presidential ticket in history with a campaign that promised to, first, fire donald trump and then launch a massive public health campaign including vaccination to fight covid-19 and pull the american economy out of the pandemic recession. so how is the biden/harris team doing? we passed two historic pieces of legislation, the american rescue plan delivered immediately to millions of people and rescued the economy from the brink. we re growing faster than any other nation in the world in terms of our growth rate. since its package, we ve created over 6 million jobs since january 20th. no new president ever created that many jobs as quickly. and we ve seen the extraordinary drop in unemployment. we passed the most important piece of infrastructure legislation that s ever been passed, since at least the eisenhower administration that built the interstate highway system. this administration is going to create millions of good paying jobs you can raise a family on. as of now,
presidential ticket in history with a campaign that promised to, first, fire donald trump and then launch a massive public health campaign including vaccination to fight covid-19 and pull the american economy out of the pandemic recession. so how is the biden/harris team doing? we passed two historic pieces of legislation, the american rescue plan delivered immediately to millions of people and rescued the economy from the brink. we re growing faster than any other nation in the world in terms of our growth rate. since its package, we ve created over 6 million jobs since january 20th. no new president ever created that many jobs as quickly. and we ve seen the extraordinary drop in unemployment. we passed the most important piece of infrastructure legislation that s ever been passed, since at least the eisenhower administration that built the interstate highway system. this administration is going to create millions of good paying jobs you can raise a family on. as of now,
kentucky. we re ground zero, and i know this community is hit, has been hit really hard. we re with you. the whole state is with you. that is why we are on the ground in kentucky this hour with an update. also ahead, they vowed to be fighting for life, so why don t republicans vote for programs that actually help families? it s hypocrisy on display with roe on the line. plus, keeping a democracy, not easy. the white house s new push to protect and expand democracy across the globe. given america s troubled relationship with the truth, could a gen z conspiracy help lead us back to the truth? welcome to a new hour of american voices. we begin this hour with the assault against reproductive rights in texas and how new attacks on abortion access could soon move to other gop-controlled states. it s been law in texas for more than 100 days, and it is not changing soon. the supreme court ruling friday the texas abortion providers can move forward with challenges against th
wednesday. one thing i was struck by at the time and haven t had a chance to comment on until tonight s show is the fact that in that 90 minutes or so, they never discussed, never had a discussion of rape and incest. and that mississippi law makes no exceptions at all for pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest. we re going to correct that tonight. we have professor michelle goodwin joining us tonight. she wrote that extraordinary op-ed piece in the new york times about this very point in these abortion laws that are coming in now with no exceptions at all for rape and incest pregnancies. it is one of the most harrowing, harrowing elements of it, even of all of these politics, even in the abstract. but in the specific, in the personal specifics of it, it is inescapable and terrible. and justice barrett s scenario that she sketched out about, you know, there s not much difference between getting an abortion at some point in the pregnancy or just giving up
the time and haven t had a chance to comment on until tonight s show is the fact that in that 90 minutes or so, they never discussed, never had a discussion of rape and incest. and that mississippi law makes no exceptions at all for pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest. we re going to correct that tonight. we have professor michelle goodwin joining us tonight. she wrote that extraordinary op-ed piece in the new york times about this very point in these abortion laws that are coming in now with no exceptions at all for rape and incest pregnancies. it is one of the most harrowing, harrowing elements of it, even of all of these politics, even in the abstract. but in the specific, in the personal specifics of it, it is inescapable and terrible. and justice barrett s scenario that she sketched out about, you know, there s not much difference between getting an abortion at some point in the pregnancy or just giving up the baby after carrying that pregnancy all t