[applause i grew up in rural sout carolina and trailer parks. my parents trusted those educators and the librarians t let me read what i needed to read i spent 21 years in the nava nuclear propulsion program set a questioning attitude was the key for the power program. i want my son exposed to different ideas and differen viewpoints, so we can learn to think critically and not b force fed somebody else opinion. we ve all been exposed t different opinions it makes us better it makes a stronger. diversity has made me stronger and then sacrifice 21 years of my life, to stand idly by whil religious fanatics and other fanatics try to impose fascism on my country. i urge you to think about what a book ban means and use transparency i don t need anyone else
protections for transgende people in those seekin abortions. and according to the record, h re-removed his name from the report, msnbc news has not verified that reporting. but how unusual is that? well, if this occurred whil the nominee was before the senate, it is a little surprising to me that they would remove their name from a article and try to allegedly obscure this i have heard in othe situations of nominees who are judges delaying decisions on a case, i think that is even happened with the judg clarence thomas when he wa being in for the d.c. circui to the supreme court but for specific circumstances you are talking about, sound rather unusual to me josh christina, thank you s much for walking us to thi absolute critical story. up next, our conversation with the playwright behind th thanksgiving play, the first known native american woma
politico is reporting that inside the party s headquarters, that has been recognition that republicans need to change their message on abortion with pollsters arguing for a more moderate attack. this is not the only big issue republicans may be reconsidering. they are also getting massive backlas for opposing gun safet measures, especially after republicans in tennessee las week expelled to black democratic lawmakers from th state legislature for leadin protests after a schoo shooting in nashville left six people dead. then yesterda came another mass shooting this time in louisville, kentucky, killing five peopl and injuring eight. and whil republicans have chosen to remain silent, today tennessee s republican governo signed an executive orde strengthening background check for gun purchases. he also called on lawmakers to pass so-called red flag law, whic will remove guns from people who pros a danger to others or themselves. joining us now i claire mccaskill, former u.s senator from m
barrack, julian former, and no newly-diana eckert, whose name was just confirmed by loca police short time ago. among the eight other people who were injured, there is a 26-year-old police officer among them, an officer named nicholas from the louisville metro police department. he was shot in the head whil responding to the incident the officer underwentbrain surgery this morning he is in critical but stable condition. i should tell you, the officer as you could see how young h is here, he d only been on the job for ten days when he reported from work this morning. according to local police, responding officers arrived on the scene in three minutes after first were alerted to th shooting they exchanged gunfire with suspect was killed at th scene. police have confirmed that the shooter was an employee of the bank they ve also confirmed that he livestreamed his attack toda on social media, which is thing they do now. the mayor of louisville, craig
conflicting, for instance, that s right deference eithe scope to the supreme court and where they could say, we hav to hear the case based on th merits, if there were differen opinions there but at the same time, th department of justice and th federal government could still file an emergency appeal and kick this up to the suprem court, asking them to weigh in sooner than that that s one possibility, whil still trying to get this blocked by the fifth circuit so, a couple of differen strategies here that could pla out, certainly discussions thi weekend about how they want to move forward but the vice president, ha really been the leading voic on this issue for th administration spoke out o friday as this news wa happening. she called this an incredibl dangerous precedent, in he words, and president biden issued a statement shortly after that saying essentiall that this means that any kin of prescription, not just this when we re talking about, coul be subject, he said, to thes political