accountable, and the legislation that might serve you, it all goes away. joining me now is current florida congresswoman and candidate for u.s. senate, congresswoman val demings. she is a former impeachment manager and trump s first impeachment trial. we are both in the beautiful city of new orleans celebrating before we get into, that i want to ask you, because you served as a house impeachment manager, i have been riveted by the testimony each week but something else more shocking happens every week. i want to hear your, thoughts you ve more intimate view, what was the most shocking thing you heard out of the january 6th hearings so far? tiffany, it s great to be back with you. let me just say, during the first impeachment trial, there was no doubt in my mind that the president used his power to try to coerce a foreign power. it isn t interesting that it s ukraine to interfere in the united states election? i knew that we would be at this point, because i knew number on
Fighting for our to moxie. fighting for the middle class, fighting for our seniors, working to protect social security and medicare and lower the costs and keep us safe. republicans have taken a vacation or they are permanently removed from any of those things. yes, we have the majority, but the filibuster, as you know, has been an obstacle to moving forward in agenda. sitting in the senate right, now the john lewis voting rights act, the women s health protection act, the equality act, the reauthorization of the balance against women s act. we cannot move those things forward because of the filibuster. let s get rid of it. we have got to expand and maintain the majority in the senate so that we can get things done. remarkable needs to go, i like me and the senate and we will begin that process. where we have a time
Administration could take to make it easier for women in red state, particularly poor women to access abortion care. but in marathon meetings and phone calls among white house official, government lawyers, outside advisers, and federal agency officials, a sobering reality settled in. there is little that the white house can do that will fundamentally alter a post-roe landscape. end quote. without a large majority in the senate, that s true for democrats in congress, too. next week senate is expected to vote on the women s act which would codify the right to an abortion in this country. the bill passed the house but almost certainly dead on arifle in the senate. that s because democrats need 60 votes to pass the bill in the senate. that filibuster thing again. and that is far more votes than they ve got. there s no way to spin this. a federal fix to restore abortion rights is essentially an impossibility. and that s gotten the gears