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Doing? i should be the sign to everybody. he's not looking at a world for you. >> can i do some of these -- i might mess up the order of your show here, but when roe was first overturned, we saw abortion rise up to the top of issues. since then, we have seen it fall down. i know the democrats are making a big deal of abortion this year. you think it's something that motivateshi voters? i don't think it's going to be democracy. i wonder if it's going to be abortion that trumps the economy, for lack of a better term, and becomes a real motivating issue. >> well, i am the right person to ask. onl...

Have a great night. have a great night. >> we have never had a significant anniversary of d- day for democracy and western democracy felt is under threat and front as it does this year both in europe and at home. >> what do you make of donald trump's threats to jail his political opponents? >> we have to take donald trump at his word. i think there is nothing that will stop him from doing such things. >> the jury in hunter biden's trial was just dismissed for the weekend after emotional testimony from hunter's daughter. >> we will wait to see whether hunter biden will testify in his own defens...

Corrective for something like this? a nonviolent offense like this? we are over incarcerating nonviolent offenders way too much in this country, and this is a prime example of somebody who should not be a judge. there are many other ways to make the situation work. >> cindy young is the clerk for esmeralda county in nevada. she is undergoing withering criticism and a recall petition. she is a republican trump supporter, and there are people in that county that believe that there was problems with the election, is trump only won a county of about 700 people by about 82%. in this wonderful story...

What is the question being asked is instructive to what the biden campaign should be trying to do, which is framing this beyond even needing to pay attention to the news day at today. it's more a choice between extremism and not. i just wonder why we are not generally describing trump more as an extremist. mp like, forget about -- then again, let's not forget about the people on the ground doing good work. when it comes to what are we expecting out of this, do you want someone who feels like they are attacking every institution? do we need to recite the litany of felons and felonies? let's jus...

Actions by these local officials. these people, i think, democrats, republicans, non- partisans, are all heroes that make democracy still exist in this country and don't take it for granted. >> i am on a bipartisan crusade of my own. >> good luck with that. >> red panda is somebody you may know if you seen a basketball game. she happens to be the greatest halftime performer of all time. red panda is the older chinese woman who gets on a unicycle, gets elevated many feet into the air, balances balls on her feet, and kicks them onto her head repeatedly. the crusade i'm on after watching her perf...