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Previous efforts that his administration has made so far as we have seen several of these other states overturn or degrade womens right to choose in various states across the country. saying that his administration has been looking at ways that it can use federal government powers to try and restrict what this administration sees as a backsliding of those fundamental rights. and he says we will be ready when any ruling is issued as a result of those efforts and finally the president also talks a...

Supreme court. they have also been responding to the numerous states in recent months that have been dismantling womens right to access abortion services, meeting with reproductive rights activists, meeting within the federal government, within the white house counsels office, the justice department, to see what federal levers exist and are in place that they could use to try and stop what they see as a backsliding of womens rights in the country. >> we will wait to hear more on that this mornin...

>> week spoke about this with the president and others, addressed the question about the unity of the nato countries and what happens if putin tries to do something unconventional in terms of weapons. >> well, i think, madam speaker, you said it all. if he does anything in regards to unconventional weapons, dealing with anything like chemical weapons. or any kind of strategical nukes, all bets are off. were not going to back down to a bully, sometimes bullies keep talking. but if they cross, he ...

>> its a kind of a callousness that we just dont understand here. >> reporter: retired army lieutenant colonel vidman is known as a crucial witness in former president trumps first impeachment proceedings. but he was also a child refugee from ukraine. whose family moved to the u.s. in 1979. >> refugees have been a weapon for a long time. russia uses refugees as weapons for years. >> how do you deploy refugees as weapons? >> you bomb cities and those cities result in civilian populations, women a...

Weapon for years. >> how do you deploy refugees as weapons? >> you bomb cities and those cities result in civilian populations, women and children in particular. >> what is the theory behind that? >> well, they are weaponized just by the mere fact that these are large numbers of people flowing into a country that is not prepared to handle refugee camps that has to, you know, now spend funds on those refugees. >> reporter: the alleged goal? destabilize poland, a nato country, from within. but tha...

But part of the issue that we are going to face this year in the midterms is that voters, swing voters particularly, dont seem to be penalizing the republican party for the democratic backsliding. and i think in some ways that is understandable. people are going to be focused on inflation or prices are unemployment, whatever it may be. they are not going to penalize them that way. but then they end up in this very weird situation in which the republicans can run this normal election of a referen...

To the bad old days. >> patrick: when the parti québécois, the first, uh, sovereignist party to be elected, was elected in 1976, it didnt come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of decades of awakening and struggle. >> anthony: 50 years from now, will people be still speaking -- >> patrick: french. >> anthony: -- predominantly french in montreal? >> patrick: yes. >> anthony: no doubt about it? >> patrick: no doubt about it. >> anthony: "french first" is something most would agree with....

Dangerous violence and destruction that occurred today in our nations capitol. >> today, the peoples house was attacked, which is an take aattack on the republic, itself. there is no excuse for it. a woman died and people need to go to jail. and the president should never have spun up certain americans to believe something that simply cannot be. >> chaos, anarchy, the violence today was wrong and un-american. >> i mean, on that day and over the days that followed, republicans were saying virtual...

Seen the betrayal on their face. i know how much that hurts every american that cant. we can overcome it together and then keep fighting. this is not a fight for just the next election or the election of that. this is a fight for us for decades. we had decades of backsliding. now we need decades of protecting our democracy. >> exactly. congressman colin allred, thank you very much for coming back to "the sunday show." >> thank you, jonathan. after the break, the global community is concerned a...

For the worst in 2024. you dont rule out street violence and electoral college violence. how does that scenario leave room for radical optimism? >> well, im fundamentally optimistic about the history of american democracy, that we have always moved towards being a more perfect union. there has been backsliding, theres been reaction, theres been resistance, but in the big picture, we move forward. if you look at our constitution, at the 17 amendments we have adopted since the bill of rights, the ...