arkansas's republican governor asa hutchinson ahead. hello, i'm jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is as divided as ever. former president trump is back. he's about the same. his speech at a republican national retreat with donors last night at mar-a-lago, he called mitch mcconnell a quote dumb son of a bitch, unquote, for opposing trump's election lie and upholding democracy. former president trump went after his vice president, mike pence, according to a source in the room for certifying the election results on january 6th. not surprisingly, trump did not say a word to condemn the violent insurrection he helped incite that day, and as the former president expiratory eights republicans in washington, she trying for a second time to reach out from them. tomorrow, president biden will meet with democratic house and senate to discuss his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan the president this week said, quote, compromise is inevitable. he warned his team will not be opened to inaction. reaching any sort of compromise, of

. >> still to come yesterday the arkansas senate passed the safe act. but some people are saying it's discriminatory towards trans use what state ar became the first state to pass a bill banning gender affirming medical treatment for trans youth. the so-called safe act would prohibit doctors from giving transgender minors treatments including puberty blockers as well as hormone and transition related therapy but also for bit doctors from making referrals for treatment unless. >> governor asa hutchinson vetoes the bill. ashley ketz explains both sides of this legislation. >> parents pediatricians and the public divided over the safe act. i sought the advice and expertise of medical professionals. the idea of consulting lawmakers never occurred to me the say lessons from experimentation act as one signature away from becoming a law in arkansas pediatricians fall on both sides of the issue. one against the legislation says it will stop doctors from providing the best care for kids. part of my job as a general pediatrician. >> is to coordinate that care. i

asa hutchinson, he vetoed a bill that banned the chemical castration of children in arkansas.m why he did w that d he was gracious enough to come on and explain. it became clear that governor hutchinson hadn't done a lot of research into the topic. there were a lot of things he didn't seem to know. in februaryy i'm one of the oldest medical journals inbr the world summarized researcher's findings on puberty blockers, the chemicals at the heart of this debate. here's what they found. "puberty block is used to treat children 12-15 with persistent gender dysphoria had no sisignificant effect on the psychological function, thoughts of self harm or body image but as expected, the children experience reduced growth, height, bone strength. there is that, to give in mind, but a governors said the children needed these drugs did not become clinically depressed by the state suggest the drugs don't help, the only her children's bodies. others studies conducted that found that puberty blockers in fact increased instances of self harm and suicidal ideation in some children. those aren't th

arkansas -- we and arkansas have been working to tackle it. host: let me ask you about that amazon vote. do you think that is a one-off election or do you think that is a broader lesson for the administration in particular, because in their spending proposal, they are calling -- in their proposal for infrastructure, rather, they are reportedly going to call for more unionized jobs. guest: yeah. if my memory is right, unionization of the private sector workforce is less than 10%. it has been declining over the last five decades. employees in this country have choice where they worker, who they work for. employers have to have fantastic employees. need more employees. everywhere i go there is a help wanted sign. they offer good benefits and good pay. we have seen rising wages over the last four years. particularly at the low end. i think employers are responsive to market conditions and are having increasing wages and benefits. i don't know if it was one-off, but would -- but it was a belmar collection. amazon is a new powerhouse in corporate am

so, you may have followed us from arkansas. legislature sent a bill to the governor banning castration of children. he vetoed that bill and now that vito has been overridden by the legislature. the governor joins us in just a moment to explain why he vetoed that bill. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ i mean i know it's silly, but i have an image. ya know, 6 foot 5, 300 pounds. so the thought of getting a hearing aid, i was.. i was scared. for the last couple years i've been having real hearing loss. all i knew from the past was seeing folks with big things on their ears, so i didn't want to be that guy. one of the joys of my life is riding my motorcycle with my wife. if you're not confident riding a motorcycle, you could get in trouble. i would always have to turn, so i could hear better, that was a... that was bad. and i just kept fightin' it. with lively, did a hearing test on the computer. when they sent them in the mail they were already set up for me. the whole process was so simple. right away lively started working. my confide

transgender minors, but that bill could still pass. >> reporter: this morning, arkansas at the center of debate over medical care for transgender children. governor asa hutchinson has vetoed a bill that would ban surgeries to anyone under 18, even if they have a parent's consent. >> if house bill 1570 becomes law, then we are creating new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents. >> reporter: the bill would make arkansas the first state to ban gender affirmative treatment for youth. according to kristaps porzingis according to "the washington post," at least 17 other states have introduced similar bans. he met with doctors in his state before vetoing the legislation. >> in arkansas, gender reassignment surgery is not performed on anyone under age 18. if house bill 1570 simply prohibited gender assignment surgeries, them i would sign the bill. >> reporter: lgbtq rights activists call it discriminatory and says it would lead to more trouble for youths. but the legislature says it protects children from making a life-altering decision before age 18. they say they

so you may have followed this from arkansas.islature sent a bill to the governor banding typical castration of children. the governor vetoed that bill.et and now that vito has been overridden by the legislature. that governor, asa hutchinson, joins us in a minute to tell us why he vetoed it that bill. wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. over the next 10 years, comcast is committing $1 billion to reach 50 million low-income americans with the tools and resources they need to be ready for anything. i hope you're ready. 'cause we are. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: >> tucker: the legislature in arkansas who recently passed a habill that would ban doctors fm prescribing so-called puberty blockers, hormones that children who believe they are transgendered, also ban surgeons from physica

of course there is arkansas.his week a law passed that made arkansas the first state to ban gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth. republican governor asa hutchinson vetoed the bill but his veto was overridden in the following days. in a "washington post "op-ed he stated that the bill would be a vast government overreach in its attempt to come between a family and their doctor. in the days before he vetoed the bill, hutchinson met with members of the tran gender community, including the state's first transgender elected official. that would be evelyn stafford and she joins me now. she is justice of the peace in washington county, arkansas. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to understand -- you would understand this better than anyone -- does meeting people with the lived experience, with the lived transgender experience, does it influence people like asa hutchinson or people who have preestablished views about how they should legislate the lives of transgender

john glenn was invited to speak in arkansas. i was going to fly down and get on a plane with john glenn, his private plane at the national airport. and the wonderful, wonderful hero -- we sat in the front two seats. five hours into this flight for three out of five hours, i finally realized that this plane did not have a men's room in it. i said wait a minute. something isn't quite right. i made it to little rock and was very glad to make it. but he always used to kid me about that. always gave me a hard time with that. >> i'm glad everything worked out. >> another thing he was proud of is that he kept flying till he was 90. that was a milestone. 90 was a big important number. >> he kept his pilots license until he was 90. as i understand it, complained about having to sell the airplane. he had kept it and did not want to give it up. >> he will had a twin engine beach. he was a rigorous pilot. he took rigorous courses every year. john like any good pilot, he would religiously go down and do the b triple beak. >> i think what he

what the governor of arkansas has now decided. >>> back now with a new lava flow forcing hikers off a volcano in iceland. a crack up to 650 feet long sent molten rock flowing into a nearby valley. iceland's government has now closed the area to public access. >>> we turn now to a new battle in the culture war over transgender children. arkansas is set to become the first state to ban transgender kids from getting what's called gender affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy but the governor is standing in the way. this morning arkansas is now at the center of a growing debate over medical care for transgender children. governor asa hutchinson has vetoed a bill that would provide doctors from providing hormone therapies to anyone under 18 even if they have a parent's consent. >> if house bill 1570 becomes law, then we are creating new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents. >> reporter: the bill would make arkansas the first state to ban gender affirming treatment for trans youth. according to "the washington post," republican lawmakers in

i believe it is rural arkansas. fact in arkansas our cases are low, our hospitalizations are low. there's a sense that the emergency is not there. my job is to remind everyone that we're in a critical time and we have to get those vaccinations into arms because, what we see happening in other states and across the ocean, could come here even to arkansas. so we've got to get those shots out. we're working very hard to accomplish that, and we're taking our allocation. we're increasing every day. everybody over 16 can get the shot. we want them to. >> governor asa hutchinson, remind people, people can drive from michigan to arkansas. michigan is a trouble spot. governor hutchinson, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective. >> thank you, chuck. great to be with you today. >>> when we come back, the rise of right wing violence in the u.s. as told by members in and out of extremist groups. this is a story you really won't want to miss. want to miss you 'e working. new febreze fade defy plug works differently.

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>> arkansas is a poor state. there is no doubt about that.e of the states you point to have historically had a lot of poverty over the past 50 years. lyndon johnson said he would eliminate poverty with the great society program in the appalachian states. so it has been a challenge for the governors to offer up economic policies that increase jobs. i would say to you, what with those states, including your home state of georgia, look like without the legislation since the 1950's that recruited industrial production. what would be the marginal impact? i think the right to work states increased the industrialization of the south, increased job opportunities, increased wages, and did increase the business profits you outlined. i see that as i look at the economic development in the south. i was just in mobile, alabama, where amazon was unionized, and the folks who work for amazon voted 3-1 not to immunize. and i noted how robust the economy is with boeing moving there, and walmart, and some significant business announcements. i think that is a co

be on last night we talked to the governor of arkansas, he vetoed a bill that would've banned a chemicalion of children. we asked him whether he was influenced by corporate interests, or if you talk to any of the companies before that veto. he gave us one answer we learned today it wasn't true. we will tell you how we know, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ hearing loss is frustrating, but getting your hearing back shouldn't be. that's why we created a breakthrough way to make hearing easier than ever. lively hearing aids may be tiny, but they're packed with advanced technology and smart design. which means crystal clear sound, yet they're nearly invisible. it starts with an online hearing test, which you can take from your couch, favorite chair, or bed. we won't judge. speaking of being at home, our doctors come to you virtually. “hey! good to see you!” no doctor's offices, no waiting rooms. delivered direct to doors all over. your door, your door, your door, your door, okay, maybe not your door, sweet tree house. you can even make adjustments on the fly, which means no fiddling behind the ear.

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save adolescents from experimentation act with it arkansas becomes the 1st u.s. state to ban doctors from providing gender affirming treatments for trans people under the age of 18 he that we use in his poll traveled to arkansas all she has this report. edgy bt q. writes under attack arc and source the 1st state in the us to ban young trans people from getting trans health care. we are about to meet someone directly affects. drew and his mom are just on their way back home from school they live on the outskirts of little rock the capital of arkansas. in andrew's room and then midge of the rocky horror picture show it was like one of the 1st representations are we ever like got to see us do it like it's over christmas break like the year before you came. and drew is 15 art is his way to express what he thinks and what he feels just because of the likeness originally stated. that he started transitioning 2 years ago with the new law in place andrew won't have access to hormones and other gender of foaming medical support the question is whether trends youth should

this week arkansas became the. first us state to pass a bill making it illegal for doctors to provide gender affirming health care to transgender children civil rights activists were quick to slum the laws on constitutional and violating human rights here to take over old dimitry. the all knowing corporations and celebrities are at it again spreading their wisdom to us lowly humans who just don't understand anything at all wisdom of the day the new arkansas law preventing minors from getting gender reassignment surgery is practically murder and is killing children arkansas legislates a seemly have nothing better to do during a global pandemic an economic meltdown than to pass hateful discriminatory laws denying health care its people trans rights a human rights trance kids are under attack across the country arkansas has just banned them from accessing health care this is tend to mad to mad kids who will tell us who they are it's our job to support them not demonize or harm them don't bother looking any of this up

s in his poll traveled to arkansas all she has this report. veggie beach your rights under attack arkin sorest the 1st state in the us to ban young trans people from getting trans health care. we are about to meet someone directly affects. drew and his mom are just on their way back home from school they live on the outskirts of little rock the capital of arkansas. up in andrews room an image of the rocky horror picture show it was like one of the 1st representations are we ever really got to see what you would like. over christmas break like the year before you came. andrew is 15 art is his way to express what he thinks and what he feels just because of the likeness originally stated. that he started transitioning 2 years ago with the new law in place andrew won't have access to hormones and other gender of foaming magical support the question is whether trends youth should have access to trans health care but the over arching question is if politicians can overrule the decisions of parents now andrew has been taking testosterone since he's 1

s in his poll traveled to arkansas lxii has this report . edgy teach your rights under attack arkansas is the 1st state in the u.s. to ban young trans people from getting trans health care. we are about to meet someone directly affects. drew and his mom are just on their way back home from school they live on the outskirts of little rock the capital of arkansas where. that in andrews room and then midge of the rocky horror picture show it was like one of the 1st for the issues that we were like got to see alice do it like it's over christmas break like the year before it came out. and it was 15 art is his way to express what he thinks and what he feels just because of it like the syrians on a stage when. he started transitioning 2 years ago with the new law in place andrew won't have access to hormones and other gender affirming medical support. the question is whether the trends youth should have axes to trans health care but the over arching question is if politicians can overrule the decisions of parents. andrew has been taking. since. as

are cutting back according to the "arkansas gazette. >> people may have wrong information about the vaccine. >> reporter: with less than a third of the country fully vaccinated, like this ufc fight in jacksonville packed without many masks and america's most famou quarterback, tom brady, in attendance. >> i don't understand people not getting the shot because it's not only for you it's for other people. >> sam, there's a major change just announced for vaccinated americans looking to travel abroad >> reporter: kate, that's right fully vaccinated americans can be traveling to the european union by this summer, but there's no specific time line provided, and that banks on the idea, kate, that the united states is going to be approaching herd immunity by mid-june kate >> good news for a lot of travelers sam, thank you >>> let's go to india now where the situation is growing increasingly dire. covid is hitting harder than anywhere else in the world now. the u.s. vowed to help but some say it's not enough matt bradley has more. >> reporter: tonight, a global response to the covid crisis

want to keep attention in the us where they state of arkansas or house bunk gender reassignment treatment for people under the age of 18 critics that the move on to trans but journalists wall taher who reversed his sex change say say it will protect young people from making a dangerous mistake. i reach about 300000000 people a year and help people every day who also have regret or have a story just like mine and want to do a transition so i've worked with a lot of young people who were diagnosed by a so-called doctor telling him that they had gender dysphoria have gone and met with the children and been around with them and none of them that i've come across had gender dysphoria there was a fox diagnosis one recent young man who started on hormone therapy at 15 had is told surgery at 18 contacted me at 19 and said it feels like a prank unstained monster in the arm that's done is that it causes. many things real problems for bone structure oftentimes in a natural development of the brain is interrupted what we know from sweden is that after you go through these procedures share 19 times mo

state of arkansas gender reassignment treatment suite here from a former. changing sex when you're. young man. across the globe a role in the clock this international pleasure to have your company my names you know. italian restaurant owners are demanding an exit from the saying they can no longer afford to stay closed. protest in rome earlier. clashes also were up there the last week in the capital with one police officer injured italy has eased covert restrictions in most regions after an easter lock but restaurants will remain closed and said to be for. delivery services are permitted. the neighboring austria tough restrictions have also been extended amid soaring cold cases and a severe of scene shortage but child solar sebastian curtseying is that program will be getting a turbo boost from a deal with russia to buy a 1000000 doses of the sputnik the shelter of last week he urged the european regulator to are faster and approving the job the sputnik people have to queue up to ask for splitting it's a question of how long this approval process will last and for what reasons it's

. >> it is not just arkansas. republicans in more than 30 states introduced similar bills targeting trans kids and trans teens. which presents a big question for the party that touts itself on wanting limited government. why are they so determined to meddle in the lives of their. >> translator: constituents? inventing a problem to whip up a cultural world they are convinced will rebound to their benefits. they don't have anything else to win on. they aren't fighting for better health care and turning to outrage to win again. will it work? ho do democrats fight back? joining me, a member of the virginia house of delegates and an aclu deputy director for trans justice. great to see you both. start with the harm these bills cause. the arkansas law bans trans youth from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapy. how do these banned treatments in a state like arkansas actually save lives? >> so the thing is, legislation like this will not save lives. legislation like this is actually going to backfire to a point w

i met with a couple hundred here in arkansas.on hold by joe biden on the promise of a green new deal job. well, nobody wants a promise of a job. they want a job and they want to go to work. so what we're telling folks is that it is court dependent. we may have a court that puts this on hold and puts injunction on place like we have had successes under the obama administration of waters u.s. ruling the department of labor's overtime rule we could get back to work as normal. that's what we're hoping for the keystone pipeline is to put our pipeliners back to work across the country and to make sure that all americans have access to affordable energy. todd: looking more broadly at all these actions a.g. regardless of party using lawsuits as pr even though they don't have a chance of winning. do you have a chance of winning any of these? >> we certainly do. that's why i mentioned the waters of the u.s. rule and department of labor overtime rule under president obama when i was part of those lawsuit we stopped those constitutional over

and arkansas for example, had two camps. two camps. and we have great displays of their art and flowers that they painted, gardens that they grew, that's really something that lives on with arkansas. but in late 1989 or so, he got behind highlighter selection and he said i'm going to get behind this legislation and we're going to pass it. they did. it passed. he was passionate about that. he was passion about that issue because he felt like that these people constitutional wise had been abused, they had lost their rights. that's japanese american citizens. and he went to bat and got that legislation passed. that was another situation where he was very involved in. >> and then of course, he later went on to the subcommittee on aviation -- or comedian or member. but he was very involved in that and that provided the rationale for him going back into space. >> he became the chairman of the senate committee on that. he became the chairman and as a result, he went on the big tour. >> that was really something he really wanted to do. >> real

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health care to people trans rights a human rights trance kids are under attack across the country arkansas has just banned them from accessing health care this is ted to man to my kids who will tell us who they are it's our job to support them not demonize or harm them don't bother looking any of this up though because these people who are saying this have definitely done their research they've weighed the pros and the cons of this bill and have come to the undeniable conclusion that this bill is really bad just retreat spread the message and enjoy the feeling of moral superiority but if for some reason you decide to look past the veil of vacuous virtue signaling you might discover that there's a bit more to the issue see what these people mean by health care is the practice of injecting confused kids with a bunch of hormones and irreversibly mutilating their bodies because you know that's apparently a basic human right and 12 year old kids definitely know what they want to do with their life and if they want to whole new body well who's to stop them and the people who will be calling that

we want to broaden the party after all, like the governor of arkansas. but even the more ornery, obstinate and conservatives will say i'm not going to go along with political correctness, because i'm a free speech absolutist or free-market absolutist, or some other absolutism that only exists in the air and has never existed in the actual political tradition of the united states. as a result, they will issue standards altogether. the irony here, you either get into the left new standard or throw out standards altogether. either way, the left gets the obliteration of the old standards. the shorter answer, it is important for conservatives to go to teaching and media, but that is not sufficient. we also need to recognize these entities exist in a broader political landscape, a broader political framework, and we need to be willing and have the courage to wield a political power when we have it. president trump, i hope he lives a long life and i hope when he goes to his eternal rewards, he donates his body to science and his spine to the gop, because if the

s in his poll traveled to arkansas all she has this report. edgey beach your rights under attack arkan source the 1st state in the us to ban young trans people from getting trans health care. we are about to meet someone directly affected. and his mom are just on their way back home from school they live on the outskirts of little rock the capital of arkansas. back in andrews room and then midge of the rocky horror picture show it was like one of the 1st representations of where media were like got to see i was doing my house over christmas break like the year before i came out. andrew's 15 art is his way to express what he thinks and what he feels just because of the likeness originally stated. that he started transitioning 2 years ago with the new law in place andrew won't have access to hormones and other gender of foaming medical support the question is whether trends youth should have access to trans health care but the over arching question is if politicians can overrule the decisions of parents. no andrew has been taking testosterone si

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