X and tiktok. Thank you so much for joining me today. First of all, was going on a short hiatus. Im taking two weeks off to go enjoy the warmth of other suns. Ill see you back here saturday, october 5th. Smerconish is up next they or wont day im Michael Smerconish in new York City today, ballots are now being cast in alabama, were 52 days away from the final day of voting. But whether there will be another debate remains in doubt. Tuesday night in philadelphia ended with a nearly unanimous decision, but no Knockout Blow before it began, i said Donald Trump needed to exhibit discipline and Kamala Harris needed to show depth she met her mark. He missed his. I locked in my own assessment of the debate Via X just prior to delivery of closing statements before i might be swayed by anybody elses spin. Among my points, that trumps claims about migrants eating pets and abortions being performed at nine months would be a fact checkers dream, but not decisive. I wrote this, she won the debate bu
returns to the granite state tonight, he is taking her on. this hour, president biden ramps up the abortion debate at the start of the election year tied to monday s 51st anniversary of roe v. wade. the annual anti-abortion march in washington, blocks from the supreme court, expected to rule soon on what could be another landmark decision, a pending case to outlaw the abortion pill nationwide. the head of u.s. cybersecurity will join me on their critical effort to keep the 2024 election secure from foreign and domestic online interference, as artificial intelligence sparks new threats. u.s. strikes against houthi rebels failed to stop new waves of the red sea attacks. netanyahu s speech flatly rejecting a palestinian state and u.s. peace plan causes new friction with washington, europe, and arab neighbors. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. live free or die, that s the state motto in new hampshire, fully embraced there, especially by the state s
late word that the agency might temporarily disable texting on employee phones while it fixes gaps in how it retains these messages. first, though, what could be far reaching repercussions from primary elections in five states last not. in kansas, a ballot measure to strip abortion rights from the state constitution lost by a wide margin. here s president biden say hailing it as a bellwether for november. in a decisive vote, in a decisive victory, voters made it clear that politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights of women. the voters of kansas sent a powerful signal that this fall the american people will vote to preserve and protect the right and refuse to let them be ripped away by politicians. well, tonight, we ll look closer at whether that is likely to be the case based in part on who turned out in kansas and what polling. in the wake of last night the former president s clout on the republican party. in michigan, congressman peter meijer, one of
that had couldn t even get an abortion after being raped. and then went to indiana, brought to indiana, and got her health care there, and then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didn t really get in trouble, didn t do one thing wrong, but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters here it, regular people hear it. and i think that s what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions on reproductive health care. and i don t think we can put in their minds what they thought of restrictions or not, i just think that the views that we re seeing is what they voted on, right? we ve got people, including senator mcconnell, who said that they want to put a ban into law, of an outright ban. we have governors in states like texas who have talked about putting even more restrictions, states like missouri, where someone proposed criminalizing it, people have proposed suing people wh
health care there. then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didn t really get in trouble, didn t do one thing wrong but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters hear it, regular people hear it. and i think that s what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions on reproductive health care. and i don t think we could put in their minds what they thought of restrictions or not. i just think that the views that we re seeing is what they voted on, right? we ve got people including actually senator mcconnell who ve said they want to put a ban into law, a ban, outright ban. we have governors in states like texas who have talked about putting even more restrictions in place. states like missouri where someone proposed criminalizing it, where people have proposed suing people when they cross lines or not allowing them to get their own health care in other states. all these thin