priority in the new congress. going to chief white house correspondent, kristen welker, good morning. what are we expecting to hear from the president in a couple hours? hi, jose. that is the big headline according to a democratic official, president biden is going to say when he talks about this today, a little bit after noon, that if democrats retain control of congress that the very first piece of legislation he will send to congress will be a bill to codify roe v. wade. with the hope of getting it passed by the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade on january 22nd yes, january 22nd. i want to make sure i m getting that right. this is significant, of course, because it comes after roe v. wade was overturned and after the president and democrats have faced criticisms for not having acted in this way, not having made abortion rights more of a priority when he first took office, for example. but the counter point to that is they didn t expect roe v. wade
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them, the democrats, is they just spent their money way too early on an issue that was going to go away. imagine i did this pew etch and sketch and greg comes along, knocks it out of my hands, shakes it up, and it is gone. wait, i wasted $100 million on something that i m not going to be able to run on. today, the senate majority leader chuck schumer says we re going to do this, go after maga republicans by having a bill to codify roe v. wade. kind of weird, the supreme court said there s no constitutional right to abortion, but go ahead, pass the bill, have the supreme court knock it down again, fine. that tells me that they ve just spent hundreds of millions on abortion ads but are not willing to say where they are on abortion. the last three weeks of debates have been more about democrats having to defend their position about abortion up til birth rather than the limited version most americans want. so they re in a little bit of a pickle. going all in on
lay out to you in that fantastic interview you did, they didn t have the votes. the math did not add up. what is striking now is that you are seeing president biden he is to some extent led the messaging on this, double down on what he has said will be an energizing message to voters and as you laid out at the top, andrea, today, we expect him to announce if democrats retain control of congress, the very first piece of legislation that he will present will be a bill to codify roe v. wade at the national level, federally. so, of course, the question becomes, given the fact the economy continues to be the top issue for voters, andrea, what will this look like at the polls? yamiche, the speaker told me inflation is a concern, but insists abortion still is a concern. you have been out on the trail. the polling isn t showing it as passionate as it was back when the supreme court first ruled,
any effect. on this court ruling. what say you? there is an enormous amount of anger through the democratic party as a result of this supreme court decision. they do have public opinion on their side, there is broad disapproval of the fact that roe v. wade was overturned. the question what democrats do about it. they are strand inside congress. they have a bill to codify roe v. wade, half the house of representatives, but doesn t have a path through the united states senate. what many democrats are doing or trying to do is channel that anger towards the midterm elections, pleading with voters to show up this fall, elect more democratic candidates and give, you know, create a new united states congress that can codify roe v. wade. there is a new cbs poll that shows a majority of democrats say there are more likely to vote in this midterm election as result of that roe v. wade decision whereas the republicans and independents say the opposite. so this does give democrats an