Zero abortion providers. The republican governor of missouri last week signed one of these draconian new abortion bans that all the republicancontrolled states are passing now. Missouri before that was already down to only one clinic that provides abortions in that entire state. And thats a big state. Well, today that clinic announced that the state of missouri also appears to be denying them a renewal of their license, which they need to operate in that state. And that means by the end of this week republicans for the first time believe they may have succeeded in one american state in banning abortion. Again, this is this week, the last clinic in missouri may be shutting down. They appear to have achieved an abortion ban in missouri both in law with the new law just signed by the states governor and also in practice, by closing down this last clinic that the republicancontrolled government there had allowed to operate and stay open. The doctor who operates that last clinic, who believes her clinic may be getting shut down in the next 72 hours, shes going to be our guest here tonight in just a few minutes. You will definitely want to see that discussion. You should also know that at the end of this hour we are going to South Carolina, where democratic president ial contender and u. S. Senator Kamala Harris is going to be doing a live town hall tonight in spartanburg, South Carolina. This Kamala Harris town hall is going to be moderated by the great lawrence odonnell. And again, it will start right at the end of this hour tonight. I have made an unfortunate habit of frequently sloshing my show over the top of the hour into the beginning of lawrences show where i chat with him about whatevers going on in the news. Tonight i have to be very disciplined and remember that i cannot do that because lawrence is there in spartanburg live in this big room full of South Carolina voters ready to do this town hall with senator harris. We are all very, very excited about that. Now, as part of my own show prep for that South Carolina town hall tonight, we are also going to be joined this hour by the charismatic, ambitious, smart young man who until recently was the Democratic Partys chairman in South Carolina. Hes going to be here tonight with sort of a preview of the tooth and nail crucial democratic president ial primary contest in South Carolina. Also senator harriss big event in South Carolina tonight. Jamie harrison, though, is also going to be making some news of his own right here live on this show in studio tonight. So you are going to want to see that interview. As i said, theres a lot going on. Particularly for the first day back from the Holiday Weekend everything is just flat out already. And you should expect that this is going to be a busy and newsy week all week long. One thing to keep in mind is by the end of this week a federal judge has ordered that the Justice Department has to make public some of the redacted material from the Mueller Report. This was the judge in the mike flynn case, who set a deadline of this friday, this week for the Justice Department to unredact any portion of the Mueller Report that relates to the ongoing criminal case against Trump National security adviser mike flynn. That same judge has also ordered the Justice Department to release to the public the transcripts of conversations that mike flynn secretly had with the russian government about sanctions during the president ial transition. These are the conversations that the whole Trump Transition Team lied about, everyone from sean spicer to Vice President mike pence to k. T. Mcfarland to flynn himself. They all lied about these conversations and said they never happened. We still dont know why they were all lying about those conversations. But those conversations between flynn and the russians did happen during the transition. We know that in part because flynn has since pled guilty to lying to the fbi about those conversations. Well, there are transcripts of what was said in those communications between flynn and the russian government. We are going to get those transcripts publicly released thanks to a federal judges order by the end of this week. Along with the stuff the attorney general redacted from muellers report that pertains to mike flynn and the case against him. So, you know, expect things to be nutty this week and to get even nuttier as this short week rolls forward over the next few days. Tonight already it has been a little bit upside down. In the great city of grand rapids, michigan this is a photo from jonathan usting whos i arepo reporter from the detr news. He shot this at a town hall in grand rapids for a very conservative member of congress, a member of congress named justin amash. You can see the signs there, thank you for speaking truth to power. Country over politics thank you. Thank you for your courage, justin. These are constituents of republican congressman justin amash from michigan. And they are thanking him for a lonely and increasingly highprofile stand that he has been taking for the past few days. A stand that his colleagues in congress are attacking him for, that the president is attacking him for, that his own partys leadership is increasingly attacking him for. But he is sticking to his guns about it. And its interesting. As this has moved on into what is now a second week of this lonely stand, from republican congressman justin amash, its becoming sort of a touchstone in the country. I think its becoming an important touchstone in american politics even for the democrats who are running for president this year. You know, every day we wake up and theres news. Its not always good. Except i was just going to say we actually got some interesting news late last night, and that is congressman justin amash hold on. Has read the Mueller Report. [ laughter ] and and he said once he read it the only conclusion he could draw is that donald trump obstructed justice multiple times and the house should impeach. [ applause ] now, ill be blunt. Theres not much that i agree with justin amash on. Hes a very conservative congressman, a libertarian. We dont always see eye to eye. But there are two things we agree completely on. And the first is that every member of congress should read the Mueller Report. [ applause ] and two, that the rule of law applies even to the president of the United States. Massachusetts democratic senator and president ial candidate Elizabeth Warren speaking recently in new hampshire. Those comments from senator warren were right after congressman justin amash freaked out everybodys partisan expectations when he went online really without any warning and well, he posted this first. Again, no sort of warmup, no setup here. He just jumped right in. Here are my principal conclusions. Number 1, attorney general barr has deliberately misrepresented muellers report. 2, President Trump has engaged in impeachable contact. 3, partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances. And number 4, few members of congress have read muellers report. I offer these conclusions only after having read muellers redacted report carefulfully and completely, having read or watched pertinent statements and testimony and having discussed this matter with my staff. In comparing attorney general William Barrs principal conclusions, congressional testimony and other statements to muellers actual report, its clear that barr intended to mislead the public about special counsel Robert Muellers analysis and findings. Now, at this point youre reading along. Wheres this coming from . Youre thinking this is going to be interesting. This is a conservative republican congressman. And so you know, number one, how long is he going to go on with this . Is he really going where it seems like hes going with this . It signals hes giving signals here that hes going right to the yes, thats exactly where hes going. Contrary to barrs portrayal, muellers report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment. In fact, muellers report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence. Few members of Congress Even read muellers report. Their minds were made up based on partisan affiliation. And it showed with senators and representatives from both parties issuing definitive statements on the 448page reports conclusions within just hours of its release. Americas institutions depend on officials to uphold both the rules and spirit of our constitutional system even when to do so is personally inconvenient or yields a politically unfavorable outcome. Our constitution is brilliant and awesome. It deserves a government to match it. So thats how he started it. That was last weekend. Political backlash of course was instant. The president himself got online and jumped all over congressman amash and started insulting him. The leader of the republicans in the house went on fox news and started trashing congressman amash. Immediately a protrump guy in amashs district announced that he would primary the congressman and run against him next year. But despite that immediate backlash amash stuck with it. He went right back online, right back to explaining what he read in muellers report. What he found so disturbing about it. And what he thinks the administration is trying to sell the public about the investigation and the report that isnt true. Two days after his initial blast he says this. People who say there were no underlying crimes and therefore the president could not have intended to illegally obstruct the investigation and therefore cant be impeached, those people are resting their argument on several falsehoods. 1, they say there were no underlying crimes. In fact, there were many crimes revealed by the investigation, some of which were charged and some of which were not but are nonetheless described in muellers report. 2, they say obstruction of justice requires an underlying crime. In fact, obstruction of justice does not require the prosecution of any underlying crime. And then he goes on like that in that same vein. Tweet after tweet after tweet. Arguing that factually these obstruction of justice claims against President Trump are really serious claims that appear to be quite well substantiated. And they are exactly the kind of conduct for which the constitution prescribes impeachment of a president. So a second day of amash doing this online. The president in response upscales his backlash, starts telling reporters how terrible justin amash is and what a loser he thinks this republican congressman is. And then more of the Republican Leadership in congress start telling reporters how terrible their own congressman is and how terrible this thing is that hes doing. But even after that second round of backlash he just keeps going. We get another round from the congressman. Muellers report describes a consistent effort by the president to use his office to obstruct or otherwise corruptly impede the russian corruption interference investigation because it put his interests at risk. The president has an obligation not to violate the public trust including using official powers for corrupt purposes. For instance, president s have the authority to nominate judges, but a president couldnt select someone to nominate because they promised the president money. This principle extends to all the president s powers including the authority over federal investigations, federal officials, and pardons. President trump had an incentive to undermine the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election, which included investigating contacts between russia and the trump campaign. This investigation threatened to uncover information including criminal activity that could put trumps interests at risk. Ultimately, the investigation did uncover very unflattering information about the president and his family, his associates, his campaign, and his business. It also revealed criminal activities, some of which were committed by people in trumps orbit and some on trumps behalf. The investigation began before the president was elected and inaugurated, after trump assumed the powers of the presidency muellers report shows that he used those powers to try to obstruct and impede the investigation. Amash then lays out in detail a bunch of the behavior by the president that muellers report lays out as potentially criminal obstruction of justice. He goes through them one by one by one by one. And then he concludes with this. Some of the president s actions were inherently corrupt. Other actions were corrupt and therefore impeachable because the president took those actions to serve his own interests. The president has authority to fire federal officials, direct his subordinates, and grant pardons. But he cannot do so for corrupt purposes. Imagine if every member of Congress Read the Mueller Report. Heres one guy who actually did. Look what it did to him. Today after these remarkable few days weve had from congressman amash, when he has come out as a member of congress who has read muellers report and hes willing to say that he finds it terrifically alarming, today congressman amash knew that he would be facing his constituents back home in his republican district in michigan. Now, we have covered town halls in Justin Amashs district before. They have tended to be feisty affairs. This is one we covered in january of 2017 when he and his constituents had one of the sort of gnarlier town halls on the issue of health care and repealing obama care. But today he knew he was going home to talk to his voters to do another town hall in his district after he became the first republican to say he read muellers report and he believed it was clear the president has committed impeachable offenses and the administration is trying to cover it up and congress shouldnt let them get away with it. So how did he prepare to meet his constituents to talk about this at his town hall today . It seemed the kind of backlash hes already had from his own party and the president and the leadership of his own party, how did he prepare for his town hall today knowing his constituents are going right there with him face to face and he would have to explain exactly what this whole controversy is about . What did he do to prepare . He freaking kept it up. A new storm of statements today from justin amash ahead of this town hall saying today that attorney general william barr deliberately misrepresented key aspects of muellers report and decisions in the investigation which helped further the president s false narrative about the investigation. Amash today said despite william barr trying to create a contrary public impression, in fact mueller finds considerable evidence that several of trumps actions detailed in the report meet the elements of obstruction. He says today that barr gave misleading testimony to congress and both in barrs testimony and in his public statements he used further misrepresentations to help build the president s false narrative that the investigation was unjustified. In truth muellers report describes concerning contacts between members of Trumps Campaign and people in or connected to the russian government. It is wrong to suggest that the fact that mueller didnt choose into diet anyone for this means there wasnt a basis to investigate, whether it amounted to a crime or collusion or whether it was in fact part of russias efforts to help trumps candidacy. Justin amash today then rips william barr for saying that President Trump cooperated with the investigation when trump most assuredly did no such thing. And then he ends with this. Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president s false narrative to the american people. This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth. Click, send. And then its time to go home to meet with his constituents. First, i wanted to say a comment and then ive got a question. First, i wanted to salute your courage. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thanks. And thats coming from 50 years ago today me and six other comrades were blown up in vietnam and one was killed. 50 years ago today. Very sorry. Thank you for your service. The other now my question. Thank you. My question. Is there anything in the constitution or can we amend it where the electorate gets a mulligan . So no, i dont i dont know if thats a serious question. We dont get a mulligan. I dont know if this is how congressman amash expected this to go today. But he literally got a standing ovation from the moment he walked in the room. And then he got another standing ovation, the one you saw there. And the way this has gone tonight, he has just not backed down from making this case. And it kind of seems like its going over. I think its really important that we do our job as a congress, that we not allow misconduct to go undeterred, that we not just say someone can violate the public trust [ applause ] and that there are no consequences to it. And if you get a chance, i encourage you all to read the tweets where it lays all of this out. Muell muellers report lays all of this out. And im confident that if you read volume 2 youll be appalled at much of the conduct. And i was appalled by it. And thats why i stated what i stated. Thats why i came to that conclusion, because i think we cant go we cant let conduct like that go unchecked. Thank you. Thanks. I appreciate your courage and im wondering what the next steps would be to ask for an impeachment inquiry. Our question is although we its found in the Mueller Report that trump has made impeachable offenses, we want to know, because the impeachment process can take so long, that because of the 2020 election if impeachment process is worth the time that it takes because the elections coming up and it takes its such a lengthy process. So this is a great question. And its something that everyone has to wrestle with. You know, i wrestled with this issue quite a bit because to me the comment was obviously impeachable. The question then was do you then move forward with impeachment proceedings . And my biggest concern, i thought about this for a long time. Like i said, i spent a month reviewing, analyzing, thinking about it. And i am concerned that weve gotten to the point where impeachment may never be used in any circumstance. And i think that is a greater risk than the risk that it will be used too often. As an example, in the Mueller Report he asked the white House Counsel to create a false record. Things like that, to basically mislead people about a statement he had made, things like that to me reflect incredible dishonesty and really harm the office of the presidency. And i dont think that [ applause ] i dont think that you can just let that stuff go and say hey, its no big deal, were going to have an election in two years and just let it go. I think you have to have proceedings to deter this kind of conduct. Republican congressman justin amash at his home district tonight in michigan. That footage is just from a little while ago tonight. Incidentally, i should tell you, for specific geographic context here, like really specific geographic context, the room where the congressman is holding this event tonight has a name. You can see it there on the brick fascia. Its called the rich and Helen Devos Center for arts and worship. Its the devos center. Local christian high school. Funded by the devos family. As in betsy devos, the secretary of education in the trump administration. Her family built this building. The reason thats important tonight is because since congressman amash read the Mueller Report and started speaking his mind about it and talking in the terms that you heard him talk tonight the devos family has announced that they will cut him off and never give him another dime. They have been major supporters of congressman amash in his home district. The very room hes standing in tonight to face his constituents is named for the devos family and was funded by them just in case he needs another concrete reminder of all the ways his own party and this administration is going to try to shut him up. But so far its not working. And as of tonight his constituents are apparently prepared to hear that case that he is making. Im telling you, this is going to be a little bit of a busy week. Lots to get to tonight. Stay with us. Lots to get to tonight stay with us calling all sunscreen haters. Youre gonna love this. New coppertone sport clear. Not thick, not hot, not messy, just clear, cool, protected. Coppertone sport clear. Proven to protect. Ito take care of anyct messy situations. And put irritation in its place. And if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected. You can get comfortable doing the same with yours. Preparation h. 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Everybody get your suits and your sneakers on. Suits and sneakers. That footage is sort of iconic when it comes to important Supreme Court decisions. But you almost never get a Vantage Point from inside the court. Today we found some of that rare footage. Look at this. These were all the runners waiting outside the Supreme Court press room. Other members of the press are actually inside the press room huddled in there five people deep. Once the clerk in that press office gets the phone call from upstairs that the ruling can be officially released, its on. In this case the clerk actually shouts lets go. And then the copies of the ruling fly out the door and they fleetfoot their way down the steps. This actual footage, this rare footage from inside the court, is from june 29th, 1992. The reason the reporters were lined up five deep in the Supreme Court press room that day and all the interns were ready to run the rulings down the stairs, is because that day the court was deciding on the biggest womens rights case since roe versus wade. A 1992 case called planned parenthood versus casey. Planned parenthood versus casey upheld a womans right to get an abortion in this country, but it upheld it by the narrowest of margins and it said that roe versus wade could stand but states could apply restrictions on access to abortion. They could restrict access to abortion, however the states saw fit, as long as they didnt cross the line by creating what the Supreme Court called an undue burden on a womans right to get an abortion. Well, what constitutes an undue burden . In the decades since planned parenthood v. Casey republicancontrolled states have tried everything conceivable to test that National Definition of undue burden. Theyve tested it in every conceivable way, come up with more and more and more elaborate and arcane restrictions that make it more and more impossible for an American Woman to actually get an abortion if she wants one. Everything from mandatory waiting periods to mandated pelvic exams to banning widely used abortion methods to targeting clinics with arcane licensing provision thats are designed to make it impossible for them to stay open as long as theyre providing abortions. As a result there are now six states in this country that have only one Abortion Clinic in the whole state. One of those states is the great state of missouri. Ten years ago missouri had five clinics. Now its down to one. Ten years, five. Now its one. And as of tonight that state is at risk of losing even that one last clinic. Missouri tonight is at risk of being the first state without a functioning Abortion Clinic since 1973, when roe versus wade was decided 46 years ago. Last week, monday of last week, the Missouri Department of health notified the one remaining clinic in the state, the planned parenthood clinic the state was about to take away its license. The clinics license is set to expire this friday, i. E. 72 hours from now. Planned parenthoods already filed a lawsuit requesting a restraining order against the state. Theyre hoping to restore the license and avoid service disruption. A Circuit Court judge is going to hear arguments in that case tomorrow. But as of right now if this goes the way the state of missouri wants it to, as of right now we are looking at the very real prospect of by the end of this week the first state effectively banning legal abortion in this country. The first state to have done in the nearly 50 years since roe versus wade supposedly protected access to abortion as a constitutional right. An axworgs provider at planned parenthood st. Louis which is the last remaining Abortion Clinic in the state of missouri. Dr. Mcnicholas, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate your time. Thanks for having me, rachel. This is clearly a Pivotal Moment for missourians and for really most of the country. I was struck by the language tonight from the planned parenthood president lena nguyen who was actually a guest of ours on the show not long ago, who said this is not a drill, this is a real Public Health emergency. On a scale of 1 to 100 how concerned are you that you will not be allowed to provide Abortion Services in missouri and no other doctor will either by the end of this week . Well, missouri is certainly poised within the next 72 hours to be the only state in our nation to not have access to abortion. And we know just from history that that has dramatic effects on Peoples Health and wellbeing. In terms of the states game plan here, obviously this was sort of sent up as a flare today. You and planned parenthood letting the National Press know that this is happening and on a very, very tight timetable. How long have you known hat state might be trying to essentially unlicense your clinic . How long have you known that this week might be the deadline by which time they were going to try to stop you from practicing your care . Well, i have to tell you, rachel, this happens for us every single year. We have been subject to inspections every year for as long as i can remember, and each year the sort of stakes get higher and higher and the tactics get more aggressive. We certainly have found this year that we are competing with what seems to be a neverending changing interpretation of their own regulations, which really just make it impossible for us to even be able to comply. In terms of the services you provide in missouri, obviously if the state no longer has a facility that provides legal abortions the concern is that women who want to have an abortion will turn to illegal means. Also, there is an expectation thats been articulated by some of the justices that are on the Supreme Court now, that they think that losing Abortion Access in certain parts of the country is no big deal because women can just travel, they can go elsewhere and if you cant get an abortion in missouri thats no big deal, you can get an abortion in a neighboring state. Whats your feeling about those arguments . Well, thats certainly an argument of the privileged for sure. We have seen across the states that have these most restrictive laws that people who are most disadvantaged, people of color, people who live in rural areas, people who struggle to make ends meet already have limited or no access to abortion. Eliminating that care in states like missouri means that those women, those people are not going to be able to access abortion at all. Its never been a problem for people of means to be able to access abortion. But it is the most disadvantaged people that are going to have the most trouble. In terms of what may happen in missouri this week, obviously it would be a very serious landmark for the first state in 46 years to become a state where it is not possible to legally obtain an abortion. And missouri as you say is on the precipice of that. When you are in contact with other abortion providers around the country, is there a sense that people are worried missouris first but this is about to happen in other states too . Absolutely. We certainly are leading the charge here but we are not the only state that has been subject to sort of statesanctioned weaponization of the oversight and licensing process. The department of health is generally staffed by politically appointed individuals, not elected officials. So this has long been a weapon of the antichoice movement, to try and shut down clinics. Dr. Colleen mcnicholas from the planned parenthood of st. Louis, which is the last remaining Abortion Clinic in the state of missouri facing a loss of its license this week as missouris governor signs into law an abortion ban. Doctor, i know this week is going to be an incredibly tense time. Please keep us apprised over these next few days as the court fight makes its way through the courts and as you and your colleagues are going to try to figure out how to manage. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. . We well be right back. Stay with us. Stay with us what do we want for dinner . Burger i want a sugar cookie i want a bucket of chicken i want. Its the easiest, because its the cheesiest kraft. For the win win. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. 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First week of february iowa votes. Second week of february its new hampshire. Third week of february its nevada. Fourth week of february theyll vote in South Carolina. Those are the four protected early states. But then its three days after South Carolina when all of these other states vote. Including the gigantic states of texas and california. States in recent years that have held their primaries much later on in the process. But then boom theyre right there at the end of that one month of voting which means in all likelihood that once democrats start voting with that first contest in iowa going on to those first four early contests, once democrats start voting theyre going to pick their nominee really fast. Which puts an even hotter spotlight than usual on those four early states this year. And i think it particularly puts a spotlight on South Carolina, the fourth of the four early states. The three its just three days before that huge super tuesday vote this year that again will include california and texas. And South Carolina is important on its own terms. Its important because its early. Its important crucially because the africanamerican electorate and the enthusiasm the enthusiasm of africanamerican voters to turn out in the primary and crucially in the general election, that is an existential do or die question for the eventual democratic nominee. And South Carolina because of its demographics is really the first real test of that. Unless youve got a democratic nominee that absolutely excites and speaks to and mobilizes the Africanamerican Community all across this country, you are not going to have any chance of having a democratic president in the white house in 2020. The first and crucial test of that is going to be South Carolina. So South Carolina has to play this incredibly Important Role in this squished 2020 primary calendar. Ever since we sort of realized what that calendar was going to look like, theres been somebody ive been really very much looking forward to talking to about it. If youre a longtime viewer of the show you might remember that ahead of the South Carolina primary in 2016, which Hillary Clinton ended up running away with by a margin of nearly 50 points, before that 2016 primary in South Carolina we took this show to South Carolina to talk to the charismatic, young, and very ambitious Democratic Party chairman in that state. A man by the name of Jaime Harrison, who made an intriguing case to me and to our show that although South Carolina looks deep red from the outside democrats should see it as winnable for statewide votes including for a president ial vote. Jaime harrison ended up serving two terms as state chairman. He went on to make a run for Democratic Party chairman nationwide. Tonight hes here for the interview. He has political news of his own about South Carolina. 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Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. My story is my story. Lindsey grahams story is just comical. Donald trump i think hes a kook. I think hes crazy. His policies are really bad for the country. Hes not fit to be president of the United States. Hes a racebaiting xenophobic religious bigot. I dont think hes a xenophobic racebaiting religious bigot. I like the president. Zblim like the happiest dude in america right now. I am all in. Keep it up, donald. Im sure youre watching. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and then some. That is a portion of a Brand New Campaign video that has just become public today. In fact just become public tonight. It was created by Jaime Harrison, who joins us now for the interview. Hes the former chairman of the Democratic Party in South Carolina. Mr. Harrison, its nice to see you. Good seeing you, rachel. We just let the cat out of the bag a little bit. Formal announcement will take place tomorrow morning. Ill be back in South Carolina tonight and its going to be tomorrow morning where i will formally announce that im running for the United States senate for South Carolina against Lindsey Graham. Now, when i spoke with you in 2016 ahead of that remarkable 2016 democratic president ial primary in 2016, one of the things we spent a long time talking about was South Carolinas democratic bench. The effect that it has on politics in that state that the state is seen as a red state, is seen as a republicandominant state. And so people who might who are democrats, who might be inclined toward Political Service leave the state and seek it elsewhere. It doesnt seem like fertile territory. Youve clearly decided thats not true for you. No, its not true for me. And you remember i talked about a clyburn fellowship that id created that year. We have now trained 125 young people in every county in South Carolina, trained them to run for office themselves. So now we have newly elected members of the state house, school board, county council, people who sit on boards of trustees. Theyre clyburn fellows. And many of them now are running the president ial campaigns that the 20someodd president ial candidates have in South Carolina. So we are really leading this whole new south as we talked about. And i hope to be a part of that story with this campaign. In terms of all those multitudinous democratic president ial candidates who are running this year, obviously youre being showered with some attention in South Carolina. That does provide among other things opportunities for democrats in the state to latch themselves to national candidates. Is it constructive thus far this year . Do you feel like the Democratic Party gets South Carolina, that the candidates are talking to the right people, making the right pitches, doing the right amount of listening in the right kind of places . They are, rachel. I am so proud of the campaigns that these candidates are running. They are going to every part of South Carolina. So theyre not just going to columbia and greenville and charleston, the big cities. But theyre going to small counties. El coney county, jasper county, barnwell county. And theyre talking to constituents about all types of issues. Just in denmark recently i went there because they have a problem. I know you did so much great work on the flint water issue. We have a problem in denmark, South Carolina, a small town near my hometown of orangeburg where theyve been putting this chemical in the water for ten years. Peoples hair is falling out and those types of things. So Elizabeth Warren, bernie sanders, cory booker, a number of these candidates donated water and supplies. And really are talking about these Environmental Justice issues. And thats really, really important. In terms of the states overall political cast, i think democrats from outside the state look at South Carolina and they are pleased that South Carolina is an early state because it really affords the first test of whether or not candidates are mobilizing, speaking to, and learning from africanamerican constituents. Thats exactly right. Which is such an important part of the democratic electorate. Its existential, right . You win if you have it and you lose if you dont. I think the other thing, though, thats interesting is the ideological diversity in the Democratic Party in South Carolina. Youve got the complete range of very conservative to very liberal democrats. Exactly right. Listen, and particularly in the Africanamerican Community. Africanamericans will make up 60 up 60 of the primary vote, but i could say in that community, there is a lot of generational differences between older africanamericans and younger africanamericans on a whole variety of issues from the issues of the environment to the issue about school and whether or not we should provide it for free or not. To the issues about equality and rights. I mean, there are a lot of diversity within those communities, and so i think the candidates are getting an opportunity to see that you cant just bring a canned message and think that thats going to resonate in the Africanamerican Community because the diversity that we see in the nation is the diversity that you see within that community. When you think about running against senator Lindsey Graham, obviously hes an institution in the state. He is. Hes been in office for a long time. The trump era has been a little weird in Lindsey Graham years. A little. Do you think that the senators 180 degree uturn on President Trump potentially gives you the chance to earn some crossover votes . Well, i do, rachel. You know my story. Grew up in orangeburg, South Carolina. Small rural town. My mom was 16 years old and dropped out of high school to have my. My grandparents helped take care of me. They had very limited education, but they taught me the value of hard work, the value of helping others, being your brother and sisters keeper. They also taught me about the value of character. What were seeing with Lindsey Graham, it makes you question his character. I used to this this was a guy who was a statesman, who can stand above the fray and solve the issues. Hes a chameleon that has changed his colors. We are on the verge, we saw with stacey, with saw with andrew, were on the verge of a renaissance in the south, a new south, and i really hope people will join me in this effort. Go to my website jaimeharrison. Com. Jaimes spelled jaime. We are really on the verge of changing something. Weve seen in recent elections in South Carolina. We picked up a congressional seat. We picked up a state senate seat. We picked up a number of house seats when the pundits in d. C. Didnt think we had a shot they think, oh, its ruby red, South Carolina. They cant win neal. Were winning. Its all about investing and fighting. Jaime harrison, whose name is spelled jaime. Rachel, thank you so much. All right. Well be right back. Stay with us. Right well be right back. Stay with us its the idea that if our mothers were diagnosed with cancer, how would we want them to be treated . Thats exactly how we care for you. With answers and actions. To hear your concerns, quiet your fears, lift your spirits. Thats the mother standard of care. This is how we inspire hope. This is how we heal. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Appointments available now. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Back then, we checked our zero times a day. Times change. 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