montana, voted to protect abortion rights. the vote tonight nullifies the states six-week abortion ban, passed by republicans in the ohio legislature that is currently being challenged in court and joining us now we think is steve kornacki, the national political correspondent for nbc news an msnbc or perhaps not. the control room thought we had steve cord aki and we thought he was going to be wandering into this studio, but he may be stuck between studios somewhere on this floor. we re gonna find. and we re gonna get him back. instead, joining us now is sherrod brown, democratic senator from ohio. mr. brown, what is your take on what the voters of whole ohio have delivered? not thrilled. i started to shut hijack your show for a moment and, do a shout out to the victory party in columbus, they have a lawrence o donnell on the screen. volunteers have been in the vineyards fighting for years for women s health and women s rights, and a whole bunch of volunteers and fundamenta
ohio voters have voted to guarantee abortion rights. supreme court overturned roe versus wade last year. voters in seven states, including republican states like kansas, kentucky, in montana, voted to protect abortion rights. the vote tonight nullifies the states six-week abortion ban passed by republicans in the legislature which is being now challenged in court. joining us now, we think, is steve kornacki, the national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc. or perhaps not. the control room of thought we had steve kornacki, and we thought he was going to be wandering into this studio, but he may be stuck between studios somewhere on this floor. we re going to find. him were going to get him back. instead, joining us now is shan, round and craddock senator from ohio, senator brown what is your reaction to this major news tonight that the voters of ohio have delivered? not surprised and thrilled of course, lawrence i m gonna hijack your show just for a moment and do
the secretary of the state had that power, and you praised her decision, and do you wish that you had the power in colorado to make that decision unilaterally? colorado law is set up where the secretary of state does have the authority to determine qualifications, including the presidential candidates, but there is an apparatus in colorado law where the voters can challenge any decision-making. so this lawsuit in colorado was actually brought before i had made any decisions as to whether trump is on the ballot or off of the ballot. it was brought by six colorado voters who are republicans and unaffiliateds. i think that the colorado supreme court got it right. only two courts in this country have looked at the base question did donald trump engage in insurrection, and both of the courts have said yes. again, i believe that the colorado supreme court got it right, because i don t believe that there should be a loophole in the constitution for a president trying to engage in
unusual and our sources released a statement just five minutes ago providing us with the number of boxes last month from january 2022 after they were in touch with the former president s legal team and they received received a total of 15 boxes. not only did the president not shred up but took down to him to his former mansion. and perhaps more surprising or interesting in this statement is trump s lawyers told the archives they would consider to search for a document that has yet to be retrieved and get them back to the archives. let me make sure i m understanding this right, the archives confirmed to you in the last five minutes here, jackie, they not only took 15 boxes of stuff from mar-a-lago that should have been handed over initially but there s more they may be able to get that team trump is looking for now? yes, and that is the base
it s early. there was a gag order. we re learning about this now. but we ve been aware of this pattern of behavior by the prior president. you know, my base question is, what does the biden administration going to do about it? i heard some frustration from democrats about the justice department under merrick garland so far. what do they do? what is the biden administration plan? i think they re not going to do nearly as much as many democrats would like to see done, jim. remember, conflicting and they look like joe biden. he is trying to move on. he is trying to have a successful presidency in his own right. he s trying in that process to reach out beyond merely the democratic party. that s why we re seeing these extended negotiations with republicans over infrastructure even though they don t look especially promising right now. joe biden is trying to signal to the country that we can overcome our divisions. and what that tells you to do or where that leads you is not to look back,