the court is to grab the statehouses. if you look at when they were at congress, they had every office in congress. most of the agenda didn't go through because almost all of their agenda, the antiabortion stuff, it is all with statehouses. my call out for democrats is, this can be a side thing. we can't only think of statehouses after we are finishing working with the federal stuff. this has to be the core mission because it is where the other side's fight is starting and all the institutes -- in the country determine it. it has to be a big picture mindset from joe biden down. unless we go to where the battle is and bring accountability back to gerrymandered statehouses to extremist loss --laws, they will continue winning the fight. host: we will go to jesse on the republican line, new mexico. guest: thank you so much and i will tell you, i am a reregistered republican since the 2020 election just like you know. that is a little bit, that is the tip of the iceberg for me. i was wondering what you think about this forewor

many statehouses, i put this in my book, the average statehouse has three permanent reporters that isisaster for democracy. if we care about democracy subscribe to your local paper and in-state paint. by the way there is something happening and he states that is also good there are nonprofit journalistic outlets that are building up and they are providing a watchdog column. they are doing in other ways so support the small papers. these nonprofits are actually really getting into some of the tougher questions. it is a crisis, it is getting worse, but there are ways to go back to the 30 steps. it is an economic crisis for these outfits. put your money where democracy is, support a local paper. share the stories when the right about statehouse corruption. host: let's go topeyton in new hampshire. caller: home to unh as well. to be honest, looking forward to this. i caught david when i was picking up my daughter and she was graduating so i saw david on ohio public tv and he was describing this. it was the first time i heard it and i bought the book and i read through it. i was shocked to

one in the house, one in the senate, and one above the statehouse dome and one in the lobby. when the compromise was brokered to remove 441 -- 4 for 1, many felt it was a compromise that they could live with i wasn't elected until 2013, my first year was 2014. unfortunately, that had already been done. now, in the aftermath of the tragedy that happened here at mother emanuel, or across the street at mother emanuel, we were able to move the one last flag that was in front of the statehouse. that's gone. that's progress. that is real progress that i want to give the audience of some semblance of how many flags there were. i talked to the members who used to have to go into that chamber, much as councilman middleton has stated, the feeling of shame and embarrassment that many african-american members had to face every day as they pledged allegiance to the flag, and the confederate was in front of the chamber. the other thing that was brokered in the heritage act that many people don't know, the full funding of an african-american monument which you see on the statehouse grounds.

there are statehouses with republican trifectas.hat are republican majority versus 18 democrat. 31 state senates versus 18 democrats. if you look at the breakdown of where voters are in many of the states, it doesn't match up. even in ohio where there is a republican trifecta, there's more democrats registered in the state. david is right, that one of the fundamental issues is that americans don't get involved in state politics. for years now, some of the most contentious and important issues are being litigated in the statehouses. a big part of what we try to do is get voters, especially women voters, to start focusing on who their state representatives sen show up to vote. we talked about how often state legislators run unopposed in places like florida and georgia. you have a very substantial number of seats that run with no democrat. even trying to, you know, fight those republican candidates. it is a serious problem, and americans really need to start focusing. the supreme court is pushing more and more issues back to the states

begin to the statehouse, we are left with the same solution we had before. >> i never thought i'd runrs for a lot of reasons. it just seemed to out of reach but it's not that hard. they just try to make it look confusing so i think that opened to myself and it was really important. >> at times feels like they are not ready, not quite qualified and is just about taking the first step. >> chloe and i were underdog by 15 points in the district and cover one by democrats. a 26-year-old woman with a 25 euros campaign manager. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> it wasn't that complicated, we just did what we had done since we were young. we talked to the people in our community, we-d drove door to dr and went to people's houses and had real conversations with them. ♪♪ then we one in the most rural county in the most rural state in america. ... >> .m >> landed this fully start quick. >> public service. >> what we do now?m >> i will dive back into climate organizing asap get some warm weather and trails to get back into training. 72 miles. ♪♪ >> i never really heard people talk about climate change but good jobs and s

think the american people are ready to win back the congress, win back the senate, and win back statehouses across the country, and in two years, we will win back america. senator grassley, it is great to be back here with you in this great tradition of the iowa state fair. thank you all for coming out. thank you all for coming out. >> have you heard from the january 6 committee about whether you're going to testify or whether they'll ask you? >> january 6 was a tragic day in the life of our nation. but thanks to the efforts of law enforcement personnel we questioned the violence. we reconvened the congress and we completed the people's work. peaceful transfer of power. >> have they asked you to testify? >> the january 6 committee was formed in such a partisan way and i think that's been a missed opportunity for the northwestern people. when speaker pelosi made a decision early on to deny seats for republicans on the january 6 committee, to me that suggested that this inquiry would be more partisan and frankly it's reflected more of a partisan nature throughout which is -- i think it's stil

but there were other republicans in the statehouse who thought it did not go far enough. the republican governor is the one who called for this special session to get this bill done and he wasted no time in signing it into law last night. in a statement he said, quote, following the overturning of roe, i stated clearly that i would be willing to support legislation that made progress in protecting life. in my view this bill accomplishes this goal following its passage in both chambers of the indiana general assembly with a solid majority of support, end quote. the vote comes just days after voters in kansas overwhelmingly rejected an effort there to remove a constitutional protection on abortion. the new near-total ban in indiana is set to take effect on september 15th. >> all right, carlos suarez, thank you very much for that. for more on this i want to bring in now state representative renee pack in indiana. representative pack, so good to see you. first i would like to get your reaction to this new restrictive law. >> thank you very much for having me. it's just been a

it wasn't really until then i'm ashamed to say that i lived a statehouse district and state senate district to see if there was a different way to turn this massive ship around, for me, like one nail in the ship. i don't know. was there a different way? >> the other question too as you're talking, and you sort of alluded to it, you became a believer. i'm going to ask the hard and honest question, did you believe you could do it? people ask me that too, did you think you could win? as you were going into it, did you have this undeniable confidence like yeah, we've got this. how much percentage were you like i don't know, i don't know? >> i thought we were going to lose the entire time, yeah, definitely. >> that's honest. >> you just keep going because, you know, when you're running races, it is about whether it's -- i don't know, because i have never run an ultra marathon, but maybe it is about the journey as much as the outcome, and the work every day felt really meaningful having conversations with so many voters who had never been contacted by a democrat before and finding so much common

not in a statehouse but at the ballot box in kansas where voters upended assumptions, defeating by a wide margin a constitutional amendment that would have opened the door to a ban on abortions in kansas. the mechanics of the victory mustering an unexpectedly large voter turnout in the mostly red state, quickly becoming a case study for democrats and republicans as they weigh the potential impact of abortion as an animating issue in the november midterm elections. elsewhere last night, important wins for trump-backed candidates in several state primary elections. we have two reports beginning with kristen welker on the kansas vote >> reporter: lester, good evening this was the first time abortion was on the ballot since roe v. wade was overturned six weeks ago. the top takeaway, the issue is energizing for democrats and even some republicans but it's still not clear what it all means for november [ cheering ] >> reporter: tonight, shock waves across the country after kansas voters turned out in unexpected numbers to uphold abortion rights in a red state turnout was staggering, approa

not in a statehouse but at the ballot box in kansas where voters upended assumptions, defeating by amargin a constitutional amendmen

the way that women of color are elected into congress have the potential to be in senate, in our statehouses , with the fights that are happening today. it means that they haveto build coalitions. the one thing that we know for sure, is that the way that women of color organize and move in their communities -- they are the ultimate influencers. more than any other group in the american civic li -- women of color influence friends and family to go vote, to get involved with their community, to uplift issues from housing to criminal justice reform. othethings that we care about. to really hold that vision. when we say women of color, the influencers, they also influence building multiracial coalitions. why is this important now? when you have a population -- almost eve region, especially in the south and southwest, here in california too -- there is no majority of anybody. building coalitions on shared sense of value in order to win political power is the way to go. women of color really know how to do this and have done this effectively. when we look at some of the remarkable winds that we ha

those 10 seats are in congress, statehouse, state senate, state board of education. -- the voting rights act -- is clear. texas would be required under the john lewis act on both the geographic clearance and the known practices of this formula would be required to submit -- statewide for pre-review and clearance led by the department of justice or as you know in texas they decided on several occasions in the past by a three-judge district court in washington dc. that would be determined -- whether there was -- went there here clearly has been -- texas has communicated over several months. so instead of -- because of the delay in census data and your early primary and texas, it will not be resolved before the 2022 primary elections move forward. instead, we would have to preclearance very efficiently and effectively preventing these violating redistricting lines stash the result today is because of the failure in the senate to act on this. in 2022 we need to have these lines in place. rep. garcia: thank you, mr. chairman, i only have like 40 seconds i will yield my 40 seconds to my collea

if you run for the statehouse. he's starting at the united states senate.also a tough state because of pittsburgh and philadelphia. pat toomey was able to navigate it. they say toomey is a moderate. his detractors say he's a rhino. he was able to win in a state republicans don't always win in. dr. oz, it doesn't start until after labor day, but am i surprised in a tough state like pennsylvania a first time candidate didn't come out of the gates like secretariat? i am not. brian: is there a danger in the overinvestigation? among the things the republicans say they are going to investigate, the fbi probe of trump, hunter biden's business dealing, ukraine and money. is there a danger of overinvestigating? >> there its. what individual members say they are going to investigate is of no consequence to me. if jimmy jordan or mccarthy says it, you should pay attention. jimmy jordan has been around a long time. so he knows this. the d.c. media never met a republican investigation that should start and never met a democrat investigation they should end. jimmy is goi

so once we get confirmation of that, we will bring you those statehouse. moving on now and donald trump is facing mounting pressure. fine reports. his lawyer signed a statement back in june, confirming all classified material at the far former president, florida home has been returned to the government. that's according to a report in the new york times. the statement would be at odds with this week. seizure of 11 sets of classified documents from marla, gar, ms. handling or sharing top secret information, critical to national security is a violation of the u. s. as espionage act trumpet says he had declassified all papers he took from the white house while in office to bring us up to speed. let's bring him high need your castro, who joins me from washington. they say, hello there, heidi, why is this development about the lloyd statement signal begins to go through the sequence of events. plumley, the significance of this sign statement, is that this may be the seed for why trump and his aids are being investigated. apparently not only for potentially viol

kind of folks they tell us the same thing in the act the same way we like them to get into the statehousees and were left with the same resolutions. >> i never thought that i would run for office. not a million years for a lot of reasons because i just seem to be average but essentially not that hard, you just make you less confusing so i think that open up myself and i was really important. >> so many folks myself included, at times if you like they're not ready and not quite qualified and is just about taking the first step going i were under by 16 points let alone 26 rolled and 25 -year-old campaign manager. >> community organizing and everything. [inaudible]. >> and it was not that complicated, we just did what we had done when we were young, we talk to the people in our community going to go door to door to people's houses and have real conversations with them. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> and then, we want the most rural county is rural state in america. [laughter] ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> hey, how are you doing. >> i am doing so good, we are so excited. catching up on sleep in trying to process it. >> when do

. >> to your point i'm a guy who carried to life squealing pigs to the statehouse and i was governor to fork over constitutional mandates interstate. i've been invited on the categories. i been way out there and in the age of trump i was viewed as an establishment not one rotor bridge named after me i fought the establishment but i was a twitchell part of the establishment. here's the telling thing after my loss the next night i had a pre-organized tour in the capital so i was there with folks at home giving the gun to her, who should be there but jeff flake and his wife given a gun to her as well. i don't think you've ever lost an election but if you have and they treat you like you have rigor mortis or terminal illness or somebody of close-knit family died and everybody was solicitous i'm so sorry, jeff and his wife grab me and said i'm so sorry and we got into a conversation and we really wanted to have another term in the senate but we saw the handwriting based on what happened to you and others and we didn't want that but tell me more about the election. it was really weird. peo

respected the constitutional rights of the uniform or's judgment treated mar-a-lago like an al qaeda statehouseat is wrong with the attorney general? >> nothing since consistency and assessment of a risk like refusing to pursue a search warrant for the unabomber juxtaposed against this pursuing a search warrant for the former president of the net state residence. it is absolutely impossible to understand but as you pointed out, he has a record. he has a parent of this type of behavior. we don't need to look any further when merrick garland issued this memo targeting parents. he thought it was required the use of all the department's resources to go after parents protesting at school board meetings and yeah, again, when presented with a situation with a lot of people protesting, a lot of people going to the streets about abortion, ticketing outside of supreme court justices' house, there was no memo. no credible assessment of risk in terms of what is actual a real threat and what is not. >> jesse: so he will probably get impeached when republicans gets the house. they will probably hold hearings

we must take the case for life to every statehouse in america. we must work to expand support for women in crisis pregnancies to support the unborn and newborn with equal generosity. we won adoption to be easier and more affordable for everyday americans. we want to end all taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers once and for all. the core commitment to life and our commitment to restore the sanctity of life to american law , our agenda calls for defending religious liberty in defending freedom of speech from this era of censorship, coercion and cancel culture, securing our border, protecting our community to ending critical race theory in our schools and offering an agenda to our children that upholds and celebrates the progress -- we call for enacting universal school choice which the state of arizona did. when i was governor of indiana we doubled our school choice program. we called for ending the assault on women's sports. defending the god-given second amendment right to keep and bear arms. the culture begins with defending the i

. >> you saw in the january 6th hearing, rusty bowers, the speaker of the arizona statehouse says giulianies but no evidence. donald trump went out on election night, claims there was fraud, claimed a big lie. started immediately without having any evidence, any facts, and of course as you noted, bill barr has been deposed in the dominion case because he told trump that this whole conspiracy theory about dominion voting machines was a bunch of crap. so, again, i think this is a great pushback to the role of conspiracy theory in american politics. >> yeah. really excellent. appreciate your view on it. it's a big, big precedent that's clearly getting noticed. thank you. fit in a break. when we return, news in the sentencing of ahmaud arbery's murders. stay with us. ers. stay with us i would say that to me an important aspect is too... meta portal with smart sound. helps reduce your background noise. bring that sense of calm, really... so you come through, loud and clear. meta portal. the smart video calling device that makes work from home work for you. i love all types of dancing... salsa,

>> we don't know is when he moved to kabul into that statehouse. he allegedly was hit, struck.the intelligence that led the cia to that house? did he move sometime? it's assumed he moved sometime in the last year. he was largely believed to have been in that border region inside pakistan on the other side of the afghan border for years. again, he was very sick for some time. we'll hopefully get more details from the president about some of the intelligence. i highly doubt that they will really give away the source of the tip. it's interesting that there was this $25 million reward. will that reward be paid out? was their attempt that will lead to some sort of reward being paid out? >> jesse: where would we have launched a drone from? because we lost a lot of capabilities when we pulled out of there. i'm not really sure if we actually were able to do what we said we were able to do with the strike certainly bolsters the president. we see the president right now as he takes the podium. we are going to have to let you go and listen to the president speak. >> president biden: at my

you certain the statehouse in north carolina, you are in the u.s. senate, you know this. people just like to say no will. it doesn't matter what the idea is they just like to say no. so for those who are critical of red flag laws in other states, what are their ideas to reduce mass shootings or limit the death toll in a mass shooting? what ideas are they coming up with? >> well, we haven't seen many. i should have mentioned we should not have met many good ideas we did the hard work to get this bill passed. i should also mention we did something that if you are 18 years old, on your birthday you could go apply for a gun and you are effectively one day old. if you've been convicted of a serious crime that you committed when you were 18, that would have prevented you from being able to get a gun, failing a background check we think it sets make sure we have a mental health adjudication or a serious crime and the salt or something else on the record. something else we did though, it instances where we do deprived, we remove the ability to have a gun for a period of time we h

that's according to a report to the texas statehouse committee no one tried opening the floor. >> thisonference is to give you a snapshot of where we're at today. >> you guys have said that he was barricaded. can you explain to us how he was barricaded and why you guys could not breach that door. >> i have taken all your questions into consideration. we will be doing updates. >> no, you should be able to answer that question now, sir. >> what is your now? >> shimon prokupecz. >> shimon, i hear you. >> we've been given a lot of bad information. why don't you clear all of this up now and explain how it is that your officers were in there for an hour, yes, rescuing people but yet no one was able to get inside that room in. >> shimon, we will circle back with you. we want to answer all your questions. >> i really got the sense that they were hiding something and he told us yeah, officers were there and then the border patrol goes in and kills the gunman. he doesn't tell us what's going on and why. that is really started to get me very angry and upset. >> thank you so much. >> well, victor

she was a republican who began serving in the house in 2013 and before that served in the indiana statehouseshe was the top gop member on the house ethics committee and a rising star within the party. congresswoman jackie walorski was 58 years old. very sad. >>> coming up right here in the situation room, the highest ranking former trump administration officials to be subpoenaed so far in the criminal investigation of january 6th. what it tells us about the justice department's focus on the former president. >> tech: cracked windshield? don't wait. go to safelite.com you can schedule service in just a few clicks. it's so easy. d more customers today are relying on their cars advanced safety features, like automatic emergency breaking and lane departu warning. that's w our recalibration service is state of the art. we recalibrate your vehicle's camera, so you can still count on those safety features. all right, we're all finished. >> customer: thank you so much. >> tech: thank you. don't wait--schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ [laughter] hey, i was thinking abou

meanwhile in oklahoma, cnn projects republican congressman markwayne mullin defeating the former statehouse speaker t.w. shannon in the runoff race to replace jim ien hoff. and a huge blowout in the battleground state of florida. democrats have picked their nominee to take on the current republican governor, ron desantis, in november. and cnn is projecting that they chose the former governor -- make in the former republican governor -- charlie crist, far outpacing his most formidable opponent, nikki fried, florida's agriculture commissioner. now, crist used to be republican, but now he's the democrat. he's going to take on -- he's going to go head to head with desantis. the republican view is frankly one of the biggest threats to donald trump in 2024. let's turn now to cnn's phil mattingly at the very magic wall. he's closely monitoring it all. phil, what are you seeing? >> we already got the answer on the likely next senator from oklahoma. we know who democrats have selected to go up against ron desantis in florida. there's a few house races in florida we're keeping an eye on too. as you n

but the idaho case reminds me very much of this viral video, frankly, of a south carolina statehousetative discovering what some of these unintended consequences could look like. listen. >> first, she's going to pass this fetus in the toilet. she's going have to deal with that on her own. there's a 50% chance -- greater than 50% chance that she's going to lose her uterus, a 10% chance she'll develop sepsis and herself die. that weighs on me. i voted for that bill. these are affecting people. >> i've said it before and i'll say it again. the problem now from a political perspective from republicans is that the reality of these laws, some of the trigger laws put in place thinking roe v. wade will prevent them from going into effect, those realities are starting to really sink in for americans. >> absolutely. and i think, also, for republicans, the kansas referendum was a huge wake-up call that many americans including in deep red states do not support these massive restrictions on abortion, and i think the other complicating factor here is these laws are really complicated and there's

and hoosiers have come out, thousands of hoosiers came out to the statehouse for the last two weeks, making so much noise, practicing their first-amendment rights, because what was happening was their first-amendment rights with freedom of religion was certainly being taken away, as well as their access to private health care decisions. we in indiana, we like our liberty, we want our freedom. and this was an overreach and an overstep, and the republican party in indiana knows it. >> throughout this fight, you have repeatedly referenced your own personal story, your own internal battle, at one point, over whether to have an abortion. what do you want your republican colleagues and any listening who may support abortion bans today to know about that decision? >> it was very clear that even rape and incest victims were not going to be given any mercy or any grace. what we were going -- what we are going to give them is ten weeks. children who have been raped and victims of incest will have ten weeks to process being raped, to understand what's happening to their bodies, and then make a

that's probably the dumbest, well, there's a long list, but one of the dumbest legislators in the statehouseah. then there's blake masters. he wants to u.n. seat senator mark kelly and masters claim he won in 2020 and if he was a senator in 2020 he would have objected to the results. oh, but there's more about masters. he also supports a federal personhood law. blames gun violence on black people and peddles the great replacement theory that democrats are, quote, trying to change the demographic of our country. oh, and then there's this. masters recently praised the unabomber as an underrated thinker. we have a lot to talk about, so joining me now is arizona state senator raquel toran and the writer for "the all work" and author of why dedid it, the travel log to the republican road to hell." >> i have to start with you, rakell, i don't know where to begin. what the hell is happening with the gop in arizona because whatever is happening there it has cast a dark shadow across the entire country? >> that's correctly. arizona sadly has a long history of extremists, and you name former sheriff a

the 1990's that i do not think i will live to see the confederate flag taken off the front of the statehouse. it happened seven years ago but because of a tragedy but it is happened -- it did happen and enough people had to be dragged forward to make it happen because that was a decision made by political persons who, if you take a poll in south carolina, the majority of the population would say leave it up. but it did come down but that was -- and that was a powerful statement. even if people didn't care that the fact that south carolina was boycotted, you could have a certain athletic contest in south carolina because of that flag. you had the basketball coach in carolina leading a march two columbia to take it down. it did not get anywhere so people can change. >> you go can change photo op we know in south carolina, is that change comes incrementally. we are an incrementalist state and how do we balance those two things went you can still drive down california street and see the not -- the monument and the monuments that exist in charleston and the rest of the state. what does further ch

they want answers, and we were even told at the statehouse, there was no water there, as well.e to do that with bottled water. at the end of the day here, we have no clue for when this will get fixed. >> ryan young, we're glad you're there. >>> coming up, as joe biden calls for more action against gun violence, small devices like these are turning ordinary hand guns into weapons of war in just seconds. cnn's drew griffin has the details next. ♪ it wasn't me by shaggy ♪ you're never responsible for unauthorized purchases on your disco. welcome to thursday night football, only on prime video. play for the guy beside you! play for this stadium! let's go, baby! thursday night is now the prime night of football. deep downfield! got it! touchdown! legendary players, amazing matchups, a new era begins. let's go! the prime night of football. only on prime video. when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis persists... put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable,... i got rapid symptom relief with rinvoq. check. when uc held me back... i got lasting, steroid-

. >> i am a guy who carried two live squealing pigs into the statehouse when i was governor, decrying pork over a constitutional mandate in our state, i have been as far out on the nut job category, i have been way out there and in the age of trump i was viewed as a rhino's talisman, not one road or bridge named after me in south carolina, i consistently fought the establishment but i was a party establishment and here is a telling thing, after my loss, the next night i had a huge, in the capital, i was there with folks at home, i round the corner and who should be there but jeff flake and his wife giving a tour as well. i don't think you ever lost an election but if you have they treat you like you have rigor mortis or a terminal illness or someone in the family died and everybody was really solicitous like i'm so sorry and they grabbed me and we got into a conversation, we wanted another term in the senate but we saw the handwriting on the wall and we didn't want that so we are getting out but tell me more about the election, it was a weird one because people would come up and say a

>>> right now, in indiana, the statehouse is considering a near total abortion ban that just passed theend. tomorrow in kansas, you've got abortion on the ballot for the very first time since roe was overturned. voters will decide whether to end the state's constitutional right to access an abortion. i want to bring in nbc's dasha burns who is live in kansas. there is a lot at stake here. already people who live in kansas are in kind of an island as it is. >> reporter: yeah, hallie, that's right. in fact, i'm standing in front of just one of five abortion clinics this the state of kansas, that's recently become one of just a few clinics in this entire region after the fall of roe. so many of the surrounding states enacted all-out bans or significant restrictions to abortion. so yeah, the stakes are high here, as they vote here. in kansas, in 2019, the state supreme court ruled that the state's constitution does protect the right to an abortion. if this amendment passes, though, it would remove that constitution protection and pave the way possibly for more restrictions, essentially, hal