versus the cultural issues. that s a warning sign for all republicans that this trump working class support is in fact shallow. and the fact that conor lamb was not nancy pelosi, which is what we said yesterday, does not make him donald trump. he supports the second amendment, he owns an ar-15 but he believes it ought to be more difficult to get one. expand background checks which is popular with republicans as well. it s popular with the nra. it s a common-sense position. he s personally against abortion but he supports the supreme court rulings on it. he s against a ban against 20 week sborgs the poiabortion. he was in line with his district because he was not all the way to the left with nancy pelosi and other democrats but that doesn t make him donald trump. he was not, in fact, in line with donald trump s view of the world. and bob i m wondering, i ve been asking the question to myself all day yesterday and we ve been talking about it this morning, any evidence that there are
constitutionally protected right 40 years ago this month. at the state level, abortion rights activists are unequivocally losing. you write about this abortion clinic in south dakota. talk about that and klinks like that, where the problems lie. i ralphed to fargo, north dakota, and spent tomorrow some time at the red river women s klink there, the only abortion clinic in the state. north dakota is one of four states across the country that has a single abortion clinic across the nation. nationwide you there, are 40% fewer providers than in the 1940s, fewer places for women to get abortions. sborgs something 30% of women will experience by the time they are age 45. something that affect women. across the country, states have been passion, including north dakota and elsewhere, laws that limit clinics ability to operate you which is why there are fewer.
bells. trump also repeatedly saying that he will defer on the subject to mattis. to his defense secretary. this came up again a few hours ago. and this is what the president s saying. we have a great general who has just been appointed secretary of defense, general james mattis. and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture. or waterboarding, or however you want to define it, enhanced sborgs i guess would be a wort that a lot of people would like to use. i don t necessarily agree, but i would tell you that he will override because i m giving him that power. a lot going on right now. joining us right now, hans nichols at the pentagon, kristin welker at the white house. hans, let s start with you. at the pentagon, so, this statement we just played from