State of missouri. ten years ago missouri had five clinics. now it s down to one. ten years, five. now it s one. and as of tonight that state is at risk of losing even that one last clinic. missouri tonight is at risk of being the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since 1973, when roe versus wade was decided 46 years ago. last week, monday of last week, the missouri department of health notified the one remaining clinic in the state, the planned parenthood clinic, the state was about to take away its license. the clinic s license is set to expire this friday, i.e. 72 hours from now. planned parenthood s already filed a lawsuit requesting a restraining order against the state. they re hoping to restore the license and avoid service disruption. a circuit court judge is going to hear arguments in that case tomorrow. but as of right now if this goes the way the state of missouri wants it to, as of right now we are looking at the very real prospect of by the end of this
Missouri before that was already down to only one clinic that provides abortions in that entire state. and that s a big state. well today that clinic announced that the state of missouri also appears to be denying them a renewal of their license, which they need to operate in that state. and that means by the end of this week republicans for the first time believe they may have succeeded in one american state in banning abortion. again, this is this week, the last clinic in missouri may be shutting down. they appear to have achieved an abortion ban in missouri both in law with the new ban just signed by the state s governor and also in practice, by closing down this last clinic that the republican-controlled government there had allowed to operate and stay open. the doctor who operates that last clinic, who believes her clinic may be getting shut down in the next 72 hours, she s going to be our guest here tonight in just a few minutes. you will definitely want to see that discussion.
Primary, one of the things we spent a long time talking about was south carolina s democratic bench. the effect that it has on politics in that state that the state is seen as a red state, is seen as a republican-dominant state. and so people who might who are democrats, who might be inclined toward political service leave the state and seek it elsewhere. it doesn t seem like fertile territory. you ve clearly decided that s not true for you. no, it s not true for me. and you remember i talked about a clyburn fellowship that i d created that year. we have now trained 125 young people in every county in south carolina, trained them to run for office themselves. so now we have newly elected members of the state house, school board, county council, people who sit on boards of trustees. they re clyburn fellows. and many of them now are running the presidential campaigns that the 20-some-odd presidential candidates have in south carolina. so we are really leading this whole new south as
And i hope to be a part of that story with this campaign. in terms of all those multitudinous democratic presidential candidates who are running this year, obviously you re being showered with some attention in south carolina. that does provide among other things opportunities for democrats in the state to latch themselves to national candidates. is it constructive thus far this year? do you feel like the democratic party gets south carolina, that the candidates are talking to the right people, making the right pitches, doing the right amount of listening in the right kind of places? they are, rachel. i am so proud of the campaigns that these candidates are running. they are going to every part of south carolina. so they re not just going to columbia and greenville and charleston, the big cities. but they re going to small counties. el coney county, jasper county, barnwell county. and they re talking to constituents about all types of issues. just in denmark recently i went there b
Vote. but i could say in that community, there is a lot of generational differences between older african-americans and younger african-americans on a whole variety of issues from the issues of the environment to the issue about school and whether or not we should provide it for free or not. to the issues about equality and rights. i mean, there are a lot of diversity within those communities, and so i think the candidates are getting an opportunity to see that you can t just bring a canned message and think that that s going to resonate in the african-american community because the diversity that we see in the nation is the diversity that you see within that community. when you think about running against senator lindsey graham, obviously he s an institution in the state. he is. he s been in office for a long time. the trump era has been a little weird in lindsey graham years. a little. do you think that the senator s 180-degree u -turn on president trump potentially gives