Good afternoon. Thank you, Ranking Member and my fellow cohost for convening this democratic the democratic members of the Oversight Committee to publicly and proudly defend access to medication abortion. I want to thank all of the members who are here and those that are on their way. We have congresswoman norton who i believe came in and then to all of our panelist. We are here to show you what abortion care can look like. What abortion can look like. This, this is what an abortion looks like. This is it. One pill with four pills. This is an abortion. Many of you know me as a congresswoman, but i am also a nurse. It is through that lens that i approach todays conversation. As a nurse ive cared for patients with chronic migraines and administered medications to alleviate their pain. I have cared for patients with infections and administered antibiotics for treatment. Ive cared for patients with depressants and administered medication to ease their suffering. Medicine is a essential for
electric coverage. this has no been no ordinary august politically. then news week ahead promises to be dominated by the deepening implications of just what the justice department retrieved from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate nearly a month ago. that s thanks to two surrounding developments surrounding this investigation. a federal judge and florida signaling just yesterday her intention to appoint an independent special master to oversee the review of what the fbi retreat from mar-a-lago. as the director of national intelligence announces that her office will conduct a threat assessment of those documents. the news comes after this week s release of unredacted copy of the affidavit used by investigators to obtain the search warrants. wearing out the justice department s fears of possible national security risks. over classified documents that trump was holding on to. between all of trump s trouble, a busy summer of legislative winds and a resurgent president biden. democr
thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly
and i think that s, i think, part of the reason that you ve had so much discussion today about what s next, because if they re willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don t care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, because he has clarence thomas on the supreme court, and the reagan justice there right now. but from george w. bush, to ronald reagan and donald trump, it is just a statistic statistical likelihood without even getting into their life histories. it s a statistical likelihood that it least one of them has personally, in some sense, participated in an abortion, possibly by paying for it. as is very commo
police officer and was off duty has dropped out of the race. it is extremely disappointing. political violence like this is not something new, being a black feel candidate running for office. politicians from both political parties also weighed in over the weekend on the sunday morning talk shows. we have some ideas coming from senator warren, signed letter along with 25 other democratic senators asking president biden to explore opening health care clinics on federal lands in red states in order to help people access the health care and abortion services that they need. i anticipate there will be more debate and discussion. what was interesting about the supreme court decision is that it gave the authority back to the states to make these decisions. so now that this decision has been made, it is up to each of the states and the state legislators and people there to talk to their elected representatives about what their laws look like. all right. republican senator