cherry-picking figures and saying the economy is in the tank. facts are being weaponized, distorted. we re living in a moment where we can t trust the president to tell the truth about what s happening or to acknowledge reality. we should stop and think about what a dangerous point we are in, where we have to step back and say, wait, remember what you said before, because we re so far down the road right now, it s easy to lose track of how just the very truth has been weaponized. anusha, that s a very good point. at what point during the obama administration, you had donald trump and other republicans claiming that he was lying about the jobs numbers, that when good jobs numbers were coming out, that it was just made up. we ve just seen fema take data off its website, so that you can no longer find out how hurricane recovery is going. at what point do we worry that if a bad number comes out, that they will just take it off the website and not report it? we should be worried right n
as long as they have sincerely held religious or moral objection to doing so. joining me now, director of progressive programming, irin carmon, and anusha hels ann. i ll go around the table and get reactions. it s not exactly a surprise. marco rubio, back in 12, introduced a bill to do exactly what donald trump is doing now, saying that women can t get abortions not abortion, but birth control covered in their health plans. essentially you saw around 2010, a push by state legislatures, republicans pushing back against women s health care. i say health care because birth control is health care. and also they conflate abortion and birth control as if those