Host good morning. Thursday, august 10. Welcome to the washington journal. This morning, we will begin with the abortion debate and how it will impact your vote in the 2024 election. Republicans dial in at 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send a text message and include your first name, city, and state to 202 7488003 or post on facebook. Com cspan or on x cpsanwj. Ohio is a roadmap for 2024 after ohio voted in an off year election in summertime to reject a Ballot Initiative that would have restricted abortion or abortion efforts. Now, democrats nationally are looking at this as a roadmap. The power of reproductive rights in recent elections is prompting democrats to rethink their 2024 strategy. From the Washington Post, they begin with, even in redleaning states, support for abortion rights is proving to be a potent electoral force. In ohio, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made it harder to add abortion rights to the states c
Host welcome back, the next hour we are talking about the Biden Administration military and veterans policy. We are joined by Tyler Koteskey, policy director for concerned veterans for america and Mary Kaszynski with vote vet. What is your group and what are your goals . Guest it is a progressive veterans organization, founded in 2006 by veterans of the iraq war. We have a network of over 1. 5 million veterans, military families and supporters. We work to advocate for progressive veterans policy and policies that benefit u. S. National security. We supported President Bidens decision to end the war in afghanistan, repeal the authorization for use of force in iraq, which has been used to authorize wars in far too many countries, strongly supported strong u. S. Support for ukraine and nato allies. Host the same question to you and how do you differ from this Progressive Group . Guest thanks for having me on. Concerned veterans for america is a National Grassroots Advocacy Organization of
Glenn schwartz has our update. We are starting to see some of these clouds starting to build up a little bit. It may be a sign of things to come for this afternoon. Right now we are up to 71 in philadelphia. It is 72 in reading and lancaster and dover. It will be a delightfully comfortable afternoon there. As far as radars the showers are being tagged. They have moved offshore now. We are left with a lot of clearing. This is a sign of whats to come due to this swirl up here. It could put just enough to do showers this afternoon. The futureskcast is showing hou by hour. It is certain lay lesser chance of shore this is rain and thunderstorms later during the day. Temperatures struggling to get to 80 degrees today. The average high is 86. Then tonight nice and comfortable. Again, temperatures dropping into the 60s in many parts of the area even at 9 00. Well see about the threats, storms and how much hotter it are get coming up. All right. Thank you. A key witness is back on the stand thi
Cia did in secret after 9 11. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington. Tracy, theres outrage, but no one is giving any direction on whats next. Were not quite sure whats going to happen to the people who were involved, although there are a lot of opinions about that, dara. Were also hearing new reaction this morning from china, often accused of human rights violations. Theyre now saying the u. S. Needs to follow the rules. This 500page summary of the report is raising a lot of questions about what happened behind closed doors. Keeping terror suspects naked in dark dungeons for days, slamming them against walls, sleep deprivation and simulating drowning did not help the u. S. Track down osama bin laden, it was found. President obama called it brutal torture. The cia set up something very fast without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. Reporter ramifications for troops and diplomats now on alert all over the world. And the good guys air their dirty laundry. It could
Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The cia says the Senate Report on the agencys program of terrorist suspects is off the mark. The report paint as disturbing picture of brutality and dishonesty. Among the findings cia misled congress and the white house, it details Harsh Interrogation Tactics including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and confinement of suspects to small boxes and the most damageling, the methods were not effective in keeping americans safe from danger. History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. Well, Susan Mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, group morning. The full 6,200page report remains classified but the executive report is out with a message saying this is not what america stands for but now cia is fighting back in all the report says at least 39 prisoners were subjected to harsh in teargation between 2002 and 2009. Sometime before conventi