day weekend to all of the moms who are here. [applause] and especially our amazing first lady, christian cooper, who is here with us today. [applause] along with one of my amazing daughters, hillary, who is here today. [applause] and i know my mom, the best public school teacher in the history of north carolina mom is looking down on us and smiling today. i know that she is. [applause] let s be clear, this bill has nothing to do with making women safer, and everything to do with banning abortion. [applause] there is a reason why the north carolina medical society, the ob/gyn society, the north carolina academy of family physicians all oppose this bill. [applause] how about leave the medicine to the doctors? and the decisions to the women? [applause] now we ve heard republican legislators claiming this bill is a mainstream compromise. [crowd chanting] let me tell you what, mainstream bills don t get rid in secret. kept under lock and key, introduced in the dark of night, kept
don t want to touch it, there was too much money involved. the german wanted their gas. italians wanted gas, everybody wanted to just push it under the carpet. because of that, putin thought, okay, and by the way, for putin, invading ukraine in theory was a good idea because if he can do it and win, his approval ratings would shoot through the roof. he said i can get a big win and the west will do nothing because they have never done anything. he went in there, and of course, ukrainians fought back like nobody s business and we supply them with weapons. we started sanctioning them. we are sitting there sort of saying how badly we could ve prevented this. we could ve had a good shot at the touring him by creating consequences. surname magnitsky, your lawyer, he thought he could try to get this fixed inside the system, you were not sure that was going to happen. our friend vladimir carbon so when back to russia to fight
prime minister, or an important job or, much more hauntingly, they kill him. and that s what i m afraid of. which is sadly what happened to your lawyer. you know that is not conjectural hyperbole. that s what they do, they slowly torture these people to death in prison. it s not just vladimir kara-murza, it s alexei navalny. all bunch of these people. you point out this in your article. thank you for being here, thank you for continuing to raise the alarm on the story. ahead of the group the author of freezing order, the really important book, it s a true story of russian money laundering, murder, and surviving vladimir putin s wrath. you may know him as commander zulu from the star trek franchise, and maybe one of the million polio twitter followers that i am. did you know george capay is a bestselling author of a graphic novel memoir. you know i m not breaking it up, if i bring it up, it means someone try to ban this book. that s, right this week s velshi banned book club the