i said, thank you very much. i knew exactly what he meant. 2 million lives. that is perhaps the most important admission from donald trump last night, again bragging about being the one to eliminate a constitutional right for women s health care that has stood for over 50 years. and here s donald trump s problem, is he goes into, i would call it softball, a softball event. i ve never seen one as fawning. i m not even sure, why did they have two hosts there? they could have just had one, sit there and smile and say, you re great. great. ask another softball question. it s like t-ball. he swung, hit the tee, and the ball rolled off. he bragged, katty, about terminating roe v. wade. he said, if it weren t for me, that 10-year-old girl in ohio that was raped by an illegal immigrant, if it weren t for me, she wouldn t have had to flee the state. if it weren t for me, women wouldn t be, like, dying outside of emergency rooms because doctors are afraid to conduct women s he
Best in history. Asian american the best in history. Hispanic the best in history. Women, people with a diploma, people without a diploma. Donald trump yesterday making false claims about his economic record and the Unemployment Rate during his administration. Well have more from his rally In The South Bronx in just a moment. Also ahead well explain why ohios republican governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden is on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon become the first state to classify Abortion Pills as controlled dangerous substances. Well go through that legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, may 24th. Im elise jordan in for jonathan lemire. Well start this morning with the race for the white house and Donald Trumps rally in New York City last night. After spending weeks in Lower Manhattan for his criminal hush money trial, trump traveled uptown to the bronx
Theres recently been a lot of speculation about just that kind of scenario. But we dont have to actually imagine because Something Like that has happened before in july offo 1981. Heres the headline. Reagan reversing many u. S. Policies. The New York Times reported the reaganli administration has set about accomplishing a sweeping reversal of policy and practice in the way the government deals with business and individual citizens. In key cabinet and regulatory posts the reagan transformation amounts to a revolution of attitude involving the appointment of officials who in previous administrations might have been ruled out over concern of lack of interest or open or ostilt to the mission of the agencies theyhe now lead. Sounds familiar. President reagan embarked on what you might call the first modern purge of the administrative state, filling the federal government with young conservative zealots who were looking to carry out a radical newo agenda. And nowhere was that more evident th
he s said after the midterms that some candidates had jeopardized their positions on the republican side because they had been too tough on apportion. he s pointed out ron desantis in that respect. for his campaign then, which is trying to get him to say, i m against a federal ban. we ll have a 15-week ban, because that s where most of the american public is. that s nikki haley s position, by the way, which is funny. they lifted nikki but he can t do it. play the clip again. again, i was shocked when i was sitting there. i was absolutely shocked, sitting watching, going, you know, are they going to, like, bring out some dreamland ribs for him? they might as well have. sit there and talk about football. right. it was the easiest thing. i ve never seen, never seen a paid advertisement on fox news,
it could be used to a part could be used to help global equality. michelle goldberg of the daily beast and newsweek. what should folks nou know this week? what people should know when they re watching the elections unfold on tuesday, although mississippi, it might be easy to be cavalier about it because it s going to be held unconstitutional as it pertains to abortion most likely, it s coming to a lot more states in 2012. likely in ohio, montana, in florida. this is not just kind of a challenge to the existing law on apportion, but it s going to have a big effect on the 2012 election. these laws are useful in terms of giving churches a way to get really involved in kind of registering voters, in doing get out of vote. basically becoming auxiliaries to one of the political parties. they re working on a nonpartisan