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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 somethin ....
east coast. i m holly vulture. this is msnbc special coverage primer results in five states. arizona, kansas, missouri michigan, and washington state. voters of turned out to the determine their nominees for the elections to be held in 97 days. the biggest news of the night was in the state of kansas or voters voted to protect the right of abortion. this was the first electoral test for abortion rights since the supreme court overturn roe v. wade. around 60% of kansas voters voted no to removing the right for an abortion in the state constitution. in arizona, watching that closely right now, three races are too early to call for trump endorsed election deniers. mark finchem is leading 40 tutored dixon is the projected winner. she will run against the incumbent gretchen whitmer. in missouri, attorney general eric schmidt as when the republican nomination for senate to feeding former governor eric greitens. last night, donald trump endorsed a candidate named eric, and w ....
presence. nancy pelosi has been supporting taiwan for decades and it is very important for me as a taiwanese to be here tonight to welcome her. reporter: others accuse her of escalating tensions. translator: right now, pelosi and the united states are treating taiwan as a chess piece. once she land, china will retaliate using their own methods. reporter: china s foreign ministry spokesman called her stop in taiwan, a serious violation of the one china principle that will have a serious impact on the relations, and they said that cyber attacks took some sites off line. and no immediate claim of responsibility. the mainland communist rulers have never controlled the island of almost 24 million people, and they refuse to recognize the democratically elected government, and china says they sent 24 warplanes into the air space tuesday part are calling a bullying, and economic power to isolate the island. in a washington op-ed shortly before her arrival, pelosi writes ....
by investigators today, jake, lasted 40 to 60 minutes, from the moment he was engaged with the officer outside the school to the moment that a border patrol agent shot and killed ramos inside the school building, that that took almost an hour. so you can imagine what a horrific scene that was inside that school for the dozens of children and teachers that were inside. yeah, there s a lot of questions about that timeline. but ed, we just heard from the shooter s grandfather, i understand. yes, we were out in the neighborhood where investigators and fbi agents have been combing the neighborhood around where ramos grandparents live. the grandmother is still in a san antonio hospital. we understand she s 66 years old, still in critical condition. she was able to she was shot in the face, we re told, and was able to walk across the street and get a neighbor to call for help. that s how she was airlifted to a hospital in san antonio. but that woman is still hanging on ....
now the pentagon is also responding and doing some cleanup on this story today for the president as well. we ll take you there as well to hear what they have to say. a shocker in the johnny depp trial. they ll call super model kate moss to the state. we ll get you up to speed on what is going on there. first up on the story today, we go to the d.c. courtroom where there were more fireworks in the john durham case against hillary clinton s campaign later. we have covered this whole story. he ran the fbi s counter intelligence division where they did crossfire hurricane in 2016. that was prior to the election. his note that he wrote during some important meetings could be crucial to the evidence in this case. former federal prosecutor trey gowdy standing by with what he makes of what s going on. first to david spunt live at the courthouse in d.c. where all the action is taking place. hi, david. hi, martha. yeah, a lot of action going on. and bill prestep is the big ti ....