tv Don Lemon Tonight CNN August 25, 2022 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
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hey, thanks for watching, everyone. i'll be back tomorrow night. don lemon tonight starts right now. >> ha! see, i waited because i knew, but you don't say, hi, don lemon. you say hey, don lemon. who wrote that? >> i wanted to throw you for a loop and say it differently. you always call me on it. i was going to write it for you this time. >> can't trick a trickster.
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here's what i have to say. >> yes. >> since donald trump made his way into the political scene i'm always waiting for something. i was waiting for the night of the grab them by the you know what tape. waiting, wait, waiting to see if he had covid. now we're waiting for these documents, redacted. what are we going to learn? you're a former federal prosecutor. what are we going to learn from a bunch of black out spaces? >> for some they'll look at it as an ink blot test. in reality, you can learn a lot from what is excluded and not said. all of this cumulatively had a federal magistrate judge say, you can go and you can search and execute a search warrant -- >> that's a high bar. >> that's a high bar. they're probably overly inclusive. we don't have everything buck what we do know is a search was executed. they took boxes from that
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particular estate. we didn't hear a big argument in the court from trump's lawyers as to pleas -- no, stop. which was surprising in and of itself. hold on. see, no, hold on. what's it say? >> it says, bye laura coates. >> hold on. bye felicia. >> i'll see you. i got to get to business. we're going to get into trouble. hey, folks. always waiting for something. aren't you tired of waiting? won't be long now. this is worth waiting for. sometime in the next few hours it looks like we could learn more about the fbi's search of the former president's florida resort, but how much? that is really the big question here. by noon tom we'll get a look the we red we redakted mar-a-lago search warrant saf david. the judge saying the doj showed
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him good reasons to -- because, quote, disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, agents and uncharged parties. the investigation's strategy? direction, scope, sources and methods and grand jury information. but let us not forget what this is all about. it's about a former president who took boxes and boxes of records to his beach resort when he left washington in disgrace. the fbi found 11 sets of documents in that search. even after the or kais worked through all of 2021 to get them back from a president who once promised this. >> in my administration, i'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. >> hmm. well, hmm. and we've got new cnn reporting
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tonight on the terminal in trump world over all this. a source telling cnn the former president has been asking his allies if they believe he'll be indicted. and there are concerns. his legal trouble now seems worse than ever before. a source also saying that he is listening to people like conservative activists who got in his ear and told him exactly what he wanted to ear. it's a mistake to let them strong arm you into returning documents and returning records. there's even the report that the archives were so desperate to get trump's so-called love letters with kim jong-un that they tried to get his team to fedex them. in the face of all of this, president joe biden is turning up the heat tonight, telling people at a private fundraiser in maryland, what we're seeing now is, quote, the death nell of the extreme maga philosophy, and comparing it to what he called semifascism. and going on to blast the, quote, defeated former president and lay out an agenda for
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democrats as his first political rally ahead of midterms. >> we'll codify roe v. wade. [ cheers and applause ] >> we'll ban assault weapons. we'll protect social security med care. we'll pass universal pre-k. we'll restore the child care tax credit, passed voting rights, protection. make sure no one ever has an opportunity to steal an election again. >> i just -- [ laughter ] just thinking if they had to wrong it will blacks for biden. [ laughter ] put them behind you. you know who does that. tonight i'm going to talk with white house press secretary karine jean-pierre, that is just head. elie honig and brendan van grek.
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elie, i'm going to start with you. the judge gave it the green light to be released to the public. we're going to see by noon tomorrow what happens here, how much we get if they redacted things pertaining to witnesses related to the ongoing investigation or grand jury investigation. what are we going to learn in your estimation? >> don, you are right to expect a lot of black redaction ink, and indeed, doj will be blacking out a lot of the most important information, the most sensitive information about witnesses, about ongoing investigation. however, laura cotes is also correct when she says we are still going to learn quite a bit from this affidavit tomorrow. first of all, i think we're going to get chapter and verse on the whole protracted negotiation between archives and doj on the one hand be the trump team on the other. we've seen some good reporting on. that now we're going to get it rock solid. just how long, just how many times they tried to do it the nice way before they had to go
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in with a search warrant. also look to be see if there's a description of the documents that doj in archives got back from mar-a-lago before the search warrant. remember, they got some documents before the search warrant. finally, there could be piece of this investigation that are no longer active, that don't require confidentiality. we can get some sense of what the investigation is, so we will see some time in the next 13 hours and 53 minutes, not that anyone's counting. >> brandon, it's interesting because nothing that has come out has been good for team trump or trump and his legal team and supporters. nothing has been good so far. the previously released documents reveal three federal crimes the justice department was looking at as part of their investigation, violation of espionage, about instruction of justice and mishandling of the records. you have personally investigated dozens of cases involving the espionage act, so what will you be looking for in this
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affidavit? >> i think there's going to be more meat on the bones than i probably would have predicted last week based on not just the fact there's been a lot of reporting and disclosures in the last week, but the fact that the judge so quickly agreed to the reductions that the department of justice imposed, would suggest the department was more narrowly tailored. but there is going to be some substance there. >> i'll let you finish that, but why do you think there's going to be more meat on the bones? >> just to be clear, most is going to be blacked out, but the department of justice in its argument conceded there are parts of this that would not negatively impact the investigation. that was a week ago, and in the past week we've seen communications with the archives and other disclosures. we've also seen the filing from president trump and his attorneys to stop the search and impose a special master. so i think the reality is there will be more substance in there than i think we would normally expect the see. >> i interrupted you.
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did you get your point across? >> in a search warrant, one of the first parts of it is it talks about the laws that may have been violated and the elements of the offense. some of that will simply be a recitation of the law, there will be descriptions there, in particular, with respect to the law, containing the mishandling of classified information. there are a lot of parts to it. and there are parts that actually concern espionage -- by espionage, i mean the actual transmission of disclosure of classified information. thus far, the department indicate it's focused on retention, the handling of it. it's going to be interesting to see how they describe it. there's one other piece, the law i mentioned, there's a section that's seldomly executed or prosecutored, 793 f. it was at issue in the clinton investigation, and it will be interesting to see if in fact
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they mention it. i don't think they will, but if they do, it will signal this investigation is broader than i would have anticipated. >> let me ask you, you think most of it is going to be redacted, it will be black, right? but there's going to be plenty of redactions, but the length -- will the length of the document offer any clues as to how extensive this investigation is? like if it's a long one or a short one? >> i think the length is another key piece here. search warrants can be anywhere from a dozen to 70 or 80 page, and i think especially when we're talking about the factual recitation of an investigation the department itself said is in early stages, if we're talking about dozens and dozens of pages of factual information that is in part redacted, i think it's going to confirm there's a lot of information that we don't know. in fact, the department keeps stressing in its arguments before this judge, there are specific investigative techniques that have been
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utilized that they're intending to continue to utilize in their investigation. we don't know what that is. we can speculate, but we don't know. i think the more pages we see of even redactions, the more confirmation that's a well developed investigation. >> elie honig, what about the urgency? something clearly happened to prompt the doj to move to the search and seizure stage in this investigation. will there be any clues about that? >> don, it's important to understand -- legally all that doj has to do to justify this search warrant is show they established probable cause of those crimes and that a federal judge approved that. we know that happened. there's more than the legalities involved here. there's the politics of it. one of the main points donald trump raised is why did they go to the extreme step of the search warrant. i think tomorrow when we see this affidavit i think they're going lay out in detail the entire history of negotiations. don, every time we see new reporting about this, we learned that the whole negotiation was longer and longer and extended
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back farther in time. we learned today it started when donald trump was in office. pat cipollone acknowledged these documents are supposed to go over. >> elie, is it the retention of classified documents to the highest levels, isn't that enough to have a search and see seizure regardless of who it is? shouldn't that be enough? >> absolutely. that's one of the three statutes that doj used, brought to a federal judge. >> so what's the point of all this then? >> first of all, you have to get the documents back, and second of all, having probable cause is -- >> what i'm saying is -- you're saying they have to justify it. the fact that he has these documents and has not turned them over isn't that enough to have them go in and get them? >> go ahead, brendan. >> i think there are two pieces of that. there's the technical answer and
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the answer in term of what justified the search here, which technically the law that -- in terms of the espionage act is a retention of national defense information, classified information. in theory, that would be enough. that's not what happened here, which even after the department of justice learned about the classified information, they communicated with the former president's attorneys. and they issued astein steen. this was a cooperative engagement. and i think it signals that if that's all that happened, if the department of justice in june when they went to mar-a-lago obtained the rest of the classified documents, i don't think we would be talking about a search warrant. i think it's possible we wouldn't be talking about criminal charges. something happened, and we don't know what that is, but something happened and it seems to be related to this obstruction charge that fundamentally changed the nature of this investigation. and until we know what that is, ultimately we don't know the strength of the case. we don't know the likelihood. but something was serious enough
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that it led to this unpre unprecedented search of a former president's residence. >> elie, you want to do the math again how long until we find out? . you're better at math. >> 13 hours 47 minutes. >> thank you. learned a lot. see you soon. back on the campaign trail, calling out defeated republicans and magaism. ka karine jean pierre is standing buy on the white house lawn now. she's going to tell us what that means after the break. browse for cars that fit your budget, then customize your downpayment and monthly payment. and these aren't made up numbers, it's what you'll really pay, right down to the penny. wheather you're shopping or just looking, it only takes a few seconds and it won't affect your credit score. finally, a totally different way to finance your ride only from carvana.
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so, on these sorts of big stories we're excited to get direct contact. you can't hear from the president, we're going to hear from the press secretary, which you're about to hear from, so stay tuned. president biden making his first campaign speech as midterms rapidly approach. the president thought his accomplishments and blasting what he calls maga republicans. joining me now, the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre. thank you. appreciate you joining. important issues we're going to talk about arc especially when it comes to student loans, okay? >> yes, absolutely.
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thanks, don. thanks for having me. >> let's talk about what the president said as a fundraiser tonight. he likened extreme maga philosophy to semifascism. what exactly is semifascism. >> let me just first say this tonight, what you heard from this president, don -- and again, thank you for having me, because this is really important. the american people have a choice in front of them, and the president laid that out very clearly, very powerfully tonight. when you look at what democrats are doing and what they are delivering and what they have done, don, in less than two years, which is lowering costs on prescription drugs, lowering the energy costs, making sure we have this historic legislation to really deal with climate crisis, all these things are important, standing up for women. >> and they are, karine. i want to get to all those things, but we have a short amount of time.
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if you'll answer my question, we'll get to those things. what exactly is semifascism. >> don, i was just about to get to your question. i really was. but you brought me on the show for a reason, and i have to talk about what the president talked about tonight. >> i understand. i just have limited time with you tonight. >> by having this back and forth we are taking away from the time, so here we go. what we are seeing from republicans and what we have seen from republicans these past several years is that they are attacking our democracy, they are taking away our freedom, and they are trying to put on the chopping blocks med care and social security. that's what we are seeing, and it's being done. if you look at the republican party, it's being done by this element, this maga element of the republican party, and that's what we were trying to prevent. that's what you heard from the president today, that choice, what we're doing for democrats. because that's why i said that to you. i start off because i want to
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show what we're doing, what we have done, and make that contrast, because that's what we're seeing from republicans, this maga element, and we're going to continue to make that choice, make sure we're making it very clear for the american people, and that's what the president did tonight in maryland, and he's going to continue to do that tonight across the country. >> thank you for answering that question. now let's talk about the accomplishments taxpayer president touted his administration's move on student loans at tonight's rally. the administration believes the loan relief plan that it's going to be fully paid. so, can you lay out how much of this is going to cost, where the money is coming from? >> okay, i'm happy to have that conversation. our team did crunch some numbers. i'm going start here. i know you want me to get to the answer. assuming that 75% of the folks who take us on on the president student loan cancellation plan, and you look at the average monetary -- the average cash
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flow on that, it's going to be about $24 billion per year. just to give you a little bit of context, that $24 billion a year, that is about 3% of what we spend on the military. that's just a tiny, tiny fraction. and if you hear what the wall street folks said -- goldman sachs said this today. it will have a minor, minor effect on this plan on what we're seeing currently, what the president announced. and the thing that's important here, too, the president has a little bit more of a fiscal breathing room because of that $1.7 trillion deduction that we'll see at the end of this fiscal year, which is so important. because at the end of the day, what the president is trying to do and wants to do, just to cut through this noise, he wants to make sure we are delivering for millions and millions of americans. this plan is going to help 90% -- 90% of americans that is making less than $75,000 a year.
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that matters. that is going to be a game changer, a game changer for americans who want to buy a home, american who is potentially want to start a family. give them that breathing room that is so needed at this time. >> okay, you said they've crunched the numbers. is the white house going to release a cost estimate at some point so the american people can see exact will i what you're saying and what the number crunchers are saying? >> we've talked about that. another piece is we're going to talk about this, assuming people take us up on this student debt relief plan the president put forth. that's why i said, assuming 75%. so we are going to share what that's going to look like. wanted to give you a little bit of what we're thinking and of how this is going to move forward. and you know, look, don, this is so important for american families. this is also, as you were asking me about what the president said
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earlier today, about what republicans are doing. if you think back in 2017, i believe we probably had this conversation on your show, what republicans did in this past, previous administration in 2017, that $2 trillion tax cut they gave to the wealthy, and it did nothing for americans that were making less than $75,000. what it did is that 85% of that helped americans making more than $75,000. this is a clear contrast, and so different than what we're trying to do. and the president said, this is a campaign promise the president made, he wanted to make sure as he's giving this $10,000 student debt cancellation relief, which he actually exceeded, he wants to make sure we did this in a fiscally balanced and responsible way. >> let's talk about other issues as well. you want to talk about accomplishments and other things on the table here.
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in his speech, the first issue the president said was at stake in these midterm elections -- you talked about it moments ago, that was a woman's right to choose. let's listen to what he said and we'll discuss. >> just take a look what happened since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade red state after red state there's a race to pass the most restrictive abortion restrictions. they won't stop there. they want to pass a ban in the congress. if the maga republicans wouldn't control the congress, won't matter where you live. women won't have a right to choose anywhere. anywhere. >> so, karine, you saw what happened in new york last night, the night before in the bellwether county here. a democrat actually won. i spoke with pat ryan, who is now the congressman-elect.
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he was the candidate. he's a new york democrat who won this special house election campaigning on abortion rights. should the white house take more of a lead role in the push to protect abortion rights? i am sure i don't need to tell you there has been criticism that the administration hasn't done enough on this. >> i want to be careful talking about the midterm election os o any elections in that fact, in that matter, especially in this role, this administration, we respect the hatch act. look, here's something that i can say democrats have been doing, and the president talked about this when the dobbs decision came back back in june, came down in june, which is that we have to do everything we can, we have to make sure our voices are being heard, because we have to fight for women's reproductive rights. we have to fight for our freedom. and what you are seeing is just. that you're seeing the majority of americans who are standing up and saying, we have to make sure that we say no to what we are
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seeing across the country, these national -- this is going to be -- what republicans want to do is a national ban. these are coming from republican legislators. so, we have been fighting, democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to protect women's rights, women's reproductive rights, and we're going to continue to do that. the president took bold actions on the day that decision was made. he's going to continue to speak to that, continue to make sure what you heard tonight, continue to have those conversations and talk to majority of americans who stand -- who he stands with, who democrats stand with. i'm on. we got to -- >> i know! >> i'm on. going to have this conversation. >> karine, we always have this relationship that you and i go back and forth about this. this is an honest relationship. don't read anything into this, anybody. >> okay. >> but listen, codifying roe, karine, it has all but fizzled out now. does the president want to see this passed before the midterms
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in the senate? is there going to be any work to do that? >> what the president said is an order, he will take actions and he has taken bold actions. we have announced that over the past several short month over the summer. he's taken leadership on it. the president has been clear in order to codify, to make sure roe is law is that congress has to take action and the american people have the make sure again that the voices are heard. and so that is the message we have been very clear about and we're going to continue to make sure we talk to the american people on that. so we continue to galvanize folks to make sure that we protect -- we got to protect women's rights. these are -- this is an issue that is putting women's lives in danger, and we got to know what's at stake here. this is a choice. >> i've got to ask you about them because as we're sitting here waiting for this affidavit, the redacted affidavit to be
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released, i got to ask you about the investigation. reporting that biden's white house counsels after office at some point defer to the national archives for determination on how to handle trump's protective assertion of the privilege or what have you over these documents. who in the white house knew about the investigation? because the president has been adamant that he knew nothing, got no warning about it. >> so, those are two different things, so let me just say that for a second. look, when it comes to the investigation, the search that we saw recently that you all have reported on, we have been very clear on this. the president was not briefed. no one at the white house was briefed. we are not briefed on investigation. remember, what the president has said during the campaign, and he has said as president, he wanted to make sure that we restore --
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restore the independence of the department of justice. he has been clear about that, especially when it comes to investigations. we do not comment w, we do not interfere, and we do not get briefed. when it comes to the investigation itself, we are just not going to comment. >> are you saying he didn't know about the actual -- that there would be asearch warrant carried out? because they did have to know about the documents being there, because you have to sign off on the -- giving the archives -- >> again, two different things, right? >> okay, that is fine. >> again, we did not know -- >> but you knew -- you had to know that it was there or that they were missing because he signed off on giving the archives the authority -- >> but, don, just to be very -- >> excuse me. >> i just want to make sure we separate the two, right? when it comes to the actual search, when it comes to the
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comments that the attorney general made recently. i believe it was last week. we did not know about that. we learned about that from your reporting. now, the letter, that's something totally different. what we did is we deferred -- we deferred to the department of justice. i'm going to leave the letter -- let the letter speak for itself. that is the national archivists, they've made that decision with the department of justice. again, we gave them -- we gave them -- we deferred that to the national archives. >> who is we? who knew about it at the white house? >> i'm just telling you, the white house -- i don't have specific names or specific -- the white house deferred that to the national archivist. it's not letter. it's very clear in the letter. it's out there. you guys have shown the letter. folks can take a look. again, when it comes to the investigation -- when it comes to the investigation and the search, when it comes to the attorney general making his remarks, we do not get involved.
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we do not get briefed, and we did not know about that partic -- about that investigation. again, we have said this. i know there's a lot of interest in this, but the president has been very clear, he does not want to politicize the department of justice. he wants to do this very differently. he wants to make sure that they have the independence when it comes to investigation. again, we have been very, very clear about that. when it comes to the letter, i refer people to the letter, to the department of justice. the letter is very clear that we defer that to them. >> karine, we love having you on. we love that we go back and forth. i love your candor. you're invited to come on every -- as often as you'd like. we'd also like to have the president on. it's been a long time since i've interviewed him or spoke ton him or had a town hall. i know he'll be watching this
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interview. mr. president, if you'd like to come on, we'd love to have you. karine, will you relay that to the president? >> i will relay that to the president. don, thank you so much for having me. always a good time. good night. >> karine jean-pierre, the white house spokesperson. president biden calling out maga conservatives multiple times tonight. will keeping the heat on pay off? we'll talk about it. vo: hi. we're zerowater. and we believe everyone deserves the purest tasting water. that's why we strive for zero. you see, to some it means nothing. but to us, it means everything. here, take a look. this meter showing triple zeros
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political analyst astet learn herndon. good evening. thanks for joining. let's see if this is as spicy as the last interview. david axelrod, the president zeroing in on maga republicans, even calling it semifascism. what's he doing there? >> i think this has to be a contrast. the reason parties in power, don, generally lose seating in a midterm election is that they are treated as a referendum on the encumbent, and people who have grievances tend to be more motivated. the reason democrats have drawn closer in some of the polling recently is because this has become more of a contrast, the dobbs decision, the mass shootings, the january 6th hearings, and trump's reemergence and the nomination of all these far right
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candidates have given a sense of unease to independent voters, swing voters. and the contrast between the democratic party and the accomplishments particularly lately, the legislative accomplishments, and that image of the republican party is key for the democrats to win in this election. and it's smart to drive that. you know, i have some quarrels with -- or just reservations with some of the ways he went at it in the speech buck the fact he's drawing a contrast is important. >> he seem to be sort of, you know, ratcheting up the energy and the language moving closer to the midterms. obviously strategic. do you disagree with that? >> no, i do think it's strategic and i think it's been an escalation from the white house. you have seen the white house really go from calling it an extreme maga to now this
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semifascist language. this is escalating clearly from president biden. but i do think it's about contrast. the problem for democrats here is even with this improved political landscape, even with the energy that they have after the dobbs decision, they still have an uphill structural challenge in the house of representatives just because of the way those maps are drawn. this environment has looked better on fundraising, on the type of issues people are talking about, in people being motivated against senate candidates that trump put forward. that improved their chances. when we talk about the house, state legislatures, democrats are going need the eight midterms a year in order to overcome the structural disadvantages at that point. >> it's interesting. the former president isn't on the ballot, but kind of, alice. this president has been call out the trump lies, the election
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denial, the anti-democratic shift in the gop for a while. is this a shift in strategy or just the use of a different term? >> it's clearly a shift in strategy, and i have concerns about it. and i wish karine would have answered your question as to what president biden meant when he called republicans fascist. look, clearly the new strategy is to call red blooded conservatives extreme maga republicans or semifascists. look, if that's his strategy -- >> it was semifascism just to be clear. >> the fact is, if that's a strategy to use those terms, calling us the new deplorables, it's going to embolden republicans, turn off independents, and it's not going to do anything to drive home his message of what he says are accomplishments. when he insults republicans in that fashion, calling us, again, semifascists is what he's
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calling us -- we are conservatives. we want limited government. we want to reign in spending not expand spending. we want free markets, national security, and want to work on immigration and crime, and for him to use terms like that to kick off a campaign, that just goes to show we're headed down a really dark, and i see, concerning campaign. >> alice, do you see a distinction between maga republicans and just normal conservative republicans? because that is a distinction that the president is making. i don't see him calling all republicans that. he's talk about the maga republicans. do you see a distinction there? >> i never heard him call out any other republicans tonight. every time he called them maga republicans or extreme republicans. this type of name calling is going to be their strategy. i don't see it as a winning formula, because at the end of the day, what americans are
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looking at, they're looking at historic inflation. they look at the fact they're entering a recession, high home prices, grocery prices, increase in crime, and the economic issues are going to rule the day. name calling is not going to move the needle. >> david. >> i want to partially agree with alice. i don't think he has to use terms like fascist or near fascist. >> semifascism. >> i think the extremism of the republican party has manifest itself around this dobbs decision and the fact that so many republicans around the country seem willing to impose, you know, the most draconian restrictions, even in the most dire of circumstances. that's extreme. election denial is extreme. so, you know, those things speak
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for themselves. i think the president missed an opportunity to better separate the republicans -- the minority of republicans in the congress who laudably worked with him on bills like infrastructure and guns and the chips act. i think he should try and drive a wedge between those republicans and the majority of the party that is now in the thral of donald trump. he should be careful about painting with a broad brush. there's an opportunity to get independent voters. six months ago they were worried about biden being tugged too far to the left. now too far to the right. you want to take advantage of, that but you don't want to do that by being too hyperbolic. the other thing i want to say --. go ahead, don. it's your show. >> before we run out of time, i
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was trying to get across karine and you, we have a limited amount of time. i want to get usted in. he did talk about larry hogan, about the republicans that are not maga -- >> i think that's going to be part of the democratic message, too. shown himself reaching across the aisle. will point to the infrastructure bill, to the guns legislation to say that he returned kind of some washington civility. but i think this is also a biden in the white house understand coming out of a summer where that didn't help his approval ratings, didn't help the democratic party. those things weren't enough. they had to go some things. that's what we've seen. >> thanks, everyone. appreciate it. abortion trigger laws in three states going into effect today, and in one state, doctors could face up to life in prison for providing an abortion. that's next. diminish wrinkled sn in just two days.
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-- putting access to abortion further out of reach for millions of women and punishing medical providers. here's cnn's tom -- . >> texas has a tough new code of the west. abortions are now outlawed, from the moment of conception, with no exception for pregnancies that come from rape or incest. a doctor can provide an abortion, but only if it appears a mother will die or be seriously impaired without one. in some cases, providing an illegal abortion could be a first degree felony. and in the lone star state, the penalty for that can be life in prison. >> 50 years ago, in 1972, abortion was just as illegal in texas as it is right now today. >> tennessee has gone a similar
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direction. >> we expect a lot to be followed. >> with legal protection for fetuses starting at fertilization, no exception for rape or incest, and for doctors the same tough rule. an abortion is illegal only to save a mother's life, or prevent serious medical issues. a standard some critics find hopelessly vague. >> the law will make doctors second guess their medical training and expertise when treating. or risk a felony of criminal conviction. >> and then there is idaho. rape or incest can legally justify an abortion under the new law there. if it is reported to the police. but for doctors the only legal excuse for abortion is to save the mothers life. any abortion done to prevent injury or illness to the pregnant patient could wind up with charges against the doctor. that distinction moved a federal judge to put that part of idaho's law on hold, since federal law says emergency room care must also consider
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protecting a patient's health. even if she is not in mortal danger. it's all evidence of the rapid pace in which many red states are seeking to implement new laws against abortion, stiff in the laws they already have and imposed the harshest penalties on those who still think and act as if abortion is a nationwide right. don? >> tom foreman thank you so much. it's official. california regulators voting to ban new gas car sales by 2035. well other states follow suit?
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