more ludicrous by the day and exposes republicans contempt for women. because apparently it s okay for walker to pay for an abortion, but they want harsh penalties for women who need the procedure. also tonight, less than five weeks to the midterms and republicans are pulling out all the old fear and loathing playbook, trying to scare voters about crime. also, democrats are fighting back. also fighting back is tonight s reidout democracy defender, who s working with michelle obama and a lot of other amazing people to increase voter participation. meanwhile, republicans are doing just the opposite, suppressing the vote and nominating a staggering number of candidates, who might well cancel your right to vote altogether. we begin with a crucial component of the abortion debate that often goes unscathed, often unnoticed. the men. since the birth of baby jesus, conception without sexual intercourse hasn t really been a thing. meaning it takes two to conceive. but in anti-abo
i m not sure they really believe it. because what s going to happen, brit, if you have a five-person majority. i mean, kevin mccarthy, talk about a nightmare. trying to get the house to pass something that would even be brought up on the senate side so you are headed towards some kind of shutdown which republicans never win. shut down wars. so, they say they want to do it as soon as possible but they don t mean it. bret: yeah, jessica, what do you think? jessica: i think i ar. i agree with trey gowdy which i was not expecting. obviously he has experience doing it themselves. appropriators function differently than the rank and file in all of this. democrats have a particularly strong case because so much of what republicans say is extraneous domestic spending relates to causes that is so important to the republican party or at least in name, things like funding police departments, making sure that veterans are getting better medical attention those are issues that typically the g.o
know she had another commitment come up. but we were talking about it, and ilhan said, why are we taking this crap from them on defund the police and the racist fearmongering that they re doing when mccarthy has the fifth highest murder capital in the country. she voted against funding police departments. he voted against the most recent grant program that ilhan and i both voted for. and when it came to january 6th cops, he rooted for the rioters, while the rest of us worked to honor the capitol police officers. he s not pro-cop, he s pro-coup and everyone needs to know that. and i know you re friends with a lot of capitol police officers, so you re talking about people that you have great relationships with. it is interesting that overall, crime doesn t rank that high when voters are asked what the most important issue is. it s well below things like the economy and abortion, which is more important. even climate change. things that we push to try to get people to talk more about. i
increasingly dark to me and tell you that i ve got it all covered. so the fbi is now asking for help from local police departments in new york. the police department wants to add an additional 450 officers to its counterterrorism unit. the big question here is of course how safe is the u.s. from a terror attack. steven i mean what do you think, you touched on it a moment ago, you think they re going to be targeting us in the u.s. how nervous should we be or do you think we have it under control? the fbi has done an extraordinary job so far. i can tell you when i was on the national joint terrorism task force in 2002 there was a complete lack of intelligence-sharing. there is some now. let me add that local law enforcement officers have to be trained in the, in the gathering and analysis of intelligence. there s where we re going to get the information. on the streets of this country. and until the department of homeland security begins to start funding police departments for what i
i m not sure what the difference is because he is setting up a caricature of republicans. i m a democrat but i at least can recognize that most republicans support funding police departments and the fbi. so this idea that somehow there is any republican arguing against having law enforcement being funded, it s not based in fact. so i m not sure why it has to be politicized that way. bill: okay. you know barney frank, right? kirsten? i know who he is. i don t know him personally. you know who he is. you know what he does. he is a left wing bomb thrower. he always has been. i know i he went to harvard, frank is not a stupid man. is he pain head but he is not stupid. he knew exactly what the reaction was going to be when he said this he knew exactly what i was going to do tonight. i m not sure with that. bill: really? i think this is a common