inclined to apologize for or explain away the worst of what putin does, a lot of those people had a favorite supposed explanation for why putin felt the need to start that war. a lot of putin apologist and putin apologist and puti putin sympathizers said that putin felt like he had to invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to russia and that gave putin this cooties feeling about nato being too close and so therefore he had toos invade ukraine. again,in i don't actually think that's it. i don't think we know all the reasons why he does what he does. whowh h knows what's going on is little short dictator heart of hearts, but if, in fact, the apologists are at least

partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn't happen and that's because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn't agree it doesn't happen. and inre the case of sweden it s

an original nato -- it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay wi thems but they were not okay wh sweden joining. as recently as this weekend turkey's president was stillek saying, p no, turkey would not assent to this, turkey would not allowey sweden to join. but the biden administration kept expressing confidence turkey would change its mind on this, that they would allow sweden to wojoin. anden nobody knew why president biden seemed so confident it wouldse happen. he just kept saying it was fine, that he and his team were working on it. now apparently aswo of tonight they got it done. president biden had one-on-one discussions with turkey's president yesterday. they were working all day with sweden yesterday and today. secretary of state antony

blinken reportedly met with the turkish minister, so his turkish counterpart, so it apparently took full-court press at the top levels of the biden administration, but as of tonightti they got it done. turkey has relented, turkey agrees.te the turkish parliament does still have to sign off, but they will. and then sweden will become nato country number 32, which is a huge win for president biden and the biden administration.e this is definitely one of those, you know, they said it couldn't be done situations. it has been done. it's going to happen. that isng a huge win for biden. it also has to be said it is a humiliating kick in the tiny dictatorial pants of russian presidentct vladimir putin. i mean ifes you started this wa in ukraine because you were so upset at nato, well, how was's that big strategic thinking working out for you now?

again,r finland is the first country to join nato after russia invaded ukraine. now we know as of tonight there's going to be a second an sweden will join as well.jo we'll have more on that developing news later on over ve the course of the show tonight. here at home in terms of our politics hererm at home, things aree, getting a little punchy, little punchier than it should have been, frankly. and we should have expected it. this was an incident in michigan in april atde a meeting of the michigan republican party. a couple of county-level republican party officials in thear state getting into kind oa slapping, shoving fight. again, that was april of this year. then thishi weekend the same republican party, the michigan republican party went back to the same p hotel in claire, michigan, for another statewide republican partyhe meeting, and apparently there was yet another

punch up. craig mauger at the detroit news was first to report on what happened thisrs week. it's one of those reports i can't improve upon.ca i'm just going to tell you as reported in the paper. a republican man from wayne county, michigan, quote acknowledged that he wiggled thd knob of one door leading into the meeting while the meeting was underway. the s chairman of the clare couy republican party heard the he wiggling of the doorknob and walked overf to the door whereo says he saw someone through a small window in the door flip himth off. quote, the clare county republican party chairman then opened the door and says, quote, he kicked me in the balls as soon as i opened the door. the scuffle intensified, and long story short the clare county republican party chairman provided this account to the detroit news in a phone

interview from an emergency room in clare, michigan. an emergency room where he was beingme treated for what was believed to be a broken room. the man who did the alleged flipping off and then the alleged ball kicking of the other republican official, he told the detroit news he took offro his glasses before engagi in these fisticuffs, telling the detroit news, quote, when you see me taking my glasses off, i'mla ready to rock. again, state-wide republican partyta meeting in michigan thi weekend. the news outlet bridge michigan has a little bit more after the detroit news wasa first to rept what happened. bridge notes that charges are likely goinges to be pressed in this case. they also note the man who did the alleged flipping off and has ed ball kicking also his own version of the story in which he t says he was not the aggressor. he says the other guy threatened him and that the other guy, quote, came out of the meeting

with his dukes up. to say the least this is not how anything in politics is supposed to go, but this is how it's going in michigan republican politics. two consecutive state-wide michigan republican party meetings both at the same hotel in clare, michigan, both of which resulted in physical fights among republicans who were there for thefi meeting. i should note that -- i mean i was going to say it's understandable tensions are nd high, it's not understandable. no matter how high-tensions are, youw don't need to kick anybod in the -- at a political meeting. michigan republicans you should know are doing poorly right now in lots of different ways. this is one ofif the state parts just convulsed by republican

donald trump. the implications of that, the repercussions of that have been strange and are ongoing. the state does now have an election h denier as its state chairwoman. michigan republican party chairwoman says that donald trump's election claims should haveel resulted in michigan throwing out the vote results and instead declaring him the winner. she also m refused to acknowled her own massive double digit loss in a statewide race when he ran the secretary of state. in addition to her being the state party chair for the first timey in four decades michigan republicans hold no statewide offices, and neither house of theou legislature. been as far-out of power as they are now, at least not in the last 40 years. that said, michigan republicans are apparently still capable of breaking each other's ribs at meetings, so they've got that. you see me taking my glasses

off, i'm ready to rock. and just in today's news, it kind of goes downhill from there in terms of america's political snapshot at the moment. at least our political snapshot in the states, in the individual state of arizona that's another one of these states that was just riven by overthrow election demands byro trump and his supporters. today various parts of the arizonato republican party weren sort of panic mode after an arizona republican college group announced that the headline speaker for its next convention is going to be a guy who's a neo-nazi. the group's flyer for this upcoming conference listed three different county republican parties on the flyer as if they were cosponsorser of the event with a neo-nazi speaker. after one republican party official from maricopa county posted that online and publicly begged for party official said

togg officially distance themselves from this neo-nazi event, those three counties, the republican party organizations in those three counties ultimately came outns and said they're not part of this event. okay. bullet dodged. threell arizona republican coun organizations are notou despite earlier reports spauntserring the neo-nazi speaker at their conference. that said, this college republicans groups from arizon stillzo is. they're the ones who invited him and they're absolutely still hosting him so there's that. the group is called arizona college republicans united, hosting a neo-nazi headlining speaker for their next conference in arizona. if this i is ring more than jus alarmmo bells for you, if this also ringing a bell for you, it may be you heard this material t circulated at the most recent donald trumpth rally in south carolina. this is a flyer promoting what is supposedly a new political

party. it hasneli the number one plank its platform, quote, secure a permanent white majority. we're not going to spend too much time here on this group and what they want, but consider also that plank number four in theiran platform is, quote, a 2 ceiling on jewish representation. this flyer was circulated at trump's last rally in south carolina. the group that produced this flyer and thatat claims these principles, they have since beev bragging online about how well-received they were with this stuff when they went person by person in hand through the crowd at donald trump's last rally. and, again, this is a rally for the republican party's last president who was also the prohibitive front-runner for the republican party's next presidential nomination. thepr flyer circulating his las campaign rally, secure a

permanent whiteal majority. things are also a little weird right now in the ohio republican party. the formero republican house speaker in ohio was just sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in a massive $60 million bribery schemeio that he apparently ran whilehe he was serving r as republican speakerf theep house. the former state chairman of the ohio c republican party was als convicted inpa the same bribery scheme. he got five years in prison. this is apparently not put a hitch inap the step of the stat republican party ofhe ohio, though. you think your speaker of the house and state party chairman both gettingf sent to federal prison on gigantic prison terms for corruption charges might lead to an oh, boy in the state, but not so. they're plugging away and just announced they eno longer want any independent voters to be allowed to cast votes in c republican primaries.

shows you how much they're looking to reach out to undecideds and moderates.ds they want close primaries now, noim independents, no undeclare voters should be allowed to vote in republican primaries. and they'reub getting ready to y to change the rules for ballot measures in the state, and that appears to be motivated solely by the fact they're about to lose a ballot measure on the issue oft abortion really badl after ohio republicans have pursued h draconian abortion ba. the state of ohio is essentially revolting against those decisions. a ballot measure that would restore abortion rights in ohio looks like it will rock on the ohio ballot, and so ohio republicans looking to change the rules what you're allowed to do by a public referendum in ohio so that no matter how many people vote for it in ohio, it willfo be very, very hard to reverse their changes on abortion.

when your top leadership goes to jail on federal corruption people of the state areth widely opposed to h you're governing, no better plan than to try to make sure people are not allowed to vote against you when they want to. but, you know, if we're looking for a top prize here, like, step right up. ohio in contention, obviously. michigan i think in contention with their repeated fistfights at republican statewide meetings. arizona obviously in contention with theirvi neo-nazi republica convention speaking tour. but i think if somebody is going to take the cake in this current news cycle it's probably not the republican party's in any of those states. it's probably tennessee. over the have seen weekend that there was a weekend ruling w from a federal appeals court in tennessee by tennessee republicans who have been going after trans people everywhere theyan can.e this saturday in a divided 2-1

decision let that state go forward with banning specific kinds of health care for trans people. and this is not some distant threat or somethingth locked upn the courts now. thanks to that appeals court ls ruling, again, on saturday, this weekend, for people under the age of 18 whatever health care they've been getting is officially illegally. any such ongoing health care you've previously been receiving has tovi stop immediately. but that's also happening in thp context of this other thing that republicans are doing in the state of tennessee. i do think puts them sort of at the front of the line right now. thee republican state attorney general in tennessee is using his office to obtain the private medical records, un-redacted full medical records for patients who have had care at a particular clinic in tennessee,

at the vanderbilt medical center. he's using his office as attorney general to take peoples individual private un-redacted medical records for the purpose ofco an investigation in his ste attorney general's office. vanderbilt university medical centerva says they have no choi but tos hand over these record after the attorney general demanded sethem, but they also didn't notify their patients they handed over their records until after they had already started handing them in. in other words, vanderbilt presumably could have told their patientsld we received this demd from the attorney general's office, we don't want to comply but we think we have to, we want to let you know before we give them your records. that's not the way it went, apparently. vanderbilt university medical centernd reportedly started handing over the records in ther response to the attorney general's demands months ago and just recently let their patients know that those records have been given. so according to reporting in the

tennesseean newspaper, the attorney general has taken people's medical records and also taken information on people whoak volunteer at this particu clinic and also taken information onic anyone who has written inat with a question abt lgbtq health care using a website that was setup to field queries on that topic. he's evenha taken the names of people who were referred to that clinic at vanderbilt even if those people never actually got care there. the attorney general's office hase collected all this information, apparently demanded all these records going back to 2018, and now they've got them. now, years ago we covered a similar case at least a case withmi echoes of this in kansas. you might remember this story. a republican attorney general there named phil cline used the power of his office to get individual medical records of women who had been to an abortion clinic in the state of

kansas. he and his staff took women's medical records, private medical records, un-redacted medical records, took them, used the power of their office to get them from the clinic then copied them, kept them in totally insecure containers and car trunks,s in people's garages, trucked them around the state, reportedly left some of them at a kinko's coffee shop at one point. thesene are personal individual private records dealing the most sensitive medical information. the attorney general who did that in kansas was an anti-abortion a activist whose republicans elected to be their state attorney general. his name was phil cline. he ended up having his law license permanently suspended for doing that about ten years ago, but now here's the tennessee republican attorney general using a page out of the same play bookge now, demanding and getting un-redacted, complete private medical records for trans people in tennessee as

republicans use every tool they've gotpu to try to make li miserable for trans people and their families in that state. attorney chase strangio, the state of tennessee is suing the ban for health care in that state.he he tells us tonight, quote, when you have this typegh of aggresse investigation from an attorney general combined with ledge slagds, not only does it limit the care available, it also chills the provision of care more generally. doctors are less inclined to provide it, families if there's a threat ofes violence or my kis records could be exposed, i'm out of there. you have this dynamic in which care ismi not only being banned it's also being chilled prospectively, and that will have an effect for generations. margaret is a journalist who lives in nashville and she wrote thisle about the situation in

tennessee for "the new york times." she sesays, quote, tell me this isn't a witch hunt, tell me this isn't anll open campaign of terr against already vulnerable had every reason tory believe that their medical records -- their medical records were conference and every reason to believe thaton the medical clinic of a major university hospital was a safe space. joining us now is ally chapman, she leads a local chapter of the tennessee public alliance. she's also the momhe of a transgender son who received carer at vanderbilt which is t medical center that's just been forcedha to hand over patient medical records to the state's republican attorney general. ms. chapman, i really want to thank you for joining us tonight. itr should not take bravery to speak out publicly on an issue like this, but i know particularly in a state like yours it really does. thanks. >> thank you. >> first, let me ask you if i got any of that wrong or

anything important i'm missing about what's going on with this sort of twinis nightmare in tennessee right now with the legislation that's affecting trans people and their families and also the situationff with privateso medical records being taken by the state attorney general. >> it is. it's really complicated and just infuriating because it doesn't need toin be this complicated, doesn't need to be invasive, and, you know, the issue that we have is they've not only violated the trust of patients and doctorst as an institution but vanderbilt has demonstrated their willingness to share records when they've been compelled by the state or what i would say any reason. so i think this is telling about people who would also be concerned about wreproductive rights, just health care in general. and while we're waiting and hoping on the courts to be reasonable and make common sense

rulings, we know common sense is onlyru common for those who hav experienced the samen things, d the reality is most of the people in the state of tennessee have not interacted with or know transkids or their families. so there's a lot of misinformation that's showing on up, shows up in the rulings in the way they're being written by the judges. it showsn up in the debates. it shows up in the arguments and conversations and the hate speech that's happening through badpp actors like matt walsh an ben shapiro. >> on that point about common understanding and common sense, andd i would add maybe common decency,yb i feel like as trans people and theirke familyvise bn attacked and have been demonized and as people -- as you mentioned people in conservativa media, conservative social medit have really decided this a meal ticket for them to attack this particular population in the -- in increasingly intense ways, i

feel like there's a lot of differences of opinions. there's a lot of heat on this issue, but one thing i feel like where people don't have to imagine the different kind of life, they don't to put themselves in someone else's shoes, they can just think abouk this in their own experience is private medical records taken b law enforcement and in particular in this case with the medical center saying it was compelled,it they had no choiceo hand them over, but not letting patients know until after they handed them over, i have to imagine or at least i have to hope there's some empathetic reaction among other tennesseeans that private medical records should stay private,l that this part of th has to feel over the line to people who otherwise don't see themselves as allies on this issue. >> even among --on't even among allies there's still a lot of l confusion and misunderstanding, and you nailed it. we really need to be talking about common decency, kindness,

and empathy and that's not what we're seeing. we're fighting an argument when it comes togh science and biolo which most people don't understand at a greatic level, are wet talking about collectively the personhood of someone, and that's really what i like to focus on when i talk about children specifically is those arell human beings with lives. that's who i'm focussed on, and when i try to engage in conversations with people who still atco this point don't understand i think that's really challenging because it takes up a lot of energy and time and distracts people from what we're trying to do, which is to protect trans kids. we do not want the state and the attorney general and don't want governor in their positions of power torn abuse in a way th threatens these kids because that's the reality of it and something i try to explain to people, you know, in my case and knowing other supportive parents, you're faced with a

choice. if you support your child, you're looking at hopefully a brighter future for them and discovering what that means along the way. if you choose not to accept them, ife you choose to push tm toho the margins and allow peop to push them to the margins and you give in, you're faced with two results. one is you never see your children again. the second is they die, and people like to say that this is hyperbolic statement. it is i not. i knowme children who have diedf suicide in the last few years. and the political rhetoric and just, you know, the conversation is soow harmful. it is so very, very harmful. and we need the backing of our leaders and people ine positio power, and we just do not have that. >> you need the backing of leadership and also need allies of people in your state whether or not they see themselves as

affected. i know this is a difficult situation. keep usfi apprised. we'd love to have you back. >>to thank you so much. >> all right, much more ahead tonight. stay with us. >> all right, much more ahead tonight. stay with us s commercial, i think i'm late on my payment. it's okay, the general gives you a break. yeah, we let you pick your own due date. good to know, because this next scene might take a while. for a great low rate, go with the general.

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so this is a lovely restaurant in vermont called simon pearce, in a town called quechee, vermont, the restaurant has this, look at that, gorgeous patio overlooking the river, an idyllic spot. this was the view from the same patio this morning.

same patio, same spot. as of this morning, after the state of vermont was just pounded with heavy rain and flash floods, look at that. torrential flooding has, flooding rainfall has just drenched the northeast in the last 24 hours. there has been catastrophic flooding in parts of vermont. dozens of people have had to be evacuated or rescued from their homes so far. this is the town of ludlow, vermont, which is national weather service says got about a month's worth of rain in less than 24 hours yesterday. they got a 6 inch rain dump in one day yesterday. that is actually less than what parts of new york got yesterday. the same storm dumped 9 inches of rain in one day, in much of new york's hudson valley. at least one person in new york state has died. a 43-year-old woman, officials say was trying to escape rising flood waters when she was swept away and killed. these images that we're showing

of water just overtaking big parts of vermont and new york, this may not be the worst of it. rivers across the northeast are expected to reach their highest peaks either late tonight or early tomorrow morning. there are still flood watches in effect in parts of vermont and new york. western new england just getting pounded. so that's what's going on in that part of the northeast today. in part of the southwest today, of course, it is the killing heat. it was 110 degrees in phoenix, arizona, today. and, you know, maybe that doesn't sound crazy. maybe that sounds kind of normal for this time of year. look, it's the tenth day in a row that temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees in phoenix. it's on track to be the longest and worst heat wave on record. the heat wave has been smothering the southwest and texas. in southern florida, extreme heat has been wreaking havoc on

the temperature of the ocean. the sheer ocean temperatures across the whole globe have been warming at a faster pace than they have at any previous known year. the average surface temperature of the ocean off the florida keys this time of year is usually in the 80s. because of the heat wave, we're now seeing surface temperatures of around 96 degrees in the ocean around the florida keys. 96 degree ocean temperatures. for context, the average hot tub can be heated somewhere around 100 degrees. it's 96 degrees in the ocean. and temperatures are expected to get worse as the week goes on there. and the coachella valley in california, temperatures this weekend could creep as high as 120. while we're on the subject of california, i should also mention the landslides. this is rolling hills estates on the south side of l.a. county. the landslide destroying 12 homes.

they're not certain what caused the landslide but they suspect it could be a result of all the rainfall this season which softened up the ground until it just slid away. oh, yeah, also the sky is the wrong color. as you know, parts of the northeast and upper plains states have been choking on smoke pouring in from the wildfires in canada, pushing the air quality into dangerously unsafe territory that, you know, if you were caught in the middle of it, just felt like nothing so much as the climate apocalypse. and if you're thinking to yourself, wow, feels like a lot all at once, these kinds of terribly destructive weather events seem to be happening way more often than they used to, if you're thinking that, you're not wrong. 40 years ago, the average time between billion dollar disaster

was about two and a half months, disaster that incurred more than a billion dollars in costs, would happen every 82 days. in the last five years, extreme weather events on that scale have happened every 18 days. and, yes, that is controlling for inflation. 82 days between massive billion dollar disasters versus now 18 days between billion dollar disasters. we are in a period of chaos being unleashed by the changing climate. and now that we're experiencing these devastating events with not just alarming frequency, but accelerating frequency, now that we are sort of getting used to experiencing multiple unprecedented devastating events at the same time, all the time, the question is whether that changes us. have we changed the climate enough that now the climate will change us? have we reached a tipping point

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for the past couple of years, iowa residents in the des

moines metro area turned on their local news every weeknight to see reports from local meteorologist chris gloninger. here's a sample of that from last week. >> you can see we have moderate drought conditions in des moines officially for the first time this season. severe drought conditions across western parts of the state, and the eastern part, you might be scratching your head saying, hey, there was massive flooding. with these new extremes in the new world we're living in, you go from near record precipitation over the course of the winter to now severe drought conditions. these big swings. >> these big swings. with these new extremes, the new world that we're living in, you go from near record precip over the course of the winter to now these drought conditions, these big swings. helping iowa residents understand their changing weather in the context of our changing climate. over the course of his time at that iowa tv station, chris gloninger started receiving

threats in response to that type of coverage, threats like this, quote, what's your home address? conservative iowans would like to give you an iowan welcome you will never forget. that was one e-mail mr. gloninger received during his time at that iowa tv station. he's just written a new op-ed for the boston globe in which he writes about the experience of receiving those and other threats. he says, quote, anonymous threat on one's life has a profound effect on the body. physically i was frozen in place. mentally, my mind was spinning faster than it ever had. this wasn't the first message i had received from this person, but it wasn't the most threatening. the e-mail threat i received was followed by more nasty e-mails. one thing i knew this was a direct result of my decision to talk about climate change on television. a man who threatened mr. gloninger was pursued by police, and was found guilty of harassment. mr. gloninger's op-ed was published online by "the boston

globe" magazine and explains why he has resigned in his role as chief meteorologist at the iowa tv station, and taken a job as senior scientist in risk communicate at an environmental consulting firm. thank you for joining us. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks and thanks for covering the existential threat of our lifetime. >> so you are both somebody who is a little bit part of the story here because you've had to make this change in your life, but you're also an expert on this topic and very good at communicating about it. i wanted to talk to you about both of those things. tell me about the decision to take the job in iowa, and the decision to leave after getting those threats. that has to have been a big professional crisis for you. >> the last three years have been a roller coaster, i work

for the nbc owned station, where i launched the first weekly series on climate change, a couple of years before i moved to iowa, and it was that coverage that helped land me the job as chief meteorologist. they wanted to fill a void. they wanted to cover climate change, and my wife and i didn't have any connections there but we thought, i know this is cliche, we thought we could make a difference. i thought i could help educate, find ways to make it palatable, relatable, so people could understand why climate change is so important. >> in terms of the lessons learned there, obviously the lesson learned there is not don't try, it's too hard, people will come after you. the lesson learned apparently, i mean, you've decided to take this kind of job where you're devoted to communicating risk issues about climate change to people. how do you feel like your thinking about those communication challenges was affected by the kind of trauma that you went through and by the

threats that you got? >> it's difficult. we work weird hours. my wife is home alone from 3:00 to 11:00, and that was part of the psychological issues that i was dealing with. what is happening when my security system went off and it said person at your front door or a car driving by your house at a slow speed, it weighs on you. and i'm someone that's been engaged and proud of what i do, and when you stay engaged and when you're presenting the weather, you don't fill it with umms and ahhs, and i was finding myself in a place where i was looking for words, something i have done 18 years and never had trouble doing. it wasn't that i was talking about things that were so off the hook. they were simple tie-ins, showing data. i tried to explain that you mentioned the billion dollar disaster and the rate of return. it's fiscally conservative to adapt to and mitigate these risks than pay for cleaning up the mess. i was in a state where 65% of the energy was produced by wind. that's true energy independence. right, so all of these

positives, farmers were getting supplemental income on these land leases. i was talking about, you know, some of the warmest days on record and showing trends. it wasn't like i was putting my activist hat on and talking about climate action. i was proving, i was giving data and proving the climate science behind it. >> chris, in terms of days like this, moments like this, and there will be a lot of them, in which we've got overlapping simultaneous disasters, right, with the heat in the southwest, and the wildfire smoke from canada, with the incredible flooding and rain that we're having in the northeast, i feel like people, however they may feel about the issue of climate change in the abstract, i think americans by and large are understanding that we are having more extreme weather and it has to be caused by something. i feel like the barrier to people changing, making changes in their own lives or making even political changes about

voting differently or thinking about these things differently, so people don't often feel like they have concrete things to do about it. it makes people feel helpless. how do you feel about that challenge, and how do you plan to address that in your future work? >> i'm excited about improving climate literacy, working with environmental justice communities, the black and brown communities are often times left behind in these conversations and that's what i'm striving to help be equitable in these climate solutions, and i think you can get caught in the doomism of it. there's so much potential. there are jobs, it can boost the economy. it's kind of exciting when you think about all of the possibilities and in the process, we're protecting against these wild weather events that you just mentioned three in your show that were having devastating impacts across all four corners of the country. it just made sense that communicating and getting the community involved, when you show up at meetings, and their talking about adaptation plans, showing up on election day and

voting for people who take climate action seriously, that's how you can make a difference. you don't need to quit your job, and devote 24/7 efforts into working and living it. you can take those simple steps. just be a voice. >> chris gloninger, former local meteorologist, now the senior scientist in climate and risk communications at woods hall group. good luck, chris, we'd love to have you back anytime. thank you. >> thanks, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. us

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relinquishment of office ceremony for the commandant of the united states marine corps. he's retiring but just relinquishing his job because there's nobody to hand it over to. no commandant to take his place, which leads the marine corps without a senate approved leader for the first time in over 150 years. that is thanks to republican abortion bans. what? yeah. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville for months has been single handedly blocking the promotions of all high ranking generals and admirals including service chiefs. tuberville says he'll continue to block all military promotions no matter the harm until the pentagon agrees to make it harder for women service members to get abortions. he says there's too many abortion rights if you are serving your country in america, and he wants that to end.

this is the kind of thing that you think would be prohibitively unpopular. here's a republican senator screwing over the marine corps, hundreds of high ranking military officers, hobbling parts of the u.s. armed forces so he can take rights away from service members. but the republicans cannot help themselves. they are so devoted to the abortion issue that they are doing wildly ridiculously unpopular things in service of that obsession. tomorrow, for instance, in the state of iowa, republicans will convene a very rare special session of the legislature, just to pass a strict new abortion ban even though 70% of women in iowa are against it. as difficult as all of the politics are around this issue, we're not the only ones to have gone through something like this. i have this new podcast called "rachel maddow presents deja news." it's just a short run.

it's only six episodes al together, but we have a new episode out today about another country that has gone through the same political transformation as we have on this issue. a newly mounted government used their new control of the judiciary to get abortion banned, even those most of the people in the country don't want that. and that country, they too, are experiencing the same thing that we are now, now that we've lived a year without abortion rights protections. the nation of poland has also seen a huge spike in support for abortion rights just like we have. a huge political backlash against the government that banned abortion, just like we have. poland has actually seen the largest protests that country has seen in decades all sparked by their conservatives banning abortion. so this episode of deja news it may be sort of here to help in terms of understanding what may be coming up for us next as we grapple with the new politics of abortion in this country.

if you want to listen, it is free to listen. you can scan the little qr code on the bottom right of your screen with your cell phone camera, that will take you right to it. or find us at msnbc.com/dejanews, or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. it's called "rachel maddow presents deja news." all right. we'll be right back. ack. as. i gotta wrap this commercial, i think i'm late on my payment. it's okay, the general gives you a break. yeah, we let you pick your own due date. good to know, because this next scene might take a while. for a great low rate, go with the general. (jennifer) the reason why golo customers have such long term success is because the golo plan takes a holistic approach next scene might take a while. to weight loss. we focus on real foods in the right balance so you get the results you want. the release supplement makes losing weight easy. release sets you up for successful weight loss because it supports your blood sugar levels between meals so you aren't hungry or fatigued. golo is real, our customers are real, and our success stories are real. we have a 98% satisfaction rating. why not give it a try?

all right, that's going to do it for us tonight. thanks for being here with us. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is up next. every few months the question is called can the west hang together, can nato hang together, can transatlantic unity hang together? every time allies gather that question gets re-upped, and every time the allies come together to answer forcefully and vehemently, yes, we can. vladimir putin has been counting on the west to crack, nato to crack, the transatlantic alliance to crack. he has been disappointed at every turn, very much disappointed. >> national security advisor jake sullivan setting the tone for the nato