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>> let's be clear, this is a group of self-styled activists, progressive groups, this is not every democrats. while i agree with ross, but this is a big and huge mistake for the democrats and sustainably wrong on the merits this is one part of the democratic party. our front runner, joe biden doesn't buy into this and i certainly don't buy into this. we saw earlier in the show the need for additional troops in the middle east which requires more spending. all this means with the congres is likely to do to upgrade and increase the defense budget and for these progressives, my attitude is go awa...

Abortion. the lawsuit in alabama court order in mississippi and a brand-new law in mississippi. bringing us up to speed with everything that happened today. >> especially busy this season. several activist groups are challenging state efforts to re be in abortion laws in one case were watching closely is in alabama where the aclu and planned parenthood filed a lawsuit today to stop what it sees as an outright abortion ban . >> they are criminalizing our doctors and our caregivers brickey get the rush to put new antiabortion laws in place facing backlash outside the supreme court where some of ...

>> unfortunately for this gentleman none of those are legal arguments for city in north carolina has every right to enforce their city ordinance it would be the same thing as i this guy was playing the national anthem at 2:00 a.m. at so many decibels that it was causing a violation of a noise ordinance. four cities having these types of ordinances is not about bein un-american it's not because it's up flag. everybody gets very uncomfortable when we're talkin about patriotism. i'm the first one to say let's fly the american flag, but cities have the right to enforc the ordinances. if they don't...

They'll pounce on this and weaponize this and one of the strongest arguments the democrats have going into 2020 is that they are the party of inclusion. they are the party of diversity, the party that is the anti-trump in terms of his racialized rhetoric. and now the script has been seriously muddied. so there's real danger for the democrats in this. >> i don't understand this. politico says this puts nancy pelosi in a tough spot. it says if pelosi comes down too hard on omar, she risks alienating progressive lawmakers. why? why would coming down hard on anti-semitic speech alienate progressiv...

Going to have anyone of them vote for him. that's how powerful he is in his caucus. more importantly, he's getting battered by the progressive and his political party. that they aren't doing enough to kill this nomination. >> right now is his hearing is getting started for the third day, right now, just a level below me, at senator grassley's office, protesters have taken over. they have crammed inside the office. they are from a number of different groups on the left, progressive groups who say they're going to shut everything down until this hearing is shut down. we'll get you video from tha...