he was dancing. and every time they would slam dunk it, he would go crazy. i was really excited to make all these memories with my kids and my wife. pretty much either come straight there or miss half the game going home to take a shower. >> the wildcats coach also invited mcguire and his family to a game at the arena in lexington, home of the university of kentucky basketball team. he and easton are looking forward to the visit, making new memories aas i family. the news continues. jake tapper and "cnn tonight" jake tapper and "cnn tonight" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com welcome to "cnn tonight." i'm jake tapper in washington. election day is only 12 days away, but many democratic officials seem to believe, barring some major seismic

event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. >> sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. >> i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democraticment i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. >> tonight we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican-led house of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending

election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country. and that is part of what is driving their legislative agenda. it's important to note that the party that runs the house typically engages in two types of legislation. one is built purely around messaging and firing up the base. democrats, for instance, did that with sweeping gun reform measures, even though they knew the bill they passed wouldn't even get 50 votes in the senate, let alone 60. the other kind of legislation is actual legislating. last month, house republicans laid out their legislative priorities, calling it their commitment to america. so, let's break it down, and try to figure out exactly what the republicans will try to do. a big focus, obviously, will be the economy. republicans are vowing to repeal the $80 billion currently set

aside at least partly for new irs agents in the bill that the democrats called the inflation reduction act. >> but on that very first day that we're sworn in, you'll see that it all changes because on our very first bill, we're going to repeal 87,000 irs agents. >> according to "the washington post," republicans also want to extend trump's tax cuts, which are set to expire in 2025. another big agenda item is combatting crime, not just boosting funding to hire more police, but demanding transparency from prosecutors and district attorneys who are, in the views of house republicans, too lenient when it comes to prosecutions or plea deals. republicans also want to reimpose trump-era border restrictions to stem the flow of migrants coming from mexico. there's also what they call a parents' bill of rights, taking a page from republican governor glenn youngkin, partially

appealing to parents' frustrations with remote learning and masking in schools. >> we're going to go to work in order to protect parents' rights and to make sure that that's transparency, to make sure that parents are fully informed, and that parents make these most important decisions in conjunction with their child, not a bureaucrat or politician. >> potentially politically potent for parents. we'll see how it translates on the federal level, of course. another big responsibility for congress, the legislative branch is supposed to be oversight of the white house, or the executive branch. we tend to not see much of that when the party controlling congress also controls the white house. from the republican perspective, as congressman michael cloud of texas told politico, quote, it's not something where we're having to drum up, okay, what are we going to do. it's more of a limiting factor of we only have 50 weeks a year,

unquote. so, what's at the top of republicans' list for oversight? the border and crime and, according to the likely next chair of the house oversight committee, congressman james comer of kentucky, this. >> the whole reason we're investigating hunter biden is we know he's a national security threat and we fear that he has compromised joe biden. >> what else? in the hours after the news broke of the fbi search for classified documents in president trump's mar-a-lago resort, house minority leader kevin mccarthy tweeted, quote, when republicans take back the house, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned. attorney garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. dr. anthony fauci, even post retirement, republicans have pledged to investigate the origins of covid and the federal

government's handling of the epidemic. >> unless dr. fauci decides to seek asylum in some foreign country whose powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat and therefore which won't enforce a subpoena from the united states congress, then dr. fauci, retirement or not, is going to be spending a lot of time in front of a congressional committee and committees, if republicans take back control. >> my powerball had 287 chickens and a turtle. dr. fauci said that is fine with him, but -- >> i'd be happy to cooperate, so long as we look at something that is a dignified oversight, which it should be, and not just bringing up ridiculous things and attacking my character. that's not oversight. >> nothing says dignified like the u.s. congress. in addition, the likely next

chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman michael mccaul of congress has made it clear he wants to investigate the u.s. withdrawal to afghanistan. he said, quote, we will also continue to demand answers to why the withdrawal from afghanistan was such a disaster. the american people deserve transparency from this administration, especially when it comes to national security. and we will work to deliver that to them, unquote. but investigating, that's not the only i word you should expect to hear a lot more of in 2023. another i word being thrown around by some republicans, mostly in the maga wing, is impeachment. congresswoman marjorie tailor green, for abuse of power, for hunter's foreign dealings. yesterday she offered this helpful advice for the president on how to prepare for gop house control. >> they should consider resigning because there's a lot

coming for joe biden, not only joe biden but hunter biden and other people linked with them. >> i don't think president biden is on board with that. and as of now, it doesn't seem like republican leaders are at least fully on board with the idea of impeaching president biden. republican leader kevin mccarthy said this last month. >> we just went through four years of watching a political impeachment. we will uphold the law. we will not play politics with it. we will do whatever in the nature that the rules and facts take us to. >> last week when asked by "punch bowl news" if anyone in the biden administration had actions that rose to the level of impeachment, mccarthy said, quote, i don't see it before me right now, unquote. but mccarthy is going to have to deal with this maga wing. and i'll get to that in a second. biden's not the only one who republicans are talking about impeaching, we should note. >> i think one of the very first

priorities of the new republican congress should be to impeach alejandro mayorkas. i think laying out the facts before the american people in a trial early next year is incredibly important. >> that's republican senator ted cruz talking about homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. mayorkas has become their number one target for impeachment, given the crisis at the southern border and that it is a matter of when, not if, that republicans start the impeachment proceedings. which dana bash asked mayorkas about earlier this year. >> i am incredibly proud to work with 250,000 dedicated and talented personnel, and i look forward to continuing to do so. >> no concern about that? >> i am not. >> he wasn't concerned six months ago. i wonder if he feels differently now, less than two weeks out from the election. several democratic committee

chairs became household names during the trump years. some of their republican successors during the biden years could include republican mike turner, congressman mike rogers of alabama is poised to take over the house armed services committee. and meet your likely new chairman of the house judiciary committee, jim jordan of ohio. >> i don't know how you can convince me president trump didn't win this thing based on all the things you see. >> the election lies you just heard from jim jordan are significant because the likely next speaker, kevin mccarthy, will be quite different from the previous two republican speakers when it comes to dealing with this far right extreme in the house gop caucus. house speaker john bainer viewed them with disdain. >> listen, i'm a conservative republican, all right? so, is liz cheney. we're just not crazy. and, you know, people in the media want to talk about these

people being on the right, they're in the crazy column, all right? it's got nothing to do with being conservative. >> house speaker paul ryan dealt with what was called the big crazy caucus at arm's length. >> if a conservative cause depends in the populist appeal of one personality or of second rate imitations, then we're not going anywhere. >> well, we'll see. this wing of the party, the maga caucus, will be bigger and stronger than ever in 2023. and kevin mccarthy will need their support to become and then to stay speaker. hence, inviting marjorie taylor greene to sit right behind him as he unveiled the commitment to america. greene told "the new york times" magazine that if mccarthy does not give her a lot of power and leeway, the republican base is, quote, going to be unhappy about it. i think that's the best way to read that.

that's not in any way a threat at all. i just think that's reality, unquote. democrats stripped the committee assignments from marjorie taylor greene and another republican who espoused republican extreme views, congressman gosar, both of whom appeared, by the way, at a white supremacist convention. what will happen to them in 2023? >> they'll have committees. the committee assignment they have now, they may have other committee assignments. they may have better committee assignments. >> this is no small issue because how kevin mccarthy handles extremism in his ranks could impact success in his speakership. at the end of the day, mccarthy is going to be walking a precarious tight rope. he will be challenged constantly to choose between delivering on a conservative agenda or supporting the wild lies and conspiracy theories of the movement that donald trump unleashed. now, house republicans say that they will recapture the house and it will be because the country is rejecting the status

quo on the economy, crime, immigration, education, and more. but speaker mccarthy will also be pressured by trump and others to address issues that are not based in fact. what will kevin mccarthy do? i often think about the time in march 2021 when cnn's own manu raju challenged mccarthy to explain his votes, to disenfranchise the voters of pennsylvania and arizona on january 6th, after the bloody riot based on the lies that incited that crowd. here's mccarthy's defense, in part. >> if arizona and pennsylvania were removed in the electoral college with president biden's numbers low or below 270? >> no, but donald trump said the house could vote -- >> wait a minute. i'm not donald trump. you're asking me a question. i'm answering your question -- let me answer your question

since you asked me. so, you gave a premise that's not true. >> donald trump tried to overturn the results in congress, and you support that. >> well, now you're saying something that's not true. let me answer your question and show you how your premise is not true. >> if you listened closely, mccarthy is claiming that he did not actually vote to overturn the election because he only supported throwing out the votes of two states. and that alone would not have been enough to flip the election from biden to trump. this was mccarthy's attempt to appease the maga madness while also simultaneously being a responsible leader. and it's difficult to achieve, perhaps impossible. and it will be a task that will be far more difficult with the mighty powers of the speaker of the house instead of as leader of the minority. we hope the next speaker chooses

wisely. in a moment, an influential voice on the house gop will join us. congressman dan crenshaw from texas is hoping to become the chairman of the homeland security committee if his party wins back control of congress and he wins reelection in 12 days. first order of business if achieved? we'll ask him next. stand stro. and ifif you got the devil on your shoulder... take him for a r ride.

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in less than two weeks, the balance of power in congress should see a major shift, with republicans inial control of th house floor. for insight, let's bring in texas republican congressman dan crenshaw, who joins us now. on day one, would-be speaker mccarthy says, republicans would

repeal 87,000 irs agents. i know you support that. but you almost certainly will not have 60 votes in the senate to support such a thing. i guess one of the questions i have is what do you prefer your party to prioritize, should you take over the house? legislation that ultimately can pass the senate and become law or legislation that is appealing to the base? because that's going to be a real push and pull. >> yeah, and jake, like you said in your monologue, there's two tracks. one is the idealized version. okay. if we were kings for a day, this is what the law would be. and i actually think that plays an important role. you've got to show people what you stand for. and there's things you can negotiate through, and largely through must-sign bills like the budget process. repealing irs agents for the budget, i think is doable within the budget process itself. if i were to give you at least two priorities that i would certainly like to focus on, and

i think there's broad consensus, it's our energy sector, and it's our border. and overall, it's the theme of security. look, it's energy security, reliable energy that has a predictable price for the rest of the year. it's economic and financial security. lower taxes and less strang la toir regulations from the government that reduce investment. just the basics here. securing our freedoms, securing our parents' rights to go to school board meetings and protest or at least get a clear idea of what the curriculum is. and border security of course. you've got fentanyl coming across the droves and it's killing almost 80,000 americans a year. that's a bipartisan issue. it's got to be. that's a unified issue. this is a common enemy that we've got to focus on. i think every american should know the names of these guys who run these cartels who are poisoning our kids. it's the number one cause of death for young adults. >> one of the first orders of business of course for the next

congress will be to raise the debt creeling and to avoid a government shutdown. it's easy to be in the minority and vote in a way that will apiece your base or please your base. but if house republicans take over, you guys are in charge of keeping the government running. you guys will be in charge of keeping the government funded to increase the debt ceiling. do you think that there are going to be enough republicans ready to govern? >> i think so. look, i've obviously got a little vote no matter what. we're well aware of that fact that it's time to govern. you do have to gather around the votes. those two points, refunding the government and to avoid a government shutdown and the debt ceiling vote, those are both points that, look, they're difficult political times. nobody likes them, but they are necessary evils in a sense because it's the only time that you can actually negotiate ways to get our budget under control. you know, we have to all agree

on this, that a fiscal cliff is near and it's difficult to predict when that happens. but we've spent a lot of money in these last couple of years. and getting our budget under control, getting our debt-to-gdp ratio under control has got to be a priority. >> one of the things that i look back at the last congress, and i think there are a lot of people in this country who say, we want people toing work together. we want democrats and republicans to work together. so, they were happy about the chips act. they were happy about the infrastructure bill. they were happy about the bill that senator cornyn worked on after the tragedy of uvalde because they want compromise. you talked about the fentanyl crisis, a huge problem in this country. one of the areas where there's always real difference between democrats and republicans is republicans want to focus on border security and democrats want to focus on treatment and some of the root causes for

dependency. and i'm just wondering, is there a willingness -- will there be a willingness, assuming you take over -- the republicans take over. you're running for chairman of the homeland security committee, if you take over in that position, if you win that role, is there a willingness to -- even if you don't want to work with the democrats in the house, to reach out to the democrats in the senate whose votes you're going to need? you know what i mean? >> we will definitely be the first ones to try that. i will do whatever it takes to security our border. and it's been difficult working with democrats on this issue. i've got to say democrat politicians. we should be specific in how we say that. you talk to democrats in texas, they want the border secure. south texas is going to turn red, vote in some republican candidates just because of the border crisis. this is a democrat politician issue for some reason. and, yeah, they do give these

slippery arguments about, well, we want to address root causes. it's not humane to secure the border. it's not humane to let people cut the line when people are trying to do it the right way. it's not humane fishing dead bodies out of the water. it's not humane when the cartels are enriched by this crisis, facilitating it and pushing fentanyl across. it's got to be bipartisan. enough has got to be enough. this is why it's important for us to also talk about the cartels. this is a common enemy. this is a common enemy that is lacing street drugs with poison and killing nearly 80,000 americans a year. we should be funding a task force that directly targets this. why aren't we seeing arrests for this. they have every one of those people pay them like 300 bucks before they cross the river. this is an active violation of our state sovereignty and national security. >> i hear you but i have to say something you just said doesn't fill me with confidence about the effort to find common ground

because you referred to democrats talking about root causes of dependency issues as slippery arguments. and, you know, i have to say, knowing a little bit about the fentanyl crisis and the opioid crisis, i don't know that it's a slippery crisis, slippery argument. i think maybe you disagree with their approach to border security, et cetera, but i think that that is part of the situation. and in fact, if you look at president trump's task force run by chris christie and kellyanne conway talking about opioids, they talked about root causes for drug dpen si as well. it's not a -- i understand that you want to focus on security -- >> i think we're talking about two different things. >> yeah. >> no, no. we're talking about two different things. when i was referring to their arguments about root causes, what they're referring to is root causes in guatemala, root causes in honduras, which is incredibly difficult for us to solve. but i totally agree with tackling the fentanyl crisis at all angles, including root

causes. there's very little disagreement there. there's been a lot of bipartisan legislation in fact on dealing with opioids at the treatment level. but again, the fentanyl crisis is a little bit different than opioids. i distinguish. people are addicted to opioids. they know they're taking opioids. what they might not know is that somebody laced fentanyl in a back alley lab into that cocaine or that adderall. that is poisoning. this has got to be a unifying call for americans to say, look, there is a couple organizations directly responsible for this. they're right on the southern side of our border. they're well armed, they're well funded, and we don't talk about them like they're an enemy of the state. this has got to be unified. >> we've covered the fentanyl crisis. and your former colleague lost a nephew to it, a kid thought he was taking an over-the-counter supplement and it had fentanyl

in it. horrible tragedy and too common. congressman dan crenshaw, perhaps next time i see you, i'll be calling you mr. chairman. we'll see. >> hope so. thanks jake. 13 year ss a long time to wait, so it is frankly one more night. tomorrow night, my beloved phillies will be finally back at the world series making the magic happen. who better to preview their matchup against the astros than sports broadcasting legend bob costas. he'll explain why this is being called one of baseball's biggest mismatches in more than 100 years. i have more for you on that. that's coming up. ata. bonded b by engineering excellence. palantir. data driven enterprise accelerator. vo: the next time you fill up the tank, remember why it costs so much. because the biggest oil companies decided they need to profit even more. they make record profits... even as americans ruggle to pay the bills.

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for this next story, i am quite biased. i'm not going to pretend otherwise. tomorrow night, my scrappy philadelphia phillies play in game one of the world series against the houston astros who are cheated, as you might remember, to win the world series a few years ago. i could talk about the sports history between the two cities if i wanted to from the 1980 national league championship series which philadelphia won and went on to win the world series that year or how the eagles were 6-0. i could point out how moses malone left the trade and won a title in '83. i could talk about the last time

an underdog philadelphia team faced off against the power house club with a record of cheating. that was the 2018 super bowl when the eagles trounced the patriots. but since i clearly cannot be objective here, i thought i would bring in a guy who knows a thing or two about sports. his name is bob costas. i'm not sure if you've heard about him. he's here to help me out. bob, thanks for joining us. every world series is full of story lines. what is one you're watching closest this year in the world series? >> well, dusty baker is a story line. and in fairness -- and i realize you're having a little fun with your hyperpartisanship for philadelphia teams, which you're entitled to. but once the sanctions came down, the astros weren't able to use nefarious tactics, and they've been in the world series four out of six straight years. we can't attribute that to banging on trash cans. they've won 106 games, blitzed

through the post season at 7-0. they are a really good team. dusty baker will likely make the hall of fame as a manager, plus he was a good player, 73 years old, wise man of the game, wonderful story teller. the only thing he doesn't have on his résumé is a world series championship. he's been to the world series but he hasn't won it. but the phillies are also a story line. they won only 87 games. in the expanded playoffs, there are now 12 teams playing in october. and only one, the rays, who won 86 games had a lesser record than the phillies. a pe nant race is a 162-game challenge but the postseason has become a tournament. and in a tournament it's which team gets hot and stays hot. and the phillies are not the team that won 87 games during the regular season and the sixth playoff qualifier in the national league. right now they're playing terrific baseball and they've got nola and wheeler set up -- they'll face verlander and

valdez. that might be a push. they're playing their best baseball. if they can get out of houston, the first two games with a split, they come back to citizens bank park, the place will be cay city and who knows what might happen. >> i was there when they won the national league championship. it is crazy. the city of philadelphia becomes a player on the team. on paper, sports lags note this is a mismatch. obviously the astros won 19 more regular season games than the phillies. this is the biggest differential in 116 years. the astros, also as you note, they have not lost once in the postseason. i want to go back to that 116 years ago because that precedent is when the underdog white sox beat the favored cubs. so, as you acknowledge, it's not all about what's on paper. >> yeah. well, that team, the cubs, won 116 games in a 154-game season.

in 1954, the then-cleveland inyans were 111-43. and will ie mays and the new yok giants swept them in the world series. and we've had teams like the '87 twins who did not have an imposing record but beat the cardinals in the world series. the cardinals in 2006 snuck into the playoffs, got hot at the right time, and won the world series. the seattle mariners won 116 games in 2001 and didn't make it to the world series. that's the 2345i nature of baseball. in a short series in baseball, just the nature of the sport makes it more likely that the team that appears to be the lesser team on paper has a better chance -- not a better chance to win, but a better chance if they played 100 games not a better chance to win, but a decent chance to win a best out of five or best out of seven. >> bob, stick around because i have more questions for you, not about baseball. you're going to stick with us and we're going to talk about the nfl's new concussion

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please vote yes on 31. vote yes on prop 31. frankly i could talk with bob costas about baseball for, like, eight hours, but we're also in the heart of football season. for the next 27 straight days, you can watch a football game,

whether it college or the nfl, every single day until right before thanksgiving. that is a christmas gift for bob costas. thank you so much for sticking around, bob. i want to ask you, it's been a couple weeks since the nfl put their new concussion protocols into effect. as a parent of a football player, my boy, my 13-year-old is now playing tackle football. he's in seventh grade. do you think we're still taking baby steps when it comes to head injuries? >> i think there have been significant steps taken. it used to be denial. the nfl treated it the way the cigarette companies treated the connection between cigarettes and lung cancer for a long time. they denied there was any connection between football and cte. now they openly acknowledge it and they do everything they can within the nature of the game, equipment changes, the protocols put in place, et cetera. but as someone once said, the biggest problem with football is

football. it's the very nature of the game. injuries and other sports are by and large incidental, although obviously they happen. in football, it's just fundamental. it's a contact sport on every single play. and the subconcussive hits, especially the linemen. linemen collide on every play. that doesn't result in a diagnosable concussion, but there are subconcussive hits on every play. cumulatively, that takes a toll. as exciting as it is, with all the strategies and the generational connections and the campus atmosphere and all that stuff, that's undeniable. but so too is the nature of the game. >> it's true. some 2 million kids play youth and high school football. neurosurgeons tell us the real risk is from the cumulative hits to the head, whether or not they're concussive. you've been vocal in your criticism of the nfl.

why do you think it is that lower levels of the game have been slower to change? >> well, they may not have the resources to bring the medical personnel to bear and to bring experts to bear. but the research shows that the earlier you start playing and if you continue to play -- you start playing at a pee wee level and through high school and into college, the earlier you start and therefore the longer you play, the greater your chance of having some sort of lasting damage somewhere down the road. it's just a fact. >> we had -- my wife and i had dinner with a family whose son plays lacrosse, and he had a concussion. they recommended this thing called a q collar. i'm not sure if you have heard of it. >> i have. >> it's this thing that pinches your neck and uses the technology woodpeckers use as an extra degree of protection for the brain. but you haven't heard of it? >> no, but i'm not an expert in

either area. but a woodpecker must by nature have something within its skull that allows it to just peck away constantly. i guess we can't even keep track of how many times because it moves at such a blurring rate of speed. but their brains or their heads or skulls are constructed differently than a human. but i get the concept. >> as my people often say, it couldn't hurt. bob costas, thank you so much. it's always good to see you. there's a new film out tomorrow. it's set in 1960s america, and yet it's still -- even though it was set in the '60s, it couldn't be more topical. one of the stars of the film -- the film is called "call jane" -- is about to join us. the movie depicts the fight for safe abortions in the pre-roe v. wade era. it was filmed before we ended up in a post-roe v. wade era. actress and director and

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issues motivating them to vote in the midterm elections. abortion, which is now fully or partially banned in 15 states. activist networks are now beginning to pop up around the country with the goal of helping women in those states get access to abortion. this is not the first time the u.s. has seen that type of movement. in fact, there is a film that comes out tomorrow about what life was like pre-roe v. wade. it stars elizabeth banks and sigourney weaver. the movie was, in fact, filmed before the federal law that roe v. wade, the supreme court precedent, was overturned. this film is called "call jane," which is about what was the jane collective, the real life underground operation in chicago that facilitated more than 10,000 abortions in that city. elizabeth banks plays joy, a conservative suburban housewife, whose pregnancy threatens her life because of a heart

condition. joy is eventually helped by the jane collective in her darkest hour. here's a clip. >> someone didn't get the chills afterward, but it passes quickly. this is for your cramps. it gets worse. >> so, which one of you is jane? >> nobody's jane. >> we're all jane. >> virginia started it. >> help yourself. >> i didn't mean to. a friend called. i found her a safe doctor, and then her friend called. and then her friend's friend. and then here we are. >> elizabeth, congratulations on the movie. i know you a little bit, and i know that's not you so i was very taken with how powerful the acting was. the movie is about pre-roe v.

wade america where women cannot get abortions even in a progressive city like chicago. now, of course, we are actually in post-roe v. wade america, so it's more relevant than ever. did you have a feeling roe v. wade would be overturned when you agreed to make this film? >> you know, whatever the motivations were for making the movie 3 1/2 years ago when i first signed on, this film has taken on such an incredible urgency at this moment in time, and it's a real reflection of the world pre-roe in which abortions were not safe and legal, so they put so many women's lives in danger. so many women were in desperate situations, and that's the america we're looking at right now at least in half of the states. and if the gop had their way, everywhere. >> right, so i mean you can't watch this film which deals with women and girls having this secretive network where you're

supposed to call jane and then you get hooked up with a bunch of individuals without thinking, like, this might not actually just be the future, this might be the present right now. >> it is the present right now for so many women especially in states like mississippi, louisiana, alabama. you know, this is where abortion funds come into play, where the bridged alliance comes into play. these are organizations right now helping women access abortion where it remains safe and legal, helping women pay for child care, travel expenses. it's a real economic injustice forced birth, and i think we can't remind voters enough about the economic realities of forced birth. every woman -- you know, the majority of women who access abortion care in america are already moms, so they're already very well aware of what abortion physically -- sorry, what

pregnancy physically means to them and what raising children means. and these are women who are making family plans. and i think it's, you know, such an economic issue for so many people, the expense of raising kids. >> one of the most moving scenes and striking scenes in the film is when joy griffin and her husband go before this board and this all-male board debate, discuss, vote on whether or not they're going to allow her to terminate her pregnancy, which as i said, could kill her. and the board acts as if she's not even sitting there. tell me about filming that scene. >> yeah. you know, it's -- i think so many women can relate to the notion right now of feeling like the decision when and with whom and if to have kids is no longer their own. i mean that is the case for

women in more than a dozen states right now in america. and i think that, you know, nobody -- nobody wants lindsey graham or clarence thomas in their doctor's office with them when they're making this decision, but that's where we're at right now. you know, a group of -- a small group of politicians making decisions for millions and millions of american women and families and parents. and it's -- it was that feeling, that oppressive feeling of not being in control of my own destiny once especially now that dobbs has happened but that really made that scene feel real to me. >> so you're obviously a supporter of abortion rights and you're very passionate about it. do you think this film is for people who agree with you on abortion rights? is it for people in the middle of the road? is it for people who might even disagree with you? who do you see as the audience?

>> you know, it's a really entertaining film, jake. i know that you saw it. i bet you laughed. >> there's some funny moments, definitely. >> thank you. we really felt like the character of joy was almost an invitation to women. you know, she's very relatable. she's a woman who never thinks she's going to have to walk the path as she does, never thinks she'll need to access abortion care in her life and is pretty judgmental of people who do. but once she needs that care and meet the janes, her sense of empathy for people who have to walk that walk, her sense of care for what that means really comes alive. and i think if anything i want anybody who sees the film to take away from it a greater sense of empathy for a path that they may never walk. >> all right, well, you're great in this new film called "jane."

thanks for joining us. >> thank you, jake. thanks for having me. >> and we'll be right back.

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thank you so much for joining me tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok @jaketapper. tomorrow we're going to have two big guests. dr. anthony fauci. we'll talk about guidance from health officials being politicized and much more. and also talk to the actor f. abraham in his most recent credits in the new season of white lotus. that's tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. our coverage now continues with the wonderful, wonderful laura coates and the awesome -- totally awesome allison camerota. those are movie lines. >> what's it from? >> ridge-mind high, the thing with the coffee, awesome, totall