in just a few moments i m going to speak with pri mill la jayapal who tried to move this forward in congress and there s been atr lot of discussion about doing that. your opinion, what does codifying abortion rights look like? is that something done at the federal level? is it done at the state level? is it both? what does success look like in codifying legal protection for abortion rights? so, pri mill la jayapal and nancy pelosi and the team in the house passed women protection act. chuck schumer tried. wek had unsuccessful effort. he s bringing it back next weekt we re really excited to support him there. but look, it s both. it s all of the above. it s state legislative efforts. efforts like governor gavin newsom, grit chen whitmer fighting back with legislation, ballot initiatives in kansas and michigan as well as federal legislation.
and available in our communities. all of us know somebody and love somebody who has needed an abortion at some h point in the life. abortion has benefitted men, benefitted women, benefitted republicans and democrats. our country has been able to count unsafe abortion for decades. and it s raised the status of women and made families healthier in our communities across the country. and i am glad to see such outrage today. it is important for us to stand up and talk about the value that access to safe abortion has brought to our communities over these decades. amy, thank you, for joining us tonight. the founder of whole women s health. we appreciate your time. coming up next, as i have been telling you, how progressives are hoping to fight back. could the courtig overturning r help democrats keep control of congress? congresswoman pri mill la jayapal joins us live after this. jayapal joins us live after this rients that can help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up
par mill la jayapal (. thank you so much. there is a lot to talk about here. as we mentioned, this week a group of bipartisan senators plan to meet to discuss an overhaul bill, including changes to the electoral count act. would you support a scaled back piece of legislation like that? do you think that is the right approach right now given no movement on joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. ayman, it is great to see you. thanks for having me on. i don t think you can begin to think any changes we would make there come even close to addressing the issues that you have been covering around election subversion and voting rights suppression. so i don t think we should confuse them as sort of this is the alternative to the john lewis voting rights act or the freedom to vote act. it is a completely different thing. is there support for it? sure. i think that is a legitimate
to get something passed. and i think this bill meets the needs of this country very, very well. i am talking about the bipartisan bill. and look. once we get this done, when we go to reconciliation, that bill may be really, really good, too. and we will make that assessment, once that bill gets drafted and built and amended and all the things that this bill s going to go through over the next week. well, look. you and the other nine senators involved in this negotiation have have overcome some stuff. so talk to me about what the road looks like, in in reconciling two things. you heard what pra mill la jayapal representing house progressives had to say. senator kyrsten sinema issued a response about the reconciliation bill where she said i do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion and in the coming months, i will work in good faith to develop this registration with my colleagues and the administration to strengthen arizona s economy and help arizona s everyday families get ah
bunch st. louis post dispatch look at all those great photos of all those members on the committee. that s louie gohmert on the far left there, covering up his face with both of his hands, on the far right, that s pra mill la jayapal killing somebody with her eyes. collins and jerry nadler maximizing the expressive character of their faces. then row get that stark headline, house judiciary impeachment debate overtime, and that is exactly what happened. it did go into overtime. i thought that they would vote last night. i m sorry. that had definitely been the plan, but they didn t vote last night. there was a sudden adjournment, much yelling and screaming about that, much upset, but then they reconvened this morning, and chop, chop, it was actually over pretty quick. votes finally on two articles of impeachment against president trump this morning. the first article abuse of power, the second one obstruction. each of those articles passed 23