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US POLITICAL ECONOMY RACHEL MADDOW JUNE 24 2024 MSNBC: Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: June 24 2024 PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-6XIEH5tQM Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
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SO THEY BOTH HAVE 0:27 A TERM IN OFFICE THAT WE CAN 0:30 LOOK AT THAT WE CAN MEASURE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEY 0:34 BOTH GOT OBSERVABLE RECORDS. 0:37 WHY WOULD BUSINESSPEOPLE BE TURNING AGAINST JOE BIDEN ON 0:39 THE BASIS OF HIS RECORD, WHICH IS WHAT WE KEEP BEING TOLD IN 0:42 THE PAST HEADING INTO THIS DEBATE. 0:45 I MEAN, THIS IS SOMETHING THERE'S WEATHER AGAIN IS IS AN 0:48 OBSERVABLE TRUTH HERE 0:50 UNDER JOE BIDEN, WE JUST HAVE THE BEST YEAR OF AMERICAN JOB 0:52 CREATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 0:56 THE LAST TIME WE HAD A STREAK, THIS LONG OF UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW 0:59 4%. IT WAS THE EARLY 1960'S 1:02 UNDER JOE BIDEN. THE U.S. HAS THE BEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD, LITERALLY THE ENVY OF THE WORLD. IN FACT, THE WORLD BANK JUST SAID THAT THE U.S. ECONOMY IS SO GOOD. IT'S ACTUALLY STABILIZING THE WHOLE WORLD ECONOMY. THE U.S. STOCK MARKET KEEPS HITTING NEW RECORDS AND THEN BREAKING THOSE RECORDS AND THEN HITTING NEW ONES THAT ARE EVEN 1:23 HIGHER. 1:25 CRIME IS AT 50 YEAR LOWS. WE JUST HAVE THE LARGEST 1:28 SINGLE-YEAR DROP IN THE MURDER RATE THAT WE HAVE EVER 1:30 RECORDED. 1:32 AND PRESIDENT BIDEN KEEPS PASSING, KEEP SIGNING BIG 1:35 LEGISLATION. THAT'S GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY. THAT'S GOOD FOR 1:38 THE BUSINESS CLIMATE AND HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO IT. MIRACLE OF 1:41 ALL MIRACLES WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. AND THAT INCLUDES THE 1:45 BIG INFRASTRUCTURE BILL AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING OF 1:48 COMPUTER CHIPS AND ALL THESE OTHER ALL OF THESE OTHER 1:51 THINGS. 1:54 THIS IS THE KIND OF BUSINESS LANDSCAPE HELLSCAPE BUSINESS 1:58 LEADERS HAVE BEEN SUFFERING THROUGH. UNDER JOE BIDEN HAD 2:01 LET ONE FLY FEES. CORPORATE PROFITS HIT RECORD HIGHS, ECONOMY BOOMED IN 4TH QUARTER OF 2023 FOR THIS ONE. U.S. CORPORATE PROFITS SOAR WITH MARGINS THAT WIDEST SINCE 1950. THAT'S WHAT MONEYWATCH U.S. COMPANIES JUST HAD THEIR BEST YEAR SINCE BEFORE MOST OF US BEFORE. MOST OF US WERE BORN. THE POOR BUSINESS GUYS. THEY REALLY NEED TRUMP BACK, DON'T THEY? AND EVEN EVEN IF THEY WANT TO SAY, OH, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BUSINESS CLIMATE, IT'S ABOUT BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. 2:33 IT'S JUST THAT WE'RE SO WORRIED ABOUT THE DEBT AND THE DEFICIT. 2:36 AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO GO BACK TO TRUMP AND GET RID OF 2:39 JOE BIDEN. I MEAN, TELL ME WHAT THE RATIONALE IS THERE 2:43 IN REALITY. TELL ME WHAT THE RUSSIAN ALICE, BECAUSE THE 2:47 COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET, ONE OF THESE 2:50 NONPARTISAN FISCAL WATCHDOG GROUPS PUT THIS OUT TODAY, 2:54 WHICH KIND OF PUTS A FINE POINT ON IT, 2:57 RIGHT? THAT'S THAT'S WHO ADDED WHAT TO THE DEATH. WHEN YOU 3:00 COMPARE TRUMP'S TERM IN OFFICE WITH JOE BIDEN'S TERM IN OFFICE AND NO, YOU CAN'T BLAME COVID. THEY ACTUALLY BREAK OUT THE COVID SPENDING. THAT'S THE BIT IN THE LIGHTER RED COLOR THERE. SO YES, DONALD TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN BOTH SPENT ON THE CAP ON THE PANDEMIC THEY HAD TO. BUT EVEN IF YOU WIPE THAT OUT, TRUMP ADDED TRILLIONS MORE TO THE DEBT AND THE DEFICIT THAT BIDEN DID REGARDLESS OF COVID AND MAYBE YOU DON'T PARTICULARLY CARE ABOUT THE 3:26 DEFICIT AND THE DEBT. BUT BUSINESS GUYS ALMOST ALWAYS SAY 3:29 THEY DO. 3:31 AND SO WHAT'S THE RATIONALE ALONG THOSE LINES FOR 3:34 SUPPORTING TRUMP OVER BIDEN 3:39 AS WE HEAD INTO THIS WEIRD EARLY DEBATE THIS WEEK, 3:42 SUPPORTERS OF OF THIS BUSINESS GENIUS, 3:46 HE CREATED AN IMPRESSION THAT TRUMP'S GOT AN ADVANTAGE 3:50 HEADING INTO THE DEBATE AT THIS POINT IN THE CAMPAIGN BECAUSE 3:53 HAS BUSINESS RECORD RIGHT? HE'S SO APPEALING TO ALL THE 3:56 OTHER RICH BUSINESS GUYS WHO SO APPRECIATE HOW SMART YOU NEED 3:59 TO BE TO BOOK A GUY WITH VAMPIRE TEETH. YOUR CAGE MATCH 4:03 BUSINESS. 4:05 THEY'RE TRYING TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION THAT THERE IS 4:08 SUPPORT FOR TRUMP IN THE BUSINESS WORLD BECAUSE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS REASONS TO SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO HIMSELF IS SO GOOD BUSINESS. IN REALITY, THE ACTUAL STAKES IN THIS ELECTION, THE COMPARATIVE RECORD OF THESE 2 CANDIDATES ON THE ECONOMY AND BUSINESS, THOSE IT DOESN'T FAVOR THE FAILED PROMOTER OF THE 4:29 AFFLICTION MIXED MARTIAL ARTS LEAGUE WHICH PROMOTED EXACTLY 2 4:34 BOUTS BEFORE IT FOLDED. AND THE MAN, HIS SURVIVING COMPANY WAS 4:38 CONVICTED ON MULTIPLE FELONY FRAUD COUNTS AND WAS NAMED IN 4:41 HIS OWN FELONY CRIMINAL TRIAL FOR FALL SUFFOCATION OF 4:44 BUSINESS RECORDS. AND BY THE WAY, HIS CFO IS CURRENTLY DOING 4:47 HIS SECOND STINT IN PRISON. 4:50 WEIRDLY HIS BUSINESS RECORD, HIS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, 4:53 RECORD HIS JOB CREATION RECORD, HIS ECONOMIC AND FISCAL RECORD 4:57 ON THE FACTS 4:59 DOESN'T SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT HE SHOULD BE WINNING SUPPORT 5:02 FROM PEOPLE WHO PRIORITIZE THOSE THINGS. DESPITE THE MASSIVE SPIN GENERATED BY ALL THESE HIGH PROFILE IDEOLOGICAL TRUMPY, BILLIONAIRES, WE'RE STARTING NOW. FINALLY, AS OF TODAY, I THINK TO SEE A CORRECTIVE IN THAT NARRATIVE ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING. THIS IS THAT THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TONIGHT, QUOTE, CEOS ARE FRUSTRATED THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY INVENT. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY EMBRACE TRUMP. QUOTE, A NUMBER OF PROMINENT FIGURES IN SILICON VALLEY AND ON WALL STREET HAVE 5:32 GROWN INCREASINGLY VOCAL IN THEIR CRITICISM OF MISTER 5:35 BIDEN. THEIR PRAISE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ARE 5:38 BOTH STILL THAT SHIFT MOSTLY REFLECTS MOVEMENT AMONG 5:42 EXECUTIVES WHO ALREADY SUPPORTED REPUBLICAN 5:46 POLITICIANS. QUOTE, THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE OF A MAJOR 5:49 SHIFT IN ALLEGIANCE AMONG EXECUTIVES AWAY FROM BIDEN AND 5:53 TOWARD TRUMP 5:55 FROM THE FRONT PAGES. ON THE OP-ED PAGE TODAY, QUOTE, 5:57 RECENT HELPLINE SUGGEST THAT OUR NATION'S BUSINESS LEADERS 6:01 ARE EMBRACING THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. DONALD TRUMP. HIS CAMPAIGN WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE THAT OUR NATION'S TOP CHIEF EXECUTIVES ARE RETURNING TO SUPPORT TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT TOUTING DECLARATIONS OF SUPPORT FROM SOME PROMINENT FINANCIER'S. IT IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH, THOUGH. THEY DIDN'T FLOCK TO HIM BEFORE AND THEY CERTAINLY ARE FLOCKING TO HIM. NOW, QUOTE, TRUMP CONTINUES TO SUFFER FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL OF CORPORATE SUPPORT IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. QUOTE, NOT A SINGLE FORTUNE. 100 CHIEF EXECUTIVE 6:29 HAS DONATED TO TRUMP SO FAR THIS YEAR, WHICH INDICATES A 6:32 MAJOR BREAK FROM THE OVERWHELMING BUSINESS AND 6:35 EXECUTIVE SUPPORT FOR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL 6:37 CANDIDATES THAT DATES BACK OVER A CENTURY. TRUMP RECEIVED A, 6:41 QUOTE, FRIGID RECEPTION WHEN HE SPOKE TO THE BUSINESS 6:44 ROUNDTABLE THIS MONTH WITH NO NOTICEABLE APPLAUSE AT ANY 6:47 POINT DURING HIS QUOTE, REMARKABLY MEANDERING REMARKS 6:51 ACCORDING TO CNBC'S ANDREW ROSS SORKIN. AND WITH TRUMP, 6:54 ASSUMING A SUBDUED, IF NOT HOSTILE, POP POSTURE, CHIEF 6:58 EXECUTIVES ARE NOT PROTECTIONIST ISOLATIONIST OR 7:01 XENOPHOBIA AND THEY BELIEVE IN INVESTING WHERE THERE IS THE RULE OF LAW, NOT THE LAW OF RULERS, WHETHER OR NOT BUSINESS SUPPORT IS GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE FOR EITHER ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES IN NOVEMBER. HEADING INTO THIS DEBATE THIS WEEK, THERE HAS BEEN A CONCERTED EFFORT TO CREATE A PERCEPTION, A FALSE PERCEPTION THAT TRUMP HAS THE WHOLE BUSINESS WORLD LINING UP BEHIND HIM. AND THAT'S BECAUSE HIS TIME IN OFFICE COMPARED FAVORABLY WITH 7:31 PRESIDENT BIDEN, WHICH IS NOT TRUE ON FISCAL ISSUES, THAT IS 7:34 NOT SURE ON THE OVERALL BUSINESS CLIMATE IS NOT SURE ON 7:36 JOBS AND IT IS NOT TRUE IN TERMS OF BUSINESS LEADERS 7:40 LINING UP BEHIND THESE 2 CANDIDATES. 7:43 BUT THAT KIND OF FALSE PERCEPTION ITSELF HAS POLITICAL 7:46 CONSEQUENCES AND HEADING INTO THIS DEBATE AND ALL THE 7:49 ATTENTION. IT'S GOING TO GET ABOUT THE WELL OF THE RELATIVE 7:51 STRENGTHS OF THESE 2 CANDIDATES AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO OFFER 7:54 WHAT THEY HAVE TO OFFER. EXCUSE ME, IT IS MORE THAN 7:57 EVER. IT IS WORTH GETTING THESE THINGS RIGHT. 8:01 JOINING US NOW IS MY DEAR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE STEPHANIE ROCHE. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. I'M IN AWE OF YOUR LEAD-IN. YOU HAVE LAID OUT EXACTLY THE SORT OF ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING LIKE HERE. AND ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS YOU'RE SEEING SORT OF THIS TRUMP NARRATIVE THAT ALL THESE BUSINESS LEADERS ARE BACKING ME BECAUSE REMEMBER THE NUMBER ONE 8:22 THING THEY WANT TO TRY TO PUSH AND CONVINCE PEOPLE OUT IS THAT 8:25 THE ECONOMY IS TERRIBLE. AND WHILE INFLATION IS A 8:28 PERSISTENT PROBLEM, FIZZES LEADERS ARE NOT STANDING WITH 8:31 DONALD TRUMP AND THAT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE MEETING. IT'S REALLY 8:35 IMPORTANT FOR OUR AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND TRUMP WOULD HAVE YOU 8:38 BELIEVE CORPORATE AMERICA INVITED ME AND THEY WANTED ME 8:42 TO SPEAK TO THEM. IT WAS THEIR NORMAL MEETING THAT THEY HAVE 8:46 EVERY YEAR AND THEY INVITED BOTH CANDIDATES. PRESIDENT 8:49 BIDEN COULD NOT ATTEND BECAME EASY BECAUSE HE WAS AT THE G 7 8:53 AND HIS CHIEF OF STAFF, JEFF ZIENTS WAS THERE. AND DONALD 8:56 TRUMP HAS SAID SINCE THEN THEY WERE CLAPPING FOR ME. AT THE 8:59 END, THEY WERE BECAUSE IT WAS THE END OF THE PRESIDENTIAL 9:03 CANDIDATES FOR MARKS. AND THAT IS WHAT A ROOM DOES, WHOSE MARGINALLY COURTEOUS. BUT YOU JUST MENTIONED THE REPORTING FROM ANDREW ROSS SORKIN. I SPOKE TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO BASICALLY SAID THIS THING WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND IT IS A BREAK. PRETTY DONALD TRUMP, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY SORT OF THE C-SUITE CLASS WAS WITH THE 9:23 REPUBLICAN PARTY. YOU REMEMBER THAT AL SMITH DINNER YEARS AGO 9:27 WHEN GEORGE HW BUSH KIND OF JOKINGLY LOOKED OUT AT THE ROOM 9:30 OF BUSINESS LEADERS IN NEW YORK AND SAID YOUR MY BASE, THAT'S 9:34 NOT THE CASE ANYMORE. IT WAS AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE. YOU SAW 9:37 THE FIRST BUSINESS COUNCIL IN AMERICAN HISTORY BREAK FROM THE 9:41 PRESIDENT AND SAY I CAN'T EVEN BE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM 9:44 ANYMORE. 9:46 >> STEP ONE OF THE REASONS I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT HEADING 9:49 INTO THE DEBATE IS BECAUSE I'M NOT A PERSON WHO KNOWS A TON 9:52 ABOUT THE BUSINESS WORLD. I DEFINITELY DON'T THINK OF 9:54 MYSELF AS SHARING ALL THE SAME VALUES AS AS CEOS AND AND 9:58 PEOPLE ON WALL STREET AND PEOPLE WHO THINK OF YOU WHO 10:01 READ THE BUSINESS SECTION FIRST AND MAYBE DON'T EVEN READ THE POLITICS PAGE. >> I DON'T THINK OF MYSELF THAT WAY. BUT I ALSO KNOW POLITICS REASONABLY WELL. AND I FEEL LIKE THE PERCEPTIONS OF WHO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS WITH. IT IS AN IMPORTANT THING, EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, RIGHT, BECAUSE YOU STARTED THESE THESE BUSINESS 10:21 PEOPLE ARE SMART. THEY MUST KNOW WHO'S GOING TO BE 10:23 ECONOMICALLY BETTER FOR THE COUNTRY. AND THAT'S I BELIEVE 10:26 WHY THEY TRYING TO CREATE THIS PERCEPTION. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S 10:28 IMPORTANT FOR US TO REPORT IF THAT PERCEPTION IS FALSE. 10:32 RACHEL, IT'S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT THIS YEAR BECAUSE 10:35 WE'VE HAD THIS DIVISION, RIGHT. ALL OF THE POSITIVE ECONOMIC 10:38 DATA THAT YOU JUST LAID OUT IS DISCONNECTED FROM HOW PEOPLE 10:41 SEAL BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN FEELING GOOD ABOUT THE 10:44 ECONOMY BECAUSE THEY'RE COMING OFF OF COVID BECAUSE OF 10:46 PERSISTENT INFLATION. SO SO WHEN YOU KEEP PUSHING THIS 10:49 NARRATIVE THAT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS STANDING WITH 10:51 DONALD TRUMP, IT CONVINCES PEOPLE WILL MAYBE BAD NEWS IS 10:55 COMING. BUT HERE'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT. THERE ARE THERE IS 10:58 SORT OF A SUBGROUP OF SORT OF VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL WALL 11:01 STREET FINANCE YEARS. YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S ELON MUSK AND KIND OF ELON MUSK BACKUP DANCERS WHO HAVE BEEN VERY PRO AND OUTSPOKEN TRUMP A PRO-TRUMP IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. AND I WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY KNOW HOW GOOD THE ECONOMY IS. ELON MUSK AND ALL THAT JOE BIDEN HAS DONE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES. HE CERTAINLY KNOWS HOW GOOD THE ECONOMY IS. YOU KNOW, SO GOOD. 11:22 THE STOCK MARKET IS HOWEVER, THEY KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS 11:26 TRANSACTIONAL. THEY KNOW THAT THEY STAND WITH DONALD TRUMP. 11:29 NOW, IF THEY'RE THROWING FUNDRAISERS FOR HIM, THAT IF IN 11:32 FACT HE BECOMES THE PRESIDENT, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A DIRECT 11:35 LINE INTO THE OVAL OFFICE. SO IT'S AS THOUGH THEY'RE 11:38 TRYING TO RECREATE KIND OF PUTINS OLIGARCHS HERE. IF THEY 11:42 HELP TRUMP, NOW HE WILL TAKE THEIR CALL AND GIVE THEM THE 11:45 QUOTE, UNQUOTE, GET OUT OF JAIL FREE PASS 6 MONTHS FROM NOW. 11:48 NOW, THAT IS NOT THE FORTUNE 100 CEOS OUT THERE THAT HAVE 11:52 ALL OF THESE CONSTITUENTS. BUT THIS SMALL WALL STREET 11:55 UNIVERSE THAN NELSON PELTZ THAT THE BILL ACKMAN'S OF THE WORLD, 11:58 THEY'RE PUTTING ON THE TRUMP SHOW THAT THEY WOULD LOVE TO 12:01 HAVE HIS TIME IN POWER AND HIM IN THEIR BACK POCKET IF YOU WERE TO WIN. >> IT STARTED IN KANSAS LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE AFTER THEY OVERTURNED THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTION VOTERS IN RED RED RED STATE, KANSAS RESOUNDINGLY STOOD UP FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND THEIR STATE. 59 1% OF KANSANS VOTING 12:22 THAT ABORTIONS SHOULD STAY LEGAL IN THAT STATE. 12:26 A FEW WEEKS LATER, DEMOCRATS WANT A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR AN 12:28 OPEN CONGRESSIONAL SEAT. A SWING DISTRICT IN UPSTATE NEW 12:32 YORK WITH A CANDIDATE WHO MADE THE LOSS OF ABORTION RIGHTS THE 12:35 CENTERPIECE OF HIS CAMPAIGN. 12:37 A WEEK AFTER THAT AND ALASKA, ANOTHER DEMOCRAT WON ANOTHER 12:40 SPECIAL ELECTION AND THE HOUSE THIS TIME FLIPPING A SEAT FROM 12:43 RED TO BLUE. ALSO RUNNING ON A PRO ABORTION RIGHTS PLATFORM. 12:49 I SHOULD MENTION ONLY 12% OF ALASKA VOTERS ARE DEMOCRATS, 12:53 BUT THE DEMOCRAT WON THAT SEAT. 12:56 BUT A FEW MONTHS LATER IN NOVEMBER 2022, WE HAD THE FIRST 13:00 BIG NATIONWIDE ELECTIONS SINCE THEY OVERTURNED ROE AND MORE DEMOCRATS RAN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGNS FOCUSED ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND IN THOSE ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER 2022, REPUBLICAN SUFFERED HISTORICALLY POOR RESULTS, THE WORST FOR AN OPPOSITION PARTY IN DECADES. BEYOND THAT CONGRESSIONAL RACES THAT DAY, THERE WERE 5 MORE STATES THAT PUT ABORTION DIRECTLY ON THE BALLOT AT ALL. 13:24 5 OF THOSE STATES VOTERS MOVED TOWARD ABORTION RIGHTS AND AWAY 13:29 FROM ABORTION RESTRICTIONS 13:31 THAT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS VICTORIES CONTINUED THE 13:34 FOLLOWING YEAR AFFECTING THE RACE FOR A SUPREME COURT ON THE 13:37 WISCONSIN EXCUSE ME, IT WAS AFFECTING THE RACE FOR A SEAT 13:40 ON THE WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT AND THE RACE FOR THE KENTUCKY 13:43 GOVERNORSHIP AND THE RACE FOR CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATURE IN 13:46 VIRGINIA. 13:48 ALSO THE STATE CONSTITUTION AND OHIO. OUR VOTERS CHOSE TO 13:52 ENSHRINE THE RIGHT TO HAVE AN ABORTION IN THE OHIO STATE 13:56 CONSTITUTION 13:58 SINCE THE FALL OF ROE 2 YEARS AGO TODAY. 14:02 THE POLITICAL IMPACT HAS BEEN INDELIBLE AND STARK AND REMARKABLY CONSISTENT. AND THAT HAS BEEN BOLSTERED BY WHAT THE OVERTURNING OF ROE HAS CHANGED IN THE MINDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IT'S IT'S A NEW UNDERSTANDING THAT THE QUESTION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IS NOT JUST ABOUT ACCESSING ABORTION. IT IS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS. IF YOU HAVE A MISCARRIAGE, ARE YOU GOING TO SEPTIC SHOCK DURING PREGNANCY OR YOU HAVE ANY OTHER DANGEROUS FORM OF COMPLICATION AND YOU CAN'T ACCESS HEALTH CARE 14:33 BECAUSE THE STATE YOU LIVE IN HAS BANNED ABORTION. 14:37 ONE POLLSTER TELLING THE NEW YORK TIMES TODAY THAT BEFORE 14:39 ROE FELL, THE PERCENTAGE OF THE PUBLIC THAT CONSIDERED ABORTION 14:43 PERSONALLY RELEVANT TO THEM WAS AS LOW AS ABOUT 15%. BUT IN THE 14:47 POST ROE LANDSCAPE THAT WE LIVE IN NOW THAT HAS CHANGED HER. 14:50 MORE RECENT POLLING ASKED INDEPENDENT VOTERS ABOUT THE 14:53 STORIES OF WOMEN ALMOST DYING BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN STATES 14:57 THAT HAVE BANNED ABORTION OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS. SHE POLLED 15:00 WHO SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS. THE NUMBER WHO SAID THOSE STORIES WILL AFFECT HOW THEY WILL VOTE IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS. IT'S 73%. THE POLLSTER TELLS THE NEW YORK TIMES, QUOTE, NOW IT'S ABOUT PREGNANCY AND EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMEONE WHO HAD A BABY A WANTS TO HAVE A BABY OR MIGHT GET PREGNANT. IT IS PROFOUNDLY PERSONAL TO A 15:20 MAJORITY OF THE PUBLIC. 15:23 JOINING US NOW IS AMY KLOBUCHAR, DEMOCRATIC SENATOR 15:25 FROM THE GREAT STATE OF MINNESOTA. SHE'S A MEMBER OF 15:27 THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. SENATOR KLOBUCHAR, IT'S REALLY 15:29 NICE TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING TIME TO BE 15:31 HERE. 15:32 THANKS, RACHEL. IT'S GREAT TO BE ON AGAIN. 15:36 SO TODAY IS THE TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE ROE WAS 15:39 OVERTURNED. WE KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE HUMAN COST WE KNOW ABOUT, 15:44 FOR EXAMPLE, 15:46 NEW RESEARCH JUST PUBLIC THAT PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF THE 15:48 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, WHICH SAYS THAT IT HAS 15:52 ADVERSELY AND SERIOUSLY AFFECTED INFANT MORTALITY IN 15:55 THAT STATE WITH ITS WITH ITS PROFOUND ABORTION BAN. 15:59 WHAT DO YOU THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT FOR THE AMERICAN 16:01 PUBLIC UNDERSTAND ON THIS TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE THE DECISION WAS MADE FOR THE COUNTRY? YOU KNOW, I THINK EVERYONE REMEMBERS WHERE THEY WERE WHEN THIS >> THOUGHT TO BE LEAKED OPINION WAS YOU FOUND OUT IT WAS A REAL OPINION. I WAS AT THE GETTING MY HAIR CUT AND THERE'S A LINE OF 4 WOMEN AT THE HAIRDRESSERS AND EVERYONE IN THE PLAY SAID THAT JUST CAN'T BE TRUE. 16:24 AND 2 YEARS LATER, WE KNOW HOW TRUE IT IS. 50 YEARS OF FREEDOM 16:28 JUST THROWN OUT THE WINDOW. YOU'VE GOT IVF AFFECTED. 16:32 8 MILLION BABIES WERE BORN THAT WAY. YOU'VE GOT CONTRACEPTION 16:35 AFFECTED. YOU HAVE GOT A DOCTOR'S IN FEAR OF CRIMINAL 16:39 PROSECUTION. YOU'VE GOT WOMEN BLEEDING OUT IN PARKING LOTS 16:43 BECAUSE THEY ARE TOLD IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM, HEY, YOU GOT TO 16:47 BE MORE SERIOUS. WE KNOW YOU'RE IN BAD HEALTH, BUT WE'VE GOT TO 16:50 BE KIND OF NEAR DEATH TO BE ABLE TO GET THE KIND OF 16:53 TREATMENT YOU NEED. ONE IN 3 WOMEN ARE NOW LIVING IN A STATE 16:57 WITH AN EXTREME ABORTION BAN. THAT IS OUR CURRENT REALITY, 17:01 RACHEL. BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE OUR FUTURE. AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE IN THE STATES ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH PEOPLE TURNING OUT IN THE PRAIRIES, PEOPLE TURNING UP FOR REFERENDUM 10 FOR GOVERNORS RACES AND U.S. SENATE RACES AND OF COURSE THE PRESIDENCY BECAUSE IT IS SO CLEAR AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THIS ON THAT DEBATE STAGE WHEN ONE OF THE CANDIDATES, DONALD TRUMP SAID HE IS PROUD TO BE THE 17:25 PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERTURNING ROE. AND THEN 17:29 YOU'VE GOT JOE BIDEN VOWING TO CODIFY ROE V WADE INTO LAW SO 17:34 LONG AS WE ELECT THESE CANDIDATES AND WE KNOW WE NEED 17:37 TO TAKE BACK THE HOUSE AND WHEN THE SENATE RACES THAT IS WHAT 17:41 IS AT STAKE IN THIS ELECTION. 17:44 >> I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE STRONGLY FOR ABORTION 17:48 RIGHTS, WHETHER THEY WERE BEFORE THIS DECISION, ARE THEY 17:50 NEWLY ARE STRONGLY FOR ABORTION RIGHTS, WORRY THAT THIS IS 17:54 SOMETHING THAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS TAKEN ON THAT 17:57 REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS HAVE TAKEN ON AND THEY'VE 18:00 EFFECTIVELY TAKEN IT OUT OF THE HANDS OF SOMEBODY LIKE JOE BIDEN WHO SUPPORTS ABORTION RIGHTS, THAT WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT CAUGHT A FINE ROE VERSUS WADE. I'M NOT SURE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS IN TERMS OF WHAT IT WOULD DO AND ALL OF THE STATES WHERE STATE LAWS BUT REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS, REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS HAVE ENFORCE THESE BANS. >> WHAT WE KNOW IT IS TIME TO HAVE A NATIONAL STANDARD, 18:23 WHICH IS ROE V WADE THAT WILL GUARANTEE OUR FREEDOMS BECAUSE 18:27 WHAT TRUMP HAS NOW SAID IS THAT HE WANTS TO RETURN TO THE 18:31 STATES. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? LOOK AT WHAT THE STATES ARE 18:33 DOING. 18:34 ONE STATE, TEXAS WITH THAT TRUMP APPOINTED JUDGE AND YES, 18:37 THE JUDGES ARE ON THE LINE HERE. THE TRUMP APPOINTED JUDGE 18:40 BANNING MIFEPRISTONE. YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER STATE WHERE THEY'RE 18:43 GOING TO CRIMINALLY PROSECUTE DOCTORS. ANOTHER STATE TO THEY 18:47 DON'T WANT TO HAVE PEOPLE CROSS LINES TO GET THE REPRODUCTIVE 18:51 HEALTHCARE STATE BY STATE BY STATE. YOU SAW GOVERNORS RACING 18:54 TO THEIR STATE HOUSE TO SEE HOW DRACONIAN THEY COULD BE TO KISS 18:58 THE RING OF DONALD TRUMP. THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT 19:01 NOW. SO THAT IS A CLEAR DIFFERENCE. I THINK AS YOU SHOWER WITH YOUR PROOF POINTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE DO SEE THE DIFFERENCE. THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS ONE PERSON IS GOING TO STAND UP FOR THEM. AND THEN THERE'S DONALD TRUMP WHO HAS VOWED OVER THE YEARS. EVERYTHING HE HAS SAID FROM, YES, HE'D PROSECUTE DOCTORS TO YES, HE WOULD LOOK AT A NATIONAL BAN TO YES, MOST RECENTLY. HEY, LET'S GIVE IT 19:28 BACK TO THE STATES. LOOK AT THE PATCHWORK OF LAWS THAT WE HAVE 19:31 HAD THAT HAVE HURT THE WOMEN OF THIS COUNTRY. 19:36 >> MINNESOTA SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR ARE THANK YOU SO MUCH 19:39 FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. ITS ANNIVERSARY NOW, BUT WE'RE ALSO 19:41 IN THIS AREA VERY, VERY ACUTE POLITICAL MOMENT. I THINK 19:45 PEOPLE ARE REALLY FOCUSING IN ON HOW MUCH THIS IS TIED TO 19:47 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. THESE NEXT POLITICAL DECISIONS WE MAKE AS 19:50 A COUNTRY. THANKS FOR HELPING US UNDERSTAND. EXACTLY. THANKS, 19:53 RACHEL.

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