under pressure the growing calls for senato diane feinstein to step down i ll talk to the first democra to say it out loud the congressman ro khanna. and senator tim scott s toug position the most prominent black man i the republican party leans int the culture wars as he explore a run for president. i m jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. we hold these truths to b self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator wit certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit o happiness. the declaration of independenc certainly rings hollow today a the republican party continues to push legislation that is no only wildly unpopular an dangerous, but also strips these unalienable rights fro americans. friday, the supreme cour ordered continued access t mifepristone until the court could make a final decision on wednesday. polling shows a majority o americans, 64% believe abortio should be legal in all or
laboratories, yesterday. they paused the court ruling that would have restricted access to the nationwide abortion pill, mifepristone. for, now at least until next week access to mifepristone ha been preserved the matter is far from resolved and the future of abortion pills remains uncertain. the order merely maintains the status quo for a few more days to allow the justices time t consider the issue the white house, on the othe hand, is doubling down o defending reproductive rights. on tuesday, vice president kamala harris, will be in reno nevada, to discuss the importance of keeping abortion legal. mifepristone is one of the two drugs often used to induce a abortion a method that is safe, effective and popular. medication abortion now counts for more than half of al abortions performed in the united states. meanwhile, a near tota abortion ban in florida will have dire consequences for those living in the south. late thursday night, the governor s office announce that ron de
in reproductive rights in america, despite the majority of americans supporting abortion rights with a combined 60% of americans saying that it should be legal always or most of the time according to an nbc most recent question poll. the population this country is not being told that their bodily autonomy is no longer being protected by the federal. government it is not a small thing. this is women and many trans men and nonbinary folks to, being told that they can now be subjected to force childbirth by the state. if you can get pregnant, you cannot be forced by the state to carry the pregnancy to term, or, let s say you want to become pregnant and you have a miscarriage, as many as 26% of all pregnancies and in miscarriage, according to the college of obstetricians missed. in the post roe world, world, they can be viewed as a crime. the supreme court is not doing anything this radical. they are simply returning to the question of its fortune back to the states. let s look a
people engaged, they need to d it now, not wait until 202 before they go back to engag with these people. i think that is, right so i ve spent my life s wor trying to get more people to access democracy and for a ver long time i have kept telling, folks invest in young people they see the world differently how is it possible tha republicans are not looking at the demographic change recognizing that young peopl are so much not only progressive but als larger in voting possibility then baby boomers. how are the not reading th room i mean i think behind the scenes, as i have conversation with donors and even candidates, i m in this weird place righ now, maria, i m no longe affiliated with the party bu still getting calls like, he what are your thoughts on this election can you assess this data quietly people to recogniz that i think part of the problem is that you look at republican, base you look at a evangelical base and republicans are concerned abou seeing a diminishment in tha
state drivers licenses belonging to undocumente immigrants desantis is also pushing t eliminated undocumente students access to instate tuition. we ratio are, as a political science professor author of latino americans, th 500th date legacy that shape the nation i want to get into, this we ha two different things happene today this past week in one scenario we had the president announced that dac recipients would be able t access government health care. and be part of the plan. for most, people that is kin of like a costco, the more people that are a part of that system the lower all of ou cost for health care go. juxtaposed though, you have ru desantis who is basicall demonizing the undocumente community for him to be able t get political gain what do you make of these tw juxtapositions the core question, maria, i as always when you are talking