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Anderson Cooper 360

Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

President Biden signed an executive order aimed at safeguarding abortion just a day after CNN projected that voters in Kansas decided to reject a proposed amendment and keep the right to an abortion in their state’s constitution. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells Anderson Cooper what the Kansas outcome says about where the issue is headed in the midterms and beyond. Plus, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis lost their son Jesse in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting and won a default judgment against right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones earlier this year. They are asking the jury to award them $150 million in damages. CNN Senior Investigative Correspondent Drew Griffin joins AC360 with the latest from court and why the cross-examination by the parents’ attorney caught Jones off guard. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And good evening.

0:01.6

Tonight there are some major new developments in the January 6 criminal investigation.

0:05.2

The former administration's top White House attorney Pat Sepolone, who allegedly warned

0:09.2

about dire consequences for key aspects of the former president's election scheme, is

0:13.9

now facing the prospect of appearing before federal grand jury, and he's not the only one.

0:18.8

Also potential fallout from those missing secret service text messages on and around January

0:23.7

6.

0:24.7

Late word, the agency might temporarily disable texting on employee phones while it fixes

0:29.5

gaps in how it retains these messages.

0:32.3

First though, that could be a far reaching, or some, what could be far reaching repercussions

0:36.5

from primary elections in five states last night.

0:39.4

In deep red Kansas, a ballot measure to strip abortion rights from the state constitution

0:43.5

lost by a wide margin.

0:45.0

Here's President Biden today, hailing it as a bellweather for November.

0:50.8

In a decisive vote, a decisive victory.

0:55.0

Voters made it clear that the politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights

0:58.8

of women.

0:59.8

In the voters of Kansas, in a powerful segment, that this fall, the American people will

1:05.2

vote to preserve and protect the right and refuse to let them be ripped away by politicians.

1:11.5

Well tonight, we'll look closer at whether that is likely to be the case based in part

1:15.8

on who turned out in Kansas, and what polling reveals about how potent abortion could be

1:20.4

as a voting issue in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade.

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