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Take our eye off the ball anymore of the attacks incurring on our constitution and our democracy and texas right now is a bull's eye in those attacks. it is the most craven, cruel stuff you can possibly imagine and it's unfolding before our eyes. >> neal, you and i spoke yesterday before the supreme court weighed in. this feels like the worst case scenario legally. explain what's happened. >> yes, it's 100% right the and your lead-in was totally right. the security has green lit the overruling of roe v. wade overnight. abortion clinics are basically closed to most patients. it will be the gree...

Sotomayor also describes the texas law like this. quote, in effect the texas legislature has deputized the state's citizens as bounty hunters. offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors' medical procedures. the biden administration also slamming the court's decision in a statement saying this, quote, the supreme court's ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights under roe v. wade, which has been the law of the land for almost 50 years. for the majority to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below ...

Two eco chambers in this country right now, nicolle. you know it and i know it. there is one chamber where no one is listening to what you and i are saying and no one is listening to reporting that's accurate and carefully corroborated. >> that's exactly right. charlie sykes, carolyn, clint watts, thank you for starting us off this hour with difficult truths. when we return the six-week abortion ban in texas is just one step on an assault on individual freedoms and voting suppression all over the country. plus, republicans looking to subvert the will of the people in the state's largest st...

Gavin newsom. it is a referendum on covid as you mentioned. his handling on covid. he has been able to contrast with larry elder and all of the republican candidates who want to roll back the mask mandates, the vaccine mandates, at a time when california is doing very, very well, a quarter of the positivity rate of texas, and it has administered more than 18 million shots, more than any other state. right now it is all about delta, the delta variant, and gavin newsom is using that and aiming straight at larry elder and the differences in these two candidates. >> seema, my sense is that polling...

>> neal katyal, we talked about texas businesses. let me put up some of the biggest ones. american airlines, southwest, hewlett-packard, at&t, 7-eleven. if you were an employer in texas what kind of reassurance would you want to give your female workforce? >> i want to pick up on something matt said. the majority of people in texas don't support this abortion law. the only way this works is it's hand in glove with voting restriction after voting restriction imposed in texas. it's not just the abortion law. it's in conjunction with their voting practices which are disenfranchising lots and lots...