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Opinion plays a role in a ruling that's different from the way the ruling might have gone 50 years ago. >> that's a great question. the justices never say we follow the opinion polls or the court follows the election returns as the sayings go. in practice scholars have found that the court has tended to follow the broad currents of public opinion over time and when it's tried to buck public opinion, it's been a backlash. when casey reaffirmed roe in 1992, almost two-thirds of the country supported the right to choose early in pregnancy and two-thirds supported restrictions later in pregnancy. ...

Husband at a campaign rally last night. how is her message, how is her husband's message resonating with the voters there in alabama? nbc's katie beck is in mountain brook, alabama, just outside birmingham, where doug jones, the democrat there, is going to be watching election returns. what are folks on the ground saying? >> good afternoon. we're in birmingham on election day where the special election is the talk of the town. everybody who's been coming into this voter has had their i voted stickers on. everybody's been expressing some pretty passionate opinions. some voting for jones, some v...

All right. let me bring in another republican senator. susan collins of maine. one of the pivotal three no stleets took down the obamacare repeal. so it won't surprise many that she's a bit of a skeptic of this idea of throwing in the individual mandate. senator collins, welcome to the show. >> thanks so much, chuck. >> all right. i have to say, considering -- talk policy here in a minute, but the political backdrop on health care this year, whether you followed the election returns in your home state, with the decision by your voters to expand medicaid, or what we saw in virginia, number one ...

Unifier but he was going to be ruthlessly effective in what he was able to achieve. when you control washington you will be held to account for that as previous presidents have seen. >> can you believe it has been a year? >> yep. one other thing, guys, there are still big events that moved praepl mid-term elections, whether it was iraq or financial collapse or health care. how we feel about the president and his personal characteristics, we don't know what that will do -- >> i still can't get past it has been a year. >> the news cycle is so crazy. we pack so much into each day that in some way...

War with north korea than we have been in a very, very long time. now, as for domestic policies and politics and the vote last night, clearly a sweep of nearly a sweep of the -- for the democrats. their best night since when obama's election i guess in 2012. however, what i noticed that the democrats were celebrating, and naturally because in some ways they were surprised by the margin that they won in some races and the message was a repudiation of the tone, if not indeed the actual substance of the trump presidency. and a point of what i'm trying the write in the book, we need to light the e...