choice. the most difficult i have made in my life. but it was my choice, and that is what must be preserved for every pregnant person. it is simply nobody s business what choices we as pregnant people make about our own bodies. and let me be clear. i would never tell people who don t choose to have an abortion that they should do so. nor should they tell me that i shouldn t. this is a constitutionally protected, intensely personal choice. sounding the alarm on the threat to reproductive freedoms in this country is where we start this hour. joyce vance is here, former u.s. attorney, now law professor at the university of alabama. and an msnbc legal analyst. also joining us, fatima gosgraves, and coauthor of the confidence code and an msnbc contributor. i want to start with you, fatima, and what we saw today. it is something it s awkward to talk about. it s awkward to talk about in a
technically quite good at it. she is specifically unquestionably good at the math part. she can count votes like nobody s business. if a piece of legislation needed to get passed, nancy pelosi knows whether and how she can get the votes for it. and she never brings a bill to the floor unless she knows she can pass it. and i mean, i ve said it before. i ll say it again. whether you are aligned with her politically or not, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn t matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what she s doing. she s very technically skilled at the job she holds. and if you need proof of that, if you need evidence, you can do a little controlled experiment in recent history. look at what happened in the house in between her two stints as speaker because it was the first midterm elections of the barack obama presidency. the 2010 midterms when the democrats took what president obama called a shellacking,
thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it she is specifically unquestionably good at the math part she can count votes like nobody s business. if a piece of legislation needed to get passed, nancy pelosi knows whether and how she can get the votes for it and she never brings a bill to the floor unless she knows she can pass it. and i mean, i ve said it before. i ll say it again. whether you are aligned with her politically, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn t matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what she s doing she s very technically skilled at the job she holds and if you need proof of that, if you need evidence, you can do a little controlled experiment in recent history. look at what happened in the house in between her two stints
0 us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker s job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president. just a huge history-making deal. so she s always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it. she is specifically unquestionably good at
have to testify against their gang banger cousin who will get out on parole and kill them, so there s a lot of reasons people don t want to call the cops, but i say this: i don t care if you are legal, illegal, who you are, what you do, it is nobody s business, just tell me where the dirtbag is and i will arrange to go pick them up, and i ve caught 1422 of the world s most wanted come on uncatchable by police, we recovered 61 children, elizabeth smart probably the most famous, 17 guys off the fbs top ten most wanted i m not patting myself on the back, this is because of the public. the public saying john, you gave me a way to saddle up and do it right, and i m going to do it right. i m going to count on catching this horrible coward, because the dirty laundrie parents, they gave him a nine-day head start, came up with all these red herrings, fooled the cops, and t on my show, we ve got 412 tips,