Ohio sends a signal to the nation. Voters there decide on a Ballot Measure with big implications for women and 2024 as brand new poll numbers show a second straight summer of Deep Discontent with the Supreme Courts decision to wipe out roe. Plus the reset ripples all the way the to the top. Ron desantis replaces his Campaign Manager. Will the shird shakeup in less that be a month be a charm. And tell it to the heart. Republicans say an Impeachment Inquiry is the only one and the only way to move forward versus joe biden. New cnn reporting pins down when House Republicans plan to do this. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. First, a Special Election that will tell us a lot about 2024 and just how much Abortion Rights will motivate voters. Today ohio goes to the polls. It may seem like a mundane question about constitutional math, but you read between the lines, it is very clearly about abortion. Republicans want to make it harder to rewrite the states constit
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Allow a citizen initiated constitutional amendment. The political rhetoric from the no side is going to be what it is going to be. This is a common sense thing for ohioans to say we own our constitution and it shouldnt be for sale to out of state special interests. So jake, this is also about more than Abortion Rights. Its also about minimum wage. There is a proposed constitutional amendment next year that could have ohio Voters Decide minimum wage. So the proponents of this are trying to change the rules if you will to make it harder to amend the states constitution. Jeff, how much money has been spent in this special election . Outside money, jake, has been flooding in this summer. This has been a pretty short campaign. And more than 26 million has been coming in. Again, this is crossing more than just normal party lines. But democrats, if you look at it that way, are spending more on Television Ads than republican aligned groups. There has been an ad war in Television Campaigns as w
Was released, particularly because it touched on the president s age and memory, two issues that they anticipate Congressional Republicans are going to attack the president on over the course of this mornings hearing. And again, the white house, when they pushed back on this, they took issue with the way that the president was characterized, and the president himself was clearly irritated in a Press Conference that occurred in february, just after its release. Thats thats my memory has gotten worse, mr. President. My memory is not. My memory is fine. My memory. Take a look at what ive done since ive become president. None of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. How did that happen . You know, i guess i just forgot what was going on. Do you fear that this report is only going to fuel further concerns about your age . Only by some of you now, notably casey. Since then, the campaign has released a new ad tackling bidens age head on, where he says and acknowledges that
These Television Companies and more, including comcast. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled students who are ready for anything. Quack cspan is a Public Service provided by Television Providers , giving you a front row seat to democracy. We welcome back to the program henry olson. Thanks for giving us your time. Guest thank you for having me. Host the ethics and Public Policy center, what is that . Guest its a center think tank in washington dedicated to judeochristian principles on american Public Policy and my role is to write and debate. I also write in the Washington Post twice weekly. Host how do you approach Republican Center politics . Guest i approach politics from a sense of human dignity. Im looking for republican politics that seeks to interpret the american founding and the american principles and the dignity of all human beings at the pure and as a pure come i look at the numbers and follow them where they seem to be leading whether tha