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world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn ....
Objected to turning over the tapes to the justice department and the supreme court said, yes, executive privilege is a thing, yes, it could apply here but when we look at the conversation it does not because it s meant to protect confidential communications between the president and his advisers as to legitimate policy and strategy discussions, but not as to potentially criminal discussions, not to just shield any manner of embarrassment or wrongdoing conversations. so we could be setting up for a legal battle here. all right. we will be looking to see how that plays out and how long that takes. ellie, thank you so much. thanks, buddy. be well. ahead we re going to speak with congressman adam kinzinger, of course, he is one of two republicans on the january 6th committee. so what is he going to say about the primaries? what is he going to say about cipollone being subpoenaed by a grand jury? we will be getting that. first on cnn, the defense department reportedly deleted a pote ....
Things written down. this is a public servant who did write it down and has it there to tell the american public, and this can go a long way towards shaping public understanding and perceptions. right, of what went down. of this piece of the process. of what was going on at the time. if the house is teaming up something that the senate will ultimately judge, there s two ways to look at that sort of firewall you described. one is if it really doesn t move at all, it frees the house up to make whatever broad case they want, that we ve reported on members of congress who still think that the president s racial incidents should be in there, mueller obstruction, all sorts of other things, emoluments, whereas if they have a different strategy they might go more narrow. does your reporting tell us yet anything about those strategy discussions? i think it s been partly not partly, largely determined by the time line. people close to the democratic ....
Joining us with an exclusive preview are the framers of the plan, congressman mike johnson and roger marshall. thanks for coming on this morning with an early look at this. republicans got in a lot of trouble when they tried to kill obamacare and they said you didn t have anything ready to replace it with. this is an idea for that. tell us what this plan entails. thanks for having us. the american people need a real alternative to what democrats are proposing and we stepped into that void to provide real solutions. this is the largest caucus of conservative members, we are working on strategy discussions and research and stakeholder meetings and we came up with this plan and are excited about it. we call a framework for personalized affordable care. if we do this it will protect vulnerable americans. that is persons with preexisting conditions and chronic illnesses ....
Talking points prepared. and strategy discussions. the president did none of that here. we had chairman of committee say i had no idea this was coming. so this is a complete mess from a political point of view in addition to the military hardship, and the or ally the kurds kind of being left out to dry and seeking help from syria or russia or whatever other power is willing to help them at this point. what s your take? i think that s right. this is not this is sort of a surprise announcement, but this is also that s been hanging out there for a long time. the president threatened to do this in march and it led to his defense secretary resigning. usually there s a communication that goes on. there was communication, it s been for a number of years republicans and democrats have told this administration that we need to have a strategy in this region. this is a bad situation. there s no easy answer to what s going on here. but for three years the administration has just sort of ....