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on abortion, before 15 weeks as a minimum nationwide standard. >> the former vice president of the united states was all competitors for the republican nomination to promise to make it so that no one in this country, whether you are a blue state like new york or california, or a state as crimson red is texas. no one will be able to get an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy at a minimum. that's where we stand. one year after dobbs. with new medical horror stories emerging every day as republican politicians threaten to make things worse. today, after signing an executive order expanding access to birth control, president biden reiterated his commitment to veto any 15-week abortion ban that congress might pass in the future. he repeated that commitment during a white house event to mark the grim anniversary of the dobbs decision. first lady jill biden, first gentlemen dug him, of former speaker of the house nancy pelosi, vice president kamala harris, and president biden all addressed a crowd of reproductive rights organizers and advocates and they promised
pregnancy at a minimum. that's where we stand. one year after dobbs. with new medical horror stories emerging every day as republican politicians threaten to make things worse. today, after signing an executive order expanding access to birth control, president biden reiterated his commitment to veto any 15-week abortion ban that congress might pass in the future. he repeated that commitment during a white house event to mark the grim anniversary of the dobbs decision. first lady jill biden, first gentlemen dug him, of former speaker of the house nancy pelosi, vice president kamala harris, and president biden all addressed a crowd of reproductive rights organizers and advocates and they promised to fight. >> there is a price to pay for insulting, insulting women. for disrespecting women, and their right to their health care. and there is a price to pay, i don't see that as a threat, i say it is a production. on a say it is a prediction.
but there's also some very thinly vailed criticism of the west, a stance, beijing saying in this paper, that territorial sovereignty should be respected without making clear whose territorial sovereignty. goes on to say that unilateral sanctions should be lifted. again a reference to western sanctions against russia. and that a cold war mentality, again a dig at the united states and its partners, should be abandoned. now, president biden all but dismissed this proposal. said that it's clear that china is actually getting closer to moscow, not balancing a fine line here, not a neutral party at all. but president zelenskyy, as you heard in your opening there, aiming for peace this year, aiming for a resolution this year, clear of china's potential role in this conflict, kept the door open. take a listen to how he responded to the proposal. >> first of all i plan to meet susan bing, and i believe that
most democrats with rare exceptions like joe manchin are standing behind president biden and saying negotiate spending cuts separately, not part of the budget. chuck schumer was demanding speaker mccarthy, if you want to include spending cuts in the debt limit, show us a plan, a proposal. mccarthy has not done that. his posture is simply to ask president biden to have a conversation, to begin negotiations, and the white house has said they will talk to mccarthy about a host of other things that mccarthy expects to bring this up in. one of the big problems is, to identify spending cuts, that can get politically painful because you have to point out what to cut and who will be a loser. one revealing moment came when our colleague chuck todd asked one house republican what she would like to cut as part of a debt limit negotiation. >> you have one thing you're ready to put on the table as a spending cut that you think both parties can accept? >> well, i think -- well, obviously no cuts to medicare or medicaid or social security.
"meet the press," and dick durbin, number two senate democrat, on cnn, end up responding to president biden's remarks from last week, that i have no regrets on how i've handled this, and there's no "there" there to these classified documents that are being discovered. both manchin and durbin ended up saying yes, there is some "there" there. that you should be up front, and admit, admit a mistake, to be able to have classified information like. that and both manchin and durbin walked through their experiences as senators dealing with classified information. the rigors, the scif rooms that you have to go and questioned on these types of happenings, and tranches of documents coming from president biden's residences or former offices. now hallie, as you gist mentioned, it is important to, as you just mentioned, it is important to note, as senators man chichb and durbin did, there are big differences how president biden has handled there versus donald trump.
this scene as quickly as they were and we are frankly able to be as close to the location where the shooting took place, as we are, just about 36 hours afterwards, is because there was such a concerted and massive federal response that president biden said that he was assuring leaders here in california, that he would provide them, whatever they needed to respond to this obviously, he would want the federal government to provide, the flags, at the white house, have been lowered to half-staff, as the president and the first lady send their condolences to the many families who are grieving and beginning the process of trying to heal from this incident. >> yet another horrific moment for members of the aapi community across the country. >> it is. that's why anti-asian violence has to be part of what law enforcement officers are investigating, even though again, this shooter was a member of the that community. and since the gunman took his own life, the focus will also be on how to prevent this kind of crime in the future.
have been as active on social media. that will make the motive harder to determine. but at this point, hallie, investigators have not ruled anything out. >> we know that this is a story that has reached the white house, josh lederman, the white house press secretary saying that president biden has been briefed again this morning on this issue, and saying this at the press briefing in the last couple of minutes and ensures full federal support and the white house is in regular contact with the officials that are helping to lead the response where you are there in monterey park. >> that's right, hallie, and i have to say, just from having been on the ground in the last two days, the federal response here has been massive. we've seen not only the fbi here, but the atf, the county sheriffs, that he heard from the attorney general merrick garland, he said that he got the assistance from the u.s. marshall service and in fact we believe that one of the reasons that police were able to clear
standing with the american people, it is going to be up to them to decide how they see this president. >> garrett, i'll go to you on that, because there has been more developments in this back and forth between the biden administration on this issue and members of congress, particularly republicans, who want to flex their sort of "small o, oversight muscle, and the oversight committee share "big o, james comer has his own documents out for visitor logs to the president's home, et cetera. help us understand the landscape as it is playing out on capitol hill with the back and forth? >> it is not just reporters frustrated with the answers from the white house. lawmakers want to hear more about the searches and why they were conducted in the first place and what was found and in the place of the oversight committee who else might have had access to any of these documents stored at president biden's home. and so you have this letter today from james comb comer, the
after the state of the union february 2nd. i want to bring in mike memoli and garrett haake and mark murray. and we're hearing in the split screen moment with karine jean-pierre, a bit deja vu about what the president new and when he knew it. and refer together coun el's office and the d.o.j. is hands ling it, et cetera, and the key thing is here from the president's attorney, the language, and that there wres were these items that were found. didn't say what the items were. how many documents were in the items f the items are the same thing as documents. explain why that matters when it relates to the volume of classified information that we know about. >> well, hallie, it has really been for jot must the white house, but for democrats across the board, an uncomfortable drip, drip, drip, of new revelations over the course of this month, as more searches are