Jones is in civil court on defamation charges for his claims that the shooting was a hoax and that it was staged. The parents of the dead children produced text messages from jones's telphone, which potentially opens him up to charges of perjury. In t Tuesday nights primaries, election deniers became republican nominees for governor and for secretary of state in four key battle ground states.
This episode contains mention of sexual assault.
Kansas this week became the first U.S. state since the fall of Roe v. Wade to put the question of abortion directly to the electorate.
The result was resounding. Voters chose overwhelmingly to preserve abortion rights, an outcome that could have important political reverberations for the rest of the country.
Guest: Mitch Smith, a correspondent covering the Midwest and the Great Plains for The New York Times.
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