tonight major new developments in the january six criminal investigation. the former administration s top white house attorney, pat cipollone, who allegedly warned about dire consequences for key aspects of the former presidents election scheme, he is now facing the prospect of appearing before a federal grand jury. he s not the only one. also potential fallout from those missing secret service text messages, on or around january 6th, late word that the agency might temporarily disable texting on employee phones while it fixes gaps in how it retains these messages. first, though, that could be a far-reaching, what could be far reaching repercussions from primary elections from five states last night, and deeper kansas a ballot to strip abortion rights lost by a wide margin. hailing it as a bellwether for november. in a decisive vote, in a decisive victory, voters made clear that politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights of women. the voters of kansas sent
Absence. The court does usually give an explanation for a justices absence. And weve also seen justices take part in arguments remotely when they are sick and the context here is not just the lack of transparency, but that it also comes just one week before the Supreme Court hears Oral Arguments on whether or not donald trump is protected from criminal prosecutions because a president ial immunity because he was president when the acts were committed. A case critics of thomas argue he should recuse himself from because of his wifes jeannies efforts to help trumps team overturn the 2020 election thomas is 75 years the most senior Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. He missed several arguments in 2022 with an infection and tonight the Supreme Court is not responding to our requests for Additional Information about thomass leave of absence today leaving many important questions unanswered. Thanks for joining us, the lead starts now welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper in this our criti
as far as the services concerned, they re the hardest part for them will be in preparation because obviously they ve never john anything like this before but if he s given some sort of confinement sentence, whether that s home confinement or into some sort of an institution once he s there and they have that setup, it ll be pretty easy for them because of being in a controlled space in terms of the hits security though, i mean, secret service in the courtroom. he had like two secret service agents with him. it was court officers right. in a prison setting, i guess he would i mean, it would be the prison officers, but also a few secret service or i find it almost impossible to believe that he ll ever be in a traditional prison sentence or a traditional prison environment. he may be sentenced some sort of a state controlled facility that doesn t have other prisoners in it. no matter where he ends up. if it s in a state facility, there ll be some combination of prison offi
Democrat seat. something about the democrats help donald trump with that. i think we risk losing not only did we lose in peter meijer a great congressman, an independent veteran, someone who is independent minded, we now have an election denier who, i certainly hope will lose. we don t need to have him in congress. but really both democrats and republicans deserve to lose. then when you look at arizona, that whole ticket, that whole republican ticket, deserves to lose. i know david urban has pennsylvania. that ticket is a disaster. whether it s mastriano or oz, i m a republican, but my republican family in pennsylvania does not want to vote on that ticket. david urban, let me ask, even kansas barbara, we need, him barbara. democrats didn t get the win in kansas on abortion rights on their own. they obviously had to head help from republicans who voted to keep abortion protections. david urban, how much of a reality check do you think this