To the states, and the states will then make a determination. Listen to that closely, the argument about the states is a key prolife talking point, the idea that even reversing roe v. Wade would not end all Abortion Access in the u. S. But at other points in the campaign, trump was not on script. He said things that managed to outrage people on both sides of the abortion debate, like the bizarre claim that women should be punished or jailed for receiving an abortion, an assertion he made under questioning by chris matthews. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . Yes or no, as a principle . The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah, there has to be some form. I take posions on everything else, it is a very complicated position. The kindest way to describe that is he was totally making it up on the spot, which was obvious. He quickly reversed the position. We should note that itself is a reversal of his abortion position under questioning by ti
filibuster, but it is inconsistent that the democrats did blow up the filibuster and every nomination with the exception of the supreme court. so it wouldn t be the end of the world if the senate did get rid of the filibuster and supreme court nominees. we re not there yet. there are ways you can grind on the democrats, you can force a talking filibuster, democrats want to stretch this out, make them go to the senate floor and actually talk until they can t talk anymore. u there are procedures that can be used. one thing we heard earlier in the show is senator blumenthal. i think the democrats are going to start invoking the two-hour rule, going to try and go after this process in committee to stretch it out. they ll say that they don t have all the paperwork back, they need to look more into neil gorsuch s time at the justice department, and get more memos and more information about what he actually did, with some issues that were reasonably controversial. so i think ultimately the
i ve known merrick garland for many, many years, i think everybody in the city of washington knows him, thinks of him as a model of probity and caution as a judge, and that made it even more outrageous in the minds of democrats that barack obama had put up a relative moderate and yet he was he too was denied the opportunity. but now the democrats face a very difficult choice. as i was saying earlier, in the hour, they have to decide whether they think they can and should mcconnell, mitch mcconnell has to decide whether he can or should woo democrats or whether the democrats themselves are going to are going to hold the line a fce mitch mcconnell to do what i think he doesn t want to do, which is to blow up the filibuster for supreme court nominees. if the democrats allow that to happen, then as nina said
democrat and one republican. i think it has been a tour de force on your part. i ve been impressed. you re precisely the person who ought to have this opportunity to serve on the supreme court. who were they talkingabout? the answer after a quick break on our special covage supreme confirmation clash. . do you know who this is? yes. that is the supreme court nominee, gorsuch. i think if we were to remove partisan politics from this, that he s qualified to be on the supreme court and that s what the senate should be based on. i ve found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced. our senses awake. our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say.if you love something set it free.
without knowing what state laws exist on this issue. those were all in response to abortion questions and you ll note that was irrespective of how a given judge might rule, those were both parties judges. right. i think there is isome decisions that judge gorsuch has already ruled on and areas in which he already made his views clear, even on the question of access to birth control. he was a strong covered in your earlier segment, his position on hobby lobby, bosses should be able to decide whether or not women can get birth control coverage. you think that s telling? he referred to being complicit and evil? yeah. this is, look, 90% of women in this country use birth control. most women use it for more than 30 years. this is a fundamental right we have in this country. and in the case in utah, where he ruled basically sided with politicians who want to deny folks to access to planned parenthood for basic preventive health services, these are decisions and opinions that i thi