If its friday, its meet the press daily. Greetings. Im Steve Kornacki in for chuck todd. We begin with the 2020 campaign so far with the democratic frontrunner, former Vice President joe biden. This as he scrambles to explain his sudden shift to the left on abortion, in a campaign which seemed to be owning the center. We have a lot to talk about with her. Biden was hit by a lot of attacks in the 2020 field following cnbcs reporting on wednesday. Amid those attacks, he then reversed course last night. For many years as u. S. Senator, ive supported the Hyde Amendment, like many, many others have. Because there was sufficient moneys and circumstances where women were able to exercise that right, women of color, poor women, women who are not able to have access, and it was not under attack as it was then, as it is now. But circumstances have changed. I cant justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected ri
voting machines more than we know. and so we and we may never know. i want to go back to you saying your questions would depend on his testimony. he has said flatly he will be stick to whatever is in the report. i m assuming you already have questioned prepared for him in line with that. so i m going to ask him as i m sure many other people are going to ask him, if you did not have the justice department dividedens which is for the law, mind you guidance that says a sitting president cannot be indicted, would you indict him. and he will certainly be asked that in the judiciary committee and probably the intelligence committee. the other thing we are concerned about, because it s an intelligence committee, is the efforts for counter intelligence activities going on with russia. the fact that paul manafort and richard gates met, both of the campaign chair and campaign vice
care for women. we are in a true crisis on choice. that s something that he struggled with, thought about, and felt like he could no longer support any mechanism that would preve prevent, particularly disproportionately impacts women of color, women of poverty. given the crisis that we are seeing, he felt like he could no longer support that. i have to play this, though. this was wednesday night. we re talking less than 48 hours ago, your campaign vice chair was on national television, a competitor of ours, was on national television and was asked about this question and praised biden s consistency on the hyde amendment and said it was an expression of deeply held let me play this deeply held religious beliefs. i think the vice president has been very consistent over his career in the senate since 76 when the hyde amendment became law, that he is a deeply religious man. i think everyone knows that and