across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow hazmat suits, paramedics firefighters at the ballot box. today, authorities in adams county, colorado right next to denver, announced a local law enforcement and the fbi are investigating a ballot they received in an envelope containing a suspicious powdery substance. it is crazy on its face that word a point here where someone trying to harm election workers is even within the realm of possibility. but what makes the story truly remarkable is how the adams county clerk is handling all this. back in may she told abc news that threats he as fellow election workers were facing were so bad that he was wearing a bulletproof vest to work. and he is not alone. election workers in multiple colorado counties underwent active shooter training, and started wearing their own bulletproof fasts because of the threats that have been pouring in as a result of the big lie. the adams c
To exclude from trial . Therefore, from the American Public evidence. I mean, were prosecutors, we are used to evidence. Thats how we measure our cases, measure our progress. And if Senator Mcconnell has decided in coordination with the white house that its going to be run in a particular way to exclude facts and evidence and witnesses an documents what does that make the senate . It is just an amazing point for you to be making. Americas history is being an advocate around the world for the i think it is fair to call that a banana court, a banana republic, a kangaroo court. We used to be a country that helped bring the rule of law to other countries. So impeachment wasnt designed to be a trial like in an article 3 court but it was designed to be a process and a high mined one in which facts mattered. Right . The framers had this fascinating
trial. You could have put an Impeachment Trial in the judiciary. They didnt want to. Theoretically, the house, the house had the other job of sort
right. and we are seeing the consequences here, in these deep red states, including in ohio. as well covered a frankly bathe effort to recover this in the middle of august, to try to sneak it in like they did. and it s just the latest defeat for this effort. and frankly, the anti-abortion movement in this country needs to come to a reckoning here in terms of how they re handling politics and the ballot. because they re being handed defeat after defeat after defeat. and this comes on the heels of two years of republicans in a number of state legislatures trying to take away another right, the right street, restricting access to the ballot. and we have seen the consequences there as well. that played a role in the 2022 midterms. but abortion here is by far the biggest. and it is even one where republicans are threatening, some believe, many believe, our national security, because of senator tubberville s hold on military promotions, right now, army, marines, both without a commander beca
surrounding states. by one count, north carolina saw an additional 5 million abortions there in the six months since roe was overturned, so the impact of this ban, it s just one example, is it not, of how what one state does can have much farther reaching implications. i think that s absolutely correct, when we were talking about one mifepristone, it was just a case in texas, that will have implications across the entire country. in the case of north carolina, to your point, there are people who are driving across state lines in order to access abortion care there, particularly from the south, right? particularly from these deep red states who were going against the will of the people. but this extremism, we re seeing actual political backlash. we re talking about states like kansas and kentucky and how when voters were directly asked about this issue, they actually voted in favor to keep access to abortion rights. and i think we re going to