to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
peaceful. as republicans celebrated the win, decades in the making, and now facing an uncertain political fallout from the decision. democrats clearly angry, but left without votes in congress right now. and without a plan of action. this court has lost legitimacy. they have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision. they just took the last of it and set a torch to it with the roe vs. wade opinion. several states are already working to protect abortion rights while others, at least ten, effectively banned abortion as of saturday night. another five states are expected to pass laws limiting abortion in the coming days and weeks. in all, 26 states could outlaw or set extreme limits on abortions. a new cbs news poll after roe was struck down finds the majority of americans nearly 60% nearly 60% do not approve of overturning that law. interesting. that was a poll conducted over the
mean the fight is over. but country, in my view. and it does not mean the fight is over. mean the fight is over. but senior republicans. mean the fight is over. but senior republicans, including mean the fight is over. but senior republicans, including former - mean the fight is over. but senior| republicans, including former vice president mike pence and mitch mcconnell welcomed the ruling. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world millions of women across the united states have lost their constitutional right to abortion, after a ruling of historic significance by the country s supreme court. it has overturned a 50 year law that legalised abortion nationwide and it now means that individual us states are legally able to ban it. up to half of america s 50 states are expected to do so and 13 have already passed so called trigger laws which automatically outlaw abortion with the court s ruling. president biden has said it w
for the toss. its primary night in arizona, kansas, missouri and in washington. polls just closed in arizona with two trump deniers on the ballot. but the big, big story tonight is kansas. voter turnout is high and right now the pro-choice no vote to keep the right to an abortion in the kansas constitution is leading, which would be huge, really gigantic in terms of a victory in a very red state. let s get right to the big board and steve kornacki. steve what is happening there on the ground. this seems like a surprise. is it given the polling going in? take us what we re throughout we re seeing. there wasn t too much polling, one poll showed this very close, the yes leading 47 to 43. what s happening here there s a couple of things generally what you re seeing first of all you re seeing massive turnout. we think now about 800,000 people maybe more are gonna end up voting in this primary. typically in a kansas primary are looking at about 400 or 450,000 something in t