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Welcome back. the republican party has been abortion problem. that is the unmistakable conclusion of the new survey from the public religion institute, up 20,000 americans, and it is easily the most comprehensive survey since the dobbs decision. this was able to do both national polling and 50 separate state polls. two-thirds of americans, 64% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. this is an increase from 2010 from 55%, and republicans right now look like they're more out of step just 36% favor legal abortion and there were 86% of democrats and look at this number, 68% of independ...

Will be another innocent black person that was killed by police. sometime in the near future, and we hope that law enforcement moves quickly in order to punish them. that's the part that i think is still so difficult to handle. to swallow, to just abide by the notion that this violence continues. maybe the circumstances around it can be made better. >> and we cannot do it police department by police department, state by state. it must be federal law. that is why i said what i said, reverend jackson told me, you have to change the laws. we were raised in this. her father was george wiley, he ha...

I even called him after the overturn to think him for that but to disagree what we saw happen was republicans live listening to the consultant class running away from the abortion issue only told to talk about inflation and joe biden and outspent 35 / one spending $391 million on ads to the $11 million. the other side is extreme then the other side that abortion should be legal all paid for by the taxpayer at any time or any reason. that is not the position of the american people. and we are happy to advocate for that position to go state-by-state and that's the next step in the next days. >> ...

22 states are solidly controlled by republicans. that means legislature, the governor's office, 15 states controlled by democrats so at the same time as we're seeing this huge republican push to ban abortion, john, we're also seeing democrats respond in ways where they're trying to protect abortion in their state, namely michigan and maryland so it's really this split screen battle that surely will amp up in the coming months as they move forward in their legislative second. >> fascinating to track both sides as you go through state by state, jessica, thank you for that reporting. let's bring ...

Issue there? is that where it will head? >> it can potentially, i think the critical part is what the dobbs decision did in june is it just eliminated the constitutional right. and so that's why we're seeing the dobbs opinion in part said that it would settle things more for the country and what we're seeing is that the exact opposite is happening is that now it's state-by-state and depends on the political landscape and legislative landscape of the state so in some cases there could be individual state laws that push restrictions on medical abortion, for example, and in addition to that, ther...