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More republican, but there's a narrow sort of plurality in two, majority in one here where the belief is that abortion should be more legal than illegal. let's talk about the politics of this. joining me, former missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill, also msnbc political analyst, and matt lauery. claire, you come from a state i argue is sort of in this -- most people are within the 30 lines on abortion. either want it to be legal with some exceptions or illegal with some exemptions here. where is this headed in your view. >> i think texas has ignited the vast majority of americans in

A way, but that's not what the court was deciding. the court was deciding procedural issues, whether or not to stop the law before it went into effect or not. the case that they're going to take up in the fall, mississippi's 15 week ban on abortion directly challenges roe v wade. that will be a case where the court is sort of directly presented with that question and we'll find out whether or not the court is willing to go along with that. >> is it likely here that this texas law then, even if roe is overturned by mississippi, this texas law still could have problems constitutionally when it c...

It is not supported by people in wisconsin or ohio or pennsylvania or georgia or any of the battleground states or suburban districts that will be the battleground in house races. i am not willing to say this was a good thing in any way because it is a terrible thing. but there will be political benefits to democrats as a result of what the supreme court did late last night. >> one thing it will do -- >> have to overturn the filibuster and that would not turn out well for the democrats. >> here's what's true even though we are not resolving it now. a lot of people are lawmakers on state level,...

Landscape. first dive into the specific situation in texas and the white house response. joining me, executive editor of texas tribune, ross ramsey. ross, start with a simple question. this is now the law of the land in texas, law of the state land there. how does this get enforced? who's in charge of enforcing this law? >> they wrote this to stump the courts. they're not putting the state or any part of the state, local prosecutors or anything like that in position of enforcing this. instead, as you mentioned in the lead in, they're crowd sourcing enforcement, allowing people to go to civil m...

Countries, states around the country, you would flatly restrict abortion. a work around caused by extortion from the supreme court, there's no right to abortion in the constitution. the left is used to using that spurious decision as a way to block democratic deliberation and action on this. i don't know if roe will go or not, it will be eroded. democrats have to get used to winning it in the small d democratic arena rather than running to the courts. >> claire, is the answer to get roe codified in congress? >> i have to tell you, my heart is beating so fast now. it is very hard for me to stay...