hey, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson, with me now is nbc white house correspondent mike memoli, the washington post and msnbc political analyst, ashley parker, also with us new york times politics reporter, lisa lerer. mike, let me start with you on this one and talk about what we heard from the president around the 1:00 hour. essentially the message is get out there and vote, especially if you are for abortion rights because we can help codify it come january. talk us through that, three weeks out now from the midterms. yeah, that s right, yasmin. i think the political strategy here on the part of the white house is very clear. democrats saw a real boost in the polls in the late summer months after that june decision by supreme court came down, striking down the protections for abortion rights under roe versus wade. as one democratic strategist put it, maybe if that decision came down in august we d be feel better about where things stand now. w
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we ll talk. i can tell you that women s concerns about their freedom are very, very much still very significant in terms of how they will vote. i believe that we will have the mobilization to turn out the vote. the clear message, we want to give women freedom of choice, they want to have a ban on abortion. you know, and we said this across the board, it certainly is a significant issue when it comes to mobilization with women. you ve got record numbers of women registering to vote in states like pennsylvania based solely on abortion right. that is absolutely right. i can t help but go back to this polling and where people are financially. you ve got gas prices going back up once again. you go to the grocery store to feed your three kids at home, and it is so much more money than it once was. i m wondering if to a certain extent democrats are going to look back on this and say we should have focused more on these issues, versus not.