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Passed -- bills like this are being passed all across the country. today a similar one in missouri. >> federal system. >> and the more these rights are being eroded at the state level, the more aware people are becoming of how in danger we really are. >> it's not going to be eroded. it's going to be struck down. >> we have got more to talk about. right now mayor pete buttigieg campaigning in chicago this afternoon just miles away from one of the places he served as a naval reserve officer. as jeff zeleny reports, buttigieg often invokes his service in afghanistan to try to defend his agent and...

Assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. it was largely a desk job at the bagram air base but he was also a driver and armed escort. >> it's not like i killed bin laden. i don't want to understate what my role was, but it certainly was something that was dangerous. people that i knew, unfortunately, were attacked. >> do you think you'd be able to make this run as credibly without this military service? >> well, i think at a moment when, obviously, people are looking for contrasts, it helps me demonstrate the difference between how i'm oriented and how the current president ...

>> it's one more reason why it might not be a bad idea to have someone in the white house who actually served. >> reporter: his time as an intelligence officer in the naval reserves and six-month deployment to afghanistan makes his gold plated resume shine even brighter. yet he rarely talks about why he joined the service. it was 2008 and he was volunteering for the barack obama campaign in iowa where he saw many young people signing up for the army or national guard. >> i wanted to drag my feet on it forever if i hadn't had that experience in iowa and realizing some communities were almost em...