but in virginia youngkin is taking a slower approach. i am a pro-life governor and i will sign a bill that comes to my desk that protects life. and i look forward to that. reporter: the governor supports a law seeking to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. as he tries to balance the demands from strict opponents of abortion rights with the political realitity of democrats controlling the state senate by one vote. all eyes will be on virginia. i think we are the epicenter for the initial decisions that will be made on a lot of pro-life legislation. reporter: senator amanda chase, who challenged youngkin in the republican primary last year, said she would prefer a bill that goes further. but she knows that is unlikely to find success. so she supports the governor s plan. even the 15-week bill you think has an uphill i think it has been uphill battle, honestly, in the virginia senate because of the makeup of the vi
second, you learn the value of an open mind and an open society. at our best, our college and universities are free marketplaces of ideas, embracing perspectives and backgrounds, that is our country at our best, too. an open, inclusive, diverse society is the opposite of an antedote to a closed society where there is only one way to think and act. here you worked hard to turn this idea into a realitity. and you have shared your own stories and at times, can that is taken courage. but the only way our society
security grounds. the obama administration is disconnected from the realitity ones f the world, one tweeted. it is not the same standard. of course there s going to be risk. already governors are reacting to proposed cuts in their national guard forces. many of their troops are combat veterans from war. we think that they are very important to the national defense of this country and helping us in times of emergency. governor nikki haley s husband is in the national guard. he recently returned from a one-year deployment to afghanistan. it is a slap in the face to anyone who has served in the past multiple times. downsizing the army from 520,000 soldiers to around 440,000, the smallest since
he went down the list of the things he would repeal. he didn t tell us what he would replace them with. it is a choice right now between two alternatives and i think president obama s is based in the realitity of the decisions we must make together as a people if we want a better and stronger economy and those are not the sort of prescriptions governor romney has. what about next week s vice presidential debate? do you think there s something in this debate that joe biden should be paying attention to? i think he should continue to press the romney/ryan ticket on their specific plans and their specific promises. a $5 trillion tax cut is going to have to come on the backs of the middle class whether in the form of more expensive college tuition or more expensive medicare or more expensive taxes. they re in this la la land just saying trust us we ve got you covered. that s not the way the world works.
debate, based on what you saw tonight, what would you tell him to do differently? oh, i don t know. i think that the president has to keep doing what he s doing. i think he has to be truthful about why he s made the choices for us that he has made. i think he has to keep talking about the fact that we re moving forward and not back. 30 months in a row of positive job growth. and i think he has to continue to press governor romney on the fact that he s not putting forth any of the specifics about how he would do these various things he s promised. he went down the list of the things he would repeal. he didn t tell us what he would replace them with. it is a choice right now between two alternatives and i think president obama s is based in the realitity of the decisions we must make together as a people if we want a better and stronger economy and those are not the sort of prescriptions governor romney has. what about next week s vice presidential debate? do you think there s someth