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Have to protect these rights whether it's codifying roe or codifying the national floor of voting rights or restoring their preclearance is ability to pass legislation through the congress. but in the congress they now have to reach this super majority in the senate, which that gives a veto to the same red states. so what we're seeing i think is kind of a pincer movement from several directions, which is driven by the uniform as you point out resistance of senate republicans but fundamentally enabled by manchin and sinema with their eyes wide open. i mean, they can have no illusions about what...

Republican senator susan collins of maine. she's someone who supports abortion rights, and just this week she said she supports codifying roe's protections into law. but let's flashback to the summer of 2018. then-president donald trump nominated brett kavanaugh. collins recounted a private conversation she had with him where kavanaugh assured her that roe was, quote, settled law. listen to what she said at the time. >> his views on honoring precedent would preclude attempts to do by stealth that which one has committed not to do overtly. he said decisions become part of our legal framework wi...

All right, so this week's high profile abortion hearing left court watchers convinced the supreme court will likely overturn roe v. wade next summer. if they do that, reports suggest some republicans fear a backlash at the polls while democrats insist they would use the case to animate voters ahead of next year's mid-term elections. but would republicans actually pay a political price? and to be quite honest, i'm not so sure. just look at the strange case of republican senator susan collins of maine. she's someone who supports abortion rights, and just this week she said she supports codifying...

V. wade? and what if anything are you doing to prepare for that possibility? >> i'm not going to make an assessment how the supreme court will rule. what i will say is the president is committed to working with congress to the constitutional right to safe and legal abortion as protected by roe and announced his support for the women's health protection act and urges congress to pass it and i would reiterate something i conveyed yesterday. he believes that mississippi's law violates women's constitutional rights to safe and legal abortion. every american deserves reproductive healthcare. we don...

Address the makeup of the supreme court. i think that's why more legislators are endorsing the judiciary act. there were four new members of the house that endorsed it this week. >> brian, let me ask you a blunt question. again, not through any fault of their own but because of the unmooring of the republicans to anything even resembling republican mainstream views on abortion, this is way outside what has been marketable to mainstream republican voters. it's vigilanteism. it's placing bounties on uber and lyft drivers who may unknowingly drive a woman to a reproductive health care services fa...