joining us tonight do you remember this moment? what s going to be differen about florida s election i 2022 what are you about to sign right now, i have what we think is the strongest electio integrity measures in th country. i m going to sign it right here, it will take effect. [applause] there you go, the bill i signed there you go, the bill is signed that was florida governor ro desantis as he signed hi states voter suppression o back in 2021 as you saw there, governor desantis did not sign that controversial law in a small private ceremony in his office or even a big public ceremon at the state house the governor decided that he would make a big to do of th voter suppression bill b signing it live on fox and france friends. voter suppression bill signings are the type of stuff that fox puts on its morning shows, which is, okay for desantis, this was all par of his unapologetically anti woke persona, sign a controversial bill onl supported by hard-core conservative
right, we quote in our piece, who ripped into him and when these cases this is just cowardice if there were a case where justice thomas is taking a position that you put your nam on a referendum for a ballot initiative in this case, anti-gay marriag fell a native, and tha disclosure of identity means that you re subject to reprisals and violen harassment justice scalia just took him t the woodshed and was like, thi is just cowardice. stand up for what you are doing. this is the home of the brave. i do wonder you said this time might b different. do you think that there coul be any punitive measures taken here it s so hard to know, alex. there s the sense that merrick garland should do something, the court should be forced t have ethics rules. somebody should appoint an inspector general. there s a sense when you liste to people inside the white house and others, that there i some momentum, in some ways, tto foist that momentum onto the court, to act on its own behalf is a bri
in the republican party have certainly. i think exemptions becom tricky for democrats because it s hard to sometimes explain why they are not practice-able why they don t work in practice, even if they sound okay in theory although, i think we re not no learning around the country, we re getting this crash cours and what it means to hav doctors wondering what sort of lifesaving interventions are okay, and which ones aren t. mike, i know you wanted t get in here about trump pushed trump s strategy go forward, if you will. he s always bee instinctively pro-choice and he s totally cynical so he s happy to make th switch but i will make a cash money bet that the republican nomine is - and i don t believe it will be donald trump - that the general electio position will be banne exceptions of late ter abortions. that will be where it lands in the general election and most people biden will b talking about the economy. if a republican candidate in the general election says i am totally
and say that trump was too sof on the second amendment, yet h ends up in front of an audienc that seems rather split on whether hang mike pence was an appropriate rallying cry yet, he keeps going - yet, he is still running for president. mike, i want to touch on something that michell goldberg wrote so eloquently about in the new york times, which is the notion that there are some republicans behind th scenes you drank the kool-ai on this notion that the go represents the people and th people want this and the polling be dammed, the election result be dammed, but that true america somehow want these draconian restrictions is that what is happenin inside the party it s very hard to understand exactly how and why they kee getting themselves into this position i think there are som people who feel that way in re states, just like there ar people on the far left in blue states, where i think they are carrying the torch for wha
abandoning trump s they don think he can beat joe biden. on the one hand, you do have a electability caucus. on the other hand, it tends to be a pro-life party. but the old pro life positio that you can win a presidentia election on, by the way it s not an extreme position among americans, is to ban lat trimester abortions. but now, the most aggressive edge of that movement you see things like th six-week deal, which i absolute political poison. so, this is going to settl out. but right now you know, it s funny, i saw post election poll i wisconsin. i looked at polling in a lot and have done a lot of supreme court races. it s always crime as the numbe one thing people vote on because they hear judge, the think crime. this thing - abortion was 30 points ahead o crime in what people made th decision on, and wiped out the republicans. so, the republicans are goin to go into swing states like wisconsin and destroyed decide we don t have a public referendum on abortion rights,