lost to former trump administration official john gibbs. gibbs has been known to peddle 2020 election lies. in the arizona, house speaker rusty bowers who delivered emotional testimony to the january 6th committee, he is projected to lose his bid for a senate seat. the winner of that race claims, the devil himself meddled in the 2020 election. the devil. and in one of the largest rebukes to the supreme court decision on abortion ban in that state. nick valencia is in topeka, kansas, following the story this morning. nick, the voter turnout here really highlighted the importance of this issue that seems to have driven voters to the polls. and they voted no. that s right. good morning, jim. voter turnout turned out to be a huge factor here in kansas. a state where there is nearly twice as many registered republicans as democrats. but a huge swath of unaffiliated voters. that s what kansans in the state trying to protect abortion access were counting on. they worked tireless
pattern we ve seen before. thank you so much. still ahead, i ll speak live with tim cane about his bipartisan proposal to codify abortion rights into federal law. details on hau that can work. also, whether it can pass. plus, house speaker nancy pelosi on her way to south korea right now after her visit to taiwan that sparked outrage from china. but some bipartisan support from home. what did it accomplish? and later, a community grocery store destroyed. just one of the signs of the daunting recovery efforts in kentucky. we re going to take you there live. people are now just facing oppressive heat as they try to clean up. if you wake up thinking about the market and want to make the right moves fast. get decisionon tech from fidelity. [ cellphphone vibrates ] you ll get proactitive alerts for market events before they happen.. and insights on every buy and sell decision. with zero-commission online u.s. stock and etf trades.
View, since the start of the deja vu, since the start of the war in ukraine, authorities have been cracking down on, this french authorities captured a $120 million yacht. italian authorities snagged three oligarch s yachts, one worth $65 million and another worth just $60 million. the third one worth $578 million. spanish authorities have seized four russian oligarchs yachts coming in a total of $840 million. the u.k. caught two of them, about $125 million, between them, just little ones, and germany impounded this $600 million super yacht which despite the price tag someone decided to name dilbar. all of this is sanctions at work. at least for the u.s. president biden is proposing that all of the russian assets seized during this war would be given to ukraine. now that s yet to become law.
Saying the word outloud like voldemort if they wanted. but without those prosecutors on board willing to enforce it, the law is a waste of paper. one legal parachute discussed in michigan. here is another. earlier this year planned parenthood and the aclu started a campaign to add the right to obtain an abortion to the michigan state constitution. their pitch is to make it a ballot initiative in november so michigan voters can decide if they want to protect abortion rights in their state. now, they would need about 425,000 signatures to get it on the ballot. the group gathering signatures said in just 24 hours, after the draft opinion leaked, the number of volunteers signed up to help gather those 425,000 signatures increased by more than 900 people. like i said, creative thinking. but could any of this actually work? joining us now is nicole wells
She will not prosecute anyone for providing or obtaining abortion care within her jurisdiction. which means wayne county, the detroit, will become a kind of a safe haven within michigan for abortion care. same for washtenaw county where ann arbor system the prosecutor there says he will never ever prosecute a patient or provider for breaking michigan s ban on abortion. in fact, a total of seven michigan county prosecutors signaled last month that they would do the same thing. even michigan s attorney general says no matter how the supreme court decides quote i am not going to enforce the law, nor will i defend the law which i believe is unconstitutional. end quote. when the court returns its official position, republican lawmakers in michigan can decide to leave that abortion ban on the books or pass some kind of new legislation, severely curtailing access. heck, they could ban people from