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world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and im 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 trumps grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding de...

and it ended up being a decisive factor in the victory for abortion rights advocates in this state. a lot of credit has to be given to cannons for constitutional freedom. they are the manu bortion rights coalition that was pushing out the vote, and they had to overcome a lot for this decisive win here. not only are registered republicans outnumbering registered democrats in the state by a nearly 2-1 margin, this is deeply conservative state. they have a democratic mayor, yes, but the l...

this. you should never use the justice department on the -- >> gland out of the boxes of material, but they wont put things in those boxes to entrap him? >> one man is already targeted a fbi office before being killed by police. the violent rhetoric online has reached a fevered pitch. plus democrats and the president hailing the passage of the inflation protection act, hoping it will translate to votes in november. >> today the american people one. the special interests last, finally. ...

brand-new hour here on "cnn newsroom." im victor blackwell. good to have you on. were on the eve of another hearing on the capitol insurrection this time tomorrow, the committee investigating january 6th plans to focus on former president trumps efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling are expected to testify about that pressure campaign. along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers...

>> greg: you didnt think we could do it but there you are. months of hard work and hot tubbing but hes here. im not proud of some of the things i had to do in that tub larry but ill do what it takes. also side note al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri was killed. [cheers and applause] >> greg: youre sick. was just 51 years young, his remains will be cremated and spread over his already cream ated remains. and to think he just finished paying off his womens studies degree. we went to his f...

some indicted, often because of their client. i say that not as shade or criticism, but as an objective legal matter. they get in trouble for the things they do for him, not unrelated legal failures, which sometimes brings up talk of the devils advocate. i will explain. our breakdown on that ahead. our top story now are the continuing clashes over the search of mar-a-lago and whether more information will come out about a path to what was an unprecedented search of an ex presidents hom...

for them. and thats because they say the temperatures increase, the humidity drops, and the winds pick up. thats the time when this fire begins to expand even more. weve seen it grow dramatically over the last couple of days and they expect it to continue, unfortunately. firefighters also saying this is a difficult fire because in very steep areas. they say its hard to get to people and homes. a lot of the homes are big, say five-acre lots, the homes are essentially surrounded by the f...

his foot stuck in the petal clipped and fell to the ground. he got right up but its not the first time biden has had a physical mishap. you may remember he stumbled at least twice while climbing the stairs to aboard air force one. that was just two weeks ago. still come the left-wing media took very little notice of my mike bidens bike fall. they were quick to dismiss thinks about his age. >> what is false is that he is not capable of doing the job right now or he is not mentally in tu...

you are live in the cnn "newsroom." im jim acosta in washington. just days after the january 6 committee exposed a president whose actions were a disaster, there is little evidence that donald trump has lost his mojo with the far right of the republican party. in fact, he was greeted with a heros welcome last night in florida. watch this, complete with video and pyrotechnics. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! �...

the island. 27 chinese war planes have buzzed through taiwans defense zone in the last several hours. its a show of aggression by china that we have not seen in 30 years in this kind of force. weve seen smaller versions of this over the last year. but now russia has decided that they want to get in on this whole conversation scolding the united states for her visit to stay out of taiwan. watch this. >> i have no doubt that this same line that weve been talking about regarding the ukrai...