Reproductive care. In theory, turnout would be low, making the initiative easier to pass, and therefore the fall vote on abortion harder to pass. The problem, voters saw through it, and turned out in droves, resoundingly rejecting the gop effort to make it harder to protect access to abortion. An outcome prominent members of the state party worried was inevitable as explained by republican state rep, jamie calendar to ali vitali on this show yesterday. Whats the lesson for your party come tuesday night or wednesday morning, the Ballot Initiative fails . Maybe we should spend more time thinking through things before taking the step. Reporter maybe less read meat for the base, more thoughtfulness. There is a way to provide the red meat and do things in a thoughtful way. And im afraid this was rushed a little bit. Because we had to make a certain deadline to be able to get it done. And i think it could have borne a little more debate. And im not sure if i would have voted to put it on the
president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren t fair, and they don t work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we ve got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, a number of democrats are coming up with a plan b. there s one in the house to force a floor vote on the debt, over the objections of gop leadership if need be, and another being floated in the senate to negate a vote entirely. president biden, you have the authority all on your own, they say. one of those senators joins us to explain why. but first, let s get to the reporting and the policy. join
that s something that has ripple effects outside of the state of ohio but even just the results in and of itself, you look at the fact that it was 57%, that s an overwhelming and clear decisive issue on the no side. it s not 60%, and it underscores the way republican legislatures in this state were aware of the dynamics, and why they were striving for the 60 in the first place. what s the outlook now, ali, for the ballot measure in the fall, the abortion ballot measure? reporter: look, this certainly bodes well for it, especially because of the ways we saw abortion be the underlying motivating factor here. it s clear that this was a proxy battle because of course when voters went to the polls yesterday, nothing on their ballot sheet said anything explicitly about abortion, but in the minds of voters, it was clear that those things were linked, even republican proponents of the measure said those things were linked. there were no secrets about what this was, and now we re seeing tha
based on real world experience, not just estimates, if you add work requirements to medicaid, you are going to see fewer people on medicaid. bengy sarlin, thank you very much. one of the people urging president biden to invoke the 14th amendment, that is the democratic senator from massachusetts, ed markey. senator, thank you very much, i m going to ask you about that in a moment. i want to ask you about work requirements. if a deal is made on adding work requirements to any one of the areas that mr. sarlin just out, would you vote yes for that? i would vote no. how outrageous would it be if the trillions of dollars of tax breaks that donald trump and republicans extracted from billionaires and millionaires are untouched and the only thing we deal with are poor people and work requirements for them in
saying calls to resign. you have to answer questions. have you to address this maybe they ll get political pot shots in. everyone is waiting for more facts to emerge. msnbc s bengy sarlin thank you so much for that. thank you. another barrier on the road to peace in the middle east. united nations security council late yesterday rejected a palestinian resolution seeking to end israel s occupation and set a deadline to establish a sovereign palestinian state. here is how the vote broke down. eight countries voted in favor of the resolution including france. and five countries abstained, including britain. united states and australia voted against the resolution. interesting story here is europe. earlier this month the european parliament voted overwhelmingly for qualified recognition of the palestinian state in countries like france sweden ireland and spain have all taken steps recently in support of a palestinian state. all possible indicators of a change in global diplomacy on