much broader ecosystem. until the political right and republican party decides to expunge alex jones and his ilk from their broader political movement, there are just going to be other alex jones is, even if and for wars is destroyed. or maybe bankrupt by this lawsuit. a heroic effort on behalf of the sandy hook families, but the republican party and political right need to decide that every alex jones out there has no part in organized political dialogue. >> senator chris murphy of connecticut, thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> thank you. >> that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. good evening, alex. think a shot in the arm to people who think that liars like jones need to be held accountable. man, seeing him today on his show saying we're goingis to ke talking about parkland and uvalde and they can't stop us

and the war effectively goes on is devastating. >> a decade later. >> but sometimes they keep turning forward. thank you, chris, as always. thank you to you at home for joining us. we have a lot to get to. today right-wing conspiracy monger alex jones was ordered to pay a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary, vicious lies he spread about the sandy hook massacre. we'll be joined by the lawyer that won the case for the sandy hook families. we'll be talking with the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her race is super close. one of handful of contests that can determine senate control. democrats understand that. they're making a huge last minute investment in her candidacy. sherry beasley will join us later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight. donald trump's mar-a-lago document scandal. in august, when the fbi executed a search warrant at trump's beach club, they found over 100 classified documents and 11,000

other documents stashed all over the place. when justice department officials visited a couple months before. a trump lawyer told them all documents trump carted down from the white house were kept in a basement storm room. and that was bad enough given the storage room was beneath a public area of mar-a-lago and the sensitive documents were protected by nothing but a locked closet door. but when the fbi searched the club later, they found several batches of documents in trump's personal office, including three classified documents stuffed in trump's desk. now when that news broke, outside legal analysts thought it was meaningful that documents had been found in trump's private quarters because it suggested he, donald trump, might have somehow been involved in the placement, the squirrelling away of those documents around mar-a-lago or that trump had at the very least knowing that those documents with are not where they were

supposed to be. to that end, it soon emerged in the justice department's court filings the leads in the department felt the need to search a former president's home is becauseme the documents were hidden and moved after they subpoenaed trump to hand them over. they believe this in part because the department had also subpoenaed surveillance camera footage from mar-a-lago and on that footage, they saw documents being moved. but the question always remained. why were they being moved?d? specifically, who was directing this movement? the squirrelling away of these documents after the justice department literally subpoenaed them? tonight we have reporting from "the washington post." a trump employee told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at mar-a-lago at the specific direction of the former president. agents gathered witness accounts that after trump advisors

received a subpoena in may for classified document that's remained at mar-a-lago, trump told people to move boxes to the residence. that was corroborated by the security c camera footage which showed people moving the boxes. the employee is working with the justice department and interviewed multiple times by federal agents.in in the first interview the witness denied handling sensitive documents. agents decided to reinterview the witness and the witness's story changed dramatically. the witness described moving boxes at trump's request. the witness is now considered a key part ofes the mar-a-lago investigation offering details about the alleged actions and instructions to subordinates attempt to e an thwart demands of classified documents. i can tell you that a source familiar with the matter tells

nbc news tonight "the washington post" reporting is accurate. the former president of the united states appears to have defied a court ordered subpoena for personal records including classified information and ordered his staff to hide those documents from law enforcement officials. boy, when you put that way, it sure sounds an awful lot like potential obstruction of justice. but i'm not a lawyer. fortunately, my first guest tonight is. joining us now is barry burg. he served aimpeachment council on the impeachment trial of donald trump. so how incriminating is this? is this effectively the smoking gun in terms of obstruction charges? >> thisf new reported evidences a game changer. you have a subpoena calling for the s classified documents, couldn't have been clearer.

then you have videotape of those documents being moved to the former president's personal residence. and now you have a witness seen on the videotape who says he, of course, did that at the behest of donald trump. when you add to that the representations made that documents were produced, what makes this significant, it is not only such aca clear case of obstruction of justice, but it puts trump at the center of it. and i will tell you, obstruction cases are so strong. they not only support bringing that charge but they butress and make it easier to bring a vie -- violation of the espionage act. >> how do they work together? ing. >> the espionage act requires taking document that's you're not entitled to. classified documents, keeping them, hiding them or giving them to others. the fact heor is now hiding the documents, people hideg things because they'reng shown consciousness of guilty but he is also hiding classified

documents. that can be in violation of the espionage act. so if you're the department and thinking should we bring this case, wait a second, we have reports this is true and that helps prove our espionage act. when you add to that his public statement that's they're his documents, you have a very powerful case you can make throughma videotape which very hard to impeach as well as trump's own words. and we have reports of multiple witnesses in this. there is something, i'm not a fortune teller, i'll may one for this moment, this witness that they're talking about in the t "washington post" article initially said that no directions were given. this person denied the fact that he may have directed the movement of the documents. that person has since change third story and affirmed this new, you know, time line.

it is meaningful that the witness changed his or her story? beyond the credibility question, could it imply a pressure campaign on the part of trump? >> it is meaningful. they changed the story. quet is, is there corroboration of what the witness is saying now? that is powerful evidence corroborating the story. the fact we know the documents include classified documents, it shows that the witness's current testimony bears out what we know independently. the story doesn't rise or fall on what he's saying. you have the other evidence that shows what he is saying now is the truth. >> barry, it also raises the question of why? right? he did these things. we still don't know the answer as to why. and i do think this kind of line of argument or defense that trump was kind of an

absent-minded hoarder, he just took stuff. now weju have this accounting tt he directed specific boxes to be taken out of this closet storage and movedof into his private residence. do you think the justice department is asking himself or knowsng potentially why those documents in particular were the ones trump wanted? >> t alex, how much time do you have? remember, iyo served as counsel for the first impeachment too. and donald trump is a recidivist. he commits crimes because he believes he's above the claw. whether he ises obstructing a russia investigation, peaceful transition of power or keeps documents, he doesn't think the law applies to him. and donald trump has been known to be a proponent of many falsehoods including about the election. >> you don't need to prove a motive. in this case, can you see donald trump said, they're my documents.th i want them.do

i don't care that it hurts the national security. so the he overall theme is donald trump once again is puttingru his own personal interests over the interests of national security. if the reports arehe true that these go to sort of the most sensitive issues, critical to the defense of our country, he's keeping them because he wants to, that is enough to have a power if will case for a jury. politically, a motive would potentially ease merrick garland'sck path. the doj has to move forward on these charges. >> i have to believe that no one is above the law. the evidence and reports true if appear to be is as powerful a case you'll ever see. as a criminal defense lawyer, i have clients indicted on a fraction of this evidence. so if the doj is going to bring those cases this is a case they have tois bring. i would say about politics, the department is not supposed to be there to make political

decisions.po supposed to makel decisions abt justice. if the evidence is that t powerful, including that he did it, now you say motive. the motive he is wanted to keep it. you no heis that because he repeatedly took stepsat to keep it, to not care that they were required to be turned over and he publicly stated the quiet part out loud. that they're mine and i want to keep them and ie don't care ift could hurt the nation. do you think precludes him on january 6th? we had someone that thought mar-a-lago was the case that garland would indict on. he can feasibly indict a former president, by the way, something that's never been done before in american history, can he do that in two cases? >> it is inconceivable he could do it but just as inconceivable he would commit as many crimes as this former president did. i'll tell you, the powerful case to bring is the january 6 case. you don't need to charge him

with seditious conspiracy as manufacture -- many of the extremist groups have been charged emwith. the evidence is overwhelming. i argue if the most important issue is terrorists, now you have people in less than a month who are trying to get elected to office on the platform that they are going to do exactly what donald trump did. they're going to interfere with election. and if donald trump violated laws,tr making false statements insighting a mob to attack congress, all part of a conspiracy to interfere with that proceeding, if the department doesn't fwla case, all of these people who are running on the platform that they're going do what donald trump didgo will feel that theye above the law. while it's a lot to charge a former president with two crimes, if the evidence is overwhelming, isn't it

inconceivable they don't charge him? >> what is the time line for this? given, you know, the realities of eapolitics, i mean election calendar is what it is. i'm actually thinking of a 2024 presidential a election. when would expect, given where we are in the mar-a-lago case that department of justice would move on this if they're going to issue an amendment? >> there is a nonbinding principle that it could be effective. clearly nothing is happening in the next month. i think it's a question of the evidence. there's two years until theue nt election. but you don't want to interfere with the selection of a candidate and the like.he the department should make the case on the evidence. if they believe they have the evidence to bring and prove a case that the former president is guilty of these crimes, they should bring it as soon after the next election as they're able to bring that case. >> i'm not going to ask you about the documents the department of justice that trump is holding on to somewhere in trump you toter. this is obviously been an uphill

climb to get those important classified documents back. barry burke, served as chief impeachment counsel in the impeachment trial of former president donald trump. thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. we're going have even more on trump's trouble this is hour. january 6th committee prepares for the final public hearing tomorrow. in junepu we heard some explosi testimony from an aide to de trump's chief of staff that sai trump knew that members of the crowd gathering on january 6 to hear him speak were armed. and tonight we have reporting that the january 6th committee has the receipts to corroborate that story.e we'll talk to the reporter who broke that news just ahead. stay right here.po (woman) oh. oh! hi there. you're jonathan, right? the 995 plan! yes, from colonial penn. your 995 plan fits my budget just right. excuse me? aren't you jonathan from tv, that 995 plan? yes, from colonial penn. i love your lifetime rate lock.

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tomorrow the january 6 committee will hold a public hearing for the first time in months. it may be their last hearing ever. and while some of the hearing is likely to be essentially the committee's closing arguments as to what they've learned about the attack on the capitol and donald trump's role in it, we do also expect them to reveal some new evidence. in particular, we're expecting news about the actions of the secret service on january 6. to date "washington post" reports that the hearing is expected to highlight newly obtained secret service records showing how president donald trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that day and he

still sought to stoke the conflict according to three people briefed on the records. you'll recall that during a previous select committee hearing, former white house staffer cassidy hutchison testified she overheard he wanted to allow armed members of the crowd into the ellipse. he instructed secret service to take away the magnets they were using to screen people for dangerous weapons. >> i heard him say, you know, i think that they have weapons. i don't care. they're not here to hurt me. take the f'ing mags away. let the people in. take the f'ing mags away. >> he was told they couldn't come through the mags because they had weapons? >> correct. >> and his response was to say they can march through the capitol from the ellipse? >> something to the effect of take the f'ing mags away.

they're not here to hurt me. let me people in. they can march the capitol after the rally is over. they can march from the ellipse. take the f'ing mags away, then they can march to the capitol. >> "the washington post" reports and he could on rates that testimony. they also reveal other internal e-mails likely to reveal the hearing further buttress accounts about staff members warning trump about the risk and reality as he continued to press nervous secret service agents to take him to the capitol to join his supporters marching there. the three people said. those e-mails were reportedly showed that secret service agents tried to frantically secure trump a path to go to the capitol with his supporters only to be rebuffed by d.c. police. in other words, the president knew his supporters were armed. he wanted to let them keep those weapons, and he wanted to personally urge them to keep

marching to the capitol. that is not all we're expecting to hear about tomorrow. the post reports that the secret service e-mails obtained by the committee could throw a sharp spotlight on tony ornado. according to testimony from cassidy hutchison, he relaid to hutchison explosive account on his plan to storm the capitol that day. now with the new correspondence that they obtained, by tomorrow we may have conclusive evidence about what exactly donald trump was trying to do and with whom on january 6th. joining us now is jacqueline alamaney for "the washington post" and one reporter who broke this story. jackie, thank you so much for being here tonight to talk us through this. >> thanks for having me. >> so first off, can you tell us more about how the committee got its hands on these secret

service -- the secret service correspondence? it sounds like it's a lot of material and up until this point there is a real question about how cooperative the service was being with this investigation. >> yeah. that is a really good place to start. as my colleague and i outlined in our piece, it was sort of an ironic twist of events. the committee came to believe, the especially i had the lawmakers on the committee investigating the january 6 attack that the secret service ultimately was not being cooperative. they came to this conclusion after they almost stumbled across some of the radio frequencies that they ultimately used in the second to last hearing that showed an anonymous secret service agent raising serious alarms about the violence that he was seeing on the capitol. after that moment, the committee then realized they were still missing quite a few materials.

especially these text messages that have been, out of all the communications, most under the spotlight. although our reporting also told us that the committee ultimately was not able to obtain these deleted text messages from key players, people like tony or nad yoe during this time period. but at the end of the day, dhs finally started taking a more cooperative posture and delivered 1.5 million documents, microsoft teams chats, e-mails, text messages beyond what they asked for. so the committee really has had a plethora of new communications and documents to piece through to create a better, more cohesive and detailed picture of what exactly happened in the lead-up to january 6 on that day in and in the aftermath. >> i still think it surprises a lot of people that the secret

service may not have been initially cooperative with what was one of the greatest security breaches in our nation's history. how much do you think events of recent weeks, for example, the oath keeper's trial, the notion that stewart rhodes may have had a direct line to a secret service agent in the runup to january 6, how much do you think the news of that, the evidence there, the mounting scrutiny over the choice to wipe all of the phones carried by secret service agents, how much that external pressure ultimately led to the agency cooperating with the january 6th committee? do you have a sense that is going on internally as a hand ringing about what to do? >> yeah. and we also know that the secretary was pretty alarmed at the lack of cooperation. at the end of the day though, secret service is sort of its own entity within the department of homeland security. and the former president has regained this representation for

becoming extremely close and developing this kind of unusual, untraditional relationships with secret service agents. for example, tony ornado in particular was an agent who worked for the secret service, who then went back to work, who then became trump administration official and worked directly for the president in a political position. this was something that was really unprecedented. and i think raised a lot of questions and alarms about whether or not he was able to do his job of protecting the president while also serving in a political role and trying to appease the former president. the same with bobby engel. a lot of the relationships have been scrutinized as these new details about the secret service's actions on the day of january 6th. i think i wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow we do see some potential communications that go

beyond tony arenado and those that are less sympathetic towards those in the federal government. >> where do things stand with tony arenado testifying? there is so much confusion about what happened on january 6 between the secret service and donald trump. >> yeah. right now where tony arenado stands is he is no longer a government employee. he resigned the day he was supposed to conduct an interview with the department of homeland security inspector general as part of an internal investigation into his actions with regards to january 6th. and he also has yet to appear for another january 6 meeting. he did initially appear for an

interview earlier in the spring where he couldn't recall a lot of answers to questions that other witnesses were able to recall. as one committee source phrased it to me eloquently, these guys, referring to tony arenado and bobby engel, trump's secret service detail is they were not being honest. what we're going to see tomorrow potentially is more holes being poked in the responses that they were giving to investigators in their closed door depositions. new evidence, information, communication that shows that they didn't -- they weren't being truthful about not being able to recall certain things. and that their relationships with people like cassidy hutchison and other witnesses who the committee has heard from were actually much much closer and trusted than they have led on. >> i mean, to say nothing of the fate of tony arenado, it could be a real problem for the

integrity of the secret service if that is what we learn tomorrow. jackie, congressional investigations reporter for the "washington post," great to see you. thank you for making time tonight. >> thanks, alex. >> up next, judgement day. as a jury orders conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay nearly a billion dollars to the families who have been harassed for nearly ten years by sandy hook truthers who hung on alex jones' every word. the attorney who won that massive judgement joins us next. massive judgement joins us next.

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sandy hook has inside job written all over it. it is a synthetic, completely fake with actors in my view manufactured. all i know is that the official story of sandy hook has more holes in it than swiss cheese. >> 26 people died in that connecticut school shooting in 2012. 20 of them were first graders. all of those victims had families. and those families thanks to jones' lies not only lost a loved one but have faced a decade of harassment and threats from jones' followers. all while alex jones himself has profited. today a jury in connecticut

unanimously ordered that alex jones and his company pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight victims from that shooting. that comes on top of the $49 million jones has been ordered to pay in a similar case in texas. amazingly jones was live on his show when the verdict came out and despite hearing exactly how he hurt the families, a staggering amount of pain and anguish described in detail, in detail over the course of the trial, despite that fact, and the fact that he now faces a billion dollars in damages, alex jones still believes this is all just one big joke. >> the judge looks pleased. probably $200 million? i don't have any money. it's all a big joke. >> yeah! >> $55 million. >> yeah! >> $48 million.

>> yeah! whoo! >> $28,800,000. >> get those numbers up. >> that's better. >> get those numbers up. >> $73,600,000. >> yeah. if we don't hit a billion, i'm not happy. i want to be the billion dollar man. they believe they're get all this money. we're not scared and we're not going away and we're not going to stop. literally for hundreds of thousands of dollars, i can keep them in court for years. i can appeal this stuff. we can stand up against this travesty against the billions of dollars they want. it's a joke. so please go to our website and get vitamin mineral fusion, get x three, get all the great products that are there that keep us on air. >> no remorse. no regret. just straight to plugging the

powder and supplements can you see on the website. alex jones is claiming he is nearly broke. he said he'll appeal this decision to keep it tied up in the courts while he fundraises and sell his junk speed limits to followers in attempts to make profits off national tragedies. >> they want to scare everybody away from freedom and scare us away from questioning uvalde and what really happened there or parkland or any other event. guess what? we're not scared and we're not going away. we're not going to stop. >> joining us now is chris matay, the lead attorney who argued the case in court. he joins me now. thank you for joining me. congratulations on finding some measure of closure for the families who are struggling with this for unfathomable decade of their lives. >> thanks very much for having me. appreciate you. >> what of alex jones' contention that he can tie this up in court forever more, are the families going to see any of

this money in reality? >> well, you know, i saw your lead in there. i saw alex jones say he's not afraid. we know exactly what he is feeling on the inside. he's terrified. and although he may see this verdict momentarily to make money, he is going to face a bankruptcy judge. we're going to enforce this verdict no matter how long it takes. one of the things alex jones tried to do throughout this litigation is conceal the extent to which he profited from thinks lies about sandy hook. but his finances are going to come under a whole new round of scrutiny in the bankruptcy court. and really whatever assets he has and we think there is substantial but whatever assets he has. these families are going to chase him to ground and enforce every cent of this verdict against him. >> these are compensatory damages. that's right? the families could still sue for punitive damages. is it possible this figure could go up?

>> it's actually very likely. yes in, connecticut, the first round of this trial that was presented to a jury was for compensatory damages for defamation and emotional distress. there will be a second round just over the next month where the judge will decide punitive damages under connecticut's unfair trade practices act. we brought claims against him that his corrupt business practice hurt these families and he profited from it. and she will decide after hearing all the evidence in the trial whether punitive damages are appropriate here on top of the verdict that jury returned today. and the punitive damages have no cap. and so it is possible that within a month or morale ex-jones will be facing even more than the nearly billion dollar verdict he faces today. >> i think a lot of people want to hear that this will foreclose him from the ability to ever do what he did to the families of sandy hook. but you heard him in that clip we heard talked about uvalde and

parkland. i mean how much of a deterrent can this be in the long road for alex jones specifically? obviously, bankrupting the man is one method of trying to stop him. but really how to end his reign of lies and to some degree terror he inflicted on the families that lost most precious thing you can lose. >> we thought one of the most compelling moments in the trial is when we were able to present a screen shot of the website. he was inviting his audience to fill out a survey in which they would predict whether the next false flag staged event would be a mass shooting. it showed in real time that the man is willing to inflict this type of harassment and fear campaign on the next families to go through the tragedy that our families went through. and we thought that the jury would find that especially galling and something that required deterence. what he know is that alex jones is motivated by profit.

he's not motivated by truth or any of the stuff that he actually says. what he's trying to do is prey on his audience's fears to get them to buy products. and so what i think this verdict represents is a whole new incentive structure for alex jones and people like him. he's not going to get rich off this any longer. because these families are going to make him pay for the harm that he inflicted and hopefully put him in a position where he's not able to do it again. so we think that this is a historic verdict. we hope it will reset incentives for alex jones and people like him. >> i wonder, chris, since you spent so much time seeing this man in the courtroom and there were so many emotional outbursts, i mean, his character was on such full display. did you get a sense of what lies beneath the cruelty and the bluster? i think it is hard for a lot of us to imagine being as monstrous and as monstrously cruel as alex

jones to look at the victims, the families of victims of the children and say i will inflict more pain and more cruelty on your life. i will make sure another kind of evil is visited upon you. i mean did you get a sense of who this man actually is under all of this? >> alex jones is a broken, fearful little man on the inside. and he is not happy unless other people are as afraid as he is. and that's really what underlies his cruelty. i mean we showed that he and his employees were aware, very, very early on, of the impact their lives were having on families that were grieving and they didn't care. they were seeing the audience numbers and profits go up and up and up. and they were willing to inflict this kind of cruelty and pain no matter because they were making money off of it. and because i think they saw

that it was working within their audience. they were engaging people who were afraid, who were resentful, who were mistrustful. and that's who alex jones raemy -- really is on the inside. that said, the man does like his money. and so this type of lawsuit, i think, is going to have a real impact on him and, you know, it's important to remember that this verdict was returned against him personally and his company. and the verdict was for intentional misconduct. the type of conduct that is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. so he's going to be on the hook for this for a very, very long time. and we're going to make sure that he feels it. >> chris matay, thank you so much for your time and for your efforts trying to correct very serious wrongs, chris. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you very much. we have more to come tonight including the democrat who is hoping to flip a republican

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every senate race is the most important senate race in the country right now. democrats try to hold on to the majority and republicans try to win it back. and one of the senate seats that republicans have to hold on to in order to do just that is in

north carolina. senator richard berr's long announced retirement leaves the state with an open seat. that race is coming down to democratic canned sherry beasley and ted bud. despite a deeply polarized congress, richard burn is calling tom till is, from time to time, voted with democrats on gun reform, infrastructure, and certifying the 2020 election. but representative ted budd is not that kind of lawmaker. he is one of the most conservative members in the house with a 98% lifetime score from heritage action and the club for growth. congressman budd voted against the infrastructure law. he voted against same sex marriage protections and against gun safety. those are some of the about ills that some of the republican colleagues have supported. instead, he co-sponsored a bill that would ban abortions nigs wide after 15 weeks of pregnancy and he voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election on

january 6. at this point, the one person standing in ted budd's way, in the path to the senate, is sherry beasley. who will be the first black woman to ever represent north carolina in the upper chamber. she is a former district state judge and court of appeals judge and served as chief justice of the north carolina supreme court. she is currently polling just one point behind ted bud. joining us now is sherry beasley, north carolina democratic senate candidate. thank you for being here. >> thank you, alex. >> i believe every senate race is the most important senate race in the country. but your race has -- the last closing week of this campaign become the thing that democrats are quite focused on. we no he that senator schumer's pac funnels $4 million into the campaign.

what is your correspondence been like with national democrats as you soo he can to maybe help them hold on to the upper chamber? >> you know. we really been focused on our in state people power campaign. we knew this was going to be a tough race. i had tough fights before. i never back down. i will not back down now. very thankful i had two successful election here's in north carolina. and we're doing really well. there is a the lo of energy and enthusiasm. we were traveling to our 100 counties across the state talking about the kinds of things that people care a lot about. they care about lowering costs and feeling everything from the pain at the pump to the cost of prescription drugs and everything in between. and we're excited about the support that we're seeing in the state and certainly excited about the support that we're seeing nationally as well. >> what do you think is the sort of catalyst for this energy and enthusiasm on the ground? north carolina hasn't elected a democrat to the senate or vote

ford i think a democratic president since the year 2008. is it abortion? what is -- if you had to focus on one or two issues that are really driving voters passions right now and have given you the lift and the polls that we're seeing, what you would say it is? >> i think it's a couple things. i think it's us being present. we're working hard in communities all over the state. and we're talking about the critical issues that people care a whole lot about. and they know that congressman bud has been in service for six years and against the interest of folks in the state. he's far more intwined with special interests. you mention at the top of the hour that he is aligned with the most extreme faction of his party. he is an election denier. he called the mob on january 6th that rioted and stormed the capitol and injured hundreds of

police officers just patriots standing up. and so north carolinians are concerned about that. i mean even after all of the violence he still voted to not to certify the election. he is still denying the election and even when asked now if he would set the results of this election, he won't. he will not commit to fully saying he will accept the results. and he supports an absolute ban on abortion. he's leading this charge without exception for rape, incest or risk to a mother's health. we know from women who are sexually abused they would otherwise be forced to carry a pregnancy to term. for women who have eptopic pregnancy, imagine the joy of a mom that has a eptopic pregnancy and then has to make the life saving decision to have an

abortion. i mean we know that the life saving treatment for these women is an abortion and we know for nearly 50 years women have had to constantly protect the right to make this decision with their physicians free from government interference. if elected to the senate, i'll always fight for our freedoms. i'll fight hard to make sure that roe versus wade is the law of the land. >> i have to say, we all want to know what is happening in the senate races from the people that are running them. because there is a national narrative about democrats' chances. there is a lot of trepidation about saying they can hold on to the chambers. and you guys are on the front lines. what happens to sherry beasley will be charting the course for what happens to the country. let's say, the alternative, ted bud is -- well, that is an alternative universe for a lot of people. sherry beasley, senate candidate, thank you so much for joining us to night.

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