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arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didn't just refuse to participate in trump's campaign to, i don't know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didn't have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a rematch against biden, bowers had a change of heart and is now saying that he will never, ever vo...

late word that the agency might temporarily disable texting on employee phones while it fixes gaps in how it retains these messages. first, though, what could be far reaching repercussions from primary elections in five states last not. in kansas, a ballot measure to strip abortion rights from the state constitution lost by a wide margin. here's president biden say hailing it as a bellwether for november. >> in a decisive vote, in a decisive victory, voters made it clear that politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights of women. the voters of kansas sent a powerful s...

that had -- couldn't even get an abortion after being raped. and then went to indiana, brought to indiana, and got her health care there, and then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didn't really get in trouble, didn't do one thing wrong, but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters here it, regular people hear it. and i think that's what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions on reproductive health care. and i don't think we can put in their minds what they thought of re...

health care there. then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didn't really get in trouble, didn't do one thing wrong but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters hear it, regular people hear it. and i think that's what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions on reproductive health care. and i don't think we could put in their minds what they thought of restrictions or not. i just think that the views that we're seeing is what they voted on, right? we've got people including ...

that was the scene in kansas after resounding victory for abortion rights at the polls. kansans voted overwhelmingly to protect the right to an abortion in the constitution. not only was the result surprising in a state's conservative as kansas but, the margin wasn't even close. kansas voters rejected the anti-abortion measure by nearly 20 points and what's remarkable about the outcome is that kansas republicans did everything they possibly could to stack the deck in their favor. for starters, they scheduled the vote during a typically low turnout august primary instead of during the...