this done bit end of the year. we must get it done. you mentioned candidates, i want to switch gears and get your take on what happened in kansas. voters overwhelming willy supporting abortion access in that state yesterday. what is your take-away of that? shawn patrick maloney called it a game-changer saying that kansas is the earthquake that is going to rattle every assumption of about what is going to happen this fall. tell me your thoughts on this. women want to make their own decisions about their health. they don t want ted cruz making them or the republican party making them and they came out, moderate republicans, democrats came out and clearly said that last night in the sun flower state of kansas, no one was focused on this, and those who have been out there with our constituents, we know how they feel about, this they don t want a patch work of laws and they don t want women this kansas to have different rights than in
yesterday. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having me. we turn now to the president of emily s list which works to elect democratic pro-choice women to office. ms. butler, thank you so much for being with us this evening. and i want to start by getting your reaction to what happened in kansas last night. you know, often when you talk to people who are on the winning side of something, they tell you they knew it all along, they knew it was going to happen. i ve spoken to a lot of people in kansas who were saying we were hoping it was going to happen, we weren t expecting the blowout that we received on this referendum. thanks for having me, ali, and i won t be one of those folks. it was just an inspiring victory that the country saw last night, that kansas really sent a clear message. the work that ms. sweet described, that was not just work that started, you know, the weekend before, these are organizations who have been at this for months, and i was not
clear ballot question, these are republican candidates who have made it very clear with their statements and their positions and their votes that they intend to support national bans, that they intend to continue to strip away personal freedoms, and i am convinced, and kansas showed up last night, that voters are not going to stand for it. thank you for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. the president of emily s list. we appreciate your time. thank you. for more on this historic vote and what it means for the nation with senator amy klobuchar next. ith senator amy klobuchar next i m jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you re age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps?
it. there s a bipartisan understanding that it needs to be fixed, it s not 100% clear that if you fix it, donald trump and people like him can t get away with what they were trying to, do but it does eem to be agreed upon that if we fix this, we are at least some of the way there to preventing what happened last year. yes, let me make clear, the way we beat donald trump and his extremists is like what happened last night in kansas, right? where regular people turned out to vote in record numbers, defeated an extremist position on abortion or fast forward to elections. the way we win, winning are the house and senate and being able to salvage our democracy from sox people who won on the lep can side last night. let me focus on this. bipartisan efforts. collins, manchin, a whole group of senators, senator blunt and i, have been working with them for months now, and we are really excited about this proposal, it will make a difference, because think of it now, two out of 535 people, one
minnesota or north dakota or texas, but that s what is happening right now, and when they saw the extremist proceedles, when they find out about a proposals when they find out about a 10-year-old girl who gets raped and is supposed to carry the baby and then when they take her to indiana, that doctor who legally performs the abortion starts getting questioned by the attorney general, people have been following this. they won t even allow a bill to pass in the u.s. senate, katherine cortez masto s bill to allow women to travel to get reproductive health care. or they won t allow a bill to go through which allows you access to contraception? all of that has happened in just the past few weeks in the u.s. senate, ali, so that is what the people of kansas, women and the men that stand with them, voted their hearts out last night, and yes, i think it is i don t even say, i ve seen it happening ever since that decision came out. let s talk a bit about some legislation that you re hopin