the other part schmidt is isolating is the danger., what a waste of money they spent thousands and thousands of dollars and it turned out at the end of it even after they hired a biased republican leading conspiracy firm to do the recount that biden got more votes than trump did, more than the insinuations are proliferating. you've had recounts and trying to get voter records in pennsylvania, wisconsin, texas and all sorts of things that undermine our faith in the election system. this is not about, you know, looking back this is about republicans looking forward and saying, you know, in the next time can they sew that kind of doubt and maybe just turn a few people's votes, a few key people, and then hand the election to the republicans even though they wouldn't have wanted it in a democracy, which schmidt is saying is right we don't have a republican party that's an antidemocrat party the entire party is an antidemocracy party. >> that's an important and chilling point which people like steve schmidt and people like yourselves who ha

steve schmidt, thank you so much for making time, my friend. i really appreciated. >> great to be with you, rachel. thank you. >> i wanted you to be here tonight as i said, because i feel like you've been throwing bull's-eyes in this peripheral darts match from the very beginning. and i wanted to know if you are, your state of mind. whether you are reassured are comforted at all by the way things took me turn today, or whether this feels ominous to you? the way it does i think, to me, and people like mr. kagan writing in the washington post. ike mr. kaga>> i think it's exty ominous, rachel. i think we're in a crisis. it's hard to overstate the magnitude of that crisis. i agree with mr. kagan that donald trump will certainly be the republican nominee in 2024. we have an autocratic movement in this country. and one thing is certainly true, the republican party of late september 2021, is a profoundly more radical party than it was on election day than it was on january 6th, that it was in on inauguration day. and part of the strategy, and it's imp

mike schmidt, general barry mccaffrey, steve schmidt, thank you all so much for starting us off today. >>> when we come back, voters in california have a few more hours to decide whether they keep their current governor or embrace the spread of trumpism in california seeping its way through the republican party there. what's at stake and how the two parties are swinging at each other with polls closing tonight. >>> plus saturday's justice for january 6th insurrectionist rally creating problems for those gop lawmakers who would like to pretend they know nothing about it but at the same time want to keep the president's fanatic base engaged. we'll look ahead to what's expected this weekend at the u.s. capitol. >>> later in the show, nicki minaj triggering a conversation on vaccine hesitancy and the disinformation that's fueling it. the backlash highlighting the divided nation retreating to their information bubbles. "deadline white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. break. don' t go any where. we did it again. verizon has been named america's most reliable network

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and that was a definition that was produced by congress schmidt. you really were very, very close to the nazi party and it's exactly the vision of some people that you have and well divided into friends and enemies with a 0 sum game. and they all tentative view is a view in which you do cooperation and you to tradeoffs and you, you make compromises. and that's a, that's a realistic and productive view of the world. it's, it's not, it's not a bad view or it's, it's actually a very constructive view. it can be very constructive. you the problem that i was going tonight was that uncle, me, i can see. so focusing on the, the emotional side of politics. and when people in eastern europe, in particular, felt that there was globalized station, there were some regression of the slide that then they have been basically won't see more politics and less of a c. and i think the paradox that i'm glad that you can. so focus on on a see that she has failed to recognize the where the fears of those when america might be called the left. and especially people east

but is widely widely repeated about visions in politics in schmidt said if you have a vision, you should go and consult an eye doctor and consultant optician. that's probably why. okay. matt drew it when harold was answering his last question before it went to the break. you what you raise your hand one to jump in. still right now. go ahead matt. yeah, so 1st of all that quote, i think he actually did not say not to ship one more more. so what i think one of the things that he's the legacy of medical in a negative sense comes back to the wrong. the prefer important you made the wrong peter about the difference between policy and politics and policy is about what works. politics, according to the famous german definition, is fear way between grand and enemy and in politics where he shouldn't have too many friends and enemies shouldn't be. would you need an element of that sort of hash june of emotion? and i think the miracle has had, is that she's been very good policy making very good, a government by a spreadsheet. but sometimes you need a little bit more, especially when you feel that

you were with her stepfather jim schmidt in wyoming.hat keep family going, allowing cameras inside for the nation to view this? reporter: they want to focus on gabby. now that she is found they are hoping for more answers. right now they need the time to grieve together. they know the world has been watching this case. they want everyone to be a part of this as they can, watching a live stream in the next two hours of service inside, eric. eric: what are they saying about brian and his parents apparently they didn't return texts for so long? reporter: you know what? they have not been talking about the relationship. in fact as weave been moving forward, after her body was discovered they asked the media please just schopik tourings of gabby. don't show them together. keep the focus on gabby which we have done. as far as the search they remain tight-lipped as the fbi. eric: the foundation again, the name of it? reporter: linked on our fox news website. they are still, i believe it is going live here soon. it is something that they're sti

i asked schmidt about this news, he told me he's hopeful that the van is possibly theirs. they're focusing on this campground area and then are they moving out in a group search of some kind? >> i would assume so. they have a pretty large area that goes back into some pretty dense forest area, some pretty rugged terrain. >> reporter: now, i want you to look at this. we grabbed still shots of the dashboard of the couple's van both from the body cam footage of the widely-circulated traffic stop on august 12th and of this new van sighting, and you can clearly see what looks like gabby's hat in the same spot on the dashboard. it's another strong indication that this could be the van. law enforcement has the area hut down to the public while -- shut down to the public while they investigate this rugged terrain, and schmidt says they continue to ask anybody who's been in this area to look for photos for this example. if you look in the background, maybe you shot something you didn't know you had, take a look and contact authorities immediately. back to you. benjamin: laura ingle

joining me, steve schmidt and senior adviser to the lincoln project stewart stevens."it was all a lie." thank you so much for coming to "the sunday show." steve, this is your first time on the show. i need you to have at it. why is trump continuing to push the big lie but also tell those people that the arizona audit proved he won the state and that the election should be decertified even though he still lost the state again and lost the state by even more votes. >> well, good morning, jonathan. he is doing it for power, to take political power in this country. what he has done is poison american democracy for whatever number you'd like to throw out, is it 30% of the country, 35% of the country. whatever number the 78% of republicans who believe the most legitimate and fair election in the country's history was rigged and that joe biden is an illegitimate president and that the country is in essence occupied by an illegal assortment of politicians put there by minorities, that's what the message is. and it's utterly toxic. the intonations of violence that go along wit

. >> gabby petito's stepfather is jim schmidt.s flown to wyoming for the search we will hear from him live in a moment. >>> first, let's get to crime scene's valerie castro, who is at the northport home on a lawn where a crowd gathered what can you tell us >> shep, we've been on this street in front of the laundrie home for the last couple days looking for some side of brian or his parents there was thought maybe they're not even home anymore. but just a few moments ago several law enforcement officers went into the home and now media and members of the community are standing in front of the door, waiting for him to come out. there are community members there with signs asking for brian to come out. you can hear people asking for brian to come out. there was video shot earlier this evening of those law enforcement officers walking into the door. they have been from about 30 minutes or so. no sign coming out they were not in uniform as far as we can tell there were thoughts they could be former fbi agents but it's unclear. again, n

that was from jim schmidt and karen and joe petito.s that deal with the relationship between brian and gabby. they were asked by the f.b.i. not to discuss that. the family is devastated. every day that this goes on, they get more and more desperate. they are at the point that that desperation is turning to anger. they know that the laundries know where their daughter is and they will not tell them. that's infuriating. yes? i'm not going to talk about what the f.b.i. is doing and what their investigation is. all i know is that the f.b.i. and the law enforcement agencies that are handling this are the best in the country and i'm sure they are doing a great job. umm, i know they reached out on friday, the 10th and i believe again on the 11th and the laundries refuse to answer those. they stayed silent. as you know from the north port's police department press conference yesterday that brian was back in florida on september 1st. so, that was over a week later. i will not. >> reporter: [inaudible]. >> i know they were out here. gabby's brot

saying in part we know firsthand the impact gabby have on so many lives, we grieve alongside the schmidtsy to take real action against the attorney representing the family of gabby's boyfriend brian laundrie. he was reportedly using gabby's picture to promote his business. on long island blue-ribbon, the community mourns the 22-year-old graduated from the high school in 2017. >> i can feel what the parents feel because i lost a daughter five years ago so i know what they feel like. >> he seemed like an innocent sweet girl and we all felt like she was our daughter. jillian: as you saw in that video there were blue ribbons lining the fence behind me. gabby's mother to represent caveats eyes, and they plan to shine a light for gabby tomorrow night at the blue point nature preserve where people can light candles, pick those candles up here between 2:00, and 6:00 :00 pm. todd: thanks. jillian: a family friend of the petitos, jen mcnamara. last we spoke, there hadn't been any answers, it is a much different situation and sorry for the loss, you were close friends with gabby's mother in the fami

michael schmidt thank you so much.nk you for coming with what has to be the most visually arresting scene i've seen on television. >> he looks adorable. >> since -- i don't know, julie andrews in the alps "sound of music". >> we appreciate him coming on the show. >> dorothy walking through the field of poppies. it pops out at you. thank you, mike schmidt. >> a hospital in upstate new york will pause delivering babies because a number of staffers have side to quit rather than get vaccinated against covid. >> and keep the mothers of those babies safe. yeah. thank you. >> you work in health care. >> you should have left a long time ago. >> the latest on the democratic infighting over the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. >> we need a better picture of bernie. >> the appeal from former president george w. bush for unity as the nation marked the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. really moving words on his part. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. be right ba. (burke) i've seen this movie be

the mom, nicole schmidt is saying it could have been sent by brian on gabby's phone to throw the family off her trail. >> the text read something like no service in you somebody but you hope investigators are able to somehow figure out where the text from, from cell phone towers but if they weren't in yosemite than where were they? they have to search all those towers. a lot of work they have to do. >> absolutely and to echo that point if they were in yosemite national park in california on august 30th, brian was here in florida on september 1st so he would have to drawn cross-country in a number of days. the timing is very interesting. >> it is 10 minutes after the hour, two moderate democrats standing in the way of president biden's $3 trillion budget. if it passes joe concha predicted will be the last straw for voters. he will explain why next. we raise the rest of the money. >> tough stuff on the news today, this will put a smile on your face, used to walk to work every day, this amazing moment he was able to drive home. we will show it to you coming up. common sense, public. >> bla

thank you for joining us as gabby's mother nicole schmidt and her stepfather jim schmidt. father and her stepmother is with us. nicole, let me start with you. i'm just trying to stand back, and as a parent myself, i have a son and a daughter, try to put myself in your shoes. it i is impossible, believe me. i understand that and i'm very sorry to all of you for living through this. i'm trying to understand why this boyfriend, ex-fiance, ends up back at his home in florida and will not tell you where he last saw your daughter? why won't -- any human being with a soul would be doing every thing possible to help get the answers to find your daughter and every day that passes now gets more difficult, doesn't it? >> it's scary and heartbreaking. i don't know how to describe it, to be honest with you. we are running out of time and we are scared for gabby. we think she might be in danger and we just want him to talk. just tell us, where was she? where did you leave her? i want to just know what happened and i'm getting angry now at this point, as you can tell. i am beyond frustra

the attorney general is eric schmidt who joined me now.in schools when most schoolkids are not vaccinated? >> i don't believe in the forced masking of schoolkids, if you look at the data vaccination status aside when you look at the data kids are very unlikely to contract, transmit or get seriously ill from covid. all viruses are different, kids do exceedingly well here and when you balance that with what we do know about the forced masking, the psychological issues, social anxiety, studies about more difficult aspect of learning, when you balance that there is no rationale for bureaucrats making decisions, these are decisions families can make. if you take a step back this is a broader debate about what kind of country we want to live in. how much power do we want to see to government, president biden talked about when can americans go back to normal, 98% vaccination rate, they are never going to let this going we have to fight back on every front, an executive order on the vaccine mandate for 100 million americans, missouri, pushing back

we're back with steve schmidt and matt miller.i want to read a couple of headlines about the different pockets where public servants are really fearing violence and threats. axios is reporting thousands of school board members urged the president to protect them. the national school board association is asking president biden, the fbi, and the secret service to intervene to protect them from the unprecedented threats. in one instance, they describe someone yelling a nazi salute during a michigan school board meeting. another example cites a person being arrested for aggravated battery in illinois. healthcare workers who were once saluted are now being threatened. you hear all sorts of stories in hospitals where they're threatened when they offer a diagnosis of covid. this is some reporting in the a.p. more than a year after u.s. healthcare workers on the front lines against covid were saluted as heroes, some are being issued panic buttons in case of assault and ditching their scrubs before going out in public for fear of harassmen

joe and jim schmidt, gabby's father and stepfather join me now.d been putting out notes about some weird guy. um, and there is all this intrigue. but to you, all there is is the matter of fact is that a young woman who you love and you miss and there are unknown circumstances. joe, let me start with you. and just tell me what you want people to know, and why you need their help. and then, i want to talk to you again on friday and we will go through everything we know then with more time. but i wanted to give you a chance to ask for help. >> i mean, just look at the picture if you can. memorize it. you know, look at the facial features. you know? and memorize that phone number that you are seeing there, too. you know, because we need everyone's help and we don't have a lot of information. so we got a really big area from wyoming all the way down to florida. and 2,500 miles to -- and that's just the road to get everything that's on either side, right? so, we need you guys to memorize their face and if you see something, call that tip line. if you se

. >> we learned today that the patino and schmidt family will hold a news conference this tuesday onng island there is no word on what it will be about, we do know it will be one of the first times that all of the parents have been together for patino and schmidt in this type setting for a news conference. >> her family has remained so strong throughout this entire thing. thank you. now to the latest on the fbi manhunt for brian laundrie at the carlton reserve in florida dog the bounty hunter now joining the search and fox 13 and utah obtaining 911 audio of a dispatcher telling police a witness all laundry hit gabby before officers pulled him over last month. charles watson in northport florida. as authorities search for brian laundrie we have new details about his run-in with police in moab utah and august 12 during his cross-country trip with gabby petito. witness called police to report domestic violence situation telling the dispatcher he saw brian sobbing gabby tonight we have new audio that reveals utah police officers were told a man hit a woman. >> a male hit a female, domest

they wouldn't describe the relationship between the petitos and the schmidts and the laundries, and theyld not see whether they believe that brian laundrie is alive or if they believe his family's statement put out yesterday that they don't know where he is and didn't help him escape. but here's some of what they did say. take a listen. >> the laundries did not help us find gabby. they're sure not going to help us find brian. >> we're just hoping that through our tragedy, with losing gabby, that in the future, that some good can come out of it, that we can help other people that may be in a similar situation, reach out to these other organizations that do similar things and find out what's missing. you know, what can we do to fill that void? >> reporter: and so right there, you're hearing them talk kind of vaguely about this foundation that the family has already announced they would be establishing named for -- it will be called the gabby petito foundation and over the weekend, at the memorial service, they asked for donations to this foundation in lieu of flowers. we heard a little bit

her father joe and her stepfather jim schmidt just gave eulogies remembering gabby, hoping those hereway remembering the love she had for life. >> gabby is the most amazing person i've ever met. so if you're going to leave here today, i'm asking that you guys be inspired by the way she treated people, all people. love knows no gender. love knows no bounds. >> reporter: it is a hard day for many reasons. as the investigation continues, we have learned that gabby petito's remains have still not been released by the fbi and are currently in wyoming. and while that was a difficult decision for her stepfather jim schmidt who was there during search efforts to leave without her, the family says with the uncertainty, it was important to grieve together as a family and hold a service in her honor. we have the prayer card. it was handed out to attendees, and it has the words from one of gabby's tattoos she had on her arms that reads let it be with the words lift up your hearts and share with me the memories that will always be. and this long island community is a tight one and gathered friday

jim schmidt. strength and i know that you guys are praying.schmidt. that is the stepfather of gabby. that is her father. he loves her very much. trying to find her. 1-800-call fbi if you have any tips. 1-800-225-5324. we'll be right back with the handoff. dining including takeom chase freedom unlimited, you're always earning! then this is officially a takeout week. that's a good choice, rita. bon appetit. earn 3% on dining including takeout, and so much more. chase. make more of whats yours. in 2016, i was working at the amazon warehouse when my brother passed away. and a couple of years later, my mother passed away. after taking care of them, i knew that i really wanted to become a nurse. amazon helped me with training and tuition. today, i'm a medical assistant and i'm studying to become a registered nurse. in filipino: you'll always be in my heart. helen knew exercise could help her diabetes... but she didn't know what was right for her. no. nope. no way. but then helen went from no to know with freestyle libre 14 day, now she knows what ac

also yesterday pfizer's ceo revealed vaccination data 5 to 11 will be schmidt by the end of this month. >>> firefighters making progress on the two largest wildfires burning in northern california. more are allowed to return home from the dixie fire. containment is 75%. the caldor fire is now at 69% containment. >>> smoke from those wildfires is making its way back into the bay area. air quality, we have another advisory for today. still dark, but we expect that we will see hazy conditions throughout the day. let's bring in meteorologist kari hall who has been tracking where we're seeing that unhealthy air. yesterday was mostly to the north but what about today. >> it's going to be to the north today. most of the bay area seeing hazy skies but not really dealing with unhealthy air quality. so that air quality advisory once again for the north bay as we're waking up heading out this morning to seeing some of the hazy conditions mixed with the fog. we can see the fog stretching into parts of sonoma county and the yellow dots indicating moderate air quality as we get started. near surface

. >> reporter: healthcare workers donna schmidt and stephanie are refusing the covid-19 vaccine no matteri am employed. >> and do you have a job? >> i do have a job. i am actually at medical leave for a procedure i had. >> reporter: both expect they won't have a job for long. both don't trust the vaccine and its possible side effects. both have requested religious exemptions. what religion are you? >> catholic. >> catholic? and even though the pope got vaccinated and says vaccines are fine and we should be getting them, that doesn't work for you? >> i feel he is a hypocrite. my whole life -- >> reporter: this is -- this is god's messenger on earth. this is -- this is the bishop of rome. >> he is. he was elected to that position. however, he's not abiding by the bible. >> reporter: both say they'd gladly test for covid on a weekly basis instead of getting the vaccine. that's not enough for the state of new york. >> you need to be assured that the person taking care of you is not going to give covid to you or your newborn. >> reporter: donna schmidt works in a neonatal icu. do you worry abo

we just spent part of the afternoon as well with gabby's step-father jim schmidt who was talking to usut being hopeful this search effort was going to bring some developments. of course we don't believe that the family now will be here at this press conference, but we will bring you more as it comes to us. the fbi ready to address us soon. jon? >> jon: laura ingle live in wyoming. thank you. meanwhile, investigators are also looking for gabby petito's boyfriend, brian laundrie whom they believe is missing on a nature reserve in florida. laundrie's family members reported him missing on friday, telling police they hadn't seen him since tuesday. charles watson continues our coverage live in north port, florida. charles? >> we just learned moments ago that the search for gabby petito's boyfriend brian laundrie has wrapped up for the day, and despite extensive efforts on the part of law enforcement, their search today has turned up nothing. they've had a lot of manpower out here today. we're talking about nearly half a dozen agencies, including the fbi assisting in this search. they had be

. >>> joining me is al schmidt, the republican, philadelphia city commissioner.ere. al, always great to speak with you, commissioner. look, we spoke a few times, but as the votes were still being counted in pennsylvania. and in philadelphia, where you were, and you at the time said you saw no evidence of mass fraud there. what was the impact of that comment from you? what did people then say to you after you refused to say that this election was stolen? >> immediately after that interview, the president tweeted at me by name, referring to me as a rhino, saying that i was being used and refusing to look at voter fraud in philadelphia. of course there was no widespread voter fraud in philadelphia. but that's really what led to a series of death threats and, you know, efforts to coerce. >> death threats and efforts to coerce, not just, i imagine you, but also your family? >> right. i mean, this rhetoric, these threats that we're all too familiar with, and unfortunately, as you know, and your report shows and the brennan center report shows, i'm not unique at all. it

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but before we talk with either of the officials i asked to be here tonight my friend steve schmidt. who is not directly involved in these matters not an elected official. but he is somebody who has had clarity on this issue i think before a lot of the rest of us did. and this does feel like a crisis now. in does feel like a splitting point that has grown out of whatever is wrong in republican politics and in the politics that have arisen around the former president. and today with the call, even after the results of this audit showed that trump lost worse nan he thought, the call that this necessarily means the election results should be thrown out and trump declared the winner it feels like a breaking point, a full on separation between election results and facts in a way that feels irrevocable and that feels unmooring and alarming to me wab as hilarious as i find it in the short run but i found myself wantsing to take to steve about this precarious moment. i asked him to be here tonight. thank you for maepg time my friend. i appreciate it. >> great to be with you, rachel. thank yo

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joining us now, phil rucker for the "washington post," also author of i'll fix it and michael schmidt, washington correspondent for the "new york times." still with us, former nato supreme ally commander. michael, i think you have a copy of the book. supposed to come out next week. there you go. always on top of everything. let's talk about the book. it's credible from my reporting that general milley and i believe secretary of state and others in the government, a very small group, had as the election and the aftermath of the election and certainly after january 6th, got together and agreed they would counterman, if you would, any national security orders that came from the commander in chief because his, what they believed to be his instability. these are specifics though in the book. take it from there about this extraordinary calls with the chinese counterpart of our chairman of the joint chiefs. >> so milley was concerned about two things. one of them was in october of 2020. where u.s. intelligence showed that the chinese thought that trump to try to stay in office, to make himse

the most popular place to find a space. >>> we're back with steve schmidt.f conversations about the republican party being one of the largest anti-democratic movements the world over. now republican governors are banning mask mandates, the only way to protect a child under 12. a republican party rolling hundreds of voter suppression laws through state legislatures. you've got kevin mccarthy tlaenting telecom companies if they dane to cooperate with a congressional bipartisan investigation. where are we heading? >> nowhere good. we have an election coming up where we have an enormous question to answer as a country about the direction of the country, the liberalism, the autocratic movement that has become defined by this republican party in this moment, become hostile to american democracy, from how we assign power in this country through an election process. madison kau thorn talking about blood and violence. we see a lot of intimations about violence from republicans. we see on the part of kevin mccarthy a threat by a powerful public officials saying i will

i've experienced 3 chance i call schmidt and merkel. it's strange when you're 54 and you've only had 3 chancellor in general. i think she did a lot of good things for the country and also made a lot of strange decisions with c. d. u is not my pardon me, but i think she can happily retire. i will miss mrs. mccullough, because i'm not satisfied with the current candidates, i would have preferred her. i think mrs. miracle has done a good job, very charismatic. she's accepted everywhere in the world. another city you border. you can admire the woman for longer than too long. mrs. merkel should have gone 4 years ago now. she has lost her way. she did a lot of good in the 12 years before, but now you can see that she's out of steam. or let's explain how the election process is going to work over the weekend. voters don't directly choose the chancellor. instead they have to vote to decide the next parliament. the 1st ballot is for a candidate in that constituency, and there are $299.00 constituencies across germany. the 2nd ballot is for a pol

. >> reporter: -- and friend lisa schmidt -- >> i found it very upsetting when i heard that his kids were in private school. >> reporter: -- both republicans and both want governor newsom out. their main reason -- how he handled the pandemic. >> i mean i could get emotional just talking about it. it was so hard and so hard for so many families. and it's just not okay that he -- it's a double standard. >> larry elder wants to walk us on that same covid cliff. >> reporter: the governor was on a campaign blitz, joined by vice president kamala harris. she was urging voters to get their ballots in now. >> this election, guys, it's not a one off. we need everyone to vote. >> he cannot stand on his own record alone. >> reporter: elizabeth is vice chair of the libertarian party of alameda county and says this recall is not just a republican-led effort. she says right now it's anyone's game. >> at this point, who knows, because there's polls all over the place. >> reporter: according to political data intelligence, registered democrats account for 53% of ballots returned so far with independe

schmidt, what can you tell us? >> what we are seeing here is obvious and important, that's the fact that donald trump is not president anymore makes it much more easy to investigate him. when he was scrutinized by mueller during the first impeachment and the second impeachment. he had the ability to stop documents and try to stop witnesses and he controls the justice department and because of that, it gives him enormous amount of power to make it difficult to get that information. and now that he's stripped of that power. what we see are these investigators moving in ways getting documents that looks like the biden white house is willing to turnover documents from the trump's white house. we may be able to see in that white house in ways we didn't before. my guess is that some where on january 6th in that white house were correspondes of documents of what was going on. at the end of the day, we know a lot about january 6th but we don't know a lot. we don't know a ton about is what trump was actually doing. there is

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i've experienced 3 chancellor's coal schmidt and merkel. it's strange when you're $54.00 and you've only had 3 chancellors. i think she did a lot of good things for the country and also made a lot of strange decisions. the c. d. u is not my party, but i think she can happily retire too long. mrs. merkel should have gone 4 years ago now. she has lost her way. she did a lot of good in the 12 years before, but now you can see that she's out of steam. i will miss mrs. merkel because i'm not satisfied with the current candidates. i would have preferred her. i think mrs . miracle has done a good job, very charismatic. she's accepted everywhere in the world. i'm not to say to you voter, but you can admire the woman. i think everything she did from 2015 on the wards made things worse. she started the way of refugees herself without agreement. that was not right and it cost so much care of here are just a moment. i'll show you how the election works. a german voters don't directly choose a chancellor. the elect members of the bundle stock, who will

also joining us, mike schmidt, "new york times" washington correspondent.is here, former press secretary for hillary clinton's campaign, now the executive director of demand justice. congresswoman, we start with you. what's your reaction to what's happening not just in texas but the stated intent to copycat that law, which is essentially a ban on about 85% of abortions that are performed in this country in many other republican-led states. >> thank you for having me on, nicolle, to talk about this incredibly important topic. what i kept reading all day long as i was going through some of the articles about this, i kept thinking that this is really a series of profiles in cruelty and in power. i'm talking about the texas republican majority who passed this bill. this is not just an anti-abortion bill. it is extreme. it is grotesque frankly, draconian, no exceptions for rape or incest. how about a texas governor cowardice and cruelty who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about in terms of women's health care and how about a supreme court who in the nig