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thanks so much for watching. i've had a wonderful time with you this week. i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. with that, don lemon tonight with laura coates sitting in for don. >> have a great weekend. i'm in for don. transparency. that's a word you are hearing a lot from the former president and his allies in the wake of the ffbi search of mar-a-lago.
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quote, in the interest of transparency, unquote. team's trump interest in transparency doesn't extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. a federal judge today refusing to put on hold her own ruling that the senator must appear. he filed an emergency request with the u.s. court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today that the doj has got to make public that internal legal memo that was commissioned by then ag william barr back in 2019. remember the one that he had to analyze whether he should charge then president trump with obstruction of justice related to the russia investigation? the court finding barr never
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considered charging trump, saying in the ruling the memo barr ordered was an academic exercise and a thought experiment. back to the mar-a-lago search here. the biden white house has kept near total silence on the entire thing, at least in public. ron klain telling don this. >> one reason why joe biden got elected president is he promised he would stay out of meddling like his predecessor did, in investigations being conducted by the justice department. that he would not politically interfere in the justice department enforcing our laws. >> cnn is learning that privately, white house officials are concerned about exactly what trump took to mar-a-lago and whether it could potentially put the sources and methods of our intelligence community at risk. there's worry about the potential that some of what's in those documents, classified
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documents, may cause tension with our allies. remember, the fbi had material about emanuel macron. what's in it we don't know. i want to bring in cnn senior correspondent evan perez, former nixon white house counsel john dean and former u.s. attorney harry littman. look, there's a lot of concern about these highly classified documents. they weren't found at the national archives. they were found at mar-a-lago. the white house is privately saying they are worried about sources at risk. i'm wondering, from their perspective, is it clearer why the fbi had to execute this search warrant? >> it does appear that that is their big concern. usually with these types of documents, it's the sources and methods. a lot of this information, if you have a memo prepared for the
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president ahead of a meeting with foreign leaders, they get all of this information that's collected by the u.s. intelligence agencies, and that information does get out of date. what doesn't get out of date are the sources and methods that they use to collect this information. this is why this stuff stays classified for up to 50 years in many cases. that's one of the concerns you hear from administration officials. this was great reporting from kaitlan collins. even though the white house is trying to walk a fine line, they are trying to make sure they don't do anything that seems to be interfering with what the justice department is doing. they are also trying to figure out how to deal with the blow back and any repercussions that might come from the former president mishandling this very, very sensitive intelligence information.
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>> i mean, it's not odd that they are biting their nails. a lot of this is coordinated. our intelligence notice u.s., we have allies with other countries. it could compromise somebody else's information. there's cause for concern. they are probably contemplating this. john, let me turn to you. you hear the former president donald trump calling for the full affidavit to be released. he is talking about it from the interest of transparency. i'm wondering from your perspective, do you think he is doing that because he knows that it's likely not going to happen? >> i am sure that's the case. he has to be aware from common knowledge that they are not going to release the highly classified information that was laid out in the affidavit. they're not going to release the witnesses, because he will go after them or his base will. he knows very well that they are not going to spell out the
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investigation. i don't think he has thought about what might come out. i think it could be very harmful to him, because there's nothing in that affidavit that's in his favor. those documents are not written that way. they're trying to establish probable cause to exercise the warrant. what it may well show is the back and forth between the department of justice and the national archives trying to get material from trump that he had no right to hold, that he had no business actually taking out of the white house and out of the security system. and that become and forth could be very ugly. i think that's what is the most likely material that will surface out of this affidavit in its redacted form. >> speaking of those redactions, harry, i mean, based on what john has already articulated, it's likely that he is well aware that redactions are going to have a stream of black lines throughout it. you know how this works. you also know, of course, that
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those lines can become the talking point. the idea of, hey, it's redacted. what don't they want you to see? it's the idea of the wizard behind the curtain. that could be used as well. doj, they have until thursday to propose redactions. they think it might be so extensive that it would make it essentially devoid of anything coherent or meaningful content. if we are talking about an ongoing investigation, protecting witnesses, classified information, harry, what do you think the public is actually going to see? >> although trump is saying, i want the whole thing, john is dead on. he knows it won't be. he will be able to say he is aggrieved. they are doing a two-track strategy. his public pronouncement and then in court where they took no position. what's the public going to see? at the best, doj has its black magic marker out and is going to
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try to play ball. there will be pages and pages and pages that are blacked out. as you say, complete fodder for conspiracy theorists to say, what's under here? he knows that has to be the case. of course, we know from the white house, that's the reason they first did this search. that's what they're trying mostly to protect. we will probably never see the classified stuff. we will see everything else if and when he is charged. that's the normal course of things. you are totally right. it's set up for a rhetorical position, not a legal position to say, see, the thuds are hiding everything from you. >> let me ask on that point, harry, does that suggest that merrick garland, the attorney general, sort of maybe overplayed his hand in a sense of, yes, okay, calling the bluff. you want us to show the search warrant, fine. we will have it unsealed. the next step would have obviously been logically speaking, the affidavit.
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do you think the doj -- i can't imagine they didn't anticipate this request being made and that sort of talking point. is it a matter of them saying, either way we cannot reveal what we have as part of our ongoing investigation? you have been a u.s. attorney. would that be your thought? >> for sure. it's not overplaying your hand. it's the hand they were dealt and the hand they must play. to the extent they are responding, they are responding to the court's somewhat surprising pronouncement, i think there may be some things that we can actually preserve. even the court is contemplating that it will be largely re redacted. they had to get the documents. it's an important thing to remember. we're now on two tracks. the spearhead was getting them back for all the reasons that evan and onsaid. it >> this next question -- i remember when this happened. we do. we are old enough and young enough to remember the mueller years. today -- >> oh, boy, we are.
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the ghost of trump investigations past is back with us. there was a federal appeals court that rules the doj had to make public a legal memo from that point in time. it was what barr was going to ask and asked whether it would be prudent to charge trump. remind us about that and why this is really an impactful thing. >> yeah, it's impactful for the appeals court to decide that the lower court was right to say that these -- this memo should be released to the public, because it is not -- the justice department is arguing this memo, which bill barr ordered from his deputies, from people inside the justice department, as sort of a reason to not charge the former president with obstruction of justice. this is something, if you
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remember, bob mueller and the end of his investigation, chose not to make a decision on and kicked it up to bill barr to make a decision. bill barr, according to the courts, having reviewed everything, the courts have decided, this is really bogus. this was never real -- the attorney general made a decision. you quoted it saying, it was an academic exercise and a thought experiment, which is strong language for the appeals court to say this was a farce. this was never a real deliberation. therefore, the justice department can't claim that it is that and keep it hidden. we need to see what this says to give the public a full sense of what was and what really was not done at the end of the investigation. >> john, help us understand. why is the notion that it was not deliberative so important? maybe an opinion about, can you indict a sitting president?
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to some, that could have felt like an academic, esoteric discussion about the thinking about the cost/benefit nanalysi. why is this such an important point, that it was not deliberative? >> because the deliberative privilege is that. you cannot get information about the internal workings of the executive branch when they are trying to make a decision. who is the making the decision, how they are making it, what they are weighing, that's a deliberation that they then come to a conclusion. what the court said also in the language -- it was quite striking -- they said what barr did was the equivalent of asking the olc, office of legal counsel, if richard nixon had broken the law during watergate, which gave me a chuckle. sticking it to the attorney general on how bogus his -- as
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they said his hiding the ball was in this effort to block understanding that there was no deliberation. it was a thought experiment and nothing more and should be available for our reading pleasure pretty soon. >> i wonder when we will actually be able to view it. obviously, as well, what impact it might have. as you know, there's all these investigations surrounding the former president. there's the investigation in georgia, a federal judge said she would not put on hold that lindsey graham has to appear before a grand jury investigating republican efforts to overturn the election. i'm wondering, if you think about all this discussion about transparency and one of the things he has said has been about not the deliberative process but about the speech and debates clause that says, i'm a legislator, i don't have to answer questions. i'm doing part of my job. is that going to stick? >> no. first, just to graham, speech
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and debate means you are on the floor saying stuff. it doesn't mean anything that a legislature might do. back to this opinion. what a rebuke. basically, they said, this was all kabuki theater. barr came out and made it seem as if he was really considering and deliberating what olc said. the courts, both district court essentially said, you were lying here, you just pretended that you were deliberating, it's not even deliberation because it was pre-cooked. you had made up your mind. man, that's a slap across the face to the previous attorney general. what will it matter for everything else? it just, again, more atmospheric about what a dishonest administration they were. but the courts, again and again now, are really coming through and being the truth even as to things in 2019. that's a strong trend that is happening week by week.
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>> it's telling me that as much as people might think a lot of the questions are resolved or put in the forget about it category, people are still wanting to know the information. we still remember. we want to know what's in it. even recalling this memorandum, i'm curious to see what's in it. was it a self-fulfilling pro prophecy? we will have to wait and see. i don't want to talk about or forget about the january 6th investigation. speaking of investigations. liz cheney saying today, they still want to hear directly from the former vice president, mike pence. i'm wondering, and you are too probably, what are the chances of him actually coming to testify publically or privately in front of that committee? we will talk about it next.
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congresswoman liz cheney saying the january 6 committee wants to hear directly from former vice president mike pence. listen to what she tells abc's jon carl. >> we have been in discussions with his counsel.
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>> you think we will see him in this room? >> i would hope that he will understand how important it is for american public to know every aspect of the truth about what happened that day. >> perhaps. a lot discussed tonight with dana bash. good to see you tonight. can you read the tea leaves? you have earlier in the week vice president mike pence saying he would give any invitation to testify, what he called due consideration. of course, he was talking maybe about executive privilege. now you have liz cheney tonight saying this. is vice president mike pence going to testify? is that likely? >> unlikely. highly unlikely is the answer to that question. that's mostly coming from the people in and around the former vice president. we did hear him talk about the
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possibility and they are discussing it. then the rest of his answer, when he was in new hampshire, by the way, earlier this week was about the constitutionality of it and the questions around that. just sort of speaking -- the way i read that and more importantly the way that one of his top advisers told me to read it was, it's very unlikely. >> of course. you mentioned he was in new hampshire. that's an important point. he has not yet announced he wants to run. you teetering on that moment? >> new hampshire first, then iowa. he is teetering in a big, big way. he is seriously considering it. he is trying to sort of stake a claim very, very interesting spot, which is somebody who has
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the experience with donald trump but certainly it has not necessarily left on his own volition, but kicked out of trump world because he had the audacity to follow the constitution and law on january 6. he has been trying to accept that fate and stake out a separate place and thinking maybe there's a lane for him. the biggest example this week was whetn he said it's appropriate to question and ask for transparency from the justice department from merrick garland but not appropriate to say that we should de-fund the fbi as some republicans have said and to really go after members of law enforcement, like his former boss is. >> that's going to be interesting -- that might be the next horizon on the idea of whether your loyalty to the fbi or trump, it's interesting to think about these things. what's really interesting is this new documentary you have premiering sunday night.
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it comes as attacks are nearing a record high in this country. i want to play a clip for the audience. listen up. >> this is the synagogue. >> anti-semitism is rampant in the gaming world says daniel kelly, the director of the center for technology. >> you have a swastika and iron cross here. you have people who are setting up these servers and creating concentration camp re-enactment, doing hateful things, killing the villagers. >> first of all, how jarring is it to see this in gaming? children are playing the mindm minecraft games. they are trying to appeal to children. it's stunning and vile. >> they are trying to normalize these images and the notion of
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hate, in this particular case anti-semitism, from a young age. we should say the individual i spoke to, the expect i spoke to said some of the gaming platforms, the companies are being pretty aggressive. season they are alerted to something like that, they take it off of the platform. the question is when and how they get alerted to this. you are a parent. i'm a parent. think about these areas as potentially a safe space because they are geared toward younger children. they are not. it shows how insidious the notion of anti-semitism is. again, the broader notion of prejudice and hate that it especially is absolutely flooding the internet, gaming platforms, social media platforms, all of it. >> it's true as a parent, how we have to keep up with the things that are going to be the perils
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for our children. it's a full-time job. but to look and figure out where the danger might be. children experience it uniquely, the idea of prejudice and bias in this world. you wrote an essay for c cnn.co. he wanted to wear a jewish star necklace for hanukkah. it was his reason that took you by surprise. tell me about that. >> yeah. the reason was because he said this is my identity and i see my friends who are christian wearing a cross and they are proud of it and they don't see any reason to not be, and i don't have any reason not to be proud of my judaism. it's who i am. i write in this piece that i certainly didn't say this to him, but i was quietly ashamed of myself, because i was worried about saying yes. for the reason we did this documentary. i understand that there is anti-semitism in the world.
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it's actually on the rise right now. what i understand now that i have gone on this journey for months in talking to experts is that he was -- didn't realize he was sort of on the right path to wearing your identity loud and proud, because that is, i know, one of the antidotes to anti-semitism, which is to normalize back and to be very clear that it is -- you are part of the mainstream. you are part of the society that is what people are familiar with and not the conspiracies that have invaded and really been a horrible part of society for thousands and thousands of years. he understood that innately. now i understand that also. >> as they say, out of the mouths of babes. you have to read this article. you have to watch the new cnn
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special report. it begins sunday at 9:00 p.m. thank you so much. >> thanks. many school districts are struggling to hire enough teachers. for many of them, this coming monday they head back. the question i have and so many parents are wondering is, what has caused the teacher shortage? is it the culture wars? we will talk about it next. why not both? visibly diminish wrinkleled skn in just two days. new crepe corrector lotionon only from gold bond. champion your skin. why is roger happy? it's the little things carvana does. see, roger wants to sell his car stat. little things like getting a real offer in two minutes really make roger happy. so does carvana's custer advocate caitlin picking up his car at promptly 10am. hi, are you roger? berglund. with the honda accord? yes i am. it's right over there. will i be getting?
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the classroom for many students. then you might discover a lot of their teachers are not returning with them. the country is facing a dire and a nationwide teacher shortage. many are blaming low pay and the pandemic. it comes after a culture war chaos broke out in school board meetings across the country last year. >> no more masks! >> i'm going to come for everybody that comes at my kid with this stupid mandate. >> you treat the parents of these children as domestic terrorists using our men in blue against us. your power hungry dictatorship has gotten out of control. this is no longer about our safety. it is about control. >> critical race theory, in fact, pits black people against white people and has an end game
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goal of restructuring america to an authoritarian regime. >> you are teaching children to hate others because of their skin color. you are forcing them to lie about other kids' gender. i am disgusted by your bigotry. >> that was in virginia. you remember that was a big part of the gubernatorial race there that led to the success of that platform. i want to bring in scott jennings and hillary rosen. you have to wonder -- i will start with you, scott. when you think about this that's happening, you heard part of that, the chaos. there were hundreds if not thousands of other examples. schools have become really the ground zero for everything from critical race theoryk mandates,k bans. i wonder if you think the culture wars are playing a role in the shortage we are seeing.
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>> i'm sure for some people it has. i think the old stressors are still there. workload, classroom responsibilities, pay, feeling like they don't get enough support from leadership. those things have been present for a long time. these are obviously new stressors for this profession. just for all professions nationwide, we have a reduction right now in the united states in the overall labor participation rate. i'm sure the teaching profession is not immune from that. i think it's probably part of it. i don't think it's all of it. i think one major issue here is still overhang from the pandemic. remember, the schools were closed in most places for a very long time. i do think that was a mistake. it's been proven to have been a mistake. b, it put teachers under pressure to try to teach kids via screens at home. i have kids that did it. it didn't work. we have had massive learning loss. it put a lot of pressure on these teachers to do something they weren't trained to do.
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it was probably never destined to work. that's probably part of it, too. >> hillary, i talked to both of you. my daughter i remember during the pandemic, left at the end of kindergarten, came back in second grade. i was pulling out my hair. i would have thought it would have led to greater appreciation for teachers when kids returned to school realizing how difficult it really is to be a teacher. these culture wars came in. they became, for many, a breaking point in what was a very stressful 2 1/2 years for teachers. i'm wondering, do you think this is the culmination of a variety of things happening, or do you think that, look, all of this that's happened, all the blame, all of the venom you saw, are they just saying, look, you don't pay me enough for this, why should i bother if you don't appreciate us? >> i think it's all of the above. i agree with both of you that the stress on teachers is huge and the stress over the last couple of years has been huge.
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i actually agree with scott that i think the school closures were a mistake to be closed as long as they did after we had data that showed it didn't have much impact other than a negative one on kids. i do think though that if you are a teacher and you listen to those parents in that opening at these pta meetings across the country, you are horrified. you go into teaching to help people, not to be screamed at and not to be subject to that kind of abuse and bigotry. i think that we are forcing into the schools -- look at florida or texas or places in california where they are trying to legislate this. i think we're trying to force into the schools conversations that should be had around kitchen tables and in families and among adults. i am sympathetic with parents who want to have control over
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the information that their kids get. but i think we have to trust teachers more that they are going to give them the information in an age-appropriate way. we are not trusting teachers and they feel it. >> we trust the talking points. that's probably the problem. the idea -- for people to believe that elementary school kids are getting critical race theory, that talking point goes a long way. but it's not accurate to have that suggestion there. i wonder, all of us have school-age children, we know this. you mentioned texas. i wanted to go to you, scott. there's a new state law in texas that requires public schools to display donated posters with the national motto, in god we trust. we have seen florida's governor talk about critical race theory. do you think educators are in the best position to decide how schools are run and what ought to be taught, or should the politicians be able to weigh in
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and sort of infuse the curriculum based on what their constituents are asking for? >> well, i think -- that's a complicated question. i think we need a conversation among all the stakeholders. i think politicians are just responding to their constituents who happen to be the parents who have kids in schools. the one thing about the pandemic and we did distance learning, it put more parents in closer touch with their kids' classrooms than they had been. they learned about how learning is done. they learned about school interaction than they had known. it gave them a sense of empowerment and i think a sense of, hey, i could be more impactful than i have been. now you have this extra parental involvement. i don't think that's a bad thing. i do think we need collaboration between parents and teachers. i think one of the things that is going on in classrooms potentially is that teachers don't feel supported by parents
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as much as they should. i think collaboration is a good thing. i don't think it has to be one or the other. i think teachers have expertise, they have education, they have knowledge. they ought to be able to do that. i think parents -- this is the reason i'm on this earth, is to make my kids -- give them a chance to have a better life than i had and that's via education. i'm going to be involved in my kids' school. for everybody involved, talking collaboratively, respecting each other -- we have roles to play here -- is the right attitude for the parties involved. >> that last notion -- go ahead. >> i agree. that's not what's happening. we can call it collaboration, but we're getting political threats and we're getting legislation that gives parents the right to sue the school system if they disapprove of something a teacher says to their kid. that is just two steps too far if you are a teacher, the risks you undergo to try and have an
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educational experience in your classroom, it's too high. i think it's appropriate for leaders to go out and say, you know what? we don't need to legislate all of this. there are other ways to manage this instead of creating legal threats on teachers for just doing their jobs. >> both of you -- >> i think of all -- >> go ahead, scott. >> there's a lot of voices involved in these schools. the people that i actually trust the moment are the teachers and the parents. they are the ones the most directly involved with the children. the children go home to their parents and spend all day with the teachers. the politicians are a stepped removed. the unions are removed. i think they have been bad and the teaching profession, as we saw in the pandemic. the people i want to hear from are teachers and the parents. they have the most interaction
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with the kids than the other people. >> i tell you what. the conversation we have been having, for many parents, as you said, just woke up to the idea of what their kids were learning for the first time. they were intimately involved maybe for the first time. teachers are saying, now you have woken up and want to be involved. you are getting it wrong and backwards because the talking points -- we didn't talk about, the impact on the children. what do they think about it? it's a new school year head for many next week. we will see what happens. thank you, both of you. there's another flashpoint in the culture wars. you are not shocked to know, it's abortion. one anti-abortion rights advocate is trying to argue that outlawing abortion will end what he calls, quote, an epidemic of fatherlessness. >> i don't understand why i need to give something up so men can
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large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written prop 27, to allow online sports betting. they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless. but read prop 27's fine print. 90% of profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do.
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stand with us. in the aftermath of the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade, one young anti-abortion activist in massachusetts says she's ecstatic at the chance to change laws. she's trying to create a more conservative society. some activists say they think banning abortion will make men more responsible as fathers. tonight, ellie reid takes us inside that movement. >> when i was 12, i was fund-raising for a local pregnancy resource center. during that time, i was watching videos of what abortion actually were. from that moment on, i knew that the rest of my life would be dedicated to working in the
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pro-life movement. >> deborah is 21 years old and has spent half her life in anti-abortion rights. >> the first thing i texted my best friend was in all caps, roe v. wade is overturned. she's like, it's about time. we're just absolutely ecstatic the pro-life movement has been given this chance to modernize our laws. >> she's unusual. 74% of adults under 30 think abortion should be legal in most cases. she embodied an effort to present a more modern woman friendly space. >> my faith informs me how i treat people. science is what tells me life begins at conception. i'm not supposed to exist. i'm a professional who is advocating for the life of children. we are here to say, if you need a community to come alongside you and give you another option other than to take the life of your child and pay into an
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abortion industry that just wants to take your money and kill your child, we're here to tell you, you don't have to do that. >> do you think abortion providers want to take your money and kill your child? do you think that's the motivation? >> it looks like to a lot of us they are targeting disadvantaged women. that way, they can continue to have their practice and their revenue come in. >> is that a yes? >> yeah. >> the decision brings the fight to the states. at the massachusetts family institute, this man thinks his state is the front line in the culture war. >> the child conceived in massachusetts should have the same right to life and birth as a child conceived in mississippi or texas or alabama. >> the infant mortality rate in mississippi, which you consider a more pro-life state, is twice as high as in massachusetts. >> that's a tragedy. we have some of the best medical care. it's a shame we don't leverage that to promote a culture of
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life. >> this legal scholar is trying to create a socially conservative feminism that rejects the sexual revolution. >> when you enable through abortion what you think is consequence-free sex, you are just putting the consequences on women. we have left women with the burdens of fertility. we have really let men off the hook. i think what we have seen in the last 50 years is this real epidemic of fatherlessness. >> men should be responsible and be fathers and not use abortion as a kind of after the fact contraception or get out of >> so do you think getting an abortion would make men more responsible as fathers? >> i think it should. we're going to have to really restore the culture to where fatherhood is valued. we want to give them more than
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video games and netflix. >> i need to understand why i need to give something up to men could be better people? >> what do you see yourself as giving up? >> why would women need to give up their right to an abortion to men could eventually become better people? what if you made policy to address the man problem? then address the man problem directly. >> i think you're coming at it from a different perspective. >> she imagines a less individualistic society, one that emphasizes the obligations people to have to each other, less abortion, more family leave. >> is the goal to convince progressive women to accept restrictions on abortion? or is the goal to convince conservatives to accept a more generous welfare state? >> i think the goal is probably both. the gop had been captured by libertarian forces for a long time, and they have not understood the ways in which some economic transitions going
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all the way back to industrialization have really harmed especially the working classes and the poor. >> okay. sacrifice your individual rights. like it's actually in your best interest. you sacrifice your individual rights to an abortion. the good stuff never comes. there is just a real shift i think happening in the gop that i think happens more and more toward understanding the responsibilities that the community as a whole has toward families. >> we would love to see more organizations instead of paying for women to get abortions. we'd love to see them offer other alternatives like paid maternity leave and having flexible hours for women to have children. >> i'm wondering, are you as focused on convincing conservatives of the necessity for a broader, more generous welfare state? >> to be honest here in massachusetts, all our time is taken by putting out the fires of pro choice and anti-life
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policies. i want to life to prevail in the united states and in m massac massachusetts. >> ellie reeve, cnn boston. >> thank you so much. you know, it's been more than two years since the deadly police raid on breonna taylor's home. now the louisville police department is terminating one of the police officers who was involved. this isn't charmin! no wonder i don't feel as clean. hurry up dad! you've been in there forever! i'm trying! this cheap stuff is too thin! i to you not to get the other toilet paper. here's the new charmin ultra strong. ahhh! my bottom's been saved!
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tonight we're learning that one of the louisville, kentucky police officers involved in a deadly raid on breonna taylor's home more than two years ago has now been fired. the police chief saying she decided to terminate officer kyle m. due to multiple federal charges he is facing. breonna taylor was a 26-year-old emergency room technician shot and killed inside her apartment during a botched raid by the police. her killing sparked extraordinary outrage and calls for police reform. now, he and three other officers
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involved in that raid have been charged. two of those officers were fired previously. we're also learning now the biden white house is deeply concerned about the classified documents taken to mar-a-lago. officials fear it could put sources of u.s. intelligence at risk. ♪
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