[wendy davis] you know what i do have. i have a memorabilia book of the filibuster. and i think it might be one of those up there. i just treasure it, and of course i ll be able to pass it down to my granddaughters so they can understand what their bubbe did, and how their bubbe was fighting for them. we put together all of the legal background; the griswold decision, roe v wade, supreme court decisions that of course reinforced the fact that women do have the right to choose until a pregnancy is viable. and we prepared to begin that day with all of that data. but here we are still without access to safe abortion care in this country. [tense music] [audience cheering] [audience cheering] [tense, suspenseful music] [audience cheering] - hello, everyone! [audience cheering] i m so happy to be here in community with you today. boy, did i need you, and i know we needed each other, right? - yes. [audience cheering] - on september 1st, when senate bill 8 went into effect, this figh
white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed martial law, and require a re-run of the election. obviously, that didn t, and thankfully, in the happening. the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting did not exist in a vacuum. they were part of a desperate effort by trump s outside legal team to upend the results of the 2020 election. those lawyers would ultimately file and lose more than 60 lawsuits, pushing bogus instances of election fraud. so, it makes sense that the wall street journal today is reporting that special counse
people as the central players shush, don t tell them. well, cats out of the bag. it s happening. i think it happened today. thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added, with
our first time doing a hand off. i know in your last segment, you re talking about the supreme court. we re gonna pick it up right here at 10:00. i m sure you will, my friend. have a good hour. thanks, ayman. and on the last day of pride 2023, the republican appointed justices on the supreme court in shrine discrimination against lgbtq people in a case deliberately brought to advance conservative interests in a favorable court. of course, it was about a wedding website. it was decided that in the evangelical website design or in colorado would not have to design the website for same-sex couple because it would violate her first amendment right by forcing her to say something she didn t believe. here is the thing, no gay couple actually asked for this evangelical website designers work. the conservative legal interest groups created out of cloth this fever dream that an evangelical wedding website design or what have her rights hypothetically challenged if a hypothetical s
texas law enforcement alone has sees enough deadly fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in the entire united states of america. any war on drugs emerging in the key campaign issue. joe biden will never solve the fentanyl crisis. he is actively destroying our border. the stuff is just flooding in. it s affecting communities all across this country. what will it take to stop the flow of drugs into the united states? this is a red alert moment. it s punishing the drug itself really effective? what we need to assault this crisis in america. come together in bipartisan way. what is the best approach to the growing public health crisis? my guess this morning? dea administrator, anne and the entire ohio u.s. senate delegation. j.d. vance and democrat, shirt brown. a panel of experts on the front lines of this crisis. former chicago mayor, lightfoot. jen writer and dr. andrew colodny, the policy researcher collaborative at brandeis university. welcome to sunda