night in america where democracy was on the ballot. first a stunning rejection by voters in conservative kansas. voters defeating an amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights and the result wasn t close. kansas is the first state to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. perhaps even more significant was the voter turnout here because nearly 700,000 votes were cast in tuesday s primary and that dwarfs the voter turnout in the state s 2020 presidential primary election. five states in all held primaries on tuesday, one other big take away here was a slue of election deniers backed by former president trump, they were winners. and here to break down the numbers is cnn s senior data analyst harry enten. hey, john. good morning. what we got? let s start in kansas which brianna was just talking b my goodness gracious, sometimes i get surprised by results and this is one of them. i did expect that no would win, that is that they w
learned when she was doing this reporting is that cipollone and his attorneys are in discussions over access, over executive privilege and whether prosecutors can actually get to trump s statements themselves. that s something that we already know is a brewing fight and a very important one at that because people have the office of the vice president, marc short, greg jacob, they have already been into the grand jury and everything that they said the only thing that they stopped at was being able to share what trump himself was saying. so the justice department is about to go and have a fight over possibly getting access to trump s statements. that is something that could bubble up with cipollone as well. and if we remember back at that house select committee hearing what we ve heard of cipollone saying before is that the key thing he had said was that trump was the only person in the white house who didn t want to tell rioters to leave the capitol on january 6th. the house select comm
deniers is ridiculous. the hypocrisy behind this is so disgusting because what they are, they are a tool for donald trump s grievances on past elections. so the fact that meyer didn t do well in this is bad for so many reasons. you have democrats who are taking money away from good candidates like ayesha that could help good democrats and they are putting it behind a bad republican who not only is an election denier but also supports trump and a lot of the things that he has done to really be an affront to the confidence that we should have in our election process. thank you so much for your perspectives, we appreciate it. so there is evidence this morning that the justice department probe into january 6th is going from simmer to boil. a grand jury has subpoenaed former trump white house counsel pat cipollone and he has already testified before the house select committee as you may be aware of about his old boss efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now the doj wants to hear from
reaches deeper into trump s inner circle. cnn s senior crime and justice correspondent kaitlan polantz is joining us now on this. this is a big deal that they will be hearing from him. brianna, it really, really is. and for them to go after pat cipollone to try to lock down what he knew about january 6th just shows how serious, how significant this criminal investigation is into january 6. my colleague pamela brown was able to confirm last night a story first reported by abc news that former white house counsel pat cipollone has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury that is investigating january 6th out of washington, d.c. and this sort of fact-finding step, it would be the sort of thing where prosecutors would want to talk to cipollone probably about what he spoke to the house select committee about, but also what he was witnessing, what he was hearing in the west wing, maybe things that the house select didn t ask him about, other things he may have witnessed. part of this, too