Vaccines for young people, faced Sexual Harassment And domestic violence allegations, And once made the case for Slave Owners being the ones who should get reparations. More on Larry Elder, the man who could save newsom. Plus an amazing interview with Sidney Powell. She has been assailed over her lawsuit, but not sure she as ever been asked this before. Do you hear yourself And think it sounds ridiculous . No. I know myself very well. I have been in me a long time. I have been in me a long time. Thats one the virtual moments about a documentary about rightwing media And the big election lie. More on that as well. We begin with the fight over abortion rights. Texas republicans enacted one of the strictest laws after years of push back from democrats. In the summer of 2013, thenstate senator Wendy Davis filibustered for 11 hours to stall the vote on a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Despite delaying the vote the bill passed And way signed by Rick Perry weeks later. For
Its not the government that will be coming after these clinics. The government puts the power in the hands of regular citizens who can sue providers or any woman who violates this law. Texas rangers are already setting up websites for tipoffs. They say its a bounty hunter system. The Texas Law creates a Vij L Vigilante system. They have been hall marks of the lone Star State along with the size. You know the saying, everything is bigger in texas. Some women will have to drive for hours to reach the next State Line if they get a legal abortion, that is if she can afford it. Gloria allred represented Norma Mccorby who is jane roe. Gloria, what was your reaction when you heard this law in texas would be allowed stay on the books . What did you think of that . I immediately thought we have to fight against this. We have to do everything we can legally, politically, emotionally. We have to get to the streets as well, put our bodies on the line to support the women of texas who are going to
If i was going to have to sleep in my car with my friend. Like, it was really insane. Yeah. Really sad because so many people, like, you know, everythings destroyed now. Yeah. Listen, we want you to be safe and we thank you um very much for joining us. S she is at a hotel in clifton, New Jersey. Her home is bloomfield. She cannot get home. But man, oh man, its going to be a while. And they will probably be stuck there. It is the top of the hour. It is just past midnight here in the northeast. And thats where several state of emergencies have been declared. The governor of New Jersey declaring State Of Emergency. The mayor of yo new York City declaring a State Of Emergency. And towns and cities all over the northeast, states of emergency. We just had the governor of New York on the phone, kathy hochul, just moments ago saying they are looking at a possible statement of emergency here, in the state of New York. Um, but they have to meet certain parameters so we will see if she declares t
The first time ever has declared a Flash Flood Emergency in new York City as one tornado touched down in New Jersey. Others in pennsylvania, New York and maryland. Kind of weather, john, that this place never sees. No, we just dont see something quite like this. Again, nine deaths now up here, which is more than when Hurricane Ida Hit Louisiana as far as we know. We may learn more from louisiana and mississippi, but nine deaths from what was a really bad rainstorm here tells you just how catastrophic it is. And i have to say its not surprising based on what ive seen on my way in here to you, which has been a little bit of an odyssey this morning. Trees down everywhere. Cars smashed from the trees. Hopefully no one left in the cars. And then really, just cars abandoned everywhere. Clearly people were caught in this, didnt expect it Last Night. They were out on the roads. The parkways the highways, and couldnt do anything. They got either their cars lite literally got swept away or they
If they want one. And that right cant be infringed even if politicians and individual states feel different. After that ruling in 1973, the very first Abortion Clinic to open its doors in the great State Of Texas was a clinic in the city of mcallen. Mcallen is a small city on the very southern tip of texas, right on the border with mexico. The first Abortion Clinic in texas opened there in 1973, and it served women in the valley, in that part of texas for decades. Even as anti abortion republicans started to cement their control of the government in texas, and year after year they devised ever more creative and draconian ways to make abortion as hard and thats dangerous to get as possible in texas, that clinic in mcallen kept going. And republicans really did keep passing more and more restrictive laws making it more impossible for clinics to stay open, making it more impossible for doctors to keep providing that service in recent years. Texas republicans passed new Abortion Restrictio