least in the leadership of this vanguard when you look at what we ve been through. so for you it became clear, the experiment you ran and just walked us lu very capably was around covid and the language of life versus the treatment of life when it came to covid. i think for me and my own political consciousness the experiment began when i first began to notice that the party that fought tooth and nail against access to safe legal affordable abortion care in the name of life and also a kind of fetishistic moralizing around the value of fetal life, babies, maternity, family, right? was also the party that was fighting tooth and nail to gut welfare and snap programs, against affordable housing, against paid leave, against subsidized child care, affordable access to all kinds of health care.
saying, i won t take it. yep. it s backfired totally. it may be more than a defining moment of the campaign. it may be in the democratic process. no doubt about it. cornell, your defining moment in. it was really the ad that they put out about welfare. sort of the lie that the president was going to gut welfare. just in case folks don t remember, let s take a listen to the ad. president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirement. under obama s plan you wouldn t have to work or train for a job. you just get sent your check. welfare goes back to being plain old well pair. the problem with this is, look, we ve had sort of campaigns sort of be misleading in the past. but the level of this outright lie, i think, in modern politics is unprecedented. understand how diabolical this is. this is a lie meant to empower
wouldn t have to train for a job. mitt romney strongly believes work mist be part of welfare. megyn: two things getting as much attention and reaction in this election as governor rom numbers ads blasting president obama on welfare. as the president s election team and fact checkers in the mainstream media claim they are false and a gross distortion of the facts, or are they? our next two guests not your ordinary experts on this. a former professor of the university of maryland. he met with hillary clinton just after the law was passed requiring work for welfare. russell sykes administered new york city s welfare for work programs for years. hopefully you can help even me understand this. it s sort of a difficult concept. but under president clinton he passed a law that required work
president clinton pointed out there were some republican governors who were say together obama administration we want more flexibility and president clinton was saying he gave them that responsibility to create more work requirements not less. some flexibility was taken away in 2006 under the deficit reduction act. but states have broad flexibility already. and i think the door has been reopened to activities that don t lead to employment. to activities where again people languish in different settings where for peer ideas time that don t lead to a job. and that s a shame. when you are on welfare you are undoubtedly poor. when you have a job in this state you get a lot of support that make you less poor. i don t understand the thought. it s apparently going back to the day where it better to get a check without any expectations in return than it is to work and
as long as there is no cost. as long as you can get tonight a supermarket as well as at a division of motor vehicles office, it s fair. megyn: they also say you can cast a provisional ballot. if you are about to be disenfranchised you do get to vote. if the election is tight and they need to look at those provisional ballots, then they do. we ll be hearing more from the judge on that between now and november. the romney ads on welfare reform are causing a lot of controversy. they believe president obama is stripping the work requirements out of welfare. remember president clinton insured those were in. they say president obama is slowly taking them out. the obama team claims that s a lie. and independent fact checkers have accused the romney campaign of misleading on that. we ll go right to the source.