good evening, everyone. welcome to a very, very special edition of the reidout, live from the flying saucer draft imporium in ft. worth, texas. we re now just two weeks away from the midterm elections and the stakes could not be higher for the lone star state where everything from school board elections to the race for governor is dominated by the struggle to define what america is and who america stands for. texas is arguably the center of the u.s. culture wars. the red state that might be getting a little less red here and there where the consequences for this year s election are at a fever pitch. this is where the high-stakes abortion conversation we re all having right now began. when texas passed its bounty hunter abortion ban before the supreme court reversed roe v. wade. voting in texas is so restricted and anti-voter laws so effective, folks have dubbed it jim crow 2.0. more books have been banned from school libraries in this state than any other state, and this
legislative spending bill, addressing climate change and inflation. the question for them is will that help them keep their majority? tuesday, voters in five states, arizona, kansas, michigan, missouri, and washington state, they re going to hold some primary elections. our teams are standing by coast coast tracking where we stand 100 days from the election day. helping us breakdown key races over the next hour and key issues that are bound to trigger orders to a poll, shaquille brewster and marshall michigan, and in kansas. where reproductive rights are on the ballot this tuesday. i m going to start with you. you owe our congressional races to watch just there. how is the antiabortion amendment shaping discussions there? richard, i m standing in front of one of just five abortion clinics in kansas. it has also become one of the few places people can seek abortion in this entire region. after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade many of the surrounding states enacte
post. the latest missing records are from two officials inside of the trump administration acting homeland security secretary chad wulf, and acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli, we will get to all of those stories and more throughout the course of this hour, but we start with the latest efforts of the united states to win the release of wnba star brittney griner from a russian jail. russia s foreign minister now says he is open to talking to secretary of state anthony blinken about the u.s. proposal for russia to belize griner and former marine paul whelan in exchange for the release of a russian arms dealer named victor boot. russia gave no indication of whether they would agree to that offer or for the timing of when the foreign minister might be able to talk to anthony blinken. griner s trial on charges of having to vape cartridges of hashish oil in her luggage is expected to wrap up next week with a verdict, according to her lawyers, they say that griner s had a doctor
they re growing silence has one s favorite network is moving on. is he already losing the fox news primary? and later, matt gates s bullying tactics backfired big-time. how is body shaming helping one teen abortion activist raised over 1 million dollars? my interview with her and much more is coming up. a good saturday morning to you. i am katie phang. we ll see, or want to. the good question this morning about whether speaker nancy pelosi will visit china on a trip to asia this weekend. china said it will take, quote, forceful measures if it happens. taiwan s self governed by china claims it is a part of its territory and promises to take it back by force if necessary. for more on all of this we are joined by nbc news correspondent allie raffa on capitol hill. katie, nancy pelosi saving security concerns for why she could not confirm or deny whether she or a group of house lawmakers will visit taiwan during this multi day four of asia. military officials say that they are
Today on Inside Politics a moment memorialized for all of history. For the very first time, Television Cameras capture the former president of the United States sitting stoic inside a croom. Lets be clear, his entrance was a madefortv setup, all about his campaign. Beyond trumps stage craft, the trial poses a very real threat to his business empire. Will he get by with help from new friends . The speaker readies for a revolt that will try to take the gavel, staying in his job may depend on democrats. Governor gavin newsom honors a promise to elect a black woman to fill the seat vacant by dianne feinstein. Barbara lee will join me in minutes. Im dana bash, behind the headlines and Inside Politics. Up first, the former president flanked by his lawyers captured sitting behind the Defense Table in a New York City cr courtroom. That glimpse will be the only one we get of donald trump. The judge overseeing His Civil Fraud Trial decided to keep the media from broadcasting Opening Arguments li