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Is going to move a lot from capitol hill to the campaign trail. republicans and democrats both are pretty uncertain legislatively about what happens next. republicans, for the time being, have sent down a federal ban on abortion. leader mcconnell this week kind of said this is going to be a state issue for the time being. that's where the party -- that's where the republican conference is at this point. democrats, meanwhile, they know that they aren't going to win any votes on abortion this cycle. they lost the one yesterday codifying roe. the house already passed this legislation last year, s...

>> tucker: i'm killing the baby. could you get away without outside any other religious center? any other group of worshipers? probably not. we wouldn't support it. so maybe you are starting to think this isn't actually about about's before. maybe it's about something much darker than that. take a look what democrats are doing right now in congress. if you want a sense of what their plans are. this is a real passage from a new abortion bill the democrats are trying to get through to congress. "this act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy, cisgender women, transgen...

Security is different out here as well. we are seeing a nine-foot not scalable fence here, which is the entirety of the supreme court. there is also the metropolitan police, capital police, and supreme court presence but he sure that activists on both sides of this issue are safe. alex? >> i would call that fencing being around our capitol in the days after another attack, so thank you very much for pointing that out. joining the right, now peter baker and chief white house correspondent for the new york times. peter is also an nbc news analyst, and coauthor of the upcoming book, the divider, ...

Plans to the senate, intend to deprive millions of women of reproductive care. codifying roe is not enough. we must expand the court. your thoughts? >> i think this is something that, really, must be thought about. we are asking, what do people want to mobilize around, to stop what we are seeing from this draft opinion? i agree, the league is not important, in the sense that what is critically important is protecting rights that have been protected for a long amount of time. row has been in place for half a century. these are settled rights, and to think that these are the only resident protec...

Rolling back all sorts of civil rights and civil liberties that we thought were established as common national rights. and they're doing that on a majority basis. the supreme court is giving them the leeway to do that certainly on voting rights so far and potentially on abortion next summer in that decision and on other rights. and then the one tool democrats have to protect these rights whether it's codifying roe or cod foying national voting rights is their ability to pass legislation through the congress. but in the congress they now have to reach this super majority in the senate, which th...