>>> FOR 54 YEARS THEY WERE
TRYING TO GET ROE V. WADE
TERMINATED AND I DID IT.
I’M PROUD TO HAVE DONE IT.
THEY WANTED TO GET IT BACK.
RIGHT.
YOU WOULDN’T HAVE THAT.
NOBODY ELSE WAS GOING TO GET
THAT DONE BUT ME.
WE DID IT.
WE DID SOMETHING THAT WAS A
MIRACLE.
>> THE FORMER PRESIDENT DURING A
FOX NEWS TOWN HALL EARLY THIS
MONTH BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING
ROE V. WADE.
YESTERDAY IN VIRGINIA ABORTION
HEALTH CARE WAS THE FOCUS OF AN
IMPASSIONED CAMPAIGN SPEECH BY
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AS HE PLACED
THE BLAME FOR ABORTION BANS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY SQUARELY ON
DONALD TRUMP’S SHOULDERS.
>> LET THERE BE NO MISTAKE THE
PERSON MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR
TAKING AWAY THIS FREEDOM IN
AMERICA IS DONALD TRUMP.
LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS.
TRUMP SAYS HE’S PROUD THAT HE
OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE.
HE SAID, I QUOTE, THERE HAS TO
BE PUNISHMENT FOR THE WOMEN
EXERCISING THEIR REPRODUCTIVE
FREEDOM.
HE DESCRIBES THE DOBBS DECISION
AS A MIRACLE.
FOR AMERICAN WOMEN IT’S A
NIGHTMARE.
LET’S BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR WHAT
TRUMP IS BRAGGING ABOUT.
THE REASON THERE ARE 21 STATES
WHERE ABORTION BANS ARE IN
EFFECT, MADE WITH NO EXCEPTION
FOR RAPE OR ANY OTHER -- OR
INCEST, IS DONALD TRUMP.
IT WAS DONALD TRUMP AND HIS
SUPREME COURT THAT RIPPED AWAY
THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF WOMEN
IN AMERICA.
IT WILL BE JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA
HARRIS AND ALL OF YOU WHO WILL
RESTORE THOSE RIGHTS FOR THE
WOMEN OF AMERICA.
IN THE PAST YEAR TRUMP HIMSELF
ENDORSED A FEDERAL BAN PROMISING
TO LEAD THE CHARGE, GOD LOVE
HIM, AND THAT MEANS EVEN IF YOU
LIVE A STATE WHERE EXTREMIST
REPUBLICANS ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF
THE STATE GOVERNMENT, YOUR RIGHT
TO CHOOSE, YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY
IS STILL AT RISK, BUT AS LONG AS
I HAVE THE POWER OF THE
PRESIDENCY, KNOW THIS, CONGRESS
WILL PASS A NATIONAL ABORTION
BAN.
I WILL VETO IT.
>> JOINING US NOW, DEMOCRATIC
SENATOR TIM KAINE OF VIRGINIA.
SENATOR, FIRST OF ALL, HOW DID
PRESIDENT BIDEN DO YESTERDAY?
SEEMS TO ME THE CONTRAST WAS SET
OUT LAST NIGHT WITH DONALD TRUMP
MELTING DOWN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
AND JOE BIDEN LOOKING PRETTY
PRESIDENTIAL IN VIRGINIA.
>> WELL, MIKA, GREAT TO BE WITH
YOU GUYS THIS MORNING.
PRESIDENT BIDEN PICKED UP ON A
THEME THAT IS VERY POWERFUL IN
VIRGINIA AND REFERENDUM RESULTS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY SINCE DOBBS
HAVE SHOWN THAT IT’S NOT A
REGIONAL ISSUE, IT’S A NATIONAL
ONE.
VIRGINIA IS THE LAST STATE IN
THE SOUTH THAT ESSENTIALLY
PROVIDES TO WOMEN THE
PROTECTIONS THAT THEY WERE ABLE
TO COUNT ON UNDER ROE V. WADE.
WE ARE IT IN THE SOUTH.
WE JUST HAD STATE LEGISLATIVE’
ELECTIONS WHERE A REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR AND REPUBLICAN
LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES TRIED TO
PITCH THEIR OWN VERSION OF AN
ABORTION BAN AFTER 15 WEEKS AND
VIRGINIA VOTERS HANDED BOTH
HOUSES OF OUR LEGISLATURE TO
DEMOCRATS.
THIS ISSUE IS NOT GOING AWAY.
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS ARE
GOING TO REMIND VOTERS ON THE
TRAIL EVERY DAY THAT IT WAS
DONALD TRUMP WHO HAS TAKEN AWAY
YOUR RIGHTS AN THE REPUBLICANS
UNDER DONALD TRUMP WILL GO EVEN
FARTHER.
>> SENATOR, YOUR HOME STATE
VIRGINIA, SHOWS THE POWER OF
ABORTION AT THE BALLOT BOX.
WE SAW THAT LAST YEAR.
WE SAW IT IN THE 2022 MIDTERMS
AS WELL.
SOMETHING ELSE THAT KEPT
HAPPENING AT THAT RALLY AS THE
PRESIDENT WAS REPEATEDLY
INTERRUPTED BY PROTESTERS UPSET
WITH HIS HANDLING IN THE
MIDWEST, UPSET ABOUT WHAT’S
HAPPENING IN GAZA RIGHT NOW AND
THERE’S BEEN DIFFERENCES IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS TO WHAT THE
APPROACH SHOULD BE.
WHAT IS YOUR LEVEL OF CONCERN
WHAT YOU’RE SEEING IN THE MIDDLE
EAST IN GAZA BUT ALSO HOW THIS
COULD DOG THE PRESIDENT GOING
FORWARD?
>> WELL, YEAH.
LET’S GET TO THE HUMAN COST
BEFORE WE GET TO THE POLITICS.
IT’S HEARTBREAKING IN A REGION
OF PA REN YAL HEARTBREAK.
THIS IS JUST -- IT’S AWFUL.
THE HAMAS ATTACK ON OCTOBER 7
WAS HORRIFIC AND IT WAS DESIGNED
AND TIMED FOR A HORRIFIC PURPOSE
TO DISRUPT A NORMALIZATION
DISCUSSION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND
SAUDI ARABIA THAT ACTUALLY HAD
AT ITS CENTER A DISCUSSION ABOUT
A PALESTINIAN FUTURE.
HAMAS WANTED TO DISRUPT THAT.
THEN THE HEARTBREAKING TOLL OF
THE WAR IN GAZA IN CIVILIAN
DEATHS AND INADEQUATE
HUMANITARIAN AID AND NOW THE
ESCALATION YOU’RE SEEING
THROUGHOUT THE REGION.
I’M DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT IT.
I THINK, AGAIN, BEFORE WE GET TO
THE POLITICS, THE KEY RIGHT NOW
IS REALLY REDOUBLING EFFORTS TO
GET HOSTAGES RELEASED.
BECAUSE I THINK TO GET HOSTAGES
RELEASED AS IN THE FIRST
INSTANCE, THERE WOULD BE A TRADE
OF HOSTAGES FOR PALESTINIAN
PRISONERS, AND THERE WOULD BE A
CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES FOR
SOME PERIOD OF TIME AND WHEN
THAT HAPPENED, REMEMBER THE
HOUTHIS STOPPED THEIR ESCALATION
CAMPAIGN DURING THAT PAUSE IN
HOSTILITY.
WE NEED TO DEESCALATE IN THE
REGION.
THE LAST THING THE UNITED STATES
NEEDS IS TO BE IN ANOTHER WAR IN
THE MIDDLE EAST FOR GOD’S SAKE.
WE NEED TO DEESCALATE IN THE
REGION AND THE KEY IS REALLY
PUTTING THE FOCUS BACK ON THE
HOSTAGES AND DOING ALL WE CAN,
TOGETHER WITH THE ISRAELI, SQUAT
TARRY -- QATARIS AND EGYPTIANS
TO GET HOSTAGES RELEASED AND IN
CONNECTION WITH THAT YOU WILL
HAVE A PAUSE AND HOPEFULLY A
LONG ONE IN HOSTILITIES WHERE WE
CAN REBALANCE THIS CHAOTIC
SITUATION.
>> GOOD MORNING, TIM.
I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT AN ISSUE
THAT I KNOW --
>> HEY, CLAIRE.
>> THAT EVERYBODY IS FOCUSED ON
UP THERE.
IMMIGRATION I THINK IS A REALLY
SERIOUS ISSUE.
THE SOUTHERN BORDER IS A VERY
SERIOUS POLITICAL ISSUE FOR THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, FOR NOVEMBER.
I KNOW THAT THERE IS REALLY --
NEGOTIATIONS THAT ARE COMING
CLOSE TO A CONCLUSION BETWEEN
JIM LANGFORD, THE REPUBLICAN OF
OKLAHOMA AND CHRIS MURPHY, THE
DEMOCRAT FROM CONNECTICUT AND
YOU’RE CLOSE TO HAVING A DEAL TO
VOTE ON.
MY QUESTION IS THIS, IT’S MY
UNDERSTANDING THAT MITCH
McCONNELL HAD A VERY ROUGH
CAUCUS MEETING YESTERDAY, THAT
THE MAGA EXTREMIST WITHIN THE
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS HAVE TAKEN UP
THE POSITION THAT THE HOUSE HAS
TAKEN THAT THEY WANT THE ISSUE
MORE THAN THEY WANT A SOLUTION.
THEY DON’T WANT TO PASS ANYTHING
BECAUSE THEY WANT IT TO STILL BE
A HUGE PROBLEM.
WHAT ASSURANCE CAN YOU GIVE US
THAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE ON
THIS BILL EVEN IF McCONNELL
DOESN’T HAVE A HUGE CONSENSUS IN
HIS CAUCUS ABOUT VOTING FOR THE
NEGOTIATED IMMIGRATION FIX?
>> CLAIRE YOU’RE RIGHT.
THIS IS REALLY THREADING A
NEEDLE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOME
WANT TO USE IT AS A CUDGEL AND
DON’T WANT TO SOLVE A PROBLEM.
SOME WANT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
BUT HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS HOW TO
SOLVE IT.
I THINK YOU’RE GOING TO SEE
EMERGE WITHIN JUST A COUPLE OF
DAYS A DEAL THAT WE WILL VOTE ON
IN THE SENATE.
I PREDICT IT’S GOING TO PASS IN
A SIGNIFICANTLY BIPARTISAN WAY.
BUT YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE
DEMOCRATIC VOTES AND REPUBLICAN
VOTES AND AS YOU KNOW GETTING 60
VOTES IT’S DIFFERENT IF IT’S 50
DEMOCRATS AND 10 REPUBLICANS
THAN IF IT’S, YOU KNOW, 35
DEMOCRATS AND 25 REPUBLICANS.
BOTH ADD UP TO 60, BUT IT’S
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT BILL GOES
OVER TO THE HOUSE.
SO I THINK THE PLAN IS COMING
TOGETHER.
IT WILL BE UKRAINE AID, IT WILL
BE A BORDER PROVISION, ISRAEL
AND GAZA AND STATE DISASTER
RELIEF AND INDO-PACIFIC AID, ALL
IN ONE PACKAGE, BUT I THINK IT’S
GOING TO BE A PACKAGE THAT’S
GOING TO LOSE SOME VOTES ON THE
LEFT AND RIGHT.
YOU’LL MAKE EVERYBODY MAD.
BUT OFTENTIMES THAT’S WHAT HAS
TO HAPPEN TO GET SOMETHING BIG
DONE AND I THINK WE’RE CLOSE.
>> SENATOR, ELISE HERE, YOU SAID
SOMETHING A MOMENT AGO --
>> HEY ELISE.
>> TALKING ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY
THAT MADE A LOT OF SENSE.
WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER WAR IN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND YOU ARE PART
OF A BIPARTISAN LETTER TO
PRESIDENT BIDEN ASKING FOR MORE
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF THE
RECENT BOMBING OF THE HOUTHIS.
HOW MUCH SUPPORT IS THERE FOR
CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF
THE STRIKES IN THE RED SEA?
>> THERE’S DIFFERENT -- THERE’S
A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPINIONS
ABOUT IT, ELISE, BUT I THINK
THERE’S UNIFORM DESIRE, WHAT’S
THE STRATEGY?
WHAT’S THE PATH TO DEESCALATION?
YOU NOT ONLY SEE THE HOUTHIS IN
THE RED SEA, YOU SEE
IRANIAN-BACKED MILITIAS IN IRAQ
AND SYRIA, YOU HAVE CHALLENGES
WITH HEZBOLLAH.
THERE IS JUST THIS SENSE, THIS
WIDENING ESCALATION, EVEN JUST
LOOKING AT IRAN AND PAKISTAN ARE
GOING BACK AND FORTH, THERE’S A
REGIONAL ESCALATION, MUCH OF IT
TIED TO THE WAR IN GAZA, AND I
THINK WHAT WE WANT FROM THE
ADMINISTRATION IS, WHAT’S THE
STRATEGY FOR DEESCALATION?
WHAT IS THE MILITARY STRATEGY
WITH RESPECT TO THE HOUTHIS?
IF YOU’RE DOING THESE ATTACKS TO
DETER AND DEGRADE THE HOUTHIS,
BUT YOU’RE SAYING THAT YOU
EXPECT THEM TO RESPOND IN KIND
AND SO THEY’RE NOT GOING TO
STOP, WHAT’S THE STRATEGY?
AND THEN AS YOU GET THAT
QUESTION, HOW DO WE DEESCALATE
WHAT’S THE STRATEGY, THEN YOU
GET TO AUTHORIZATION QUESTIONS.
CONGRESS HAS NOT AUTHORIZED ANY
MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE
HOUTHIS IN YEMEN OR THE RED SEA.
THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO DEFEND
AMERICAN SHIPS AND AMERICAN
TROOPS AND AMERICAN PERSONNEL,
BUT MOST OF THE SHIPS THAT GO
THROUGH THE RED SEA ARE FOREIGN
FLAGGED SHIPS.
SELF-DEFENSE DOES NOT APPLY TO
PROTECTING THE VESSELS OF
FOREIGN NATIONS.
MIGHT BE A GOOD STRATEGY TO DO
IT, BUT THE PRESIDENT CAN’T DO
IT UNILATERALLY WITHOUT
CONGRESS.
WE’RE PRESSING THE
ADMINISTRATION IN A BIPARTISAN
WAY, WHAT IS THE STRATEGY AND
ONCE WE HEAR THAT, THEN WE HAVE
TO HAVE THE AUTHORIZATION
DISCUSSION BECAUSE WE CAN’T JUST
STUMBLE AND SLIDE INTO A BROADER