this conspiracy theory again, because as much as we ve heard from donald trump receiving a target letter, there s a whole list of names that we have not heard of received it or may or may not be charged. for example, i m wondering where is giuliani in this? maybe mark meadows and others. as just to name three john eastman. are you surprised of yet to hear anything have any of them being targets? you re putting your finger on the precise names that we iden