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elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
but it s going to be a fight. the senate s not going to do this. we have to have a conference bill. the folks who supported those amendments in the freedom caucus, we ll see how they react when the bill comes back with those things out of it. reporter: what is your response to the republican argument that if the biden administration and the pentagon want this to be the policy, this travel policy, regarding going to states where abortion is legal, if they want it, they should introduce it as legislation. yeah, not everything requires legislation. we ve had, you know, broad discussions about the policies that are out there. the d.o.d. has long had a policy that if you cannot get the health care you need, where you re at, they do pay for people to travel to get health care elsewhere. if you have, i don t know, a specific heart condition, and you want to go to the cleveland clinic or the mayo center if you ve got a cancer problem in minnesota. we already have in place a policy that all
the defense department policy to pay for the travel expenses for a member of the military or a spouse to get an abortion, to go to a state where that s legal. is it clear to your republican colleagues, do you think, that by adding that amendment and some others this almost ensures that this particular legislation will not become law? reporter: well, first of all, i want to emphasize that we had a very strong bipartisan bill out of committee. it passed 58-1. it was a really good bill. we worked with all members. that we supported. on the floor, we added a lot of amendments, certainly the ban on the travel policy that d.o.d. has put in place to help people get access to reproductive care was number one, there were also several provisions in there that were anti-trans, they were amendments gutting the d.e.i. provisions. there was a very hard right turn on the floor as to whether or not the republicans understand that this is not going to pass going forward in the senate or elsewhere. i
the house of representatives passed a sweeping defense authorization bill filled with someonoversial amendments, amendments tt uld dismantle the department of defense policy on abortion which reimburses travel expenses for members of the military or their spouses getting an abortion. the department of defense s ate office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. amendments that would ban the use of federal funds for anything having to do with critical race theory. and also removing funding for transgender health procedures. cnn s manu raju is getting bipartisan reaction for us now from capitol hill. reporter: showcasing the power of the far right and the political calculations of speaker kevin mccarthy. the house today approved it $886 billion defense bill, but not before bowing to the demands of conservative hard liners and turning a typically bipartisan affair into a bitter partisan feud. this is an insult to all who serve. reporter: the bill which would set national security