davis, former texas state senator, the author of deeds not words, hair it inspired girls and young women to get involved in politics is the focus of shouting down midnight. the first installment of a new msnbc documentary series called the turning point which is executive produced by trevor noah. it debuts sunday at 10 pm eastern here on msnbc. wendy, good to see you. thank you for being with us tonight. thank you for having me ali. it s kind of remarkable because your fight against an abortion law which you thought at the time was draconian. probably one of the best known in american history. everybody remembers you filibustering that. that law was far less bad than the one that passed in texas that has now been put into place as a result of the collapse of roe v. wade. texas has gone from bad to worse in terms of reproductive health care? yeah. who could ve imagined alley
in kansas last night. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having me. we turn out to laphonza butler president of emily s list that works to elect democratic pro-choice women to office. miss butler thank you so much for being with us tonight. i want to start by getting your reaction to what happened in kansas last night. often when you talk to people who are on the winning side of something they tell you they knew it all along. i ve spoken to a lot of people in kansas who said we were hoping it was going to happen, but we weren t really expecting the blow at the we got in this referendum. thanks for having me ali. 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 that miss sweet just described the work that didn t just start the week before. these are organizations who have been at this for months i was not someone who is sitting at home last night knowing that we had it in the bag.
effective way to win their trust and win their vote. so communicating about personal freedom, the thing that we all hold so dear just as americans our freedom to make decisions about our own bodies. ali i can t imagine anything more fundamental. so yes as we talk about abortion and access to reproductive health care. we are essentially talking about personal freedoms and that is again in my opinion as american as apple pie and that s what democrats are gonna be talking to voters about come november. as we saw it was an example last night in kansas but strict anti abortion measures tend to fail when they re put up to the straight-up vote as opposed to being part of a candidates general message. we saw this in colorado in 2020, north dakota in 2014, in mississippi in 2011 and yet many of the people who voted against those abortion bans will go on to vote for antiabortion republican candidates.
state of kansas. i think people were shocked. no one was focused on this but those of us who have been out there with our constituents, they know how we know they know how we feel about this. they don t want a patchwork of laws. they want women in kansas having different rights and women in minnesota, or in south dakota or texas. but that s what s happening right now, and when they saw the extremist proposal and find out about a ten-year-old girl who gets raped and then is supposed to carry the baby? and then when they take her to indiana, that doctor who legally performs an 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. catherine cortez masto 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 that has happened in just the past few weeks in the u.s. senate ali and that is what the people
the only modern ex president to contemplate running for president again. end quote. donald trump is not raking in millions from washing firms, he is lining his pockets by selling tickets to regular ordinary people. to what are basically glorified rallies. he is not giving these lucrative a paid rally support money into his political action committee for his next run for office, the millions are going directly to donald trump himself. and he is getting that money from his fans! this is nice work if you can get it. joining us now is isaac arnsdorf, he s a national political reporter at the washington post, and one of the reporters bylined on this reporting. thank you for your time tonight, we appreciate it. thanks for having me ali. is it, from your knowledge, do these rally goers who are buying these tickets know where their money is going, and does it matter? do you think they would care if