and the way you overturn it is to electric republican presidents to appoint conservatives to the supreme court. and once you have enough conservatives on the supreme court, you can throw out precedent and change the law. well, it took 50 years for 49 years. yeah. well, just this year, the supreme court astonished everybody by reversing its long standing abortion policy. you know, it overturned the roe vs wade and planned parenthood versus casey decisions in one fell swoop. and what everybody says it returns the issue of abortion back to the states. now that's good in some ways because there are pro life states that will. 3 make, you know, in some way outlaw abortion, they will at least shut down the surgical abortion centers. and that will probably save some lives. ah, well, the overturning of roe vs wade. well, it's a tremendous victory. it's a historic victory. something we fought for for almost 50 years, you know, is something to celebrate. and in tremendous achievement. i mean, nobody really expected it to happen until just a few years ago when we finally started to talk about this day. bu

and what they think about the decision, the supreme court republicans, they got to go down to vote for november 8th though, hulu. the only way to make a change guy with . oh, yes i with no, i love telling baby a god . oh god. fees on time for life, because i went through an abortion myself when i was 16 years old, you know, all the pressures of being young really set in with other pressures as well. and i remember sitting in my bedroom was looking for the phone book and the yellow pages and thinking what had my life come to. but i made the appointment. and i remember when we arrived at the abortion clinic, i remember hoping that there would be people outside trying to convince us to not go and to change my mind. i also remember once inside the clinic i was i was hopeful that i would be turned away during the counseling session. when i asked the fetus met baby, they said no. they said this is an issue. and all we are doing is like induced miscarriage. her babies oh lord, beautifully me. they don't want to unlock a little one. i just had 2 girls, very attractive girls, high school girls

and what to think about the decision, the supreme court republicans, they got to go down to vote for november 8. 0, the only way to make a change guy with no telling a god. oh god. these are i'm for life because i went through an abortion myself when i was 16 years old. you know, all the pressures of being young really set in with other pressures as well. and i remember sitting in my bedroom was looking for the phone book and the yellow pages and thinking what had my life come to. but i made the appointment. and i remember when we arrived at the abortion clinic, i remember hoping that there would be people outside trying to convince us to not go in to change my mind. i also remember once inside the clinic i was i was hopeful that i would be turned away during the counseling session. when i asked the fetus met baby, they said no. they said this is excess, and all we are doing is like it's in miss harris. her baby little now hopefully it's laura phillip lee, me a little one. i just had 2 girls, very attractive girls, high school girls that go to 2 very expensive high schools, private b

gop and it's gerrymandering effort that was ruled unconstitutional by the north carolina supreme court. republicantheir man should not have been shut down due to the little known bonkers independent state legislator theory. if the court rules in republican favor, it could get right wing state legislators near complete power over the administration of elections in many states, meaning there will be no to little oversight from the other branches of state government and how elections are run. we're not hyper ventilating about what is at stake here. let's remember, it was the first week of december 2021 when the justices heard oral arguments for dobbs versus jackson. the case ultimately overturned roe v. wade. this is the judicial moment conservatives have been waiting for. it is the combination of countless fast the bargains that led to the department of justice corsica, justice kavanaugh and justice barrett. the combination of decades of conservative work to reshape the federal judiciary to create their preferred version of america from the ground up. it is a project that dates back to 1982, hatched

. >>> some big news just in from the supreme court. republicanen out of testifying to a georgia grand jury for now at least. the high court is temporarily freezing an order requiring graham's testimony and investigation into donald trump's 2020 election reversal scheme and cnn paula reid is track thing. tell us about this order. >> the keyword here, ana, is temporary. the such prepreme court granted temporary order to allow a grand jury to seek graham's testimony as part of the on going investigation into potential election interference in the 2020 elections. the senator had asked the supreme court to halt this subpoena while the larger legal questions in this case play out. the senator has argued that his activities in the state in and around the election, that they were constitutional protected legislative activities. but two lower courts have disagreed with that and said yes, the grand jury can seek his testimony. now, here is what we can expect over the next few weeks. the supreme court asked georgia inv investigatiors to respond by thursday

either of those are possible anymore but the supreme court even though it had republican majority or may have been more close to evenly divided but it was less ideologically skewed than it is today. i have less confidence the state supreme court will uphold andro apply the fair district amendment this time is why i think what we need to do in florida is put a new constitutional amendment on the ballot and say we give you the opportunity to abide by this, hw failed to do it a few consecutive decades and now take that power away from you and create nonpartisan independent commission made up of regular florida citizens and they will have the power to control districts. the main thing i took from this book is the main problem with redistricting in the united states and the problem every other nation has managed to fix is the fact that we allow politicians to control it. when you take politicians out of the equation you're not only going to get a fair map and you shouldn't expect a fair map but you will get one a lot more often than we do now. >> thanknk you for your book, thank you for th

you think about it, gas prices were down for the supreme court, the republican majority the supreme court overturned roe v wade pretty has a january 6 committee in prime time making the case that president trump was involved in an insurrection against the u.s. government. but in september gas prices went up. and i think what we have seen that stirred up more concerned about the economy and in this campaign republican candidates put a halloween fright wig on the economy and it is working. that is the dominant message, dominant concern among voters. shannon: don't you think the economy spreading lookover eight-point to in the last rating for inflation? quest i think it is a real concern. i just said that. but now you have to think about is the fact that democrats remain angry over the abortion rights issue. democrats are still outraged by trump's lies and the insurrection, the threat to be in books. the society. but since the civil war i think there have been 40 midterm election as the party in power again to seats. the reality is we have got a jump ball election right now. it is no red wav

supreme court theoretically could not strike down a wall, even if it violates the state constitution. often, states are very robust protections against things like gerrymandering. the u.s. supreme court, with its republicanermajority, would have the final word on all questions related to any federal election, state or federal. we're potentially entering a world with this case where i, say, the very gerrymandered, the very general -- wisconsin state legislature could say, we're just going to give donald trump our states electoral votes. we're not going to have an election, we're giving him our states electoral votes in 2024, and nothing could be done. if you have a problem with that, you go to the supreme court with the 63 republican majority. >> -- sounds like it's almost a working the outcome, yen. have you in-depth have in a super red state senate, state house, and then any challenge from the results of their decision, which is total autonomy on their end, to decide what they want to do, would end up in front of that conservative super majority. iain, last month, the group that represents chief justices from all 50 states, issued a brief urging the supreme court to rule against north carolina republica

are accomplices. >> those hearings became sort of the battle cry of the republican party after that. >> nina has been a supreme courtr for 50 years. >> republicans definitely believe that democrats started this and now that they did this. >> to robert bork, you fought the good fight. you happen to be the one who set the new senate standard that will be applied in my judgment by majority of the senate prospectively. unfortunately, it got set over your dead body so to speak. >> he essentially said you will rule the day. >> and he was right. >> this is a circus. this is a national disgrace. it is a high lynching for uppity blacks. >> the circus hearing has become a repeated ritual. >> that is a farce. >> it would be the greatest travesty i've ever seen in the nomination process. >> the more corrosive the hearings grew, the more america's trust in the court coll collapsed. how did we get here to understand the roots of it, we need to go further back to what may just be the most k consequential moment in supreme court history. the early 1950s, the post war boom but for many, the american dream was only available if you w

supreme court. as a result of all of the things that he recommended in his memo, we are at this point in our history as a people. republicansave taken the united states supreme court and the federal judiciary very seriously. but we have not. democrats have not. they have been focused on it for 50 years and they finally got what they wanted. and now we are paying the price for it. that is what this panel was all about. i hope it has activated you. something you may have heard from some of these illustrious speakers. i hope something has activated you to be more involved in this issue. y'all have got to watch her show. congratulations on getting your show. y'all give another hand to the panel and moderator and the distinguished chair. leadership has been instrumental at this point. >> we know from the discussion today that we have yet further to go. that is going to require everyone in this room having those conversations. it should be top of mind for folks as we witnessed the cascade of horrors we are going to see from the supreme court until we do something to stop it. i thank god everyday we are not powerless to stop this

republicans. today is 100 days since the supreme court overruled roe vs. wade as many people continue to fight back. >> hands off -- >> our bodies! >> hands off -- >> our bodies! >> you want the control women's bodies. >> oh, my god. lee women alone! it's my body! >> there are people across this state who died -- who died because they don't have access to reproductive health care. >> those with people that we are listening to, that we are reporting on for you as you make up your own mind if you're going vote in the midterms, because it always comes back to people. the walker story may be important in his state for his voters to assess his consistency, truthfulness, the wider story is playing out in all states, even with people who don't have mr. walker's bundle of alleged problems. let's be clear, i've mentioned this before, we are right now -- you are living through the first election in 50 years where total abortion bans are literally on the ballot in the united states. the scope of this backlash is becoming clearer because, again, i've gone out of my wa

supreme court justice clarence thomas sides are republican senator, lindsey graham, freezing an ordertestify before a special grand jury, at least for now. we're following the decision and what it means for the investigation efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia. and doctors are warning about a potentially very, very dangerous triple health threat. the flu, covid, and respiratory illness. any americans with babies around the country, especially vulnerable. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in he

conservative justices on the supreme court have overturned roe v. wade. republicans are pursuing a national abortion ban if they get power in washington, everywhere they have power in the states. they are pursuing abortion bans. i wonder how you factor this in about the decision for candidates, the overall fight for the majority in the senate. how that concern and that very, very real issue which i know is very personal to you, affects how you're approaching your work. >> well, it is incredibly important. we saw what happened. we knew what would happen with the supreme court if the republicans got their way. it is an absolutely horrible decision that now makes very clear that women's reproductive freedom is on the ballot. and it did you have matter which state you live in. the republicans are pushing a national ban without exception. this will will impact people's lives in a significant way. so we are certainly focused on that issue. we're also focused on issues that families are dealing with and the economy to bring down cost. we passed expansive legislation. our in

prior to prior to the abortion decision by the supreme court, the republicans had some steam with inflation, gas prices and all of that after the ruling on abortion, it seems like the tide had completely changed in the democrats had a head wind or the tail and pending. how you how you look at it. the advantage. but now it's a tossup right? >> it is a toss-up. but but to for the democrats, it also does at least where they would like to be right now because if you look at at the poll 6, 7 months ago, it was clear it was going to be up a red wave. now, you know, it's going to be a little bit of a tidal surge one way or the other. you know, a few 100 votes here. and there in different precincts in different states could be the difference between a big majority by the republicans a very narrow majority by the by the democrats in the house and the senate is. is very close. and that's going to be all depend on turnout and some of the people there in it in terms of what they're going to do for the 2024 election if they were elected there, big consequences beyond just what's going to happen in the n

but the florida supreme court did not see it that way in a recent ruling they allowed desantis to go into effect. that happens the supreme court has a seven -- zero republican majority on it. including three of the seven justices that were appointed by desantis themselves. it seems he is confident the state supreme court is going to interpret anyway. >> and soon to bee a fourth. >> will soon have a state supreme court for the majority of justices by the current governor. a couple of really major concerns moving forward. first disease florida supreme court can strike down the district amendments. these were the amendments to the state constitution the voters approved back in 2010. which prohibit partisan gerrymandering and racial gerrymandering. my second major concern is that the supreme court is either going to strike down or sharply limit section two of the voting rights act of 1965. the legislation that requires states into account when drawing districts. thanks a chance and both ofar those things can happen within the next two or three years. >> matching the tenor of those comments, there is a thread of hope you weave through your book. i would stop sho

exceptions for rape, or incest, or the life of the mother, just like all of the republican appointed justices of the supreme courtan senate will do everything within their power to make us all live the way the people of texas are forced to live now under republican governance. a woman in austin, texas, nearly died from a bacterial infection because she was not sick enough for doctors to legally perform an abortion under texas law. it took three days until amanda got sick enough to be admitted to the icu with a life-threatening infection, as doctors, friends and family feared she might die. in a magazine essay, she writes, we still don't know the extent of damage the weight or the infection had on my body. we don't know yet whether the baby we want more than anything will ever be possible. everything that happened after my service dilated was avoidable, and it never should have happened. what's worse is i'm not the only one. this will happen to many women, of all races, all ethnicities, all ages, all across the country if we don't fight back. joining us now, someone who is fighting back, democratic nominee for gov

court trying to stop democrats or help republicans or something like that. the chief justices of the states' supremeourts are not particularly left-leaning groups. many of them are republicans. the chief justice of the texas up in court saying you cannot do this. they know the important role that supreme courts play. i think that this -- think that there's real hope that advocacy like that and many other amicus briefs that i expect will be filed next week will show the court just what a dangerous road they are going down. gerald: that raises a broader question, which is what the attitude of the courts generally speaking has been about the issues we've been talking about, particularly voter access but also regulation of elections and the election process. you are a lawyer. some of this will be hashed out in the political arena but some will be in the legal arena. is there a pattern in the courts that have emerged? sean: yes, unfortunately, a very negative pattern in my view. the federal court -- the protection of voting rights. i don't want to say entirely but they definitely have retreated from thei

supreme court decided it will not weigh in on gerrymandering. they basically said it will be left to the state supreme court. [indiscernible] host: in washington, republican line. caller: no, democratic line. i want to say affirmative action is needed. i'm going to give you a quick, because when it comes to funding and when you talk about the asians score this high in the plate -- plexus corp. the slow, my daughter she wasn't good in high school where you know, she didn't do too good in high school but when my baby got to college and she got straight a's. so when it comes to testing she dated -- got nothing but a's. when you limit our guests to -- children to test on the you are not getting a full circle of who they are because these tests are not made, they are not prepared with black kids in mind. my sin, he goes to an elementary school and they had a test with questions. kids don't know what i cover is because they didn't use that language. they ask what is this a train a plane or a car? was kids set a car. because they don't know how fast an airplane is. compared to white household or an agent household depending on the type of language that is used i

supreme court. the south carolina republican has asked the high court to intervene, which would require him to testifyhe 2020 election -- presidential election in the state of georgia. cnn's ariane de vogue has more. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham has gone to the supreme court over having the testify before the grand jury. a lower court said he has to answer some questions, but his lawyers are coming to the spleem court saying he shouldn't have to answer any questions. they point to the speech of debate clause in the constitution that they say was put in place to protect sp speech of senator, particularly from harassment. but a lower court said while some of his speech is protected, that kind of speech that has to do with his legislative duties, not all speech is protected. this court said communications with trump officials about post-election activities is not protected. this was filed with justice clarence thomas because he has jurisdiction on the lower court here. thomas is likely to refer it to the full court. boris, amara? >> ariane, thank you for that. >>> the epa is investigating if state

. >> reporter: democratic candidates got a boost after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade but republicans are surging with the economy and immigration emerging as top issues. >> very few women get an abortion but every woman is going to the grocery store, the gas pump. >> reporter: the economy, democracy and abortion all key flash points in last night's debate. when the ohio senate candidates went head-to-head over republican support of a national abortion ban. >> they want people to get a passport and go to canada, largest government overreach. >> you can't abort a baby for elective reasons. >> reporter: taking center stage in utah, accused the republican incumbent of backing efforts to overturn the government. >> that was the most egregious betrayal of our constitution by a u.s. senator. >> there were people who behaved badly that day, i was not one of them. >> reporter: candidates fighting, voters are motivated and georgia is seeing record early turnout. voters overwhelmingly believe america democracy is under threat. but for most it's not the top issue. 39% of voters say they're comfo

supreme court did see it that way. and in a recent ruling. they allowed the censuses had to go into effect it happens that the florida supreme court has a 7 to 0 republican majority on it right now, including three of the seven justices that were appointed by desantis himself. so it seems like he is confident that state supreme court is going to interpret this. and in soon to be a fourth. yeah. so we will soon have a state court where a majority of the justices have been appointed by the current governor and i have a couple of really major moving forward. the first is that the florida supreme court going to strike down the fair districts. these were the amendments to the state constitution that the voters approved back 2010 and which both partisan gerrymandering and racial gerrymandering. my second major concern is that the supreme court is either going to strike down sharply limit section two of the voting rights act of 1965. the legislation that requires states to take the interests of minority voters account when drawing districts. and i think a decent chance that both of those things could happen within the next two or three years. so think sort of m

sort of about the dead weight that is the supreme court on republicans.e posing for selfies and chatting with people a woman walked up to me as my producers and i were getting in our suv. she thanked us for coming to fort worth and added, i feel like i live in gilead. her voice was shaking and i thought she might cry. i have daughters, she said and her voice trailed off. i assured her it would be okay that this awfulness can be fixed but i was leaving gilead. i have yet to talk to a woman of any age or race on the phone or anywhere who is not pissed off or terrified about the religious fanatics on the supreme court handing women and girls over to state politicians. the only question is will enough women take the one action they can to prevent us from becoming gilead complete with the violent insurrection, commander lindsey graham's promised national abortion ban and democracy deniers controlling and essentially ending elections by voting. what do you think, fatima? >> i think they will. for all the reasons that many have outlined but these stories, the st

. >>> delaware supreme court siding with republicans ruling universal vote by mail, same day registrationng for the state's constitution to be amended. delaware's gop chair says she is very pleased the court upheld the language of the constitution. this one month ahead of the midterms. >>> to the mlb wild card series, mets playoff hopes remain alive as they force game 3 against the padres with a 7-3 win last night. the phillies sending the cardinals packing as they advance to the division series with the 2-0 win. the cleveland guardians advancing to division series with a walk-off home run beating the tampa bay rays 1-0 after 15 innings. >> high flyball. left field. way back! ball game. the guardians are moving on to the division series. >> the seattle mariners will take on the houston astros after beating the toronto bluejays 10-9. those are the headlines turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for the fox weather forecast. rick: we're celebrating ocktoberfest out here. this beer looks empty, 7:30 in the morning. rachel: gross. rick: all right. look at the weather picture. so, put the

. >> it's incredibly important and we knew what would happen with the supreme court with the republicans an absolutely horrible decision that now makes very clear that women's reproductive freedom is on the ballot and right now doesn't matter what state you live in because the republicans are pushing a national ban without exception. this will impact peoples lives in a significant way. so we are certainly focused on that issue hublot but this lowers the cost of prescription drugs. it also lowers and allows us to have renewable energy to deal with climate change. it wants to bring down energy costs for americans. every single republican voted against that legislation. they wanted to be on the side of big pharmaceutical companies. there's a very clear contrast in this race and if you look at the contrast between the republican candidates people like raphael warnock the gulf between these two could not be wider. the race is all razor thin and we need help we must win the only way we win is if we lock arms with folks all across this country, they defend the senate dot org. i'd also encourage

republican st. and yet the polls say that the neck, the 2 parties on that connect because of that supreme court decision. and then subsequent republican party overreach, the democrats hoped in that just placing abortion against abortion. so these are the issues that we have heard which have become very familiar with the democrats. so we'll make them competitive. and so they could actually pick up. having said that there, there is evidence in. ready that in the end, this does seem to be reverting to type that it will be a yet again, a congressional mid term election, which will be a referendum on the policy and power and specifically about the economy. and some of that initial outrage we saw in abortion is beginning to fade as the day to day reality of high prices. it's home a long spaces, have given the poll numbers that we all think unusual history, how a higher fits into the national picture when it comes to the midterm races. if that's the key that isn't, this shouldn't be a competitive race. if the democrats do pick up ohio in a mid term election, italy stunning, because you know, the incumbent powe

they seemed to be, and they placed their hopes on being able to use the supreme court's decision on abortion against republicansd that is going to be a factor in some races. and also on the heightened visibility of former president trump as he's pursued by the justice department and now by the attorney general of new york and others. they were hoping that that would change the basic dynamic of the race. finish but the fact is after we got the latest inflation report which showed that inflation is high and persistent, i think that the race has evened out again, and the republicans are still headed for a significant victory. on the fed, i think the most ominous words spoken by jerome powell when they announced the rate increase was the chances of a soft landing with likely to diminish. they're gonna cause a recession, and that's going to shape our politics for a year, maybe more to come. gerry: richard, that little mild bout of you pore ya that democrats seemed to have over the summer as some of the polling did seem to indicate they were doing much better, as byron says, that has rather evaporate rated with the9

response was abysmal, and i would lie to think if this was a a democrat, left-leaning supreme court justices, that republicansy were in power, would have acted differently because this is something we've got to stand united on. stuart: we never found out who leaked. >> no. but we can arrest 22 pro-life activists, go after all sorts of political crimes, but we will never look at the leaker because it just doesn't flow in the right direction. stuart: before we close it out, i know you are a close watcher of elections. how many seats dueck the republicans will pick up -- do you think the republicans will pick up in the house? >> i think it's being vastly underestimate thed. i think it could be above 20. i'm mutting -- putting my money in the 25 range. polls always underestimate republicans on the generic ballot, and i think if they're leading eby a point to three, that could be indicative of a 25-seat pickup, and i think we take the senate by 1, possibly 2 seats. stuart: so 51 or 52 republicans in the senate. >> yes. stuart: that would be a sweep. >> it would be, and i think that's what we're in for 13 days from

republicans? starting with the supreme court overturning roe v. which is fueling a huge rush amongst democratic voters. there's anger amongst the gun rulings from the supreme court and what's being pushed on republicans on the state legislature. i think it's going to be a combination here in new york. >> mm-hmm. >> it's not just the top of the ticket at the governor's race. i think that there's a real feeling that we need to make sure we don't give the house over to these republicans who are pushing national abortion bans, who are pushing book banning and these really extremist positions that are not doing things that need to address -- that people feel like they need to be addressed like inflation. >> you're saying that can't be tied because those would be democratic voters. that wouldn't be tied to the lee zeldin push running for governor? >> i would take one poll with a grain of salt. i think we're going to be okay here in new york, but i think that that is part of the national dynamic we're seeing with it. >> all right. zach, tara, charlie, th

which is what trump demanded of republican state legislators after 2020. the supreme court case that's before the court for this term could potentially legalize the illegal, unconstitutional scheme that trump was demanding of republicans who supported him, to hand him the electors from states that he, in fact, lost. so this is quite a moment, right? at a time when we've got the biggest sedition trial in 80 years under way in washington, i'm doing a podcast about the last sedition threat like this from the late '30s and early '40s, while that's happening in washington as of today, we're not just closing in on an election where people who denied we should have real election results are trying to take over. we're also today starting a new supreme court session with a court that has never had a lower level of respect from the american people in the entire time that pollsters have been asking the american people about their level of respect for the court. with the new conservative super majority on the supreme court, they are reaching way out this term, way, way out of their way

first poles was to ask americans do you think president truman should nominate a republican or a democrat to the supreme court? and we would likely have the justices are about the framing of the question because somehow are supposed to believe we are educated human beings here in america were an individual ceases to become a republican or democrat when he or she is confirmed to the supreme court. this is not to say the justices acted as a republican or democrat's they don't caucus that way, they do not meet or chanda certainly fundraisers or meetings with the party. but they have ideas. at this point in 1945 the average american were able to recognize it is okay for the nominees to the court to have these ideas. overwhelmingly republicans and democrats are told by gallup president truman should nominate to the court because we have all these nominations from franklin roosevelt with the democrats in court. amended 263 federal judges and four of them were republican. so, america paid attention to that. they said we should have a balance that should be political balance in the courts. so true they try to solidif

republicans dirty move to keep obama's pick of merrick garland off the court. i'm 70 years old and i've never seen anything that dirty, republicans play dirty so the supreme courtdoing what the republican party wants and that's why you stack court with people that feel the way you do and that's why elections have consequences. out of touch? absolutely out of touch. host: writing about the court -- larry north anna on our disagree line. caller: i think the supreme court is doing just fine. people are getting the politics involved in this. what the supreme court is doing exactly what they are supposed to do. they are judging of things are constitutional. the other scenario is with the abortion scenario, it went back to the states. all these people are going nuts about they've taken away my rights. no, they said if the state wishes to have abortion scenarios, that is good and people keep talking about contraception. abortion was never meant to be a form of contraception. host: ok, let's go to pamela in indiana on our agree line. caller: good morning and thank you for having this topic. i am an attorney and i am a hold by the supreme court. i was listening to npr t

supreme court like savages. so i don't that the early republicans necessarily a good supreme court model for what we should aspire but i think that there is a space for partizanship that's accepted and acknowledged. and i actually wonder if our supreme court, our relationship with the supreme court would be better if we stopped pretending like they weren't partizan. it functioned, they weren't partizan and said like, yes, these are the spoils come from the presidency. like go and approach it that way. mm hmm. yeah. i saw a hand over on this side of the room earlier. yes, i think this is on. okay. and rob baker, i'm from georgia state. i'm having trouble formulating a coherent question here because my head is spinning, listening to this wonderful roundtable. it's been just fabulous but i'm really struck the partizanship of the 1876 election. i gather that a lot of people are. i knew the corrupt bargain wasn't all right but but i not know that there was a celebration of partizanship. there and that kind of that actually struck me because there are a lot of instances right around that time of people elevating consti

if republicans control the senate, they will completely stop the senate confirmation process for federal judges for the next two years. if the supreme courtns up, republicans will keep it vacant until there is a republican president, no matter how many years that takes. here is don bolduc, the republican candidate for senate in new hampshire, who wants to help republicans take control of the senate. >> trump won the election, and damn it, i stand by it. >> i want to be definitive on this. the election was not stolen. was there fraud? yes. but elections have consequences. unfortunately president biden's legitimate president of this country. >> the republican candidate for senate in new hampshire is running scared from his own words, as are some other republican senate candidates around the country. dawn bolduc has flip-flopped on the issue of abortion, for saying that he would vote for lid legislation like lindsey graham's proposal on a national abortion ban for all 50 states and now saying he believes that the final word on abortion were belongs to the gentleman of new hampshire. >> it belongs to the gentleman right here who are state leg

privately admitted to some he lost, he continued to fight becoming enraged when the supreme court threw out a republican attempt to stop the election. >> i don't want people to know we lost, mark. this is embarrassing. figure it out. we need to figure it out. >> even something his own advisers said had no basis in truth. >> i walked into this and would tell him how crazy some of these allegations were. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. >> and the committee showing depositions from witnesses describing trump's inaction. >> he was watching the tv. >> it was my understanding he was watching television. >> all while playing new video of lawmakers running for shelter trying to keep congress from certifying the 2020 election for joe biden. >> apparently everybody on the floor is putting on tear gas masks. >> i'm calling up the secretary of dod. >> i have something to say, mr. secretary. i'm going to call the mayor of washington, d.c., right now. >> they're breaking windows. they said somebody was shot. it's just -- it's just horrendous and all at the inches city gaugs of

supreme court. >> at the end of the day, all the supreme court is right now is a republican-wish machine. it is just the enforcement arm of the republican party agenda with people wearing fancy robes. >> and now they tell us that populous threaten democracy, but they're the ones who help communist china become really powerful. >> supporting china's entry into the wto is about mower than our economic -- more than our economic interest. it is in our national interest. >> they tell us every republicans want to control women, but they can't even explain what a woman is. >> can you provide a definition for the word woman? >> i can't. >> you can't? >> not in this context. >> they tell us that populous conservatives promote violence, but they're the ones who encourage the smearing of law enforcement which then led to violence and looting. >> do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement? >> absolutely. it's snot-- not just law enforcement. it's across board. >> police departments across the united states can't find willing recruits. they're down 300, 400, sometimes 600 officers in o