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office, and it just took us long to get there. i remember saying on our air, in 2018, when justice kennedy retired, that one of the consequences of that would be that abortion would be illegal in half the country within two years. and i was wrong, it was four years. but the fact that this is foretold doesn't make it any less shocking. >> i'm gonna go watch your show now. >> thanks, chris. good to see you, my friend. thank you. >> and thanks to you at home for being with us this hour. it's a big day. when the supreme court first handed to overturn the decision in roe, just shy of 50 y...

gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, of course, by the last president, who got about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. in american...

Who have been upset about the erosion of abortion and access, even as roe has stood, that we were needlessly distressed about this, that roe was never really gonna be overturned. i have gotten similar messages since the leaked draft of this decision, as i and melissa and others have worried about the future of same-sex marriage, of contraceptive access, being told no, no, those are never gonna go away. i heard those messages today, despite clarence thomas's clarity on this. so, the first task was to be really clear that that message that things are okay is unappetizing fantasy that we've been ...

Short term. and that means we have to respond in the short term. that means that right now, you've been talking to people who are doing it, all across this country. we need to be helping women who are pregnant, right now. women who get pregnant next week or next month and need help because they live in one of the states that is banning abortion. and we should be doing it. volunteering time and voluntary money. we also are calling on president of the united states to use all of the administrative tools that are available, right now. medication abortions are more than half of all abortions in th...

Access to safe abortion care that we have come to count on for 50 years. and it has allowed us to plan our families. it has allowed women to dream of future for themselves with quality and autonomy that is equal to men. whether you ever had an abortion or not, you were allowed to know that you would be able to have one, if you need one. and it has allowed us to build a future for ourselves. it is fundamentally equal, and that has been taken from us today. now, we have people forced to carry pregnancies against their well, and my staff in texas had to say that to people, to their faces today. m...