we already saw it the day after the inauguration, but women are deeply concerned that this president is committing to eroding rights to health care access, birth control access and safe and legal abortion. jeff tuben said that with a conservative judge in justice kennedy s place, abortion will be illegal jeff may be right. certainly we have i think there s more than 20 cases that are one decision away from going to the supreme court. we know there are laws in the books in several states that could be implemented that would actually make abortion illegal. and again, that s what you just heard the president of the united states say himself that he wants to take away a right that women have had for 45 years and now put it back to the states. look, i think the important thing, anderson, is that abortion didn t start with roe versus wade. it simply became legal and safe. in fact, it s one of the safest medical procedures that women have in this country.
i m not convinced we can predict what any judge will do. remember john robert s court was going to overturn the aca? well, that didn t happen. i m not so convinced. we heard this back of the day of sandra day o connor and anthony kennedy abortion rights were at risk. maybe it will be different this time. i will not be as quick as some to stay these judges will overturn roe v. wade. they may, but i wouldn t bet on it. do you agree with that, mike? well, it is hard to know. senators there s all this hypocrisy of what senators said in the past and now it s coming back to haunt them. one of the things chuck schumer said, you shouldn t base your vote on one issue. he was saying that in defense of a democratic nominated judge at the time. so this is now turning into because the left wants it to be a big litmus test on abortion. and we had an election on that. hillary clinton, there was no question that hillary clinton would have appointed someone who was pro choice. absolutely no doubt
on trump and clinton, because we were not. and that is only more disrespectful to what he s done to transgender americans today. so jeff, we have thousands of transgender men and women who have come forward because they believe the u.s. had changed its policy. is it fair to them, for the president to just wake up today and suddenly it seems like any preamble or public discussion say they re going to be kicked out of the military? anderson, it sounds like he was having this discussion with his military advisers. i don t know, but certainly that s the way it sounds to me. nobody is say bring that discussion was. because it seemed like the four heads of each branch of the military were caught off guard. i don t know. but let me say this, i hate to disappoint my friend christine, but on a scale of low bar, jeffrey, low bar. when you wait, when you think of that rally in youngstown last night, the president didn t say this there. if there were a time to maximize
this politically, it was right then and there when all the television cameras, including cnn, were on him and in front of thousands. he could have done that. i honestly don t think this issue registers with most americans. good lord, i saw a poll during the campaign that said abortion didn t even register, and that used to be the hot button issue of all hot button issues. you don t believe this has anything to do with politics, that it just happens to come at a time when conservatives are critical of the president for his treatment of jeff sessions, when health care is in doubt, and the russia investigations t? i don t think this resonates. while we re on the you don t think transgender are the easiest people to pick on in this society [ overlapping speakers ] these are human beings, jeffrey. why does that cease to matter to
president to wake up and suddenly it seems like without any preamble or public discussion, to say that they re going to be kicked out of the military? well, anderson, it sounds to me like he was having this discussion with his military advisers. i don t know. but that s certainly the way it sounds to me. no one will say where the discussion was. it seems like before heads of each branch of the military were caught offguard. anderson, i don t know. let me just say this. i hate to disappointment my friend christine. but on a scale of it s a low bar, jeffrey, low bar. when you think of that rally in youngstown last night, the president didn t say this there. if there were a time to maximize it politically, it was right then and there with all the tef vision cameras including cnn were on it, in front of thousands, he could have done that. i honestly don t think this issue registers with most americans. good lord, i saw a poll during the campaign that said abortion