see that every child was protected in its mother's womb from conception to birth. that is the policy we support. that is what we are for. the overturning of roe v. wade did not usher in that policy. when it did do was give the states the opportunity for the first time since 19 73 to enact policy that reflects the values and beliefs and policy views of their citizens, whether through initiative and referendum, through direct democracy, or through the actions of their legislators and elected officials. since then, we have lost a lot more than we have won. we found out the hard way that roe v. wade being overturned is not everything we hoped it would be. we will learn from this, we will get better. the truth is that initiative and

referendum has never been a favorable environment for the pro-life movement. we have never been able to win an initiative or referendum. you may remember when arnold schwarzenegger qualified all of those initiatives when he was trying to bypass the legislature when he was governor in california, one of the initiatives he qualified was parental consent. i will do a survey in almost any state including california and 70% to 80% of voters will say a minor child should not be able to get an abortion without at least their parents being notified. that is a 70% to 80% versus 25% issue. put it on the ballot and it loses every time. why? the same reason school choice tests well in polls and then loses on the ballots.

once you take on the pro-abortion lobby or the teachers unions, you will not get a free and fair fight. it is not like a pole where you ask people where they stand. they will drop 10, 20, $50 billion on your head. you will be able to spend 3 million to $5 million. you will get outspent five to one at a minimum, may be 10 to one. planned parenthood will spend an unlimited amount of money on this stuff and they will beat you. that is what is going on. the legislative environment is our strength. the initiative and referendum is their strength. they are running out of states to do this. at a certain point, like in georgia, you cannot qualify such an amendment to the constitution without the legislature passing it, which we control. they will never be able to do that in georgia as long as we have the legislature. at some point fairly soon they

will run out of states where they can do this and that it will be our turn. we are also through our legislative strength, we will be chipping away at their i&r victories and we already are and there is nothing that prevents us from doing that. this will go on for a while. as i said earlier i do not think it has hurt trump and with few exceptions i do not think it hurt many of our congressional or senate candidates in 2024. i think -- i would not welcome another half billion dollars in abortion ads. that is not something i would want to invite or welcome. i think they will have to come up with another strategy. they just lost every battleground state and they are either losing or nearly losing every battleground senate race.

when you have candidates like tammy baldwin who up until now has won pretty easily and all you are running on is abortion and you nearly lose, you may want to re-examine your strategy. that will be up to them. thank you very much for coming. we will be sending out a news release on this survey. we can certainly get you a copy of the slide deck if you will be helpful in doing your stories and we look forward to talking to you in the future. thank you very much for coming. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

>> coming up on c-span, president biden will speak to the nation for the first time since the 2024 election. live coverage on his remarks from the white house rose garden when they get underway on c-span. >> expecting president biden to address the nation about the 2024 election results this morning from the white house is what has been reported. we will take you there on c-span when that happens. it was yesterday afternoon that vice president kamala harris gave her official concession speech. there is a portion of what she had to say. >> now i know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now.

i get it. results of this election. earlier today i spoke with president-elect trump and congratulated him on his victory. i also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition. and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power. a fundamental principle of american democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. that principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny. and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. at the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a

president or a party, but to the constitution of the united states. and loyalty to our conscience and to our god. my allegiance to all three is why i am here to say, while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign. host: vice president kamala harris yesterday. that was from howard university, her alma mater, here in washington, d.c. she talked about the transition. transition efforts already underway by the incoming trump administration. the story from politico noting that the trump campaign team turned into transition mode yesterday, huddled in west palm beach. trump's adviser hurried ironing out transition plans, particularly how to handle the

questions about people and policies that will help shape a second trump white house. after his election night rout, trump advisors have made clear his day one priorities include executive orders on border, security, and oil drilling and other measures to promote energy independence. with congress potentially under full republican control, trump team is emboldened, they write, to push aspects of his america first agenda as soon as he re-enters office. unclear officially yet who will control the house of representatives. republicans have a distinct advantage with 38 states, 38 races yet to be decided. as a reminder, heading into this election, democrats would need to net four seats to take control of the house. republicans have so far netted four seats. and again, the playing field is getting shorter, just 38 races left on the house level. that's our c-span results map that you can check yourself and click around. on the senate side, there's four

senate races yet to be called. republicans will have at least 52 seats in the in the. we're talking about all of this this morning, spending all three hours of our program today getting your reaction, your thoughts, a day after the official announcement and official concession from kamala harris on the 2024 campaign and donald trump moving forward. this is engineer any detroit, michigan, a democrat up first this morning. jerry, go ahead. caller: good morning, john, and greetings yet again from detroit. being a 59-year-old black man, i want to commend kamala harris for the job well done. she gave it her all. it might not have been the result that i was hoping for, but at least i hope it will make her a whole -- her and those of

us who support her, i think a whole lot stronger. to take on donald trump and his bigoted supporters. also would like to say, we have to take very seriously one of donald trump's more scarier threats, and that is to pardon the people who attacked our capitol nearly four years ago. i want to add that i hope that never happens, because it will be a slap in the face to all of those brave capitol police officers who defended the building from those trump supporters. and one last thing, if i may, before i go. to those trump supporters who want to compare january 6 and black lives matter, it wasn't black lives matter that rioted, but those were trump supporters

who attacked the building. it wasn't f.b.i. or b.l.m. or antifa. host: stick around for one second. i want to show two headlines and bounce the second one off you. first, on january 6 defendants, this from today's metro section of "the washington post," the election of donald trump brings hope, the headline notes, donald trump has promised to pardon at least some of them. that's in "the washington post" today. but this from "usa today," you mentioned that you're a middle-aged black man. you used the term bigoted when referring to donald trump's campaign. this headline, a shift in black and latino voters was key for trump this election cycle. he won support from about 13% of black voters nationwide and 45% of latino voters, according to exit polls. how do you explain that, jerry? caller: well, my answer to that is it's not the overwhelming majority of black and latino voters. you have to keep in mind that in

terms of demographics, the overwhelming majority of donald trump's supporters are still predominantly white, and for me, as a black man, i feel that those white trump supporters do have personal animus and hatred towards those who are different from them. host: that's jerry in detroit, michigan. this is kelly in ohio, republican. good morning. caller: hey, john. hey, i called on october 7, there were so many things i would like to say. only get to call in 12 times a year. this is something really heavy on my heart, john, for all americans, i pray that trump does something about it. supposedly there's over 300,000 children missing. now, john, i'm telling you, this is breaking my heart. what's going on? why can't we get these people who have done this and these kids and find them? john, i'm telling you, this is killing a lot of us in this

country, because these children are innocent. who did this? i know when trump was 4,000 children, but he made sure that they were safe and brought back to where -- now under this administration, john, what do you say about that, please, respond to what i'm saying. host: that's kelly in ohio. this is jeff in new york, independent. good morning. caller: good morning, john. trump had said on tv that he intends to appoint r.f.k. jr. in a common position to public health. i would like bring it to the attention of everybody that mr. kennedy is a known vaccine conspiracy theorist. he's responsible for a terrible situation that occurred in samoa. i would like to quickly read from the annenberg public policy center, a few episodes from that

episode. this is what's in store to scale in the united states if kennedy was to become secretary of h.h.s. or f.d.a. or some other agency. kennedy also played a part in one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory. in 2018, two instances in american samoa started when a nurse accidentally prepared the combine m.m.r. vaccine with expired muscle rec lance ant rather than water. the samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccine program, and anti-vaccine advocates, including kennedy and his nonprofit, flood the area with misinformation. the vaccine rate dropped to a dangerously low level. the next year, measles was on the island, the disease tore through the population, sicking more than 5,700 people and killing 83 children. host: jeff, did you happen to

see r.f.k. on -- i think it was on msnbc yesterday. he gave an interview. here's the headline from that interview. after

as a 75-year-old black combat military veteran who sacrificed 23 years of life for this country, i know systemic racism when it is employed. here is what i've have for all of the prognosticators. there is no place for people with racist dna. that is all i have to say. host: richard, savannah,

georgia. republican, good morning. caller: i have been watching since 1979. i am the guy that asked about brian seltzer. i want to say the first thing i wish trump would do on the first date is go to the white house press briefing room and get rid of all of the media because for years they have been lying to the people and replace them with podcasts, which is the modern way. replace them with podcasts like joe rogan. he was a very liberal man. when he endorsed trump on monday that took him over because 25 million people of 20 to 30-year-old man. i would like for the media to be out of the white house press briefing room.

they have lied to people and misrepresented for so long and we need to get like megyn kelly's podcast, rogan, tucker carlson's podcast to do real news. the people that watch msnbc and cnn for the last decade, i have noticed and i really appreciate you and the people that watch those two channels especially are too stupid to know they are stupid. host: when you say get rid of the media and bring in the podcasters, what are they? are they media personalities? how would you describe what they do? caller: they just literally talk to people and tell you the truth. it is not their opinion. they are listening, trump went on for three hours with joe rogan. rogan is the most liberal guy in

the world but they talked for three hours and we got to understand each side. megyn kelly, even though she worked for fox, she is wide open . she was a trump aide or and now look at her. rfk, democrat. all of these people on the democrats side that sided with trump to make america great. the people that have a podcast look at the audiences they have. 30 million, 25 million. right now we do not need cnn and msnbc. they just lie to people daily. host: the two people you mentioned gave their opinion about who they thought voters should vote for and it was donald trump. you said they do not give their opinion. you think they do not give their opinion over the course of their podcasts? whether that is a good thing or bad thing is up to you. caller: you think msnbc and cnn

and abc and cbs abc give their opinion on a daily basis to mark of course they do. everybody has an opinion. i would like to change the price -- i would like to change the press briefing room because for four years they have attacked trump daily and we have listened to nothing but soft from cbs and nbc the lady that was the white house press secretary for joe biden. it is ridiculous. host: what you think those press briefings will look like in a second trump administration if he does not do what you are suggesting, if it is the media as it stands now, may be a few changes in seats in the briefing room. what do you think those look like? do you think donald trump shows up in the briefing room as much as he did in the first trump administration? caller: i appreciate you asking me that because i do not ever want to see him in that press briefing room except maybe the

first day to say to the people that have been lying about me, my family, destroying americans minds, you are out. i don't care if it is fox, i don't care who it is. the media has destroyed this country's minds and thoughts. i do not want to see donald trump and that press briefing room. i want him working to take care of you and me. host: thanks for the call from georgia. talk you again down the road. this is an in jamaica, new york. democrat. caller: i happen to be an 80 something-year-old african-american woman and i am very sad. this is life and it has to go on. i was hoping that little girls would wake up and see we could have a woman president and unfortunately that is not the way it is.

america -- this is sad that we do not have a woman president. to me it is really sad because we should have a woman president at this time in american history. why should we have a man president? i am 80 something years old. i would hope before i leave this earth we would have a woman president and it is sad that we have had two women who have ran for president who truly have been qualified to be a president and america is such a racist society in one of the main reasons that she did not win his because she was a woman, she was a woman of color, and that is one of the main reasons she did not win this presidency. it is very sad. robbie: you think will -- host:

do you think we will have a woman president anytime soon? caller: no. i have lived in america all of my life and i have always said -- people say how great this country is and i say america could be great but it is not that great because of the fact of its racism. host: what you think it would take to have a woman president? caller: america is too racist. when we go back from slavery to what they did to the indians, america is a very racist country. i am almost 85 years old. you look at the history of this country -- america is a very racist place and this is all i know. i grew up in the south and the jim crow era. america is very racist.