let's discuss with michael smerconish.ortion side reproductive rights side, a little tricky. let's do that second. on the vaccine side, desantis stands next to a guy who just runs some bs about what the vaccine does to your body. he knows it's not true. but he says nothing. because what is his play? >> well, i see the issue similarly. i see the abortion issue and the vaccine issue in the same light, which is, and i love the way you just set it up, it's a short game. it's not a long game. you can sell this to the base. you can sell this in primary season, if you're running for the presidency. this is not a strategy for winning a general election in a presidential race. and the best i can offer you, chris, is to say that they think they'll worry about it later because in the short term, they're all toeing the exact same line. ask yourself this. why doesn't former president donald trump own the vaccine? why isn't this his issue 24/7? why isn't he the one out there talking about operation warp speed, which by the way, i think

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let's hand things over for michael smerconish, who's in for chris cuomo. >> i'm michael smerconish, in for chris cuomo. who would have thought they would make the abortion restriction look legal. enacting a law that bans abortion after just six weeks, a time period so early that many women don't yet know they're pregnant. it contains no exceptions for rape or incest and incentivizes citizens to sue abortion providers. the supreme court has allowed this legislation to stand for now, even though it's a glaring affront to roe v. wade, some say a precursor to jooverturning it. a far cry from mississippi's 15 week restriction and texas is a full 18 weeks before the current standard. president biden called the texas law un-american today in his first on camera words about it, and is looking for ways for his justice department to limit it. >> the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out to -- anyway, and it just seems, i know this sounds ridiculous, almost un-american, i was told that there are possibilities within the

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let's hand things over for michael smerconish, who's in for chris cuomo. >> i'm michael smerconish, in thought they would make the abortion restriction look legal. enacting a law that bans abortion after just six weeks, a time period so early that many women don't yet know they're pregnant. it contains no exceptions for rape or incest and incentivizes citizens to sue abortion providers. the supreme court has allowed this legislation to stand for now, even though it's a glaring affront to roe v. wade, some

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i am michael smerconish in for chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." that's where we are after the lone star state enacted a law that bans abortion after just six weeks. a time period so early that many women don't, yet, know they're pregnant. it contains no exceptions for rape or incest, and incentivizes citizens to sue abortion providers. the supreme court has allowed this extreme legislation to stand, for now. even though it's a glaring affront to roe versus wade. some say, a precursor to overturning it. roe in the cases that followed made it illegal to ban abortions before the point of viability, around 24 weeks. a far cry from mississippi's 15-week restriction and texas is a full 18 weeks before the current standard. president biden called the texas law un-american, today, in his first on-camera words about it and is looking for ways for his justice department to limit it. >> the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system. where people get rewards to go out to -- anyway, and it just seems -- i know this sounds

i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia.oung adults and studies are showing that dissidence can lead to tragedy, depression, self-harm, suicide to name a few. i was thinking about this when watching the national news coverage of the disappearance of 22-year-old gabby petito, the happy, smiling pictures that we've been

>>> it was a very interesting principle distilled my michael smerconish tonight. what does somebody want to own in politics? look around and see. what do different people who want you to listen to them, what do they want to own? "don lemon tonight" starts with the big star d. lemon now. d is familiar with this idea. what do you want to own? do you want to own the vaccine was bad? i don't think so. not long term. it is sketchy, which is why trump doesn't talk about the vaccine the way he could. he could say i brought it to you. take it, take it. he doesn't because he got booed and alabama and he knows there are too many in the base he doesn't want to upset. do they want to own removing roe v wade and telling women from 8 to 80 you don't get to decide on your body. let's say from 18 to 80 because voting age. you don't get to determine freedom of choice, not for you, ladies. >> do you want to own this end runaround and what should be constitutionally correct if possible if democrats one day want to do a similar law for taking guns? if they say we can do this with gun

>> hey, michael smerconish. listen to you tomorrow. can't wait to hear you. nice to see you. >> thanks for that. okay. >>> this is "don lemon tonight ". i'm laura coats. we have breaking news. a judge handed a narrow vehicto to abortion advocates tonight. a judge blocked the anti abortion group called texas right to life from suing abortion providers that are employed by planned parenthood underrestrikctive six-week ban. it allowed people to post tips about possible illegal abortions taking place in the state. planned parenthood pout out a statement tonight saying we are relieved the travis county district court acted quickly to grant this restraining order against texas right to life and anyone working with them as deputized enforcers of this law. president biden called the texas law almost unamerican. >> the thing about the texas law is sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out to -- anyway. it just seems -- i know this sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican. >> it's not a sort of villainty system, it is that jeff. joining me is je

i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. that may sound obvious, but it's not as clear to young adults and studies are showing that dissidence can lead to tragedy, depression, self-harm, suicide to name a few. i was thinking about this when watching the national news coverage of the disappearance of 22-year-old gabby petito, the happy, smiling pictures that we've been showing of petito and the fiance brian laundrie drawn from the official media accounts. with all of the focus on laundrie's role, now, he's gone into hiding. all of this comes as "the wall street journal" is publishing a facebook investigation. one of its stories focuses on how its instagram app is harmful to teenage girl. the journal reports facebook will be studying this with three years with focus groups and diaries on the topic but it hasn't made the research public or done anything to fix it. among the finding that the journal reports from the internal documents and slides 32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, instagram made th

>>> it is a very interesting principle distilled by michael smerconish tonight. what does somebody want to own in politics? look around and see. what do different people who want you to listen to them, what do they want to own? "don lemon tonight" starts with its big star, d lemon, right now. d is very familiar with this idea. you know, what do you want to own? do you want to own that the vaccine was bad? i don't think so. not long term. it is sketchy which is why trump doesn't own the vaccine, the way he could. he could say, hey, i brought it to you. everybody, look how good everything is because of the vaccine. take it, take it. he doesn't because he got booed in alabama and he knows there are too many in the base he doesn't want to upset. do they want to own removing roe v. wade and telling women from 8 to 80 you don't get to decide on your body? let's say, from 18 to 80 because voting age. >> yeah. >> you don't get to determine -- we're talking about freedom and freedom of choice when it comes to the vaccine, but not for you, ladies. >> yeah. well, and do you

we had michael smerconish on yesterday when we got our vaccine cards, i didn't laminate mine, still haven'tt i should have because i thought i would show it places and identify only had to show it a couple places once at my kid's school to get in and once here at work. i wonder if you think that should be more widespread and if you should have to do that to get on say a plane or a train to travel? >> well, you know, first question, you know, just about the idea of having some sort of national system like a passport of sorts, yes. i think that's really important. i got my card here. it's kind of amazing to me that all this talk that we're having resolves around something that looks like this and people don't always carry it with them. they're hardly ever asked to show it, as you point out. it's kind of remarkable and right away the biden administration basically said we're not going to create a federal sort of data base. we're not going to create a passport. this is what they said several months ago. there's still no sort of federal data base or passport. i think that's a problem. i think pe

joining us is natasha alford and cnn political commentator and the host of "smerconish" on cnn, michael smerconishying close attention for the last three decades. i'm not accustomed to having the level of concern that i have today about the security of the united states. i don't mean from foreign threat. i mean from domestic threat. i worry about the stability of our country in ways that i never have previously. i've grown up politically worried about things like will social security be there? what should be the tax rate? yes, to an extent, the cold war. but i think we face real crisis from within. sadly, my answer is yes. >> natasha, what do you think?i political polarization we see produces casualties that amount to what we would see in a war, right? think about the 675,000 covid death number. it's a really gruesome milestone. yet, if you go on any mainstream social media site today, you will see that there are people who question that that number is real. can you imagine? there are people who have died, and there's so many americans who are falling in the camp of saying, we just don't think the