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-- real cases out there. people think it is a phrase, rape and incest. im sure in your office youve seen the cases where there are victims of rape and incest that should have the right in this country to not be forced to carry that child to term. >> it is often forgotten that if roe v. wade is overturned, decisions like that will be made by local prosecutors. itll be made by local legislators. that is a whole different dynamic. it wont outlaw abortion across the country. itll delegate it to the ...

Vice president mike pence while he was governor. the courts action avoids an election year review of the case amid a flurry of new state laws that are aimed at stifling abortion rights. >> claire, i think this is predictable. when the indiana law came out, both of us said, this is -- you know what, this is going to get overturned by a lower court. the supreme court is not going to accept it. its just going to remain. it is like assault weapon bans. when states ban what they define as assault wea...

V. wade in a piecemeal fashion. theyre playing the long game, opposed to vis eoring the 46-year-old precedent. when roberts preserved obamacare in the deciding vote, he is looking at the long game. he wants to keep the faith people have in our institutions, such as the supreme court. he knows itd be undermined if he eliminated a popular precedent or a popular law, such as obamacare. so the alabama law, laws like it, sort of break the code. it takes a different strategy, which is why people like ...

States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance and take this obligation freely without any mental reservation and you will well and faith flee discharge the duties without reservation so help you god? congratulations. >> of those four, the second to the right, josh hawley, a new member, a new senator from missouri beat democrat clair mccaskill. he is, i believe, now the youngest member of the senate elected at age 38 years old. i want to go to capitol hill. p...

Primary. people responded responded to his message about trade and immigration. now he has ha list in over two years over 200 accomplishments. when you think about the changes where jeff flake was trying to hold this up right until the end of the shutdown he was trying to protect robert mueller who after two years we have a national poll in december after two years only 32% think there is anything to that investigation. and when you look at josh hawley, he replaced clair mccaskill she never gave...

After over a decade of service in the united states senate, democrat clair mccaskill is bowing out. she lost her campaign to a trump favorite. attorney general josh hawly. he tried to bridge the divide between herself and trump supporters in part by distancing herself from members of her own party. >> clair is not afraid to stand up against her party. >> clair is not one of the crazy democrats. >> before she left washington, i sat down with her. >> you said you are not one of the crazy democrats...

>> i was in tennessee as all of the kavanaugh stuff was going down towards the end. there was clearly an uptick in republican interest. in the month of september before kavanaugh became a thing, the democrats are starting to profit from this idea that they could possibly win the senate. the doldrums are setting for republicans. we are going to lose the house and things dont look good. voter interest on the right was not that great. kavanaugh gave them something to believe in. in tennessee and mi...

That feeds cynicism and donald trump rails against washington. this is a huge debate for the party come 2020 with how you position yourself. do you embrace the middle of the road or talk about the ig issues. >> she had advice for folks like elizabeth warren who she said couldnt win her red state. dont veer too far to the left. mccaskills words are important. you have to leave room to tell people heres whats possible and not a dream of what i would do in a fantasy world. >> thats hard in a campai...

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Combined with the caravan optics with him being there every 10 minutes. >> he did not step down from the supreme court. do you think he would win that race? >> it would be much more likely. >> much more likely, she would have won if not for the kavanaugh fight. how much did kavanaugh shape things? they helped democrats to energize their base, but it could have affected things in the senate. >> tough to say. i was traveling after the kavanaugh stuff and the one thing that was tangible was fervor ...