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whirlwind visit to taiwan, meeting earlier today with the island's democratically elected president, in defiance of provocative live fire drills from china's military. and also this hour we'll talk to kentucky governor andy beshear about the search and rescue efforts as the death count rises from this week's historic floods. i'll speak to senator kirsten gillibrand about the passage of new medical benefits for burn pit victims finally. and we are on sinema watch, waiting for that 50th democratic senator to signal whether or not she will support the democrats' new compromise bill to c...

especially given these primary elections, typically have lower turnout rates than general elections. it was, in fact, the opposite effect. to put into context how unprecedented these numbers were, in 2018 about 450,000 people showed up for the kansas primary election. yesterday it was nearly double that. that's about half of the state's total registered voters, even some kansans were surprised by that. >> there were a lot of people last fall that did not believe that the supreme court would overturn roe v. wade. and when they realized that it happened and they were like, oh, i think ...

also on the ballot today, reproductive rights in kansas. a referendum there would strip women of their rights to choose unless enough people vote no. and we all know speaker nancy pelosi is a bad ass. she arrived in taiwan today even though china is furious about the trip. plus, trevor reed the former marine who spent three years behind bars in russia and is now speaking out for the release of brittney griner and paul whelan. he joins me right here tonight. we begin with a huge night of primaries in some key battleground states. voters in five states are casting their ballots set...

so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? >> reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it's one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it's certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it's very safe to assume that much of this intelli...

doesn't go far enough. my conversation with the parns of austin tice. this mark marking ten years since the american journalist banished in syria. their new plea to president biden. a u.s. drone strike in afghanistan is believed to have killed one of the world's most notorious terror masterminds wanted in the deaths of hundreds including americans abroad u.s. officials say ayman al zawahir laden was successfully targeted in a weekend drone strike in afghanistan. to this day he has been on the fbi's most wanted list for his role in the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in tanzania a...