up early on way too early. morning joe starts right now. relief. excitement. joy. i m very proud of our fellow kansans. we were telling people in neighboring states that their rights were no longer intact. they had to flee their states to get care. the cards were set against us from the start. as a husband i do not look forward to trusting the legislature to protect the rights of my wife. we re avoiding a huge horror that would have come to kansas. one of the things i heard, you may be against abortion for yourself, but you can t be against it and make it for someone else. this is my life on the line, too, is this my right. tonight, we get to say to kansans, you can still get care here, you re still recognized and make your own medical decisions. reaction from kansas last night, as voters turned out in high numbers to protect abortion rights in that conservative state. it was the country s first best of the issue since the supreme court overturned roe v.
out rewards in you re not on drugs. clinicians will test participates once or twice a week, each time they test negative they get a $10 to wal-mart or another retailer. every time you test positive you get nothing. it s had succeeds in clinical trials and the u.s. department of veterans affairs have been using it for more than a decade. good idea? bad idea? i think i know what you re going to say. terrible idea trying to normalize drug use and giving reward outs. they re handing out hype determine i can needles to drug users, giving them crack pies, kits, taxpayer funded they re distributing throughout california. more importantly why settle for the gift card when you can get a free apartment, free motel, taxpayer funded in california, even if you re still using drugs under the housing first program. again, what we need is compassion and accountability.
i don t know what happened. but i will say this, i m not sure i ve ever seen a situation where people who have already given so much had to fight so hard to get so little. and i hope we learn a lesson. let s bring in right now, the secretary of the u.s. department of veterans affairs denis mcdonough. mr. secretary, thank you so much for being with us. help clarify, if you will, for us the question of what accounting technicalities were that republicans were for this bill, before they were against this bill. and claimed there were dramatic changes in the bill. and yet, we ve scoured through it, and we didn t see any dramatic changes. and then, i guess they changed their mind again. why were republicans opposing this bill? well, joe, thanks so much for
list, whether you re a conservative or progressive, we should be able to get together on the president s agenda, like we did last night in the senate and ensure that we do the right thing. thank you so much, secretary of the va denis mcdonough, so great to have you again. thank you, joe. congratulations. and congratulations most importantly to those veterans who so desperately need this care that, really they were promised when they first enlisted they would be taken care of. for some reason, so many republicans stood in the way of it which leads to the next question, john heilemann, it s not hyperbole to say that you have republicans in congress, republicans in state legislatures, that are taking opposing sides to rape victims, to incest victims to getting to the bottom of what happened on