He ran in 2016, he understood that overturning roe v wade was a core conservative priority. So he agreed to put that list of judgeses out before the election. Who were conservative. I am going to give a list of either five or ten judges s tha i will picick to show. You may not trust me on this issue, but here's what i would do if i was president, i will guarantee that those are going to be first judges that t i put up foror a nomomination. If i win, thahat tells meme that. . Yes, i can trust you with my vote because on the issues that matter most to me i can tetell that thehese people e are going hopefully rule as we would want them to again, both hourlong episodes of the whole story with anderson cooper airs monday on labor day, starting at 8:00 p. M. Eastern time the news continues right here on cnn our front next, breaking news, trump. Now says he will vote to back florida's sixweek abortion ban. It is a major about face from his stance on the issue, just 24 hours ago and harris tonight responding, ripping into trump and trump's speaking tonight to a controversial group known for anti lgbtq rhetoric. They also have ties to project 2025, which he's trying to disown. So what's the upside plus a cnn exclusive ukrainian soldiers coming under fire as they enter putin's backyard let's go outfront good evening. I'm brianna keilar in for erin burnett outfront tonight. Breaking news, donald trump now says he will vote no on a florida ballot measure to overturn the state's sixweek abortion ban despite saying six weeks is too restrictive and criticizing governor ron santa's for signing the ban into law are you voting yes or no on amendment four in florida? so i think six weeks you need more time. Six weeks. I've disagreed with that right from the early primary cringe when i heard about it, i disagreed with it at the same time, the democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation that we're, you can do an abortion and then the ninth month and, you know, some of the states like minnesota and other states have it where you could actually execute the baby after birth. And all of that stuff is unacceptable. So i'll be voting no for that reason. Now that is just not true. Trump is wrong about that. Especially the last part, killing a baby after it's born is illegal in every state. Also, just 24 hours ago, trump told a reporter, i am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks tonight. He says he'll vote to keep the sixweek ban. Trump is trying to walk very fine line between not offending antiabortion rights voters who are backing his campaign and trying to gain support among women who he's lagging with, which is a major reason why he made this giant campaign promise just one day ago under the trump administration. Your government will pay for all your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with ivf treatment fertilization for women, because we want more babies to put it very nicely the harris campaign though appears eager to engage on the issue, getting ready to kick off a bus tour in swing states focusing on reproductive rights and trump's role in overturning roe v wade. Trump maybe promising to cover ivf treatments for all but all except two senate republicans recently voted against a bill that would provide ivf coverage and his own running mate, j. D. Vance, is unable to say who would pay for those treatments or how is it fair to say the details on ivf having been worked out yet, how either the government or chores would be forced to pay it, or it well, john, of course, all details get worked out in the legislative process and we're not in the legislative process because we haven't won yet. But i think that president trump again, just believes that we want women to have access to these fertility treatments worth noting the average cost of an ivf cycle is $15,000 according to hhs and patients need on average 2. 5 cycles for a total of $40,000. Steve contorno is now outfront. Steve yesterday, trump was pushing universal coverage for ivf today. He says he's voting wow, a sixweek abortion ban in florida. Just how much of a tight rope is he walking here ground. Donald trump has been straining to navigate this issue really, ever since the three supreme court justices, he put on the supreme court helped to overturn roe v. Wade, and he has been on every side of this issue over the course of his political career. And most certainly over the past two years, just take a look at what's happened in the last 24 hours, as you said, he put out that statement? yesterday where he was suggesting that he might actually vote for this referendum in florida, then comments was so confounding to antiabortion advocates that they saw the alarm on social media. Some of them suggesting that they might sit this election out, that they wouldn't help knock doors for donald trump, that they wouldn't vote for him at all, potentially and so you saw it today, a response from the trump campaign, trump coming out and saying that he would actually vote against that referendum. But that of course gets him immediately in trouble with democratic voters and moderates who don't want to see who want to see an expansion of abortion rights and who blamed donald trump? for the current state of abortion access in this country. But of course, donald trump over the course of his career has been on every side of this issue. We went back over the summer and looked at his various statements we found 15 times where donald trump had switched positions on abortion, i guess grata. Now, we have 16 that is a big number, steve contorno, thank you for the report. Now, let's go to priscilla alvarez. Priscilla, the harris campaign, just responding to trump's comments, what's the vice president saying? yeah, this is a statement from the vice president herself that we got only minutes ago and she is saying here that donald trump made his position clear. Let me read it to you. It says quote donald trump just made his position on abortion very clear. He will vote to uphold an abortion ban. So extreme, it applies before many women even know they are pregnant. It goes on se, and understand he is not done as a part of donald trump's project 2025. Agenda. He and his allies would limit access to birth control, threatened access to fertility treatments, and ban abortion nationwide with or without congress. And it concludes by saying, the choice in this election is clear. Of course, this vice president i'd coined the term trump abortion ban wall on the road earlier this year, and that is exactly what this campaign is leaning on, especially with the foreign president's remarks earlier today now, the campaign is going to be taking this on the road to next week. They are launching their reproductive rights tour in the first job is on tuesday in florida. Of course that state that we're talking about abortion on the ballot with the sixweek ban. Now, senator klobuchar will be there, as well as the campaign manager. And it's going to include at least 50 stops. Now this is going to be primarily surrogates including the campaign says elected officials and can and celebrities. But what this tells us, breonna's are certainly not shying away from this. This is an issue that democrats think is a galvanizing one with voters and they think that they can get some momentum here, make inroads among certain blocks of women voters. And so that is what they are for clearly trying to do here, both with the vice president herself putting out a statement and then two with the torta follow next week? yes, she pulls well on this issue and she certainly wants to own it. Priscilla alvarez. Thank you very much. Everyone is here with me now karen finney, do you first how do trump's maneuvers on this issue? play with female voters specifically and independence well, good evening. We're brianna. We've seen this movie before in 2016, we saw donald trump tried to do the same thing and try to say different things in different venues. Let his campaign then tried to quote unquote, correct it. So at basically everybody gets to hear a little bit of what they wanted here and so i think the most important thing and what women voters know, and we've seen this time and time again when the opportunity has gone to the voters and they've gone to the polls. They vote for reproductive freedom and so what's most important is to remind voters that donald trump is the person who put in place the justices that overturned roe v. Wade. He brags about it. He's very proud of that fact. And he actually has a record when he was president of undermining women's health for starters, by saying he wanted to overturn the affordable care act. So he's got a record now, so it doesn't really matter what he says are how he keeps trying to shift positions or the way he says he now has to. Well, now you have to win elections. We know what his record is. Former minnesota governor tim pawlenty with us now 16 shifts our steve contorno and team were able to count there in that same fox interview, trump also refused to commit to vetoing a federal abortion ban, even when told that his running mate, j. D. Vance, said that he would let's listen to that what's happening is you're never going to have to do it because it's being done by the state's the states are voting. And the people are now getting a chance and this is the way everybody wanted it to be clear. This is what vance said why he'd be very clear. He would not support it i mean yeah. I mean, if you're not supporting it as a present united states, you really have to tell a federal abortion ban i think he would governor, what do you make of that well, when your values are clear, your decisions are easy and pretty clearly president trump and vice president candidate fans are struggling with this issue for all the reasons that you're leading and suggested that he's been all over the map throughout his career on the abortion issue. Republicans know that in swing states with persuadable voters, a disproportionate number of those voters are women, especially suburban women. And being overly harsh or restrictive on abortion hurts them from a political standpoint. So he's trying to scramble. He's tried to duck bob we've and he's saying, you know, as much as he can on both sides of it to keep everybody happy. And that's a tough place to be and philip bump you say on this ivf promise, which was a huge promise that he's making there's reason for voters to be skeptical that he'd followed through why? yeah. Well, i mean, in general one sort of point to the past nine years. But specifically on this, we saw him do this in the late stages of both 2016 and 2016, over the course of the campaign, you repeatedly said, oh, i'm going to have the best health care plan i'll roll it out. Yada, yada. Yada, of course, that didn't happen in 2020. People may forget in october right after he himself got covid, he promised he was going to have this miracle drug called it a cure from regeneron that he was going to make available to everyone who is going to be free and everyone is going to be cured of covid. Of course covid was a disaster after you know, i think it's important, remember too, that even the promises that he kept in stuck with things like, i'm going to build a wall and u. S. Mexico border and then it's not as though he came to with a plan for how it's going to be done. He never was able to secure funding for that either, had to declare a state of emergency that allowed him to do it. So it's not even if he intended to do this, which there's no indication that he does beyond to the former governor's point, that he wants to vacuum up these votes even if he wanted to do it, it's not as though he's going to come forward with a plan how it's going to be done anyway. So the whole thing is just a flight of fancy. Some big promises, unfulfilled there. Karen yeah. Well, i just wanted to point out that the venue where the former president is speaking tonight is very meaningful to this conversation. Moms for liberty. They put forward, i believe it was sound $50 million. I were to peace for cnn. Com about women's reproductive freedom, specifically around birth control project 2025. And the press and former president's record the groups like moms for liberty who are in a very different place when it comes to issues around ivf, when it comes to issues around access to certain forms of birth control and abortion so part of the very reason that the president and the former president, can't change his position is the people who are far he's speaking to tonight. He can't win without their votes. He knows that so again, to eat, don't have to take him at his word. Take him at his record. Governor, what about the cost here? i mean, this is something that would normally stop a lot of republicans in their tracks. Certainly a fiscally conservative ones, even once were very supportive of ivf because of the considerable expenses that i laid out. What do you make of that? well, on the politics, i think it's smart for president trump to support funding for ivf, especially for women and families who are socio, socioeconomically challenged. That makes good sense for all the reasons that i think everybody would understand how you pay for it. He said was one of two ways you can mandate insurance companies to provide the coverage, which if they do they shift the cost of that to the premiums of other people in the plan or the group. Or you can have the government pay for it and as you know, of course the government is well into deficit and debt already, but nobody in washington seems to care about that, but i do think it's smart politics. His proposal on ivf and it's also something that i think a majority of the congress this would support. He's trying to obviously on all these issues, trying to moderate the republican party on abortion for obvious reasons and it's a struggle because of the reasons that were noted earlier. He's got a base that is very prolife and he's got swing voters in swing states who aren't so much in that camp. So it's a tough, again, a tough place for him to be phil. I want to listen to something that j. D. Vance said today. He was also asked about a vulgar post that donald trump shared, the denigrated both harris and hillary clinton. Here's what he said in trump's defense what you see is two things. A guy with an agenda to lower prices and bring back american prosperity and a political candidate who isn't stodgy, who likes to have some fun and likes to tell some jokes. I'd much rather have a candidate who's willing to go off script, who's willing to give every interview and is willing to tell some jokes. I do think that's how you lift people up a politics of boring scolds telling people they can't laugh. That is not lifting americans out. That's out a terrorist down then let's compare that though these are comments from vance that are interesting considering what he just said about not being fun. These were comments he said just a few weeks ago about kamala harris she says she's having fun. But while she's having fun, americans are suffering under her policies when she last during a speech, remember that there are american families crying this very day because they cannot afford groceries phil, how do you see jd vance's messaging here is he's he's clearly talking to an audience of one, but it's very much muddling any sort of cohesive message, even as he's defending donald trump. I mean, to some extent that's what you sign up for when you agree to be donald trump's vice presidential pi