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>> what we saw today and i'm in austin where there were thousands of people marching, rallying together and one of the most diverse rallies i have ever seen in this state and it was interesting because there was almost all the conversation, the speakers talked about the fact that we have to register to vote and people have to get out and elect new members of the state legislature and new governor. it was clear that what happened in texas is extreme, unconstitutional cruel abortion ban did not happen because the people rose up and demanded it but the governor and other republicans put the political agenda and their own personal politics ahead of the health and well being of folks in the state and i believe this has struck a cord now among folks and they understand that the only way to change it long term is we have to build political power in the state of texas and elect people that respect the ability of people to make the decisions about their pregnancies. >> i want to bring up the map showing how far women in texas have to travel. texans forced to drive out of state. what have you heard this past month in texas? >> one of the most heart breaking stories is a 16-year-old girl who september me a text a little after midnight on september 1 and said how will i figure out how to get a bus to oklahoma when it took me two days to get a bus to ft. worth and she lived in dallas. that's the -- that's real. the other real heart breaking story is of a woman who started her abortion process on the day before the ban went into place and went into the clinic the next day for the second part and it had failed. this is heart breaking. we are hearing these kind of stories on the front lines from clinic staff. >> these are the front line stories and it's all going to run up to what happens at the supreme court as it begins the new term next week. we will be watching the case out of mississippi. harry lipman reports the most consequential case this term requires the court to review a mississippi abortion statute that forbids nearly all procedures after 15 weeks. the courts reafloral that the constitution protects a decision to terminate a pregnancy about 20 weeks under the current science. what is this case going to reveal about the new conservative super majority supreme court? >> we already have the first glimmers of a conservative super majority would mean with the voting rights cases and to see seal's point we don't get the state legislatures without laws that redistrict and redistrict in favor of republican legislatures and that suppress the votes of those who would object to policies like this. we think of voting rights and abortion rights but they're intertwined and cannot think about them apart. this is about political power and what we'll see this term at the supreme court in dobbs i think is really consequential not just because this is the first abortion case the 6-3 conservative super majority tacks up but the mississippi law which bans abortion at 15 weeks now looks reasonable next to this texas law that's unconstitutional and bans abortion at six weeks so we are getting a move to something that's unreasonable and looks reasonable because we see ever more restrictive laws and extreme laws passed by the extreme legislatures. >> this is your life's work. all on the line right now and i think there are people that care but who might not follow them as closely as you do saying how did we get here and end up in the year 2021 having this conversation about roe? >> i think it's a really important point. probably the most important one and it happened because the republican party has now essentially decided that they're going to cater to the most extreme part of this country to make abortion completely illegal in all cases which is essentially what happened in texas. we just saw in the united states congress the passage in the house of the women's health protection act which simply does nothing more than say abortion should be safe and legal and available to all people in this country and not a single republican member of congress voted for it so i think what's happened is seeing now that the republican party is no longer the party of small government, of staying out of my bedroom but wants to make this country go back to before roe and we all know and hearing from doctors now who lived during that era before roe young, healthy women dying in emergency rooms across this country and may make abortion illegal in trks but that doesn't mean there won't be abortion in texas but it will be unlegal and unsafe and we are not going back to those days. >> this week we heard from three members of congress about their own abortions. take a listen. >> i'm compelled to speak out because of the real risks of the clock being turned back to the days before roe versus wade, to the days when i was a teenager and had a back alley abortion in mexico. >> to all the black women and girls who have had abortions and will have abortions we have nothing to be ashamed of. we live in a society that failed to legislate love and justice for us so we deserve better. we demand worthy. >> for me terminating the pregnancy was not an easy choice. the most difficult in my life but it was my choice and that is what must be preserved for every pregnant person. >> reverend why do those stories matter? >> those stories much like my own as a woman with two abortions, those stories matter because they represent not just the person saying it but many women whose stories are you like theirs and i have to say that there is without a doubt that those stories won't go away. they'll just get stranger, more painful and almost deadly. >> a recent poll shows public approval of the supreme court now at just 40%. a new low in recent weeks you have had defending. what do you make of this public positioning to defend the court in this moment as faith and trust is waning? >> i think they have no other choice. the court is unlike congress or the executive. it lacks the power of the purse and the sword. all it has to make us obey the dictates is legitimacy and seriously hobbled since september 1 when the court allowed a law that flagrantly defies existing precedent cushing constitutional rights for people in texas and why we have had the supreme court justices out on this road show telling us that they're not partisan hacks and the shadow docket is merely a place to resolve emergency issues. but americans know what they see in texas and i think this gallup poll which is the lowest rates of the support saying that it is battered and hobbled and has to turn course at some point. >> as always thank you so much for reminding us what is on the line here. next, where talks stand and what may have to go for democrats to pass deals on infrastructure and spending. we'll ask new mexico congresswoman stance bury. the vaccine mandate at new york city schools has passed the supreme court. what could it mean for mandates elsewhere? 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what is it in that bill that you are worried won't be preserved? >> as everyone knows we just authorized with the american rescue plan one of the largest investments in the families in the history with the child tax credit and one of the things at stake in the negotiations is making that program permanent which is already helped to lift millions of children because it's putting real money into the pockets of our families, helping families put roofs over the head and afford groceries, addressing the education needs and talking about an entire generation and generations to come to be impacted by these bills. ensuring that children all across the country with access child care and pre-k, that our families have paid sick leave, an expansion of medicaid in states where they have not adopted expansion and we expand medicare for our elders so that they can access hearing aids and dental and things like that through the medicare program so this is all about the health and the well being for communities and i want to bring it back to future generations which is all about climate change. we know from the science that we are facing a precipice on the planet and that if we don't take action now and serious climate action to reduce emissions that we are going to have impacts for generations to come and this is the chance and the opportunity. and this is the package through which we'll do it. >> thank you. next, vaccines and the classrooming. california issues a first of its kind mandate with a big catch joo the pandemic's toll own mental health and americans bearing the brunt. y to design 3-d virtual tours that are so realistic it actually feels like you're there. but that's all thanks to ted, a man who possesses an innate understanding of dimension. uh... ted... 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>> i agree. the communications have been a severe problem not just with the booster rollout but the pandemic and i think that this tricky issue of the booster rollout demonstrates that we gravitate to these fruits of bio medicine to save us but america produced vaccines faster than anyone had dared hoped for and plateaued 38th in the world in vaccination rates. this death rate from covid per capita higher after all adults eligible for vaccines than many other countries had before vaccines were available and that should alarm us, shake us to the core and tell us that yes these things are miraculous and make a difference but in a society where millions of people cannot access health care, where so many people live on the edge and don't trust the government to provide for them then of course you might have vaccines but not vaccinations which is what actually matters. that's the piece that america needs to focus on for the next pandemic. >> this question of access. you have been trying to predict the end of the pandemic since march 2020. your sense of where we are in that tra verdict ri? 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we do not have cam. i'll start with you, dr. morris. part of the reason that this profile of simone biles is so interesting to me is what we see about biles, the way the culture and the society treats a black woman or black girl who is at the top of the game can tell us so much about the way that society treats all black women and all black girls. >> yes. thank you for that. the bodies of black women and girls are treated as the public domain to be used and discarded. it's an extension of a deeply held often sub conscious belief that the labor of black women and girls should be available to everyone and an extension of the anti-blackness we see affecting black women and girls and other communities of color. i'm the president and ceo of grant makers of girls of color and in a community with 180 organizations and 36 states, washington d.c., guam and puerto rico and what we see is that organizations are reporting an increase in care giving responsibilities, in exposure to violence in association with the pandemic, and that has continued. >> i want to hear from you. this was a profile that was written with great care, with great tenderness. what surprised you most about profiling biles? >> just how much her story was emblematic of the stories of women of color, especially the experience that black women have had in the pandemic. so much of the pandemic lasting effect is psychological. myself personally i can count on two hands the close friends and family i know who have caught it. i lost an uncle, my stepfather to covid. trying to manage the imact is enough but having higher rates you can imagine that this trauma is widespread and tens of thousands of black women carry this trauma sigh leaptly. even though the story is specific to the abuse she faced it was also a reality check around the way of carrying trauma and expected to win and to be successful even while few do a lot to protect us and to hear us. >> you said they're expected to win and be successful and in some ways winning, being exceptional, actually complicates things. right? because then people are less likely to see them as someone who might need support, as someone that might need checking in. in some ways that excellence becomes its own vulnerability. >> sure, yeah. i write about this in the story this notion that black women are treated like mules. this is obviously a metaphor. right? we aren't actually mules. we know that. but there is the world that we live in execs us to live up to the standards that other people don't have to live up to, expects us to carry the burden of protecting the community and ourselves and same time showing up expertly perfectly. over the last couple of years black women fighting about the ways that we are asked to contort ourselves, our hair or the way we speak and the examples that we are expected to perform in a society that does nothing to conform to our expectation but doing it without complaining is something that's killing us for so long and what biles did for us is set an example that being great is good but being well is better. and if black women have to put down the mantle of being great so that we can check in on our own health and take care of our community is time is now and we could feel okay to do that. >> the thread to pull through the amazing profile to the work you do, i want to go back to the "the new york times" report. black girls on the front lines of racial justice movements. essential workers and primary care givers. there is no other group all three things at once. you take that reality. i think the one choice there. you can question whether or not it is a choice to lead some social justice movements. to a lot of them that didn't feel like a choice but a necessity of the moment. what then do schools, do institutions, do the communities need to be doing to step up and support them this when they try to play all three roles at once? 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right, this story goes back a decade, right? so it's not just there are patterns of behavior but he was able to move from team to team but really some of the patterns and it's not just two players that spoke about this. i spoke to over a dozen players from every team he's coached on from within professional womens soccer. but a toxic culture with verbal abuse focused on personal relationships, a focus on weight, all of this lowering of boundaries of drinking out with the team. and then on top of that this pattern of sexual coercion where he sent a photo to both players a few years apart. so there really are patterns from team to team as he was able to move throughout the game. >> i want to hone in on this point you made in your piece which is that for most of the last two decades, quote, one of women's soccer governing mores has been a willingness to stay silent as. as the sport fails, tried again to gain traction in the united states any controversy was viewed as a threat to the sport's existence. and quote, it was more than hiding the truth, it was putting on a happy face while doing that. talk about the pressure these players were under to stay silent for the benefit of the sport? >> absolutely. this pressure, even that paragraph it's such a summary. in the professional league there is the sense that there have been two leagues before this one that have failed. so if you want this league to succeed there's not only your own safety, your own career safety but your teammates' careers, the entire leagues careers resting on your shoulders that if you raise your voice this entire thing could come crumbling down. so that breeds this silence across the sport, and we're only now starting to break free of it in a much, much more significant way. >> can you give us a sense of what real oversight would look like here? >> i think that there's a number of things to be done. i think there are actually now a number of investigates in play from u.s. soccer fifa which is the international governing body. one of the big key parts of this reporting is that when a coach is released due to behavior we're not finding out about that and he's able to be hired somewhere else or she's able to be hired somewhere else. so part of that is having processes in place not just an anti-harassment policy but something that will actually help keep the league itself in check to ensure that the players are safe and free from harm. >> thank you for sharing your reporting with us and thank you so much for your time. that is it for this saturday. thank you for being with us. i'm elisa menendez. i'm going to see you back here tomorrow 6:00 p.m. eastern for more american voices. but for now i hand it over to ayman. thank you so much for that greatly appreciated excellent show as always. welcome to ayman. no vote on the infrastructure bill at least not yet. it is a big win for progressives, but the real prize actually is reaching a deal on reconciliation. can they actually reach one? 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