texas state senator roland gutierrez is here. this is american voices. hello everyone, i am julian castro, in for alicia menendez. we start this hour with that mountain of evidence recovered from mar-a-lago and the worrying signs from some top secret some top secret files may still be missing. the justice department sharing a detailed inventory of former president trump stash, showing he took more than 11,000 government documents for the white house. that includes more than 100 classified records and dozens of empty folders also marked classified. we don t know why the photos were empty. we also don t know who has the documents that are supposed to be inside them, but we do know that trump has a habit of hiding how the sensitive material from the doj, even former attorney general bill barr says trump, quote, this even federal prosecutors. in fact, barr argues that trump should not have had the documents in the first place. people say that this was unprecedented, well, i
time i heard it you know in my lifetime. so i do take some seriousness to that, but i think it s mostly couched on the farthest extreme. i don t want people to even panic. what i worry about more is the silent divorce, to be honest, which just states slowly, choosing, laws are significantly different from each other, break down federalism, meaning the federal government cannot institute policies, can t institute laws and force them to. think of everything that s happened from the pandemic to the conduct of free and fair elections, to lawn forsman around the country, to even economics and trade. over the last three years, we ve definitely had slippage is of that, some states made very aggressive allows to try and prevent abortions. others now are doing in the other direction. that s what i m worried about the most in terms of the, big big picture overtime separately the acute incidents of violence are definitely on a daily concern in this country. i can t recall any other time in our co
she may in fact then be separated from her family, and placed in foster care. she might be placed in a religiously based foster care home, where people are oppositional to abortion. just because some of these exceptions exist, it doesn t actually mean that they will be accessible for the people we need these exceptions to exist. that s such an important point about laws in theory, and then, how they actually work, whether people fully have access to what is available. melissa, what problems might victims run into, in trying to prove that their unwanted pregnancy is the result of rape or incest? the very fact that you have to establish that an unwanted pregnancy is the result of rape or incest is by itself a barrier to those who have to report. so, finding the proof, being able to show that this is something that s happening within the family, in the case of incest, this may have its own particular burdens, particularly if the individual