but the families of service members who are stationed in places like texas, which has about 120,000 active duty service members. imagine that you have a high-risk pregnancy in texas right now. senator tuberville is determined to grind the american defense apparatus to a halt so he can force those women to carry pregnancies to term against their will. doug jones is a former democratic senator of alabama who proceeded preceded tuberville, and he joins me now. well, i guess my first question is, what do you think of what mr. tuberville is doing, the senator is doing? and do you think it plays well in the state they represent in alabama? i m not sure which thing you re talking about, you re talking about his white nationalist views? are you talking about his military nominations? there are so many things that i think that he is doing that, quite frankly, is just embarrassing to the state. even though there are so many people who might say they support it, i don t think they
if anything the fbi has been too deferential to trump. they held up the investigation of trump s part of the riot instigation for a year. they tried to stop the execution of the warrant, even though they re there were classified documents at mar-a-lago. whether republicans are saying is actually the acts exact opposite. but i think this vilification of law enforcement is because they are proceeding under the law to hold trump accountable. they can t stand that. i urge anyone to think the fbi is a gone woke to read one single, just one book about the fbi. just one. congresswoman zoe lofgren, thank you very much. thank you. still to come, one republican senator representing just about a percent of all americans is holding up hundreds of key military appointments as part of an extreme crusade against abortion. that story, ahead.
i mean you re u.s. senator and you could go read a few books, spend a few hours, try to figure out what the term means. google it. i don t know. more importantly, chris, he s from alabama. he should know things like. this remember, this is a guy who is candidate did not know what the voting rights act was. i keep coming back to that because that was the first telltale sign about where he actually stands on things. when you don t even know what it is. and he didn t. it was clear that he didn t know that. so senator from alabama ought to know our history, ought to know where we are, ought to be on the right side of history and not the wrong side. and he is clearly consistently been on the wrong side of history on this issue as well as the military issue. doug jones, who served as a senator of alabama, thank you very much. thank you, chris. still to come, amid a week
actual response to this pressing issue, and so if they decide to, wait for it, attack farmers insurance for being too woke. the state chief financial officer released a statement saying, quote, i sincerely believe that today s actions, huron farmers insurance as well on its way to becoming the bud light of insurance. no amount of culture war is going to solve the basic problem here. insurers are fleeing the market, and insurance premiums are shooting up. ben keys is an economist and professor were at university of penn state studying the cost of climate crisis for years, specifically insurance. he joins us now. ben, you ve given testimony for the senate on this. you wrote a new york times op-ed on this. what s your farmers is not the first, but why are they leaving? thanks so much for having me, chris, this isn t about wokeness. it s about the weather. storms have gotten more severe, more frequent, we have already had 12 storms this year across
now, a street in northeast spain, a super cell storm pounded the city of saragosa in recent days, leaving people clinging to the roofs of cars in breathtaking terrifying scenes. if here in the northeastern u.s., we are seeing similar floods. in new york s hudson valley, a slow-moving storm system brought flash floods that killed at least one person, dumping in about an hour a