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All right, everybody, welcome back to "the cross connection." we have a lot of trending topics to get to. but first texas's near total abortion ban is back in effect. that's at least for now. late last night, a federal appeals court temporarily reinstated the law just two days after a lower court had blocked it. so today nearly all abortions in texas are illegal once again. joining me now is brad jenkins, former obama white house associate director of public engagement and founder and ceo of infranchisement productions. and my friend michael hair yet, senior writer for theroot.com. and jess, y...

Attacks against a woman's right to choose during that administration. why is this resurfacing in such a vicious and visceral way now? >> you're right, tiffany. look, this is over almost half a century worth of precedent here. we're going backwards. this is like it's incredible to me. hearing jess, i'm getting emotional. one thing i will say is the women's march happened here a couple of weeks ago. women have been fighting this fight, but last i've seen, women do not get pregnant by themselves. this needs to be an issue that men stand up for. this is unfathomable where we're at, where we're hea...

Can't say this is a failure at biden's feet. what's your take? >> no, it's not, and you're right, tiffany, from where we've come, look, we just came out of a trump covid pandemic. you're right, the numbers do not -- you know, they should be a lot better than where they're at, but just think about where we've come, and i think that, you know, we learned a lot about this during the obama years. the midterms are about a year away. like they're right around the corner, and we do need to do a better job of telling the story, right? there have been historic investments, but we need to do more, as je...