screen or go to st. garden.com today. together with the help of your , like, the leaders here today, we had an extraordinary two years of progres tods. we passed the american rescue plan. now everybody knows that we didu so much.et no one knows the effects ofto it yet. we re just just coming i intn to play. app you have to live the bill inw, p order to appreciatece. now expect to hear a lot of that kind of useless, inaccurate pablum over the nexto two years. axi now, accordingos to axios, biden s speech in michigan i today is kind of a dry run for what s to come. this potential twenty ,n. twenty four run. now, apparently, white house advisers see the midtermss ul the ultimate validation thath votersti are concerned aboutng protecting democracy, women s reproductive rights and givingpn biden passing grades, apparently on the economy bee isn t the economy great? they also point out that biden s 2020 bunker strategystry look at work lik we a charm
for our democracy, and fight for women s reproductive rights. let me ask you about working next term, in a divided congress. as nbc news has now joined other news organization and the official projection that republicans will have power in the house and house republicans will likely use funding bills to empt tract consensuals on border money and defunding the irs, and 87,000 new employees and you will likely be the senate appropriations claire. do you think there is room to negotiate with republicans on some of the conservative asks or do you think this is the time for democrats to draw a hard line here? i think it is important that we stand up and fight for the priorities of this country and make sure we have those investments, and we don t use threats of a government shutdown to get priorities, that are not priorities to the american people. i ve seen this far too often. it never works out for republicans when they try to demand that we repeal aca, or some other thing like women
is that everybody? it looks like everybody. yeah, that s unanimous. kristin, i m coming to you first. why is that? why do you feel like this means so much? well, from my perspective, i would say that there have been things happening lately that are enormous issues like the roe v. wade being overturned and i feel like women s reproductive rights is so important to me. and i feel that this is the midterm that matters to make our reservoirs known, to say that, you know, that s not okay. we need women s reproductive rights. harris: all right. i m guessing you voted democrat today? i did a little bit of both. harris: you did a little bit of both. we will get that that later. some allot of people did ticket splitting because they were split on different issues. david, i will ask you a different question why is this election different for you. whoever wins there is no in
national attacks. we are talking through why we are seeing the inflation number that we are seeing, putting that into a global context. also, talking about crime, and how crime has actually been an issue for the past seven years, not just for the past two years in rural areas, as much as that is happening in urban areas, before pivoting to some of these existential threats. what is happening with a woman s right to choose? what is happening to the very state of democracy? and then, xochitl, the thing that makes this peak barack obama saying, i know this all sounded very depressing, but i want you to remember what i am hopeful about, and that is the fact that you can do something about this, you can vote. we xochitl, you have been watching along with me. what stood out to you from those remarks? that s absolutely right. he would head and tackle the issues that voters care about. whether it s crime, inflation, gas prices. he also talked about women s reproductive rights. these are all
political figures, self styled militias and the potential for violence. i saw that with a group of michigan residents and voters from across the political spectrum to talk about this, plus women s reproductive rights, which is actually, literally on the ballot in michigan this year. and how they should think we can move forward as a country, full of people with different views, and the same set of facts. more of that conversation coming up later on in the show. i want to speak about a darker aspect of contemporary politics we never let the less have to address, because in the recent years, this state has been the sight of high profile cases of political into the nation and violent. by the pandemic, back in spring, 2020, hundreds of people, some of whom were armed with rifles and other types of firearms, stormed the state capitol in lansing to protest governor gretchen whitmer s covid restrictions. two years ago this month, state and federal authorities arrested 13 men over here in mich