affairs and veterans who are going to shut down offices today. i want to play for you this. let me just say, that all of the events that i described and i m going to describe of the shutdown are negative. it is an impediment to va s ability to deliver the serves and benefits that veterans have earned through their service. the va continues to invest significant resources and time and planning for this unique, infrequent, and avoidable situation. the ongoing shutdown presents a myriad of challenges. the last time a shutdown occurred in 1996, as i am told, our nation was enjoying a sustained period of relative peace. that s not true today. no it sure isn t true today. but that doesn t mean that we don t have 4 million veterans
with all that is at stake, it s becoming more and more important for us to share the truth with our young people and to encourage them to lock arms, speak out for life, and help make abortion a relic of the past. let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year. didn t the republicans already lose that fight, eugene? how is anything going to be different? nothing is going to be different. there is an uneasy consensus in the country, but it s a fairly durable consensus that nobody loves abortion, but abortion should be legal and infrequent, as infrequent as we can make it. and that is that s the basic agreement. that s what people basically believe. they don t believe what republicans want, which is to outlaw all abortions in every case, according to their platform, and as a result, they re seen as hostile to the interests of women and others who care about women s reproductive rights.
released a video for the march for life. let s take a look at it. with all that is at stake, it s becoming more and more important for us to share the truth with our young people and to encourage them to lock arms, speak out for life, and help make abortion a relic of the past. let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year. didn t the republicans already lose that fight, eugene? how is anything going to be different? nothing is going to be different. there is an uneasy consensus in the country, but it s a fairly durable consensus that nobody loves abortion, but abortion should be legal and infrequent, as infrequent as we can make it. and that is that s the basic agreement. that s what people basically believe. they don t believe what republicans want, which is to outlaw all abortions in every case, according to their platform, and as a result, they re seen as hostile to the
with all that is at stake, it s becoming more and more important for us to share the truth with our young people and to encourage them to lock arms, speak out for life, and help make abortion a relic of the past. let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year. didn t the republicans already lose that fight, eugene? how is anything going to be different? nothing is going to be different. there is an uneasy consensus in the country, but it s a fairly durable consensus that nobody loves abortion, but abortion should be legal and infrequent, as infrequent as we can make it. and that is that s the basic agreement. that s what people basically believe. they don t believe what republicans want, which is to outlaw all abortions in every case, according to their platform, and as a result, they re seen as hostile to the interests of women and others who care about women s reproductive rights.
address the source of the main part of what we see in the system. shepard: but there is not much? or is there? guest: very low. we have had millions and millions of voters the last years and the likelihood of vote fraud occurring is on the order of winning the lot try. shepard: of winning the lottery is like 11 billion or something, isn t it? guest: yes. it is a very rare and infrequent. when it happens we are concerned. election officials do take these allegations seriously. they investigate them fully. usually what happens, the allegations come out and after we find out that maybe someone signed on the wrong line on a poll book and that is the source of the error, not that fraud occurred. shepard: generally speaking have the courts been siding with more opportunity to vote or less opportunity? guest: that is a very difficult question to answer. it is mixed. the courts have upheld photo