Thank you. What a busy afternoon we are about to have. You have the busiest hour of the day. Lot of people asking why did Susan Collins decide 3 00 is when she is i dont have a good answer, but we will hear it moments from now. We dont have an answer, why are you asking the question. Other people are asking me the question, thats our job to figure it out. It appears we will hear from her in moments. History is about to be made in the United States capitol. The final confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court count will come down to two undecided senators. One is about to make her decision public, republican senator Susan Collins is set to take the senate floor moments from now to announce how she will vote on Brett Kavanaugh. The stakes could not be higher. Li Lisa Murkowski of alaska, republican, saying she will vote no. Jeff flake from arizona,
republican, not running for reelection says he will vote yes. If collins joins the yes column, this is a done deal. Kavanaugh will
on contraceptions. then as if all that were not enough, understand that today in the united states senate, all but two republicans when given a chance to vote on what about a federal law to protect access to contraception. that s all the bill really said, only two republicans said i would support that. the rest of them either voted no or ran for the hills so they wouldn t have to say in public how they feel about taking away access to contraception. you better believe that americans should be scared about what republicans want to do. because they are coming after abortion everywhere in this country. they are coming after ivf in this country. and they are coming after contraception. not just in red states. but nationally. red states, blue states, purple
and nurses who don t believe in abortions don t have to perform them? can t we all agree that contraceptions should be available? and can t we all agree that a woman who wants an abortion should not be sent to jail? why do you like this? if the basic idea is who is the most credible in a general election and take out joe biden in november and that is the case you are making, and the es sen, at least part of the essence of nikki haley s candidacy, and she did well to give an answer to appeal to general election audiences, and this is the answer that you heard her give. her performance overall was quite good in presenting case of why she ought to be the republican nominee, and presented to be electable, and different and a breath of fresh air on the stage. it can be hard to stand out, and as terry and i know, when you are preparing the candidates for a debate like this, how you get
i believe even conservative courts are going to look at this and say, we can t set this precedent. you can t do this to other drugs, contraceptions, you name it we can t do this to other drugs. that s the argument you re going to hear the justice department making this authority was delegated by congress to the fda. they have the right to make this decision if a drug is safe or not and then you can t go back in decades later and say, hey, i don t like this drug, because of my own personal ideological beliefs and i m just throwing it out. so i think you re going to see a strong argument made, even regardless of the abortion pill issue. senator, please stay with us. we want to continue this conversation in just a moment. but we have the white house in just a moment here, president biden calling the people of american journalist evan gerchovitz yesterday, a day after the state department labeled him as wrongfully detained by russia joining us is special presidential envoy for hostage af
abolish abortion pills, the way more than half of abortions are performed. and blake masters in arizona, trump supported has been voted for. and he put on his website that states should be able to ban contraceptions. he has since removed that particular item from his website, probably if abortion restrictions are as unpopular as they are even in red state kansas, you can just imagine how restrictions on contraception would be. and in fact, we ve got some brand new polling data out of arizona that looking at the anti-abortion politics on races well beyond kansas. this is done by the activist group in defensible, working with u-gov, and they asked arizona voter, would you rather vote for a republican or democrat for congress, a so-called generic ballot question, arizonans chose republicans by a 5 point margin.