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Keeping close tabs its on how Top Republicans answer what should be a simple question. But the right answer could do on the wrong side of donald trump also, the foreign president is Holding Caracas Campaign Rally this evening in New York City. And a deep blue state that frankly is not in place for him in the white house. But he is hoping to make inroads with black and latino voters. My source is a congressman who represents the bronx where that rally was held also tonight, the hottest ticket in america is not a taylor swift concert. Its the white house state dinner a whos who of stars dignitaries, and four president s wining and dining. As we speak. Weve got the inside scoop and well go inside the source. Im Kaitlin Collins and this this is the source election meet litmus this test, as we draw closer and closer to november, Top Republicans arent just falling in line. There also falling over themselves to appease the partys presumptive nominee. A new trend is taking place to not only cast doubt about the last election, but to also raise questions about the next one. And 2024 we are watching its Top Republicans are declining to answer a straightforward question. Or at least toasting themselves into pretzels when they are asked about committing to the accepting the Election Results no matter what happens, no, if its an unFair Election, i think its going to be bad side. Yeah, ill accept them but i think yeah. Theres no massive cheating. The 47th president United States movie donald trump, yes or no. Will you accept the Election Results of 2024, no matter who wins . That is my statement and what a statement that truly is. Then in addition to what you just saw, their here on the source last night, you saw another prominent senator joining in that effort. Texas senator ted cruz, as we remember, was the first senator to object to certify and the results in 2020 for arizona. He was also in the building on january 6. Rioters stormed inside and lawmakers were forced into hiding. Heres part of our exchange. We asked him that question last night. Will you accept the results regardless of who wins the election . So caitlin, i got to say, i think thats actually a ridiculous question is a yes or no question. No, its not. So youre asking, will you promise . No matter what to agree an election as illegitimate regardless of what happens. And that would be an absurd thing to claim. The media engages in this weird game post, donald trump that you insist no voterfraud has ever existed why does every state have laws in place to challenge voterfraud if it occurs, the medial an election challenge isnt again hey, there was no one again, only ask republicans that you look into tried to block the transition of power. You have to acknowledge that weve never seen it on a scale of what happened in 2020. And weve never seen the president refused. He wouldnt even let joe biden get classified briefings at the beginning, i recall that. So let me my question for you again free and Fair Election. Will you accept the results regardless of who wins . Look, if the democrats, when i will accept the result, but im not going to ignore fraud, but was or what have 20 of course, there was fraud, no, that wasnt. And you still objected as. Has been made clear, there was no Material Fraud that would have altered the outcome of the 2020 election. Thompson department of Homeland Security said that the 2020 vote was one of the most secure in history. Dozens of law lawsuits contesting the election were dismissed and dropped because of a lack of evidence black a standing by courts across the country trumps own attorney general, bill barr, someone who has said that despite everything that happened, he is still voting for donald trump this november described it as playing a game of whackamole to run down the avalanche of false claims of fraud that were coming into the Justice Department senator ted cruz, of course, is aware of all of that. And hes also deeply familiar with trumps false claims about losing elections in 20168 years ago trump actually accused crews of stealing the Iowa Caucuses that he one donald finds it very hard to loose donald trump guaranteed a victory in ireland. And then he lost and he doesnt like that. What donald does when he loses is he blames everybody else. Its never Donalds Fault its always somebody else. Also has fallen its pretty remarkable to see that of course crews not embracing trumps claims of fraud, then aileen political sources tonight are both san and political commentators, former Obama Administration official, van jones, and also the former republican Lieutenant Governor of georgia, geoff duncan, who i should note was among those pressured by trump and his allies to change the 2020 results. And jeff just given that you know, have you ever what im struck by is that it is such a simple and straightforward question that so many republicans have a difficulty answering these days it was so painful to sit here and listen to all those audio clips have just everybody tying themselves and pretzels i mean, i flipped the script back on ted cruz and say, just spend that hot air that you just spent trying to twist around. And it actually lay out some proof. I mean, were almost four years into this and theres not one ounce or shred approved that anything happened other than a fair and legal election in georgia and every are everywhere else in the country was or anomaly certainly, but there was never been an election thats been more scrutinized in the georgia election. And look, this is painful to watch. It takes you back to your High School Days where somebody wants to be in the cool kids clubs so bad they will do and say anything that eventually they look back and say that was a huge mistake theres not an if its when republicans will recognize donald trump is the biggest stain on our parties history. Then do you think thatll thatll happen that it is not an if but a when of republicans for grunting, how they answer that question well and in the fullness of time, i hope so mainly because the thing that strikes me about ted cruz is those are not the answers of a patriot patriot defends the integrity of american institutions of american democracy. Its geopolitical adversaries that want people to not believe that america is a fair place to not believe in our institutions ted cruz until a few years ago, called himself a patriot. What kind of patriot wont even defend the most prized democratic experience experiment in history. American democracy. He wont even defend it. He wont even just say the simple truth, which is that we do a good job in this country. Those poll workers do a good job in this country. People in both parties do a good job of counting these vaults. And we are the envy of the world. He wont even defend american democracy. B wants to be called the patriot but geoff, georgia is one of the states that altered its voting laws since the 2020 election. Weve talked to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp about that multiple times here on the show. I mean, we have seen where it led to changes in Election Laws in certain states. And as senator cruz pointed out last night, if there is an issue with an election because obviously we dont want there to be Material Fraud in our elections. Theres a place to adjudicate that to deal with that. And its a court. And what happened when donald trump and his allies and Rudy Giuliani took it to court, was they failed everything was thrown out. They were all dropped theres a process in place to modernize elections as we go forward in time and spend as long as i can remember in certainly in the past election cycle, we did that, we looked at some of the anomalies that were in place, both democrat and republican ideas came together. But thats what we constantly do in america. We are willing and able to update those laws house, but look, this whole thing started because donald trump lost and he didnt lose for any other reason than he was the worst candidate and the world and republicans specifically republicans in the suburbs, figured out hes a Snake Oil Salesman and he acted like he was a republican for four years, but he didnt he wasnt he was fake. He added 8 trillion worth of debt. What he said he wouldnt. He built a selfie station the wall instead of actually building a wall, he acted like a clown around the world. And he had selfserving interests in every meeting that he had, other than that, he was decent, i guess. Right. But we saw through it and anybody who thinks that the suburbs are going to come back and vote for him again, havent wrong. If we give donald trump four more years in the white house, its like giving a drug addict drugs to fix the problem. We know what we have to do. We have to get rid of them and move on as a party well, i mean, the question is how people deal with as and i wonder what your responses to what you heard from senator cruz there. And weve heard this from other republicans. Is they point to comments made by people like Stacey Abrams frozen georgia, and Hillary Clinton. Of course, Hillary Clinton gave a concession speech. We all watched it after the 2016 election they do use those moments though in these arguments to say well, its the same thing even though of course john kerry never condoned what was happening. Joe biden when he was Vice President and certified the election and the results of it on capitol hill well, i mean, you can cherry pick. Unfortunate comments from anybody Hillary Clinton, anybody else . Nobodys perfect. But the question is, when its all said and done do you do the thing that weve always done . You give your concession speech, you shake hands. Well, we want our kids way after the end of the basketball game, after the end of little league, they align up, they shake hands. I appreciate each other. They come back the next set sunday necessarily try and do it again. They try and do better they got Republican Party failing kindergarten now, on just basic decency, basic fair play. And i sure. You can cherry pick, but its interesting to me, you dont cherry pick anything else democrats do to defend republicans. So why is this one behavior . A couple of people and also, i remember in the year chief thousand im old enough to remember in 2000 al gore coming before the country, when it was clear to us as democrats that he had been robbed and ripped off and mistreated by the supreme court. We were angry. People would have gone to the streets in an instant, and al gore said, i accept the supreme courts decision lets move forward. It was an act of courage. It was an act of patriotism. And weve seen nothing of the kind from this Republican Party, despite the fact that theres plenty of evidence at al gore could have pointed to and none that they can point to. So what is, what is patriotism mean if you only love the country when you win, youre not a patriot and jeff thats what is kinda confounding about. This is i was looking at how different republicans have answered this. Senator jd vance in an interview, i believe with dana bash said, yeah, if its a free and Fair Election republicans will louisiana sickly it accept the results of it. But why is it so difficult for the others to just say yes . To that question because theyre addicted to the hot burning spotlight that follows donald trump and they spent their life trying to chase that spotlight for themselves, but they realized that they want to stay in it. They gotta get close to donald trump. And so thats just more important to them. And doing the right thing. This is this is crazy to watch these individuals twist themselves in a pretzels and thats really what does lead me. If were going to see a gop to 0. 0, if were going to see it Republican Party get back on its feet. Its not going to include donald trump and weve got to beat them right here in his tracks and move on. Thats the reason why supporting joe biden as a lifelong republican who plans to continue to be a republican is supporting joe biden because not because i agree with his policies, but because hes going to give us a chance to move on past donald trump, no matter who wins in this election, if youre a hardcore republican, like i am, whos not angry, just conservative. You lose either way there. Joe biden wins, or donald trump wins. Either way, we dont get our voices heard through our policies van. There was a lot in this interview that we did with senator cruz is probably 30 minutes having commercial break. There was a commercial break inbetween, but we talked that ivf we talked about abortion, and we talked about what came out in trumps trial with the national enquirer, which crews he was right about in 2016, trump and david pecker, were coordinating these vicious, ugly lies about him. And we talked about whether or not he felt vindicated by that testimony. But the other thing we talked about with nikki haley because she came out yesterday, said she would vote for donald trump after she was in a similar position to cruise. So one was who was a hearty critical of Donald Trumps and then turned around, i just want everyone to listen to how ted cruz talked about being in the position that nikki haley now finds herself in do you empathize with her . Shes in a similar position to you. I understand that journey and i was in that position now she didnt win any states, but she was the last person im standing i understand. And thats and she was in a hardfought primary. I i have been in that spot and it took some time for me to decide what to do and i did not initially endorsed donald trump and i said at the time i said, listen, im not sure what trump will do it. Office. I dont know if itd be a conservative or not, but i know what hillary is promising to do and what shes promising to do. I think would be really harmful. So im going to make the decision to go with someone who is saying he will do good things. And im gonna do everything i can to help encourage them to do that. Weve seen what do you make of that response . Van . I mean i think thats frankly close to the truth for ted cruz. I mean, we we were all there. We watched them struggle. He tried to give a speech in front of the Republican Convention and not endorse donald trump was really trying not to adorn entrepreneur, eventually came around and coughed up the fireball and now hes a loyal part of the koolaid called. But i think hes i dont think hes wrong and describing that process but i think the conclusion that he came to was wrong then i think nikki, haleys come to the wrong conclusion. Now, we need more people like our colleague here, who say what they mean and mean what they say if you tell him erica, that this person is completely unqualified in a threat to the country. And then tomorrow say, but im now going to vote for him on his team. It makes politics seem like professional wrestling, where its just, nobody is actually on the level. Its all just a game. Its all just, you could turn. Hell at any moment, its all for entertainment. And that is also destructive of american democracy, Political Parties need to stand for principles when theyre popular, when theyre not. And political leaders need to lead when its hard and when its easy. And what we have is neither we are Political Parties that go whichever way. At least in the Republican Camp Go Whichever Way Donald Trump goes today and then they say stuff that they wont stick up for the next day and that is also destructive of american democracy. Van jones, geoff duncan, great to have you both here to start off the show tonight thanks, caitlin meanwhile, here in new york, there was a rare trump rally in New York City. Not exactly trump country, of course. But trump is instead of one of the heart of one of the deepest blue states. And well tell you why. Also the former president s latest claims while Evan Gershkovich, who is the one while Street Journal Reporter being wrongfully detained in russia. Now, over a year, his fourth and final National Security adviser will join me when the competition is a nuclear competition. Spying is extraordinarily important the russians were trying to spy on us. 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But what weve seen a new numbers and of course these are just a snapshot of where the country is right now. Show the biden trump are essentially tied for those voters right now. Trump is polling it. What would be the highest level of block support for any republican president ial candidate since 1960. For my source on this tonight is the democrat who represents the south bronx congressman Ritchie Torres and congressman its great to have you here on the source. Youre a bronx democrat. Donald trump is arguing he thinks new york could be in play for him i mean, he is famously delusional. I mean, the bronx is the antithesis of trump country. Its antitrump country. I think we in the bronx, no stranger to donald trump. We know these fundamentally a fraud and im confident that most bronk sites are not going to buy the snake oil that hes selling and keep in mind that were not for the fact that hes facing criminal prosecution in New York City. He would never be caught dead. A campaigning in the bronx. Hes a criminal suspect with 91 felony counts. His highest priority is not the people of the bronx, its his own selfpreservation. Yeah. But i mean, he did have a pretty sizable audience. Their tonight, and a crowd. I mean, we were watching the rally earlier as you just talk about this, he even seem to be surprised by the amount of people that showed up. We had reporters out there talking to voters and some of them are open to voted for a republican. And i wonder, given you know, these people incredibly wells you represent them what you make of that look, he might make gains at the margins a little keep in mind, the rally was, was largely unrepresentative of the bronx. The bronx is almost exclusively latino and african american, and there was far less diversity in his rally. But look, he might make gains at the margins, but im confident in the end the bronx is gonna vote overwhelmingly democratic because joe biden has delivered for the bronx. One example is we have the highest rates of diabetes and the bronx, Joe Biden Cap the price of insulin at 35 a month for Senior Citizens on medicare, which is a lifes change, your life changer and saver for the bronx, which has some of the highest rates of diabetes. Yeah. And you mentioned the margins. The margins are going to really matter in 2024 from everything weve looked at so far. And how this has gone. And the other part of both the bronx is its one of the poorest, if not the poorest district in the United States. And 35 of people live below the poverty line there i was looking into the numbers from the census data. There obviously inflation cripples, families like that. I mean, no, they dont have any extra Spending Room or money in their budgets and what we hear from voters is that they dont feel like the white house fully registers how theyre feeling about that. I wonder what you think President Biden should do differently to address that . Look, i think the president has a Success Story to tell. He should come to the bronx and tell it. But he has delivered for the people the bronx from the moment he is the presidency, he created 15 million jobs compared to the 2. 9 million jobs that were lost under donald trump. Donald trump deceptively markets himself as a tax cutter he imposed the largest tax increase on new york in recent history, the loss of Salt Deductibility cost us 15 billion in revenue. We as new yorkers are paying more in taxes, were receiving less than services because of donald trump. So President Biden has a story to tell, and i agree that needs to be improved messaging. Do you think he should he should President Biden should come to the wrong should come to the bronx im in the bronx is is is the most democratic county in america and we would more than welcome him because if you can make your policies work in the bronx, you can make them work anywhere in america. Had you have you had any conversations the white house about that because youve cited those numbers and we hear that from the white else they get asked this question all the, all the time and they look at these poll numbers as well, even though of course, President Biden loves to dismiss them, hes not a big fan of the poll numbers, but the question is, is it breaking through and its not so how do they change that besides just saying this is what weve done. Heres how its benefited you. How do you make people feel that . Look i think the most powerful example is the cost of pharmaceuticals President Bidens the first president in recent history to empower the federal government to do shape more affordable drug prices for seniors Senior Citizens on medicare like thats the kind of policy that has a real impact in improving peoples ability the to afford the cost of living in New York City. What about latino voters . Because youve mentioned them as well and 65 of residents and your district are hispanic, 31 are black according to the us census data those are also numbers that we see. They helped President Biden get into the white house in 2020 now we are seeing in polls that he is very clear close with donald trump in that, what do you attribute that to keep in mind that the latino vote historically has been bipartisan. In the 2000 election, george w bush, one 40 of the latino vote and we have to keep in mind that the Latino Community is hardly a monolith. The dominicans and Puerto Ricans in the south bronx are quite different from the cubans, venezuelans, in florida who are quite different from the mexicans and california were quite different from the mexicans and Southern Texas and so we have to be careful not to paint a community as variegated as the Latino Community was brought to your community and what you hear, i think Mike The Community is going to be overwhelmingly for biden. No question. I mean, if you do polling among likely voters in the south bronx, donald trump is so unpopular as to be radioactive and hes less popular than the Boston Red Sox in the bronx. So you dont have any concerns about what those margins could look like in 2024 . And how that could affect what the race looks like ultimately. Look, we should not take any county, any state for granted. We should have 50 State Strategy and it would be powerful if President Biden came to the bronx and we would welcome them with open arms so its great to have you, your red socks joke. Im sure jumbo love that. Thank you for being here. Great to have you on your source for the first time. Speaking of the former president , he is making quite a new claim on social media tonight saying that he can get russian president putin to free the american journal lets two moles Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been wrongfully detained. Theyre more than a year. 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Youll recall that it cnns town hall with him last year, trump argued that he could settle russias war in ukraine in one day, a notion that president zelenskyy dismissed and also said was dangerous my source tonight is robert obrien, who served as the fourth and final National Security adviser, and also as the us hostage negotiator. So ambassador, its great to have you here and given your experience with Hostage Negotiations and americans who are wrongfully detained abroad you know, how difficult this is and how sensitive and nuanced these conversations are. I think some people may look at this and say, okay, well, thats putting a political lens on it for trump to say that only it will happen if hes reelected president well, thanks, kaitlyn. Thanks for having me on tonight. I think one of the things that President Trump understands, and even the left the haters gave him credit for this. He brought home an unparalleled number of American Citizens either hostages or wrongful detainees when he was president. And he did it without paying ransom and he did it without the big prisoner exchanges that weve seen of this administration. So i think the point hes making with evan is it the United States has a lot of tools to bring back wrongful detainees. And with russia, weve got some really significant tools. First, we have medicean sanctions, and those have not been used by the Biden Administration to to encourage the russians or pressure the russians really seven number two, we could sanction the Russian Federation central bank, which weve never done. And so russia is actually made Money Sign Oil on its war with ukraine because we havent sanctioned Russian Federation central bank there. Number three, we know there are, there are russian spies and organized Crime Syndicate members all over america. Russians usually want to get those people home if theyre picked up. We could bring we could pick up several those folks. I dont wanna get into who they are and sources and methods and that sort of thing. But we can certainly pick up some people that are important to Vladimir Putin and trade those back to havighurst us. Now none of these things have been none of these tools have been used by the biden ministration, which is kinda shocking. I mean, roger carsons is a great negotiator and i friend of mine and i think i live in the current speed the current Hostage Envoy but the Biden Administration is basically sandi hash takes from tony blake and saying free evan well, the hadamard, putins a tough guy, is a thug, and hes not going to respond to the twitter hashtag or twitter campaign. Hes gonna respond to real hard american hard power. I think President Trump understands that, and thats how we got so many people out of russia. We got people out of r amp we got people out of turkey weve got the ada yemen across venezuela, across the board under the Trump Administration when i was supposed Hostage Envoy, National Security adviser, because President Trump was willing to use all the tools of american power, including hard power, to get our people home yeah, i mean, it reminded me though of when trump said that he had an opportunity to exchange paul whelan, who is still wrongfully detained in russia in exchange for victor booed who of course, was ultimately part of that exchange with Brittney Griner with President Biden was in office. But let me ask you, ambassador, because you just got back from a trip to israel where are you met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials . Netanyahu obviously is right now facing a lot of pressure at home to secure the release of the hostages who are still being held in gaza. Also over how he is conducting the war in gaza what, what can you tell us about what he said to you . Well, i think Benjamin Netanyahu understands that weve got to put pressure on hamas to bring the hostages home, as long as theres no pressure on hamas, theyre going to keep the hostages and try and use them as leverage against the israeli people, try and drive israeli Public Opinion and trying to extract concessions from israel so this heinous act where they when captured hostages, many women commit, its terrible Sexual Violence against some. We know they committed Sexual Violence in captivity against and weve known that from hostages have been released and theyre using these hostages is pons, i think that now he understands hes got to put pressure of Military Pressure on hamas. And thats the only thing thats going to bring hamas to the table to negotiate about bringing them home. Did he say that its important sorry, go ahead. Now i met with one of the. Hostage families and ive got a lot of experience dealing the Hostage Families is caitlin and its just heartbreaking my heart goes out to the family of a hostage who was died in captivity. And hamas want releases remains so he cant be buried in peace. He cant rest in peace and israel in the jewish religion, its important to get very, very quickly after death. But hamas is holding them to try and secure the release of terrorists. And its heartbreaking down those conversations as you can imagine. Yeah, its devastating. I mean, ive spent a lot of time there after october 7 and those conversations are so painful and for those families and when you hear about that day and obviously how its completely marked in israeli history now, trump has always argued that he thinks that wouldnt have happened had he been an office, i wonder if you agree with that i do agree with that. I said that in israel to the israeli officials and the israeli public, why do you think this is . Because peace through strength works and its not just a cliche. And we had no doors that are didnt expand any wars under trump. That was the First Time Since jimmy carter that, that happened we had Peace Treaties and serbia, kosovo, the golf rift with the emirates and qatar. We of course had the historic Abraham Accords because america was strong and keep in mind hamas is a total proxy of iran hamas wouldnt do anything without permission from ran. Same with hezbollah. And so around would have never taken the they chance to attack israel, this heinous way, the worst attack on jews since the holocaust in europe. They would never done that with trump in office because they know the response would have been overwhelming and devastating. And going back to your point about the hostages, keep in mind, kaitlyn, some of the tosses or american at least five of them, there are still alive, we believe are american whereas delta force, whereas the Seal Team Six where, wheres our effort to go get those hostages back . 30 americans were killed. We needed isis like 3d tomasa, the Isis Caliphate and destroy it and then thatll give the Palestinian People a chance to live in peace and maybe some a little bit of freedom. But weve got to remain a very troublesome issue. But, but on what you just said that you do agree with former President Trump that that day wouldnt have happened had he been president. When you said that and express that sentiment when you were there, did Prime Minister netanyahu agree with you . Prime minister netanyahu was a real problem. I made it clear i was theres an American Citizen and private citizen not on behalf of President Trump. He didnt send me i was here to get educated on whats happening and to see some is that really friends who we negotiate, the Abraham Accords with and see how those allen, during those accords were. But also to get a closeup view like you did the music the festival, and they could put some on the guys in the gaza envelope. That were so brutally attacked. And so i certainly express that, but Prime Minister netanyahu is a real problem. He understands that theres one president at the time of the United States and the present todays joe biden. And so he wasnt going to react to that and no ones going to and israel, there, they understand the the diplomatic niceties of relations between the us and israel. Yeah. And one thing i did, i told i told them as well as look, we have Policy Disagreements with the Biden Administration. Jake sullivan happened to be there coincidentally the same time i was so he was leaving meetings as i was coming into meetings Jake Sullivan be my successor is the National Security advisor, but i told my its israeli friends like we disagree dramatically on policy, especially in the middle east, and that the appeasement of iran and the pay the ransom to their radians and Turning A Blind Eye of the sanctions, relief for ran but its important for the israelis to maintain a close bond with the United States of america that our adversaries want to see a wedge between israel and the United States. And so whoever the president as well as President Biden, the President Trump, the israelis to maintain a close relationship with the United States. And thats a message i sent them ambassador robert obrien. Thank you for coming on tonight to talk about your trip thank you for having me, kayla. 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Anyone who was found in possession of these drugs without a prescription could face eight Felony Charge and up to ten years in prison as a result, well, to this new legislation of course, abortion is already banned in the state of louisiana with no exceptions, i should note for rape or incest medical professionals are warning that on top of that, this bill could spark confusion and even potentially delays and providing timely Emergency Care thats something that my source tonight, Kaitlan Joshua has personally experienced in that state when she had a miscarriage. I should know shes now working with the Biden Campaign and kaitlan joins me tonight and kaitlan first, i just want to say thank you for coming on to talk about something that is so personal and also so painful and being willing to talk about it publicly. Because for those who arent familiar with your story, when you became pregnant, you were told to wait weeks for your first Prenatal Appointment because of that abortion law that i just mentioned there. Can you just walk us through what happened to you . Yes. Thank you again for having me on this evening. Hesitant. I found out that we were extending the summer of 2022. We were extremely thrilled. I moved to call my provider and schedule my first Prenatal Appointment, but was denied that Prenatal Appointment. As a result of the time was the recent Dobbs Decision . In the Providers Office basically told me that they were not seeing patients until that 12 week mark just to try to mitigate a bit of the medical liability that comes with seeing patients before that 12 weeks. Unfortunately, my husband and i did not make it till 12 weeks. I miscarried right around 11 unfortunately, went to several different medical providers in my city to be able to get care. I knew that i was miscarried at the time, but unfortunately, no one would tell me that. Right . No one would find it on paper or explain what was happening with my body and ultimately, the first hospital that i went to sent me home with prayers. The Psych Hospital that i went to deny any Type Procedure or at the time medication, abortion, to be able to pass my pregnancy with dignity. And i was left to pass it at home by myself. It took weeks on end to be able to do that. Im just advocating for women across this country so that they do not have to face the same implications that come into play as a result of an abortion ban i mean, to hear you say that it took weeks and just to think of how painful and challenging that period must have been, i think its hard for a lot of people to even fathom having to go through that yes. And unfortunately, it is around eight that we are seeing play out all across this country right now and so when you, when you look back on your experience and what happened and then you see what happened today with the legislation that passed designating these Abortion Pills as dangerous, controlled substances. I mean, this is something that the fba fda has studied it. Says is overwhelmingly safe and not dependent, doesnt have a Dependency Potential like the other drugs that i was just talking about. I mean, whats your reaction to that . I am absolutely infuriated. I think that we are seeing firsthand the policies in which donald trump first was able to overturn Roe Versus Wade decision coming down and ultimately states across this country, seeing abortion ban put outright in real time right . And essentially we know that we have loud all trying to get back into that way house. Were going to look at what was happening in louisiana as could be happening all across this country. And it is infuriating. I certainly believe that in a state that has such terrible maternal morbidity rates has terrible fetal morbidity rates. We are going backwards and essentially im not align with Internet Access tended to help care that they need in dire situations. This is medication on both mifepristone and misoprostol is already as you alluded to preside all the time, thousands of times a day to manage miscarriages, treatments, and let are my story and handle postpartum hemorrhaging and a host of other reasons right. A host of other issues that women stays during whenever they went to the doctor routine biopsies, you name it, list is very long and to see that my seat past to fail, thats an president s not just for the south or from this country. And essentially its taking a step back and putting what womens lives at risk just to check a box and for what reason we are unsure, but what we do it is so important that women and men, in this moment understand that this too could be your state. And weve got to do whatever we can to make sure that we get President Biden and Vice President harris back in the white house, restore roe and do away with these draconian laws that we are seeing across this country . Well, katelyn you live in louisiana, this is something that youve had to deal with My Home State Of Alabama right next door. Abortion is also totally banned. Theyre and you were just talking here on the show last night about what happened with ivf clinics after a decision by the supreme court, there and theyre ruling i think a lot of people may not understand what is it like to be a woman in the south, right now is fighting its a feeling that i dont want to feel and it wants us to understand right now, theres this idea that is you little deceased equal that you dont need to worry about. A federal abortion aid. But essentially we know will allow for the same things that were experiencing in louisiana, the same things were experiencing, and alabamas be happening all over this country and theyre not a maga republican not going to stop. Its just ids or contraception or what were seeing right now playing out is Scheduling Jobs that are miss appropriately scheduled and essentially putting so many women size at rescue a window, we will see where it here. As a result of this law being enacted in louisiana today. And it is just so frightening and frustrating all the things. But when overarching message that im hoping to convey is that folks plugin and understand that weve got to do what we need to do this fall to make sure that we liked. And President Biden, Vice President here is to make sure that we restore Roe Versus Wade i know that in addition to your fiveyearold daughter, you and your husband, recently welcomed youre six month old son as well, caitlin, so congrats on that and thank you for joining us here tonight. The source. Thank you so much. I appreciate you up next the stars and the dignitaries out tonight for the white house state dinner will take you behind the scenes of one of the hottest tickets in washington sirens are going off the tornado you cannot out swim this you cannot outrun it it really is a terrifying experience. It is a stuff of night marris, just hear it and feel it. Nick eyes and my throat. Were burning im thinking im going to die and i thought that was it first. 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There are some big names that we noted, walked across that carpet and into the white house actor and director sean penn, former president bill clinton, and former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton, the nfl commissioner roger goodell, also nba commissioner adam silver. Plus there was a brief Cameo Appearance from former president barack obama my inside source tonight is all too familiar with what its like to plan a state dinner, given it was his job as social secretary to president obama. Debris bernard is back with us and its great to have you because this is an interest. All say, dinners and my view are interesting, but this ones also notable because its the first state visit that a us president has held for a president of an african nation since 2000 the night, and i just wonder when you are doing Something Like that, its not even just your average state dinner. Whats the most important part when it comes to nailing it . Its good question there most important part is actually to just make sure everything goes as planned. And thats true with all of the State Dinners because theyre all very important this would it is the 60th Anniversary of our relation with kenya. So this has a special importance and it looks beautiful from what i can see. Its done at a pavilion this time on the south lawn, which means you can get more guests, but you cant get technically cannot get the white house. China has to be rental oh, oh, wait. Why is that theyre curator doesnt does not allow for the china to be outside of the white house and doesnt consider a temporary pavilion, or, tend to be part of the, of the white house property or the mansion. So youre not allowed to use i think we broke that one time because i think we use the rig and china, but i know those are the rules and i believe thats the rule tonight. Thats so interesting, you learned something i covered the white house for six years. I didnt know that you learned something new every day because they are in this brad paisley joked that it kind of greenhouse out there. We saw all of the major floral arrangements and obviously brad paisley is someone hes a beloved country singer. How do you decide who the, and i should note howards gospel choir there is also there. Thats youre looking at right now. But how does how do you decide who the musical act is going to be at a state dinner well, after you find out what the preference is, r of the guest, which was gospel and country music. Then you can narrow it down. Finch who available and who youve used before. We first use brad paisley for july 4 event. And then after that, i think he was at several different things. So hes really wonderful to work with and i completely understand. Hes talented. Hes good, and hes easy to work with. You cant ask for better yeah. Hes a great guy obviously beloved. I should note also your former boss so is there a president obama we didnt catch him on the carpet. He obviously must have snuck through, will see if theres any photos of him being there. Jeremy bernard, though. What a special thing to look at and thank you as always for joining us and for giving us the inside source information, including about the white house china. Its great to have you thank you. And im not certain. I dont believe president obama is attending the dinner, but all right. Could be wrong. No, i think youre ri