good morning, everyone. we re going to take a minute to announce some good news. yesterday, clant collins is the new host of the 9:00 p.m. hour, opposite side of the day. i am. just when i got into this whole, you know, waking up at 3:30, everything. i had it down pat. i almost brought you a trash can and larmalarm clock. will you ll never have to set an alarm clock. it will be very exciting. f fun to i don t views and i will miss you. of course i m going to miss you. you ve been everything to me. i m not far away. what is also great is the reporting you do every day on everything washington can really be highlighted and featured at 9:00. i m excited for that. and i ll see you a lot. so we have a week left with kaitlan, thank goodness. let s get started with five things it know. the suspect behind that big leak of military secrets was repeatedly warned about his mishandling of classified documents but still was never removed from his post. this is according to new
democrats tried to stall that process. the bill would ban most abortions after early cardiac activity is detected. a time before many women even know they are pregnant. there are a few exceptions, fetal abnormalities, the health and life of the mother and exceptions up to 12 weeks for cases of rape, incest and/or unwanted pregnancy. good morning. are there other legislative options left for democrats? is this it? looks like this is it. unless the republican-controlled senate unexpectedly reverses course once it gets the house bill. that seems highly unlikely. the one option they did have, poppy, in the south carolina house was to delay passage of the six week abortion ban. given that republicans have a soup mare jort, it was inevitable that this simple majority it was inevitable that they would debate for two days. this is a contentious issue
either a vote for nominees for 60 votes for anything substantive. that s not what the framers intended. they didn t intend a soup mare jort in the senate. let me give you math that i think you ll find surprising. if you add all the population together, you get 24% of the american people. so the situation we re in now is that 24% of the american people have effective veto over anything that 76% of the american people think is important public policy. i don t think that squares with democratic theory. when you talk to your colleagues who have been reluctant to allow for any other any other new change to the filibuster rule for even on