Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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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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