I will add thoughts about the united states supreme court in this hour, especially their moral responsibility in the moral diagram of the death of amber nicole thurman, which you were also talking about in this hour. I am eager to hear that and that is important framing for this moment. Have a good show. Thank you. They got what they wanted. The two, 78yearold, former republican presidents who appointed the majority of republican supreme court justices who overturned roe v. Wade got what they wanted. Sometimes when you get what you want, more things than you anticipate come with it. It is possible that the people who worked to elect george w. Bush to the presidency, a job for which his only qualification was that his father once had that job, knew that george w. Bush said he wanted to ban abortion in america by overturning roe v. Wade, but maybe they thought that would just never happen. Maybe president george w. Bush and the people working for him and supporting him thought that when he appointed samuel alito to the supreme court, maybe he wasn't choosing a republican supreme court justice who would overturn roe v. Wade. Previous supreme court justices had refused to overturn roe v. Wade. George w. Bush had even more reason to think it possible that john roberts would not overturn roe v. Wade when he who appointed him to be chief justice. In fact, john roberts voted to overturn roe versus wade and assigned the writing of the opinion to his george w. Bush teammate, samuel alito. The entire world knew that all three of donald trump supreme court justices would overturn roe v. Wade because he said during his winning presidential campaign that he would only appoint justices who would overturn roe v. Wade. No other candidate had ever said that. The standard campaign line from republicans about supreme court justices before donald trump was that they had no litmus test. That was their phrase, no litmus test for supreme court justices. Even though george w. Bush made it clear that he personally opposed roe versus wade, he never said that it was a requirement for justices appointed by him to overturn roe versus wade. That was donald trump's intemperate innovation and it one donald trump the white house because extreme antiabortion republican voters did not trust donald trump on abortion and for very good reason. They heard the replay of his comments to howard stern about how disappointed he was in 1993 when his girlfriend told him she was pregnant with the child who would become his second daughter. Donald trump told howard stern, that when he heard his girlfriend tell him this, this is what he said. But you know at the time it was like, excuse me, what happened? and then i said, well, what are we going to do about this? she said, oh, are you serious? this is the most beautiful day of our lives. I said oh, right. Isn't that wonderful? what are we going to do about this? there were only two options, and abortion or a baby. Donald trump made it very clear to howard stern that he got the answer he did not want to hear. The girlfriend was going to have the baby. That is how she became the second misses donald trump with the shortest tenure as a trump wife. We have no idea how donald trump felt when the third misses trump broke the news to him that she was pregnant with his third son. Men in 20 states are not allowed to ask women, what are we going to do about this? when a woman tells them she is pregnant. Not anymore. Donald trump took that away. He took away that conversation from those people. Donald trump took away the rights that enabled him to say, to his girlfriend, what are we going to do about this? when she was pregnant. Donald trump is telling american men, you don't get to have the option that i always had, whenever anyone told me she was pregnant. Donald trump could say, what are we going to do about this? every single time, to a wife or a girlfriend. And now people are dying. Women are dying. The choices made by george w. Bush and donald trump are now killing people. Propublica is reporting about the death of a 28yearold woman in georgia who died because of what george w. Bush and donald trump did to her when they appointed those supreme court justices. Amber nicole thurman was a healthy, 28yearold medical assistant who was the mother of a 6yearold boy. And the choices made by george w. Bush and donald trump and the republican supreme court justices and republican politicians in georgia, using the tools that those supreme court justices gave them, killed her. Propublica reports, in her final hours, amber nicole thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban atlanta hospital was well equipped to treat. She had taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication. She had not expelled all of the tissue from her body. She showed up at the piedmont henry hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her ureter her uterus. That summer her state made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. George w. Bush in his silent retirement in texas, made that routine medical procedure a felony. Donald trump is proud to noisily take credit for overturning roe versus wade and claiming that we all wanted that to happen and he is pretending that he has no blood on his hands. Donald trump is pretending that he had nothing to do with making a procedure, a routine medical procedure a felony. Amber nicole thurman would be alive tonight if the supreme court had not handed the 2000 presidential election to george w. Bush. Without george w. Bush's appointees to the supreme court, amber nicole thurman would be alive tonight. She would be a healthy, happy mother of her young son, who was forced by george w. Bush and donald trump to attend his mother's funeral at age 6. When i was six years old my mother had the same medical procedure that amber nicole thurman desperately needed to live. My mother had given birth to five healthy children. But she kept going. She was trying, trying to have a sister for her only daughter. Trying for one more and she suffered a miscarriage and she routinely had a d&c at a local hospital in boston, years before abortion was illegal because it has absolutely nothing to do with abortion. None of the catholic nuns teaching me at my elementary school then thought my mother should not have that procedure. Our beloved monsignor bradley knew that when mothers had miscarriages, doctors should give them whatever treatment they needed. Antiabortion catholic doctors performed the procedure routinely. There wasn't a single irish catholic politician in boston including the mayor and district attorney who ever tried to interfere with that medical procedure. Their sisters were having that procedure, their daughters were having that procedure routinely in antiabortion boston because it has nothing to do with abortion, nothing. If a politician interfered with that procedure and killed killed my mother when i was six years old, who is going to tell that boy? who is going to tell that 6 yearold how his mother died and who is really responsible? the d&c procedure was routine in many areas of the country, long before abortion was legal. Outline that procedure is sheer madness, criminal madness. Murderous madness. Outlawing the d&c procedure is as insane as outline in vitro fertilization, which antiabortion republicans want to do. Ivf has nothing to do with abortion, but every republican, every single one of them in the united states senate today except for two, two women republican senators, they stood up, they voted against a bill to guarantee the legality of providing ivf in all 50 states. The bill required 60 votes to pass the senate today. It got 51. 44 republicans playing politics with reproduction voted against it and that was enough to kill the bill, that minority in the senate was enough to kill the will of the american people and the will of the united states senate. Donald trump insists that he personally is in favor of ivf, but he did not order his vice presidential candidate, senator j. D. Vance, to return to the senate today and vote for that bill. I think it unfortunate that someone myself who ran for president. I would try my best to be back for very important votes. I think kamala harris has had to be back to break ties throughout the last few years, change her schedule to be there. Unfortunate that j. D. Vance is not here to vote. I don't know if he is going to be, but it appears that this would be a moment for them to really show that they stand by their words and that they want to see ivf continue. Amber nicole thurman would be alive tonight if donald trump did not when the electoral college in 2016. Donald trump increased the republican majority in the united states supreme court and started the clock ticking on amber nicole thurman's life. They got what they wanted. George w. Bush and donald trump overturned roe v. Wade and now amber nicole thurman is dead. The propublica report continues. Any doctor who violated the new georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison. Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what could happen to her 6year old son. As doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail, thanks to george w. Bush and donald trump. For the very first time, american doctors believed that they were under a legal order made possible by the united states supreme court to watch a patient's infection spread to watch a woman's blood pressure sink. To just watch her organs fail, because george w. Bush and donald trump got what they wanted. George w. Bush and donald trump weren't in the operating room to watch amber nicole thurman die. None of the supreme court justices whose decision forced her to die were there to watch their legal scholarship in action. None of the georgia republican politicians who wrote the law that killed amber nicole thurman had to watch her die in the operating room, under the sentence of death that they gave her. The doctors and nurses who were trying to save her life, working under a law that would send them to prison, were the only people there to watch her die. Imagine what those doctors and nurses felt and what they feel tonight. The propublica report continues. It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then it was too late. The otherwise healthy 28year old medical assistant who had her sights set on nursing school should not have died. An official state committee concluded, tasked with examining pregnancy related deaths to improve maternal health, the experts including 10 doctors deemed hers preventable and said the hospital delay in performing the critical procedure had a large impact on her fatal outcome. The report does not mention george w. Bush or samuel alito or john roberts. The report does not mention donald trump or neil gorsuch chore neil kavanaugh or amy coney barrett, but there is no moral diagram of this crime against humanity that does not include all of those names. At the presidential debate with kamala harris that donald trump lost, donald trump praised the supreme court justices who overturned roe versus wade, for, quote, his words, genius, heart, and strength. In fact, those justices are morally weak, heartless fools who got what they wanted. Of course both george w. Bush and donald trump were just playing politics with abortion when they were running for president, but because they are both buffoons on this subject, what they did with their presidential power in overturning roe versus wade has produced outcomes that neither one of them would've wanted. We don't know if george w. Bush knows about the death of amber nicole thurman. It seems unlikely that he would, but it also seems likely that george w. Bush, who i have never met and do not know, would have the human capacity to feel very badly about what happened to amber nicole thurman and about her 6year old son. Growing up without a mother. But when it mattered, george w. Bush did not care at all what could happen in the lives of real people. Because of the way he played politics with abortion. It surely never crossed his mind who could die because of his political choices on abortion. We know for an absolute certainty that donald trump is a publicly raging narcissistic sociopath, utterly incapable of convincingly demonstrating the ability to feel sorry for anyone except himself. There actually is no public evidence that if you put donald trump in the operating room, watching amber nicole thurman die, that in that moment he would feel badly for anyone except himself for being forced to watch it. They got what they wanted. And as was predicted to them and the country for 50 years, if they got what they wanted, people would die. Women would die. Mothers would die. We have no comment from george w. Bush tonight about how good he feels about getting what he wanted. No comment from george w. Bush about the death by judicial execution of amber nicole thurman. No comment tonight from donald trump about the death of amber nicole thurman. Donald trump remains more concerned about the imaginary eating of cats and dogs than he does about a single woman or girl who has been harmed or killed or forced to carry a child because of him. They got what they wanted. Today the vice president of the united states said this. Understand what is happening in our country. Over 20 states have passed what i call trump abortion bans because i understand how we got here. The former president hand picked three members of the united states supreme court with the intention they would undo protections of roe v. Wade. They did this he intended and in state after state laws have been passed criminalizing healthcare providers. I don't know if anyone has heard most recently stories out of georgia. Tragic story about a young woman who died because it appears the people who should have given her healthcare were afraid they would be criminalized after the dobbs decision came down. Laws that make no exception even for rape or incest which means you are telling the survivor of a crime of a violation to their body that they have no right to make a decision about what happens to their body next, which is amoral. An approach that doesn't take into account that most people i think agree you don't have to abandon your faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body. If she chooses she will talk with her pastor, her priest, her rabbi, but it should not be the government for donald trump telling her what to do about her own body and her life, so that is where i stand. We need to put back in place the protection of roe v. Wade and put that in law. We need to put back in place the protections of roe v. Wade and let an individual in consultation with her doctor make the decision based o