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issues i stand for and compare them to the issues that my uncle, robert f. kennedy, john kennedy stood for, you can check every one off. aim traditional kennedy democrat, a traditional liberal. i'm skeptical of the military industrial complex. i want the -- i want our financial and economic policies to be -- to respond to the working poor, the working class in this country rather than to the needs of wall street. i want press freedom. freedom of speech in this country. all the things that the environment, clean environment and woman's right to body autonomy, all of the liberal issues are issues that i believe in, that i'm fighting for. incidentally, neil, i'm getting huge response -- last night i
Celeste Cortesi believes in respecting people's freedom to decide whether to undergo beauty enhancement treatments or plastic surgery if they choose to do so.
game? >> so i think you alluded to it before, the biden administration,, hhs, proposed this rule in, response to an active, you know, public comment period. but alsobl the white house led president harris and the gender policy council has done 40 plus meetings with abortion providers, activists, patients in tough states like idaho and missouri. they've been i soliciting feedbk from legislators, a.g.'s. they've known for a long time this is what states were trying towh do. the reporting you gave, they've beenyo tracking this, which is also why state -- the u.s. senate last year, catherine cortez masto, also tried to pass legislation that would protect providers andat patients from crossing state lines. now, what can folks do in the statesdo where a.g.s are threatening their body autonomy and freedom, their best choice is to fightth back at the balloh box. we have to get more activists
used to be standard military policy, things like promoting people, making sure that generals get their four stars. that has now been co-opted by the extreme right and the religious right. what do you make of that? >> i am astonished by it. i have been following the tuberville story. he's like zero and one with rico, i don't know if he knows his audience. before the -- the commandant walked on water for marines. it's really important to young marines who have their boots on the ground that they have a leader that they know that leaders name and they really follow these orders. so yanking that from the marine corps and 60 other nominations i think he is holding up over something that, body autonomy for women who served in the military is ludicrous. it's kind of disgusting, really. >> we have really entered, i think, the twilight zone, when a senator can conflate those two things because of his own
decisions for all ohioans instead of us making them for ourselves. and we're determined, we are absolutely determined both to furn turn out to vote in august to vote no and then in november to vote yes. because there is no circumstance that we'll surrender to this tyranny and that we'll give up our body autonomy and that we won't fight for our friends and neighbors whose lives depend on these two votes this year. >> and i know you've interviewed the vice president and i'll let you go ahead because i want to find out what the administration thinks this is going to do to the overall look of the -- of this year's elections. but please. >> well, joy, i just want to pick up on the last point that was made. what we do know, in the wake of dobbs, you have had when abortion is on the ballot, they have been success. . they are 6 for 6 so for in ohio and it is the next one up. so with this move to try to make it harder, for the initiative to pass, because when the people