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Are willing to with the boss, trumps, support. Even without money for trumps vanity border wall. Congressman roy objected to that so he tanked the bill, taking with it funding for puerto rico and other parts of the u. S. Hit by earthquakes, floods, and wildfires. That relief will have to wait until tuesday when the house will try once again to fast track it. Meanwhile across the pond, british Prime Minister theresa may announced her resignation in an emotional farewell speech. May is stepping down after failing to get parliament to accept her latest plan for brexit. Lots and lots is up in the air, including who her replacement will be. But we start tonight with president Barack Obamas final g20 summit in china. It was september of 2016, right before the president ial election. One of president obamas final trips abroad. There he is standing next to Angela Merkel and the other world leaders. Theres always a bit of pageantry to these things, lots of Awkward Family Photos and waving to the camera. But there was something about president obamas final g20 that is unlike all the others that he had attended. When it happened, it was so striking and even dramatic that it made the news that night. Overseas now, where president obama held what could be his last ever meeting with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a tense facetoface on the sidelines of the g20 summit in china. The two clashed over the issues of syria and cybersecurity. Now, it is true that president obama and the russian president talked about syria and cybersecurity during that tense oneonone meeting. President obama said in a press conference that he also used that meeting to confront putin over russias attempt to hack some u. S. Websites. But the conversation that led to these dramatic photos, obama kind of towering over putin, was not just about chiding him over russia hacking random american websites. We later found out that that tense pullaside at the g20, at that pullaside, president obama told Vladimir Putin that he knew russia was attacking our election in order to hurt Hillary Clinton and help donald trump. President obama told putin that he knew all about his plan to hack our election. And he told him to cut it out. And when you look at those photos now, consider that the context of them is that the president of the United States was trying to stop an attack by a foreign power by going straight to the source and telling him facetoface to stop. But its also important to consider how president obama knew that russia was behind the attack in the first place. At that point there was not a lot of public facing information that russia was behind the attack on the Democratic National committee or the clinton campaign. But president barack obama did know, because a source inside the kremlin had told the u. S. Government about it. The Washington Post put together some stunning reporting about this a couple of years ago. In 2016, a source deep inside the kremlin told Intelligence Officers at the cia that Vladimir Putin had direct involvement in a Cyber Campaign to disrupt and discredit the u. S. President ial election. That piece of intelligence was so sensitive, so top secret, that cia director john brennan refused to put it in the president s daily brief for fear that too many people inside the government would find out about it. Instead, he sent it to the white house by courier in an envelope marked eyes only, to be seen only by the president and three of his most senior aides. The cia package came with instructions that it be returned immediately after it was read, kind of a burnafterreading moment. When the Obama Administration held meetings about the russian attack in the situation room, when they discussed the information coming from this super secret source from the kremlin, they would turn off the cameras in the room, thats how sensitive it was. Sometimes senior officials were told to show up at a meeting in the situation room but no one told them what the meeting was about ahead of time to safeguard the intelligence from that russian source. It was a level of security that had not been seen since the planning of the raid to capture osama bin laden. That source inside the kremlin, the one the u. S. Bent over backyards to protect, the cia spent years cultivating him, having eyes and ears on the russian president who i will remind you is a former kbg agent, it was a huge get for the cia. That source is believed to still be alive. As far as we know, Vladimir Putin never figured out who inside the kremlin leaked his plan to attack our president ial election. He never found out which one of his people told the cia. But now all of that is at risk. Last night donald trump directed his attorney general and consigliere bill barr to conduct a review of how the russia investigation was conducted by the fbi. After years of trumps republican friends demanding that the Justice Department investigate his political enemies and his constant claims that the russia investigation was illegal, that his campaign was spied on by the Obama Administration and that the investigation into the attack on our election and russias attempt to help get trump elected amounted to treason, after all that, donald trump finally has an attorney general he thinks can prove the conspiracy theories are true. This president has given attorney general barr immense Unprecedented Authority to unilaterally declassify any documents or intelligence tied to the russia investigation that he wants. He has ordered the cia, the fbi and all the intelligence agencies in the government to give the attorney general whatever he asks for, no matter how sensitive or top secret it might be. And he has given the attorney general permission to do whatever he wants with those secrets. He can even release them to the public if he so chooses. Donald trump clearly hopes or maybe believes that armed with that classified intel, william barr can prove once and for all that the Obama Administration illegally spied on his president ial campaign and launched a russia hoax, a russia witch hunt. That of course is not what happened. But donald trump has tasked his attorney general with reverse engineering the evidence for his Conspiracy Theory by digging around inside our intelligence agencies. And lets not forget that he has given that assignment to someone who already cherrypicked selective information from the Mueller Report to make it look better for trump. He could cherry pick the intelligence that he releases about the russia investigation too, to give the boss what he wants to see. The implications of that are not just political. David sanger and Julian Barnes have a great piece on this over at the New York Times today about the dangers of a president authorizing his attorney general to declassify state secrets to meet his political needs. Quote, intelligence officials believe the danger of the move by mr. Trump was that it could endanger the agencys abilities to keep its sources secret, including that source in the kremlin. Quote, the most prominent of those sources among them may well be a person close to president Vladimir Putin of russia who provided information to the cia about his involvement in moscows 2016 election interference. Last night, when donald trump reupped his accusation that certain fbi investigators who participated in the russia investigation are guilty of treason, he was reminded by a reporter that treason is punishable by death. In response, did he take it back . Nope. Trump simply responded by listing the fbi investigators he thinks are traitors by name. Meanwhile, even as the president is raising the specter of treason, using his attorney general as a cudgel against his political enemies and allowing that attorney general to fire classified intelligence from a kind of confetti cannon out of the Justice Department, or maybe put the intel on fox news, that same administration is also prosecuting Julian Assange for publishing classified information. If it all seems like weve reached a boiling point, if you are feeling like this is a dangerous combination of ingredients in this news cycle bouillabaisse, you are not alone. Nyu professor ryan goodman tweeted this. Espionage indictment of assange and perils freedom of press, executive order gives attorney general barr unprecedented power to go after perceived enemies in the intel community. Join us now is ryan goodman, coeditor in chief. Lets start with the william barr declassification part of this scenario. Vladimir putin surely wants to know who this kremlin source was. 100 . Donald trump has been known to invite various high leaders of russia into the oval Office Without any americans present, to take phone calls with Vladimir Putin without any american notetakers and to be extremely solicitous of Vladimir Putin. Is there a danger now that through the work of william barr, Vladimir Putin gets to find out who it was that gave us this information . I think so. Thats what the New York Times piece also suggested, that there are now people inside our Intelligence Community who are very fearful that this particular source will be endangered. That Oval Office Meeting that President Trump had with the russians, he revealed intelligence information that he shouldnt have given them that also endangered another ally of ours. So he definitely seems to want to favor the russians in so many different ways. If he truly believes in his kind of cookedup mind that this was a hoax, the hoax also includes even just russian interference, not even collusion or working with the trump campaign, then why wouldnt he want to expose the person responsible for having told the cia that it was happening . So i think theres all reasons that people are very fearful for this particular individuals life and for others, and for other sources that the Intelligence Community would like to have in the future. Why would they cooperate with the United States when this is the risk that they could face . Right. We already have donald trump and his allies furious at christopher steele, someone they would perhaps like to put on William Barrs menu. You have this source who, again, donald trump has shown that hes averse to giving up information that the kremlin wants, and he and Vladimir Putin have the same interest. Donald trump wants to believe or wants the rest of us to believe that there was no collusion, that russia didnt help him get elected. So he might have a motivation to want to throw this person under the bus. If you are in the Intelligence Community right now and youre discovering that you maybe could become a target of william barr, what are you supposed to do now or who do you do if youre one of our sources overseas . Theres a great fear, because this president does indeed take his own personal and political interests into account at a much higher level and not u. S. National security interests. So i think think this is about the legitimacy of his election. He does not want the American People to understand how much the russians helped and worked on his behalf to get him elected. The idea that he could expose somebody, and thats part of this hoax, thats what he wants to do. Hes now given barr, who seems willing to be his henchman, this immense power, totally unprecedented, to not just get the information but to release it to the public. And in fact it refers to another executive order that says if barr deems it of public value, he can do it and override any other agency. And one cabinet member now can order other cabinet members to follow his directions. So william barr, ive had friends who are in the legal world call him a monarchist, he essentially believes in this idea of a unitary executive in the president with almost uncheckable power by congress. But we now seem to have a unitary attorney general. Now he has immense power. How dangerous is that power in the hands of somebody who has made it pretty clear that his goal is to protect and defend donald trump and to make real Donald Trumps beliefs even if they are actually conspiracy theories . I think its entirely dangerous, given that its this particular cabinet member who has the power of Law Enforcement, and the fact that we now have the assange indictment going after potentially the press, because it puts the press right in the crosshairs. I think they love the narrative framework that suggests that assange is like the press, committing espionage because theyre the enemy of the people. So its all baked into their kind of doctrine. And the doctrine, as you describe it, its like the president is at the apex and right beneath him is the attorney general commanding everyone else and certainly commanding the Law Enforcement authority of our country. How ironic that theyre giving william barr the power to do what theyre prosecuting Julian Assange is doing. Great to talk to you and coeditor in chief of just security. If it seems to you like this might be historic territory, theres a definitely a case for that. On october 8th, 1971, president Richard Nixon called a meeting with his cia director, richard helms, the official reason was to discuss cia document classification. But that was code for something else. And we know that because we have to audiotape of nixon huddling with white house aide John Ehrlichman before the cia director got there. I was kind of mysterious about why you were doing all this. I said to him, look, the president has got some very heavy negotiations coming up in the future, and i implied that it was important for you to understand the whole background of the cuban missile crisis because youre going to negotiate with the russians. So they told the cia director that nixon needed these secret files so he could prepare for negotiations. But listen to what they really wanted it for. Supposing theres something we can really hang teddy or the kennedy clan with. Im going to wanna put that in colsons hands and run with it. I think what you will say to him ill make the decision. You have to make the decision in the last analyst. I have a right to. Thats right. Im the president. The cia is not. Its a self perpetuating bureaucracy. Well, thats an unassailable position, it seems to me. Okay. So nixon was prepared to use the machinery of government to get information that he could use against his political enemies. You heard him say there, im the president , the cia is not. Joining me now is michael beschloss, nbc news president ial historian, who pointed out this episode from history today. And michael, you always bring the funk, as they say. Because that is amazing. I do my best, thank you. So nixon is sort of thought of in history as the president who most warped the notion of the presidency. But we now have a president who is essentially oneupping him on the idea of saying, ill just have the attorney general of the United States declassify things and ill just have him also prosecute my political enemies. Oh, yeah, donald trump is taking Richard Nixon to the sixth power. And nixon had a couple of things he was looking for there. And i interviewed richard helms, the director of the cia under nixon, whom he hated and distrusted, many times. And what he said was that nixon kept on coming to him through haldeman and others and saying, i want the kennedy administrations bay of pigs files on cuba. He wanted evidence that john kennedy had ordered the assassination of fidel castro. Also the nixon people kept on wanting material as you had in the tape, joy, on the coup against the president of South Vietnam in 1963. They thought if they were to tie jfk to the murder of the president and his brother, that that would appeal to catholics in the United States. First of all was that unprecedented in the use of certainly intelligence agencies are relatively modern things, but is this is an innovation of Richard Nixon, this idea that he could take the levers of government and look for them to dig up dirt, basically do watergate over and over again . It was with the cia, maybe that was a little bit innovative. But Franklin Roosevelt abused the fbi, he asked for fbi files that he could use against his opponents. Same thing with lbj, same thing with some other president s. And i think the pertinence to donald trump here is that nixon was looking for two things. Number one, he wanted dirt against his enemies, the kennedys. He was worried that ted kennedy might run against him. He was also worried that the cia had secrets that would be damaging on him. He didnt know what that could be. And if you take that into the present, what is donald trump doing with this effort to get all this stuff from all these intelligence agencies . If nixon is any lesson, i would say, number one, he wants to know what they have against him, what he might have done in the past, or even the present, and the other thing is that he may be asking these intelligence agencies for secrets that he can use against his own political enemies, maybe barack obama, maybe Hillary Clinton, maybe even joe biden. And we know that obviously under dick cheney and george w. Bush, Valerie Plame was outed, they outed a cia set when they thought it was good politics for them. What traditionally has reined in a president s desire to take this immense power and use the cia or the fbi or the Justice Department simply to persecute their political enemies . What reins them in, typically . Most president s have a sense of restraint. They know they shouldnt abuse power as president of the United States. And the other thing is fear of getting caught. Since watergate, 1974, president s have been very nervous they might be caught doing some of the things that nixon did that led to three counts of impeachment that were suggested against him. One of them was abuse of power. And joy, whats a better definition of abuse of power than going to all these intelligence agencies and getting damaging information they might have on yourself as president and also possibly on your political enemies. Fear of getting caught. But there has to be consequences when your caught, aye, theres the rub. Thats for sure. We shall see if theres any for donald trump. Michael beschloss, thank you. A chilling evening. Thank you so much. Yes, indeed, thank you. Well, it has been 63 days since special Counsel Robert Mueller handed in his report, but whos counting . And ever since then weve been collectively holding our breath waiting to hear from the man himself, Robert Mueller. 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For all the talk about Robert Mueller since then, for all the reading and analyzing and misrepresenting of his report, we have not actually heard from Robert Mueller. And it would seem like that is not for lack of trying. House democrats have been insisting they will get him in to testify. They say theyve been negotiating with the Justice Department and with mueller directly. But still, no mueller. So why not . Last night on this program, house judiciary chairman jerry nadler gave rachel the first concrete explanation, at least a partial explanation, for whats going on. Mueller, i think i can say at this point that he wants to testify in private. Why . I dont know why. He wants to testify hes willing to make an Opening Statement but he wants to testify in private and were saying he ought to we think its important for the American People to hear from him and to hear his answers to questions about the report. Does he want to testify in private and have it be a closed session where we the people would not even get to see a transcript . No, no. We would see a transcript. But we would see a transcript. Do you have any sense of i mean, why would witnesses usually Say Something like that . Or do you have any indication of why he might want that . He envisions himself, correctly, as a man of great rectitude, apolitical, and he doesnt want to participate in anything he might regard as a political spectacle. House judiciary chairman jerry nadler saying Robert Mueller does not want to testify in public. And that was new information. That was news, when chairman nadler said that, because before that we hadnt had any solid indication as to what exactly was holding up muellers testimony. Where does that leave the democrats, including on the issue of impeachment . We keep hearing there is a battle in the caucus about whether to open an impeachment inquiry and disagreement over whether such an inquiry would help lawmakers get the information and witnesses theyre after. And one of the things you consistently hear from those who urge a goslow approach is that we need to hear from Robert Mueller first. Joining me now is congressman jamie raskin, democrat of maryland and a member of the Judiciary Committee. Hes also a former professor of constitutional law, which is handy. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Delighted to be with you, joy. This week you changed your mind, youre now in favor of opening an impeachment inquiry. May i ask first what changed your mind . Well, i dont know how much my mind really changed. You know, the republicans, they moved for an impeachment inquiry against bill clinton right after they got the Kenneth Starr report. Our thought was, you shouldnt just take the report and go to impeachment, lets hear from the major witnesses, lets hear from the special counsel, let the public digest and assimilate it. I read the report in the two or three hours after it came out, i read it again over the weekend. I would say 99 of Americans Still havent read the report. In there of course is documentation of 11 different episodes of president ial obstruction of justice and at least four or five of them are just airtight cases, it seems to me. But we thought we would go through a process where the witnesses came in, where mr. Mueller came in, and we took america through it and we also explained, you know, what high crimes and misdemeanors are and what an impeachment inquiry is. But weve been stonewalled at every step by President Trump, by attorney general barr, who pulled basically a curtain of propaganda over the whole country for many weeks and misstated and distorted the contents of the report, prompting special counsel mueller to write two letters of protest, saying youre confusing the country with what youre doing. Of course that was the whole point. So i think most of us on the Judiciary Committee have just thrown up our hands and we said, lets just go ahead and say what seems obvious to us from a fair reading of even the redacted report, which is there is evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors in there and lets go ahead and launch an impeachment inquiry. Now, the big conceptual breakthrough this week is people finally got to discern the difference between an impeachment inquiry, which is an investigation into the facts and a clarification and elucidation of the legal standards, versus impeachment articles, which is the final indictment which may or may not be brought at the end of an impeachment inquiry. Right. Let me ask you as a logistical matter, if Robert Mueller is still refusing to testify publicly, because it does seem that there is a much greater value for the public to actually hear him speak than to read transcripts of what hes saying. Absolutely. Would an impeachment inquiry enable the congress to compel his testimony in public . Well, we have the authority to subpoena witnesses. And so we can ask him to come in and we can subpoena his testimony. You know, the courts have preferred when Congress Negotiates with witnesses from the executive branch. Of course mueller is no longer working for the executive branch. I know that the chairman, you know, in his wise ways, wants to try to make an accommodation with mueller to do it. But look, we are at a point now where dozens of members of congress have said that an impeachment inquiry is indicated. Speaker pelosi, you know, herself said this week that were in the midst of seeing a president ial coverup, and thats an impeachable offense, she said. So the word is out on the table. Impeachment inquiry as a concept is on the table, along with a lot of other things. Today the 25th amendment has some surging back into focus, joy, because of the Extraordinary Events that took place in the white house. You did mention speaker pelosi, Donald Trumps incredibly erratic response to her is over the top, and having his cabinet members attest to his great calm, it is getting weirder. Is there active talk, because we know from sources there may have been talk inside the white house of the 25th amendment solution, is that an active conversation inside the white house now . Speaker pelosi showed her compassion when she said there should be a family i want invention. Unfortunately some conditions are way beyond the capacity of a family intervention to address. This might be far more serious. You know, professor bandy lee, psychiatrist at yale medical school, had a group do a Mental Health analysis of the special counsels report, and they came back and said basically the president is failing at every level of basic mental and cognitive health. He cannot take in information successfully. He cannot process information successfully. He cannot engage in decisionmaking without bias, distortion, impulsivivity, impetuosity. And he cannot keep himself and others free from danger which i guess are the basic minimum requisites for Mental Health, and theyre missing in that case. The constitution has a mechanism for this, the 25th amendment, which was adopted because senators birch bayh and others said the presidency is serious, weve got 535 member of congress, if one of them is incapacitated we can absorb that, but weve got one president. In the nuclear age that is very serious business. Theres a number of parts of it. Several of them have been invoked before. Were out of time, but shouldnt i would like to come back sometime to talk about the 25th amendment. Wouldnt that necessitate a conversation with william barr, who is doing Donald Trumps bidding . Barr is basically acting like a personal defense lawyer for the president , a consigliere, hes not acting like a responsible head of the Justice Department. There were people there, apparently rod rosenstein, who raised the question of the 25th amendment. People understand that the Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can determine that the president is unable to successfully discharge the powers and duties of office. But its not just that. The Vice President and a majority of a body set up by congress can do the same thing. Congress in more than 50 years has never set the body up. And we can set that body up, which should exist for all time without respect, necessarily, to President Trump, but we can set it up and we should set it up, because, you know, when in case of emergency, break glass, and then youve got to activate the provisions of the 25th amendment. Well have to have you come back and have a longer conversation. Thank you very much, congressman jamie raskin of maryland, member of the Judiciary Committee, i really appreciate your time tonight. Up next, there is a long weekend friday night news dump. Limu emu doug mmm, exactly Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. 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Call it a friday night news dump, memorial day weekend style. With the senate out of town for the holiday the president reportedly plans to pick hard line Virginia Republican Ken Cuccinelli as the new director of citizenship and immigration services. He served as state attorney general for virginia several years ago. Then he ran for governor in 2013 and lost. Since then hes been a mainstay in right wing republican politics, notably leading a charge in 2014 to primary establishment republican incumbents. He backed a failed primary challenge to senator Mitch Mcconnell that year. And when his name surfaced last month as a possible new secretary for homeland security, Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell told the president in so many words, do not pick the cuccinelli guy. But conservative groups have been lobbying for cuccinelli, and so, welcome to friday news dump land. The president reportedly plans to tap cuccinelli for a big immigration job. 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Now there is a real sense both on the right and the left that with Brett Kavanaugh replacing Justice Kennedy in what used to be the swing seat that the Supreme Court is on the verge of gutting the landmark ruling that gave women the right to choose. Were seeing a virtual stampede of republican run states to and the latest coming from missouri. The law contains no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. It is now the eighth state this year to pass abortion restricts. With that happening with those risks to individual rights what we are also seeing is a massive response by prochoice advocates. Today the aclu and planned parenthood filed a federal lawsuit over alabamas abortion ban which outlaws abortion in nearly every case and punishes doctors with up to 99 years in prison for providing Abortion Services. The aclu has also said it is exploring all options to stop the missouri law from taking effect. And in mississippi late today a federal judge blocked that states sixweek abortion ban from going into effect. Just last year the same judge had declared a 15week abortion ban to be unconstitutional. And in his ruling against this even stricter law the judge did not mince words writing, quote, here we go again. Mississippi has passed another law banning abortions prior to viability. This law threatens immediate harm to a womans rights especially considering most women do not seek Abortion Services until after six weeks. It prevents a womans free choice which is essential to personal dignity and autonomy. Joining us for both the legal and political perspectives on this. Its so nice to have you with us tonight. Thank you for being here. In the time that you have been working on issues like this, has there been a similar period of this kind of flurry of antiabortion activities in the states . Well, theres always been a flurry of antiabortion activity in the United States. Well, theres always been a flurry of antiabortion activity in the states. The bans were seeing now are a culmination of a decadeslong effort by the antichoice movement to ban abortion. Were really seeing their true colors. Instead of chipping away at the right, which theyve done for many years, theyre now taking direct aim at the right to abortion. Do these laws, which seem on their face, im not a lawyer, but seem on their face to be unconstitutional, to violate roe versus wade, are women nervous that the Supreme Court wont uphold at least one of them . Theyre blatantly unconstitutional bans. I do want to make the point right now abortion is legal in all 50 states and we dont want people to be confused about access. Youre absolutely right that roe v. Wade is in peril. The Trump Administration has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices that would overturn roe versus wade. The real question is whats going to happen when these cases get to the Supreme Court. And destiny, democrats have never really focused on the United States senate and on the Supreme Court as voting issues. Its been a real frustration i think of a lot of women, quite frankly, that they cant get this issue to be salient even among women voters. Have you seen that start to change on the ground . Yeah, i mean, i think as you said, weve seen outrage on the ground, right . You had tens of thousands of people show up across the country at these 500 protests in d. C. And puerto rico. Theyre outraged, they know that what this agenda is about is about bullying and shaming and ultimately punishing women, and particularly women of color. If we think about kind of the outrage that we saw at the kavanaugh hearings, now were going to have a drumbeat of that outrage going up through 2020 where were going to see women who have been the bedrock of the resistance come out in record numbers. We know that folks of color, the proportion of them thats part of the electorate is increasing every year, they support this issue, they oppose these restrictions. Young people are frankly probably going to save us, they voted in record numbers as the most diverse generation ever. They voted in record numbers in 2018 and we anticipate their numbers to be even higher in 2020. And they absolutely oppose these restrictions. Theyre going to want candidates from the senate to the white house who do the same. Will a single republican United States senator lose their senate seat because of this issue . I mean, i think if we see the continued outrage that weve seen, i think as weve seen these bills kind of being rammed through, when we know what theyre really about, right . These bills have nothing to do with abortion care, they have nothing to do with science or medicine. They include all this inflammatory rhetoric. And so i think if we continue to see this kind of outrageous attempt to ban abortion outright, you are going to see people at the voting booths making some different decisions. Whats the worst Case Scenario, bridget . People need to be prepared. If roe versus wade falls, then what happens . A number of states will ban abortion and a number of states will continue to allow abortion. The reproductive rights and Reproductive Justice Movement are planning for that worst Case Scenario now, to make sure that states that will be a haven for abortion care dont have restrictions to access to abortion. Maine just passed a measure that repeals a law that says only doctors can provide abortions. Now advanced practice clinicians can provide abortions. Quickly before we go, have the president ial candidates been providing any air cover to this issue, enough air cover on this issue . Yeah, i mean, i think in some ways theyre almost stumbling over each other on this issue, right . Weve seen record numbers of these candidates on the trail saying that they support abortion rights, theyve got plans to create offices on reproductive freedom, they want to repeal the hyde amendment. I think theres a real commitment from much of the democratic field at least right now to ensure that not only do we protect roe but we go beyond it and ensure that people across the country can access care no matter how much money they make. Thank you both for joining us tonight, i really appreciate your time. Thank you. Youre not going to want to miss this, a diy solution, a workaround, if you will, for one of the pettiest moves from the Trump Administration. But we have a fix for it, and that is next. That is next mom, whats for dinner . That is next just water. Lots and lots of water. You wouldnt feed your kids just water, so why starve your plants . Feed their hunger and get twice the results. New miraclegro performance organics. Im workin to make each day a little sweeter. 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This week, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin admitted to congresswoman Ayanna Pressley a democrat on the House Financial Services committee, that he is postponing plans to put American Icon Harriet Tubman on the 20 bill. President obama in and his treasury sector wanted it ready by next year to honor the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the legal right to vote. Thousands of americans helped choose the first female face on American Bank notes in more than a century and the first black person, period. It was a groundswell support for the woman nicknamed moses who returned to the south to lead dozens of others to freedom and spent her later years speaking on behalf of womens suffrage. Happy 100th anniversary of womens democratic enfranchisement to all. And a bonus, putting her on the 20 also meant evicting the save owning architect of the trail of tears from his paper territory and marching him to the back of the bill. 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When a designer heard that tone two years ago, he starred making these just in case. Were going to show them, 3d printed stamps that superimpose Harriet Tubmans face on any 20 bill. He has already sold 600 of the stamps and since mnuchin broke the news out of the bill, hes totally out of stock and toiling away trying to make more but agreed to show us how they work. Joining us is the Harriet Tubman stamps, dano wall. Thanks for having me. First of all, let me make sure, is this legal to put a stamp on money . Yes, there are a couple things you cant do to american currency. You cant mark it in such a way as to destroy it or make it unfit for circulation. You cant stamp advertisements for products on them but besides that, as long as youre not changing the denomination or marking over the text on the bill in any way, its not against the law. Why did you decide to make these . I think in 2016 when jack lieu announced that the revised 20 bill would include Harriet Tubman i was really excited. This country has a long issue with representation and equity. And generally i think we live in a racist society and currency by virtue of its ubiquity has the power to spread ideas about who we are as a nation and what we represent. And so i felt it was a already monumentally symbolic important change to include Harriet Tubman on the 20 bill and was really enraged and heartbroken when it sounded like that was going to be taken away. Yeah. Well, let me let you demonstrate for us. We want to get a demo how had you do it. Take a 20, make a tubman out of it. We love it. Stamp has a 3d printed handle and the rubber face is molded and theres a cutout here that lines up with the seal of the federal reserve. So you just line that up. As straight as you can. Press down. Okay. And suddenly there she is. Its a tub man. Can you get this . Im going to turn it so we can see it for the camera. Now suddenly you go from having an Andrew Jackson trail of tears bill to a tubman. I have another one here so we can show you what they look like. What is the reaction to this quickly before we go . Ive been spending basically only tub mans since i started making these in 2017. For the most part, people are just in their day to day routine and dont notice. Sometimes they do and it sparks a conversation about how she was going to be on the 20 bill and i think its a good entry point into talking about representation. I think marie kondo might say it also sparks joy. I like it. Im going to be spending tubmans. Dano wall, thank you so much for your time. That does it for us tonight. Rachel will be back on monday. You can catch me this weekend on am joy at 10 00 a. M. My special guest will be Valerie Jarrett on sunday, president obamas longtime Senior Adviser and she has some thoughts on the tubman 20 bill. 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