Federal candidates. Thats all. Not to do what the majority actually did by officially giving congress the Sole Authority to enforce the insurrection clause. Theres no basis for that in the constitution quote, the Majority Attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office. Were going to explain what this means in plain language and what it means for the Supreme Courts next big trump case, immunity. Because that decision could have bearing on the other cases were watching on which we also have news. Joining us now, msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, nbc news senior Legal Correspondent, Laura Jarrett and slate Senior Writer, Mark Joseph Stern. Everybody welcome. Laura, this case, you know, you read the opinion, the Majority Opinion and the you see the headline, everyone agrees this is not political at all, and you read the dissent, and other Amy Coney Barrett, threat liberals on the court, it reads like a dissent. Not a concurrence. It reads like a dissent because they have a sharp break of the court, the court is reaching out for a power grab it didnt need to do. We agree colorado went too far. Everyone on the court agrees this was not up to colorado. Individual states couldnt unilaterally be deciding the election. Again, you could quibble with that but all of the justices seem to agree on that. What they dont agree with was the next step the majority took, saying congress is the one whos going to have to enact new legislation in order to get this done for a future case. If thats what they want to do, thats totally within congresss purview. They would have to go much further. Again, that was not at issue here. Colorado was interpreting its own law, and they said basically you didnt need to do this. Theyre invoking bush v. Gore for a reason, the Ghost Of Christmas Past on that, knowing everyones ears perk up when you hear about bush v. Gore. Theres certainly a break here, and i think it explains why the decision took so long, when everyone came out of the Oral Argument, this might explain why it took a month. I keep calling the concurrence a dissent. It reads like a dissent, and im getting it wrapped and warped in my mind. When you look at what Amy Coney Barrett said, she was a solo concurrent, she seemed to not only chastise the majority but chastise her other three colleagues for inflammatory language. It seems to imply that there is a lot of tension behind the scenes in this court. Yeah, its really interesting, katy, that you say that. A couple of weeks ago, justices sotomayor, and barrett made a joint opinion, they refer to themselves wearing the same black robe. And how Justice Sotomayor welcomed her kids to the Supreme Court, and they have movie nights, and everything is happy happy joy joy and if you read justice barretts concurrence, she wants you to have that impression of the court. But then again, you read the concurrence by the three liberal justices which starts with a quote from chief Justice Roberts concurrence in the dobbs case, they say if its not necessary to decide more to dispose of a case, then its not necessary to decide more. These are the cleavages we have in the court. Why did chief Justice Roberts get involved here. Heres such an interesting character on the court because sometimes he sides with the liberals, sometimes the conservatives. You cant quite tell. Whats the predictable nature in the way the court operates . Is there one . The overarching principle is that hes conservative and that pervades almost all of the decisions. There have been outliars when it comes to voting and other things when he has ended up siding with the more progressive members of the court. If you were to look at his over arching legacy, i think its certainly a conservative like minded principle, and i think especially when it comes to something as politically just charged as this, kicking the republican front runner off the ballot, there was nothing at Oral Argument that made me think there was a chance. Why go further to say that congress has the Sole Authority. Why define whose the authority in the insurrection claude when the three liberal justices say your reading not supported by whats in the constitution here. If you say that states dont have authority under section 3 of the 14th amendment, you have to come up with something to support that view. The text of section 3 says nothing of the sort. Section 5 says congress has the power to enact remedial, a Hook On WhichJustice Roberts and four other justices hung their hat. One possible interpretation is because hes actually not a believer in this idea that states can do what they want resulting in a patch work. Hes a pragmatist in large part, and i think he was legitimately scared if a state like colorado could do what it did here, in future elections we could end up with Real Asymmetry and who could appear on which states ballots, depending on litigation or decisions of secretary of state. I know Mark Joseph Stern you want to jump in on this. Please do. I said a concurring dissent at the top. Why did it read like a dissent . Because, it seems, it originally was a dissent. After this opinion came down, i checked the meta data, and that separate opinion that was presented as a concurrence by justices sotomayor, kagan and jackson, that was originally Staten Island as a partial dissent by Justice Sotomayor alone. At some point very late in the process the court switched the words on the page to say that it was a concurrence in the judgment New York City longer a partial dissent, and added Justices Kagan and jackson. That is not how it read in the meta data, and probably not how it read until the last minute. We know the opinion was rushed out. The court only announced it would be handing it down yesterday afternoon. The court didnt even take the bench to announce it as it usually does. The justices hadnt planned on being in d. C. They pushed it out quickly. They made an error, an oversight. While sotomayor was haed toog a dissent, perhaps Justices Kagan and jackson were making a play to john roberts, to brett kavanaugh, to cobble together a different majority that would have issued a much narrower holding. Stopping it where it needed to stop. Not adding this overwhelming and overreaching language about how congress can enforce the clause. Something fell apart before the decision came down, and we were left with a divide that was very very sharp. Is it prudent to read into that about what could come with the Immunity Decision . I know were Reading Tea Leaves here. Its such a momentous case, moment us Oral Arguments. Can we read into this from that at all . Maybe. There was a lot of speculation after Oral Arguments that there would be a grand bargain between this case and the Immunity Decision, where the liberal justices would agree to keep trump on the ballot in this case, in exchange for votes to simply deny a stay in the Immunity Decision, allow the trial to move forward immediately. Obviously that has not happened. Instead the Supreme Court scheduled Oral Arguments in the Immunity Case for two months from now. They are actually walking that case much slower than they did this one. They are giving trump a lot more time than they gave colorado in this case. I think there was a chance there was a stab at a grand bargain behind the scenes. Just kagan who is good at Horse Trading behind the scenes was trying to find the sweet spot where she could put together the votes bs sign on to a narrow decision here, and asylum let the trial go forward, let the jury have its say well in advance of november. That has not happened. Even though justice Amy Coney Barrett and sonia sotomayor, love to talk about how they share candy and movie nights, theres Bad Blood Behinds scenes. And the liberal judges have not been able to shake a compromise out of the majority. He says in a news letter last week, i argued the Supreme Courts recent decision on diversity in High School Admissions offered a reason for americans to be less cynical about the court. On that subject, the justices seem to be following a consistent principle across several cases. Sometimes that principle disappointed the political left. Sometimes it disappointed the right. Last weeks decision feels different. When urgent action could help a republican president ial candidate in 2000, the court which was dominated by republican appointee the at the time, acted urgently. When delay seems to help a president ial candidate, court has chosen delay. The combination does not make the court look independent from partisan politics. I think we should focus on what he says about look. It doesnt make the court look independent. Even if they are independent, theyre operating independently. The appearance of the court certainly continues to be tainted. I couldnt agree more. I would add this is a court thats concerned about appearances. You know, the majority in this case went out of its way to say were unanimous on our bottom line holding. Justice Amy Cney Barrett said we agree on this baseline issue. We dont need to snipe at each other across the divide. There was an effort among six conservatives to say we are united and we are friendly and independent. Justice barrett said its a message americans can take home in this frenzies election season. The three liberal justices are not on the same page, and they would lean more in the direction that david was espousing in the piece. The liberal justices are trying to wave a red flag to the public. It doesnt look good because it isnt good. As hard as the majority tries to cover it up with words like unanimity and collegiality, were reaching dangerously bad decisions for no good reason. Dropping the nuclear citation to bush v. Gore is as clear as you can get. So if the liberals were going to tell us we should be worried, this is exactly what it would look like. I mentioned it at the top, were waiting for judge Aileen Cannon to schedule a trial date in the classified documents case. Judge mcafee says he will rule on fani willis and whether or not she can continue the Georgia Election interference case along with her entire office, d. A. In Fulton County in the next two weeks. Thank you very much. Coming up next, she voted for donald trump in 2020, and brought a lawsuit to try to keep him off the ballot in 2024, what krista kafer said she was trying to tell americans when she sued to have trump taken off the colorado ballot. What President Biden is warning if he himself wins in november. What is Benjamin Netanyahus main political rival doing at the white house today, and what it could signal for gaza. We are back in 60 seconds. And get one free. Just scan the qr code and Enter Promo Code flbogo. It only works from The Other Side of the screen, buddy. You still got a land line in your house. Order now in the subway app. man excuse me, would you mind taking a picture of us . tony oh, no problem. L man thanks. Our house. tony yes, problem. You need verizon. Get the new iphone 15 pro with tons of storage. So you can take all the pics vo tradein any iphone in any condition and get a new iphone 15 pro and an ipad and apple watch se all on us. Only on verizon. Joining us now, the woman i was just speaking with, one of the plaintiffs in the colorado case that tried to keep donald trump off the ballot. Shes also a columnist for the denver post, and with us, president of citizens for responsibility and ethics. You know him, noah bookbinder, his group Assisted Krista and the other plaintiffs in bringing their case. You voted for rump in 2020. What made you want to keep him off the ballot entirely in 2024, and what do you say to those who say that he needs to be on the ballot. This is the voters choice about who they put into the white house. Voters are allowed to vote for anyone who is eligible, and not for those who are ineligible, and somebody can be ineligible for residency or not being a natural born citizen, or having been involved in insurrection, and the constitution is very clear on that point. When donald trump decided the day after the election, the day after i voted for him that he wanted to disenfranchise 80 million voters, voters that are my fellow americans. When he decided to do that, and continued to push the false narrative to the point of inciting violence on our capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power, i knew i had to do something. Im proud of our effort. Obviously im disappointed with todays rulings but i would have done it again. I would do it again in a heart beat. You liken trying to do this, to bring this lawsuit, by putting a bell on a cat. Can you explain that metaphor to me, and explain is there another way, in your opinion, to put the bell on the cat now that the Supreme Court has said no. The old fable, which is that the mice get together and decide that because the cat is a danger for them, if they could get bell on the cat and her him coming, they could save lives. No one was willing to put the bell on the cat. I was thinking about among other things, that particular fable. We needed republicans to step up. Step up and bell that cat. It wasnt just republicans. It was republicans, independents, litigants and several democrats, an amazing grook group of lawyers that worked for us were republicans, democrats, independents, this was very very bipartisan. My disappointment with the court among others things is they said only congress can be the one that enforces this provision. If you look at congress right now, it is incredibly partisan. They basically handed a very big duty to a very very partisan group of people, who will more often than not act in their own selfinterest. In contrast to what we tried to do, seeking good for everyone. Talk to me about that, theres no federal body or federal judge that can take away the ability of somebody found to be an insurrectionist into office. The only remedy is congress itself. Obviously thats a distressing place to end up. I think one of the things that was most significant about this decision was what it doesnt have. You had nine justices writing, not a single one in there exonerated donald trump for engaging in insurrection. Theres not a sentence in there that said that he dont do it, and donald trump asked them to take that position. They pointedly chose not to do that. So we still are in a place that everybody, every Decision Making body that has substantively looked at it has found that donald trump engaged in insurrection. What the Supreme Court did do was essentially take out the Enforcement Mechanism that would allow states to enforce that, at least if we look at what the concurring justices say. The Supreme Court may have taken out federal courts ability, and even congresss Nonlegislative Ability to enforce this. Now were in a situation where as we can very clearly save from everyone whos looked at this, donald trump engaged in insurrection to try to keep himself into power after losing an election, but nobody can do anything about it, and that sends it back to congress. Congress could become functional or to the American People to essentially enforce what the constitution mandates. Do you have confidence in this court . You know, i will say that this court, that i was pleased that this court did not go in some of the really dangerous directions they could have gone like to try to find some way to say that donald trump didnt engage in insurrection or excuse president s, excuse president s who hadnt served in office, which is basically a donald trump only exception. These are the dangerous paths that donald trump wanted them to take that they didnt. Ultimately, institution after institution has been kind of stepping aside instead of using the tools available to protect the democracy from those who could attack it again. I think its disappoint, this court chose to be the next institution to not step out when it could have. Thats disappointing. What about you, krista . Obviously i respect the court. Like noah, im concerned they sort of dodged their responsibility to uphold the constitution. I think this is you know, ive always like the originalest and textualist approach to the constitution that we look at what the words say and what the words mean, not on the potential effect. In departing from that originalist, jurisprudence, this court decided, hey, were going to rule on the effect, not the actual words of the constitution. In a sense, im empathetic, it would have been disruptive. On one hand, in acting not for us, it would no longer be disruptive. I believe it will become more dangerous. This sort of gives a green flag to any would be officer of the law, somebody who holds that high office, who decides they dont like the result of an election, decides to foment insurrection and violence. This decision gives them a bit more of a green light to say, hey, theres no downside, unless congress acts, i can act in this way. Thank you very much for joining us. And still ahead, what Benjamin NetanyahusChief Political Rival is doing at the white house today with Vice President harris. And what it could signal for netanyahus hold on power in israel. First, though what women are saying about their lives under donald trump, and what President Biden is hearing. Footlong at subway. Just buy any footlong in the app and get one free. Just scan the qr code and Enter Promo Code flbogo. It only works from The Other Side of the screen, buddy. You still got a land line in your house. Order now in the subway app. start your day with nature made. 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I just think that hell do anything to try to win. If and when i win i think hell contest it no matter what the result is. The result at the moment is very unclear. While its never easy to predict the future, its basically impossible. This future is particularly uncertain. When you average out the last four polls, for instance, the race is in a statistical tie. Joining us from fort worth, texas, is nbc news correspondent ali vitali and the dispatch Senior Writer and vanity fair contributing writer, David Drucker joins us as well. She seemed to imply she wouldnt abide by the rnc pledge, if she drops out, she would endorse the nominee no matter who that was. Whats going on . Reporter it really leaves the door open for nikki haley to do in her words whatever she thinks is right at the time. Thats not something she says shes actively thinking about now because haleys head is still squarely in running this race, and that is still true even though the landscape is a very difficult one for her. Its an up hill climb. The reason she says shes still in it because of voters like these, we met over the weekend in Super Tuesday states, they dont want trump. They dont want biden. They just want an alternative. Watch. Im not comfortable with either of those choices. I dont think its good for america. I will not vote for someone who i dont think is competent or nice. I wont vote. Can you tell me why . Because i dont feel like my voice will really count. Neither side represents, at least neither extreme represents my feelings, my believes, and i just couldnt vote for either one right now. Reporter now, look, katy, haley has ruled out running as a third party candidate. She says shes a republican and shes going to continue to run as one. How long is the question, especially with Super Tuesday tomorrow. Haley doesnt have any more public events. This is the last time we expect to see her publicly, at least for right now, and said shes spending tomorrow in and around her hometown of charleston. Unclear what happens next. When haley is talking about voters that are not welcome at the Republican Party any longer, you heard ali vitali interviewed, how much of a problem is that going to be. She argues and she argued this to you in an interview, guess what, at the end of the day, you cant win without everybody. What do you make of that . Well, i think thats where the conversation around nikki haley needs to focus, right, because shes lost all but one primary, the washington, d. C. , republican primary and donald trump is on a march to the nomination. The key, though, is what do all of these traditional reagan era republican voters, unhappy with both candidates, but in particular, dont feel welcome in the Republican Party. I have interviewed over the course of the last several months is a number of haley voters, one of the things they talk about is not just i dont know what to do about voting in 2024, i dont like trump, they dont feel welcomed generally in the party as its constituted under trump, and that has to do with him and his supporters, at least his most ardent supporters. And look, we know that President Joe Biden has problems with his coalition, and we see it in polling. This is a very volatile Election Cycle, and donald trump is also going to need all elements of what we think of as the traditional broad republican coalition, and theres no guarantee right now that hes going to get it, and that could be a problem for him down the line, if in fact, voters dont come home the way they usually do. Thats when they feel really good about the candidate at the end of the day, and their policies. These are things they dont feel about trump or his agenda. I want to ask you about something i saw in the New York Times and the new poll over the weekend, the New York Times sienna poll that showed that former President Trump was ahead of President Biden. There was an interesting poll out about women. Women are 20 Percentage Points more likely to say trumps policies have helped them despite the fact that mr. Trump installed Supreme Court justices that overturned the right to an abortion and about 2 3 of Women In America Think Abortion should be legal in all or most instances. The biden team seems to be relying on abortion among, you know, democracy, threats to democracy, as a real motivating issue, especially for women. How might that read, and have you had an experience with that in talking to voters on the trail . Reporter these numbers were fascinating. I have a hard time believing and frankly democrats and republicans alike have said this to me, i have a hard time to believe trump and biden are tied with women voters because of the Abortion Issue because weve seen this at the ballot box. It doesnt necessarily show up in polls. We have seen when abortion is on the ballot, pro choice advocates, polls right now are important, instructive, especially when they show trend lines. Thats one i have to see more information around. Women might be saying that trumps policies might have helped them more, women are the ones who generally control the Purse Strings of a family. They are usually the economic heads of house. So it strikes me if the economy is the top issue, maybe thats why women voters are saying they prefer the trump era. That being said, and this is incumbent on the Biden Administration, right, to show, not tell that inflation is Getting Better, to show not tell that the economy is in a better place in its post covid rebound. All of that is something we know. Democrats hem and hau over all the time, and they need to do a better job of it heading into the Election Cycle. Again, i think my consistent thread im watching in the Election Cycle is the way that women, young women and angry women mobilize around abortion. We dont need to see that now but thats something that will come out over the summer. Ali vitali, David Drucker, thank you very much, we appreciate it. And what Vice President harris is doing by meeting with a Netanyahu Rival at the white house right now. Ahu rival at the house right now. Glands best. Taste so fresh and amazing. Deliciously superior nutrition, too. For us, its eggs any style. As long as theyre the best. Egglands best. If youre living with moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis or active psoriatic arthritis, symptoms can sometimes take you out of the moment. Now theres skyrizi, so you can show up with clearer skin. And show it off. 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Conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. Our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. Mr. Garvey, you voted for him twice. As your own man, what is your decision . Garvey is wrong for california. But garveys surging in the polls. Fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. Stop garvey. Adam schiff for senate. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message. Something potentially significant is happening at the white house. A Senior Member of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu war cabinet benny ganst is meeting with Vice President harris. Meeting with harris who demanded an immediate cease fire over the weekend is raising questions about what could be to come for not just israeli leadership but subsequent Decision Making surrounding the war. Joining us now, nbc news whos correspondent aaron gilchrist. Vice president harris over the weekend was adamant, she was angry, demanding a cease fire right now. I imagine thats the same thing shes saying to benny gantz as we speak. Reporter we believe this meeting is underway. It was scheduled to start at the top of the hour. Its worth noting, there are demonstrators, protesters who were also aware the meeting would be starting at the top of the hour, and i can hear you, as i have been hearing for the last half hour or so, a small group of protesters gathered in that space between the white house and the executive office building, i can hear someone with a bull horn chanting, cease fire now. Thats something the Vice President called for yesterday in a speech she gave in alabama. Very likely to be part of the conversation we will eventually get a readout from today with the Vice President and benny gantz of the israeli war cabinet. The Vice President did say a little while ago, she spoke at an event in d. C. , and afterwards came and spoke to reporters for just a few minutes, laying out what she intended to address with benny gantz in their meeting today, saying that there is a pressing need to get a hostage deal done, and there is a pressing need to get more aid into gaza for the Palestinian People who have been suffering greatly over the last several months. She also talked, obviously, about the need for the immediate cease fire that would facilitate some of these other things happening to include the release of hostages. Well wait for the readout to come from the white house in the next hour or so, katy. We should also note that gantz also met with the National Security adviser Jake Sullivan in the last hour. We understand theres a conversation around progress happening on the ground, and still questions about what the israelis plan to do in rafah. There has been talk about an assault on rafah coming and whether that would happen before ramadan begins in weekend. The holy month there, and also some talk about what exactly the plan is for palestinians in terms of getting them out of harms way in rafah. Thats something well be interested to see if it was a significant part of the conversation with the National Security adviser. Local media are reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu did not know that benny gantz was going to be having these meetings and wasnt happy about it. Do we know how this came to be . Reporter thats not something the white house addressed whether this was something that benny gantz didnt, you know, deliberately chose not to make the Prime Minister netanyahu aware of, and the white house has been pretty certain about not wanting to get involved in any of the politics that are going on inside israel. At the same time, theres been this real push to make sure that the u. S. Has been clear on what it wants to see done, particularly as it relates to helping the palestinians who are in gaza right now stuck between the fighting with israel and hamas. Aaron gilchrist, thank you very much. The Atlantic Staff writer and msnbc contributor yair rosenberg. Its good to have you. Kamala harriss words are in line with what the white house has been saying. Her tone was different. She was much more forceful, much angieier. What do you make of the insistence she said the words yesterday, and secondly, the meeting with benny gantz, as we mentioned with aaron, it appears Benjamin Netanyahu according to the reporting of The Times Of Israel is not happy about it, his main political rival. Can you give us context about him being here without netanyahu . Those are two excellent questions. To the first one, Kamala Harris gets up there and gives a speech and says some new things and says some old things, and a lot of people mistook one for the other. They werent familiar with the details in the negotiations over the truth and hostage deal for gaza. There has been a deal on the table for some time now that the israelis have agreed to in principle, according to reports but hamas has not, which would get hostages out. Some hostages not all, and get aid into gaza, and President Biden has said repeatedly that this deal would then allow them to try to build something more lasting and enduring. Thats what Kamala Harris repeated very very explicitly and clearly, when she spoke. That wasnt actually new. What was new is the way she talked in great detail about the suffering of the gazan people and the need for more humanitarian aid, as you said, in a forceful way. And also how she talked about eliminating how israel has a right to eliminate the threat from hamas, which is different than saying, eliminating hamas all together. That was interesting language. I think sometimes people missed what was new and what was interesting in favor of the words immediate cease fire. She was saying an immediate cease fire that hamas needs to agree to. That was slightly different than what people thought. Benny gantz, meeting the important officials in the white house, you cant miss the symbolism of him doing a trip, which was not coordinated with netanyahu. For watchers who dont realize, after october 7th, israel did not rally around Benjamin Netanyahu, in fact, abandoned him in the polls. Hes lost like half of his vote share in the polls, and most of it has gone to benny gantz, this Centrist Lawmaker whos whole thing is were going to have less extreme politics. Gantz joined the government to moderate it and steer the country during a time of emergency. If the elections were held today, he would win them by a significant margin, and so undoubtedly the Biden Administration wants to talk to the guy who might be the next Prime Minister of israel and netanyahu wants to prevent gantz from looking like the next Prime Minister of israel. So you have a lot of these tensions going on underneath the surface of this meeting . Does it signal anything about what might be to come for israel . I know you mentioned that gantz would win an election if there were one held. Does it appear that Netanyahus Coalition might be fracturing to soon . Arguing in Foreign Affairs that he needs to go, that he is hopelessly conflicted, that he acquiesces to the Biden Administration, saying yes, theres going to be a twostate solution and loses the far right coalition thats keeping him in office or he, you know, bends to the far right and continues this campaign in gaza that is rapidly losing the support of the international community. So the challenge for israel right now is that if you look at the polls, like 2 3 of israelis want netanyahu to go. Some want him to resign. Now, some of them want him to resign after the war is done, which is a challenging question when that is. Very few people want him to remain Prime Minister, and as i said in the polls, he would lose an election if held. He has no obligation to hold an election, unless his coalition falling apart, and the paradox, terrible polls for the coalition, and the polls are terrible for the right wing coalition, is that they have every incentive not to break up the coalition. They know if they do and they go into an election, they will end up with far less seats, less power, and they will not be in the government anymore. Paradoxically, the fact that the government is toxically unpopular is whats holding it together. There are tensions, there are domestic issues in israel on the ultra orthodox, a certain religious community in israel that doesnt get drafted into the army. And thats causing real tensions inside netanyahus government, and it could lead to it falling apart for completely Different Reasons that has nothing to do with the war, but were a ways from that. I think its the american administration, if you had them Behind Closed Doors and asked them, they would actually like to see this government fall apart, and theyre happy to poke at various sore spots. Biden has been publicly criticizing far right politicians in netanyahus government. He has imposed sanctions on radical violent settlers in the west bank. They are the constituents of netanyahus far right flank in the government. Puts him in a difficult spot that he has to go along with what the americans do. And it raises tensions within it. So i think theres absolutely a desire with israel and outside israel to move on, the question is what the mechanism would be. That is the question. I have asked the administration privately f theyre preparing for maybe a benny gantz in the future, somebody that they can negotiate with in a twostate solution, and they declined to say that theyre preparing for anything other than dealing with Benjamin Netanyahu. Really good to have you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. And after the break, Progressive Politics are getting punchy in california. Jacob soboroff joins us with what to watch for in the race for Dianne Feinsteins open senate seat. And what jobs the University Of Florida just got rid of. s bas for babies, but for adults. It should be called wiffle tennis. Pickle yeah, aw whoo these guys are intense. We got nothing to worry about. With e trade from morgan stanley, were ready for whatever gets served up. Dude, you gotta work on your trash talk. 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The University Of Florida has officially ended dei, eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion jobs and reallocating its funding. Joining us is marissa paris. Explain whats going on. Reporter hey, so in this memo that the University Of Florida put out, they explained that roughly 15 staff appointments, fulltime staff appointments, and roughly 15 administrative appointments were going away and 5 million initially allocated for dei expenses, including the salaries of those appointments, also being reallocated. In the memo they said this was to comply with state law. It was about one year ago that the florida governor, ron desantis, signed a law essentially defunding these Diversity Programs within higher education. Within the legal context, dei is defined as any program, any Campus Activity or policy that classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation. So its not just the University Of Florida. Within the last several weeks weve seen other florida universities announcing the same within dei or lgbtq initiatives being cut or eliminated or scaled back on campus. All of them saying to comply with state law. The same state law we talked about that was signed by the governor, who, by the way, after the University Of Florida announced this, celebrated, saying in a tweet, that dei is florida is where dei goes to die. Thats a direct quote. So he has made this a part of his campaign, saying that it was exclusionary. Democrats trying to fight back, saying theyre going to make calls for an investigation on civil rights violations. And i will end with just one more thing. We do expect other State Schools to follow, and similar legislation has been passed or recently signed in the states of texas and utah. So the big question is, will other gopled states follow. Marissa parra, thank you very much. What Jacob Soboroff is hearing from the candidates in a Key California senate race. 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Katie porter is running, adam schiff is running, of course, congressman from california, and representative lee. The tricky part is the spending by adam schiff. He has spent a ton of money in the top two primaries to boost a republican, steve garvey, former dodger. You and i probably saw him growing up as kids. He is now at the head of the polls. Its something that other candidates are not happy about. I spoke to both Representative Porter and lee about that this morning. Take a look. I call it the schiff gift, gop turnout to republican turnout. We are already seeing that in this election, that having steve garvey on the ballot will turn out republicans. Thats a big deal, and in winning back the house of representatives. Having a strong democratic race with two democrats running all the way through november will give us a chance to talk about the issues that matter to california and how we can change how our politics works. Communicating with voters, weve been phone banging for the last six weeks, weve called over 2 million voters and were pushing them to the polls. Weve targeted our voters and turnout has been a bit slow and were working day and night to get voters to the poll. Reporter California Democrats are unique, katy. The sitting senator, alex padilla is against President Bidens immigration bill. So are all of those in the race. The issue is turnout. Come on, you can come out. She says, i cant talk. Poll worker, cant talk so loud outside. Were going to back up. Inside right now is early voting. The issue is, and it sets me up perfectly, turnout. Turnout is extremely low, and katie porter is concerned about spending by adam schiff on the republican side is going to boost republican turnout and come at the expense of democrats in this race. One thing i want to say is stay tuned, because we could take up to 30 days if its a close race to count the votes in california. 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