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All right, everybody, welcome back to "the cross connection." we have a lot of trending topics to get to. but first texass near total abortion ban is back in effect. thats at least for now. late last night, a federal appeals court temporarily reinstated the law just two days after a lower court had blocked it. so today nearly all abortions in texas are illegal once again. joining me now is brad jenkins, former obama white house associate director of public engagement and founder and ceo of infra...

Attacks against a womans right to choose during that administration. why is this resurfacing in such a vicious and visceral way now? >> youre right, tiffany. look, this is over almost half a century worth of precedent here. were going backwards. this is like its incredible to me. hearing jess, im getting emotional. one thing i will say is the womens march happened here a couple of weeks ago. women have been fighting this fight, but last ive seen, women do not get pregnant by themselves. this nee...

Cant say this is a failure at bidens feet. whats your take? >> no, its not, and youre right, tiffany, from where weve come, look, we just came out of a trump covid pandemic. youre right, the numbers do not -- you know, they should be a lot better than where theyre at, but just think about where weve come, and i think that, you know, we learned a lot about this during the obama years. the midterms are about a year away. like theyre right around the corner, and we do need to do a better job of tel...