georgia with stacey abrams or what happened in north carolina. there are these converging factors that are leaving some folk to assume that the election itself would be in jeopardy particularly because we have someone in the office who's prone to cheat. >> the president did -- by the way, the president did get a lot of help from a talking point. investigator sent investigator posing as assistant. it was amazing the one fbi informant attended white house meetings. talk about reinforcing a pair paranoia the president has been expressing. >> is it paranoia or not. we've moved into a new phase which is investigate the investigators. i think the president and his people hit a fork in the road. they could have said we're moving on. let's talk about the economy. 263,000 jobs created or let's go after the people who started this whole thing. we're going to get them. and they've kind of chosen that path. >> that doesn't feel like a smart re-election path. >> i would add if you think the controversy about bill barr is over, i think he's dead serious about investigating the investigation into the

georgia, that one day i intend to be the president of the united states, that in between my responsibility is to do the work to make those things real. >> stacey abrams imparting words of wisdom today, delivering the commencement address at american university. the georgia democrat has been coy about her white house aspirations, but this week she said she's looking at, quote, executive level opportunities, including a run for president. carrie sheffield and chris lu are back with me to discuss. i want to ask you, before i get to stacey, what was your reaction to bernie sanders' interview? he seemed to be very clear on the difference between joe biden and him, he was not going to get into family attacks, but he certainly did not mind giving some very open differences, and i would say blows on what he felt mr. 3w50biden's politics ws opposed to his. >> he was clearly very -- selves drawing contrasts, which is what you would expect in a campaign. and where he is right, and bernie's right on a lot of things, is that his policy from 2016 has really become part of the mainstream of the democrati

passed away, there was a person in georgia i think it was who said they asked him did they know him, because he was crying. he said i didn't know him, but president roosevelt knew me. we have to make sure that the folks in the midwest know us, that we care about their families, that we care about their jobs, that we're the folks who fought for health care to make sure that their child with muscular dystrophy could still get coverage. so it's pretty all encompassing. but if we don't bring all of our communities together, it's a tough go. >> well, the story, the anecdote you're telling me sort of relies on the part the power of a singular personality, somebody who could connect with different types of people across different sort of regional cultural demographic lines. for democrats to achieve that, to appeal to the white working class rural voter who voted for obama in 2008, but voted for trump in 2016, to appeal to that voter, but also to get back the levels of turnout democrats had among, say, black voters in detroit or black voters in milwaukee, the kind of candidate who can bridg

, michigan, north carolina, and georgia, some of the key states that president trump won. he in fact won all six of them in order to win the white house. winning them again would all be guarantee his re-election. so joining me now, msnbc national correspondent steve kornacki and white house correspondent for "the hill" jordan fabian. thanks for being here. jordan, i have to start with you. your reporting this says, i'm going to read you back to yourself, "america first will focus this year on voter registration and collecting data that can be use to target messages for narrowly tailored demographic groups it believes will propel the president to victory." talk about specifically which voters they're targeting and this is a pretty high benchmark they're trying to reach. >> oh, absolutely. and the voters they're targeting are going to be different depending on the state. they think, for example, they can target even, you know, women's groups in florida, they've calculated exactly how many votes they think they need to win certain states. and they're going to try to get as many people a

. last week georgia joined three other states outlawing abortion at the first sign of a fetal heartbeat. often that's before a woman even knows before she's pregnant. again, a lot of discussion being driven by a president who has low poll numbers and sees this as an issue that can rally his base. the critical question is will it rally democrats as well. in the last 20 minutes, here is how former georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams is trying to put it at the center of the conversation. >> we can win this fight long term by changing the structure of power, and that means making sure the people who pass this law are out of office in 2020. >> here to talk about it all, nbc shaquille brewster in atlanta, trailing the senator and presidential candidate kirsten gillibrand who will talk about georgia's new abortion law any minute. also, felicia some nez from "the washington post." jennifer rubin, the opinion writer at "the post" and mim many roker, former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst. jennifer, help us frame this political fight that the country is facing. i think you can argu

. >>> what they did in alabama, what they did in georgia is unconstitutional. the precedent is clear. and yet they've decided they're going to take away a woman's basic right to make a decision. >> they're trying to overturn roe versus wade. that's wrong and we will fight back. >> on this day, where we saw what happened in alabama, let us all agree that women's health care is under attack and we will not stand for it. >> welcome back. democratic 2020 hopefuls pushed back hard against the abortion legislation passed yesterday in alabama. nation's culture wars have been waged and won by republicans, but in this case, as heidi pointed out a few minutes ago, democrats may see an opportunity to be on the winning side of a culture fight, especially if the perception is that the other side went too far. joining me now, expert on democratic messaging, analyst cornell belcher. you look back at the history and you can go back to '88 where it's sort of how a party losing on substance and george h.w. bush was losing on substance and they said we need a culture war, create us versus them. it's a

senate in their states. stacey abrams in georgia, beto o'rourke and joaquin castro in texas. steve bullock in montana who are not going to run for senate. are you there in the senate talking to each other about what this chessboard looks like? and are you concerned about democratic recruitment given how important, centrally important that the senate is? >> i think we can take back the senate with the momentum of 2018. the fact that millions of people turned out to vote. women voted more often. young people voted more often than before, and we had such extraordinary candidates running, chris. the breakthrough candidates of 2018 were women. women running in red and purple places where white men had run before and lost. you saw kyrsten sinema break through in arizona running on what it's like to grow up as a homeless girl, living in an abandoned gas station. people like lucy mcbath, running in the suburbs of atlanta on ending gun violence. gretchen whitmer running on health care as a right, not as a privilege to win the governorship of michigan. and so i think with the right candidate

florida, ohio and pennsylvania as well as michigan, and north carolina and georgia. the group figures trump will win the election by capturing all six states. >>> the increased tariffs in the trade war with u.s. and china will soon hit home for american businesses and customers. yes, you will be paying for it. nbc's kevin tibbles explains. >> reporter: at this electronics store in chicago, people giving the prices a once over. >> it is going up. >> reporter: for 83 years, this family owned business has seen it all. for third generation, the rising tariffs on chinese goods may effect business. >> do you want to be involved in a trade war? >> we don't want to be involved in any war of any kind. we are here to sell people what they need. >> reporter: take last year, because of tariffs in place, you would have paid about $100 more for a washing machine. with this hike from 10% to 25%, nearly 6,000 every day household items go up. from furniture and small electronics and every day items like clothing, shampoo and bed sheets. >> replace the word tariff with taxes. if somebody said your taxe

great. >> the georgia democrat is making big news here as we welcome you to washington. she's still thinking about her own political path she fights to make sure every person in her state counts. we'll explain that later this hour in a conversation you will not want to miss. plus look at the inside scoop from joe biden's 2020 team and why they may reportedly be plotting a, quote, early kill. but we start at the white house, working to rally republicans around a new immigration push that does little to get democrats to the table. the president today will explain details of that plan to make sweeping changes to the country's legal i'm grace system. we'll preview what's in it in a minute. here is what is not in it, anything related to the 11 million undocumented people living here and anything related to the daca recipients known as dreamers. >> my message to donald trump is that we dreamers are going to keep fighting to have a reform and we are not going to give up until there's something out there on the table for us. >> our team is here with this story and the many, many others we'r

virginia. also maybe georgia. they haven't totally decided on a date yet, but could be them too. oh. now, california has the biggest population in the country, which means the delegate prize for winning california is massive. right? there's been lots of attention to the fact that california and its huge delegate haul for the first time are so early on the calendar for the democrats this year. but it's not exactly california or bust. there's another potential game changer on super tuesday this year if you look at that list. can we put that list up again? right between tennessee and utah there. texas. also massive. also super early. it's on the same day as california, on the same day as all of those other states on that huge, potentially definitive super tuesday. and this year in particular texas is an unusual wild card for the democrats. right now joe biden is leading there in the polls like he's leading everywhere. but the only latino candidate in the race, former obama housing secretary julian castro, is from texas. julian castro is mayor of san antonio before he ran hud. and that means

alabama, in georgia, and missouri, with women's rights, it's not just because they know they may have a court that protects them, they see an administration that doesn't respect the law anymore so they figure, what the hell, why don't we just pass a ban on abortion because laws don't matter in this country? so you're seeing this land of lawlessness that this president is leading. >> congressman eric swalwell, thank you very much for leading us off tonight. >> my pleasure. >> really appreciate it. joining our discussion, john heilemann, national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. co-host and executive producer of show time's "the circus." with us, nira tanden. we've been watching and wondering how long the democratic leadership's grip can hold the party together in the house all singing the same tune on impeachment. that's over. that has completely collapsed. now the "washington post" reporting that at the very top, it seems to have collapsed. this is a report about steny hoyer. they're quoting steny hoyer tonight saying, "we are confronting what might be the largest, broadest cover

what we have seen from alabama to georgia, you can go just a variety of states, legislatures, state legislatures are fundamentally attacking a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. and let's understand what this means. are we going to go back to the days of back alley abortions? women died before we had roe v. wade in place. and so i'm going to tell you, on this issue, i'm kind of done because here's how i feel about it, guys -- [ applause ] >> let me tell you. here's the thing. there are states that keep passing these laws. so when elected, i'm going to put in place and require that states that have a history of passing legislation that is designed to prevent or limit a woman's access to reproductive health care, that those laws have to come before my department of justice for a review and approval and until we determine that they are constitutional they will not take effect. [ applause ] >> how -- that sounds like it needs 60 votes in the united states senate. >> you know what? everything that we need to do is going to require 60 votes in the united states senate, wh

in georgia. we need the senate in 2020." no proof to back up the numbers but a fun conversation to have. >> if you work from the bottom up, they are right in the sense that democrats absolutely need the senate. i find it fascinating so many of the candidates are talking about reforming the filibuster to get from 60 votes to 50. if you don't have 50 votes in the senate, that's entirely academic. you're not getting a green new deal. you're not getting medicare for all. you're not getting any of these priorities if you don't have 50 votes. as you look at that list, it's interesting, there has been some recruiting failures here i think and if you're chuck schumer, you would have loved to have stacey abrams in the georgia race. they're reasonably happy, democrats, with m.j. hegar in the race running in texas. john hickenlooper in colorado is another one. bullock in montana. i'm already forgetting their names. but if you put steve bullock, john hickenlooper, jay inslee, three governors who are running and line up in front of most voters, they will not know who they are. good luck convinc

the demographic shifts there. >> john hickenlooper, beto o'rourke in georgia, colorado and texas. >> gardner got into the senate race when he ran very late. always the hope that a presidential campaign doesn't work out. look at a state like georgia. a state that is rapidly changing if you get the right candidate and you catch a wave, so to speak, you can knock out a republican. that is what democrats are hoping for. but chuck schumer has struck out. he missed a whole host of his top candidates which really hurts his chances. >>> more on what your sources are saying later in the show. first, new escalating kerp con about your prescription drugs. where ingredients on those drugs are coming from and what it means for your health. or child. or other child. or their new friend. or your giant nephews and their giant dad. or a horse. or a horse's brother, for that matter. the room for eight, 9,000 lb towing ford expedition. ...or trips to mars. $4.95. delivery drones or the latest phones. $4.95. no matter what you trade, at fidelity it's just $4.95 per online u.s. equity trade. no matte

serious challenge. we have seen georgia and other states but this one seems to be particularly hard edged in that it would make it a felony with penalty for doctors for forming abortion up to 99 years in jail. >> there's no hiss for agenda here. they said the reason the bill is to draconian is they want to give the supreme the opportunity to reverse roe v wade. >> they want it to be. it's established law. justice roberts has tended to agree with established law. this is a different supreme court. you not only clarence thomas, you have justice kavanaugh as well. >> this is a terrible law. it's outrageous. it's blatantly unconstitutional given where the court was not just in 1973 but in 1992 and just a few years ago affirming its precedents. however -- justin women's health versus texas. the court said you can't have restrictions on abortion if they pose an undue burdens to the woman seeking an abortion. this is a different court. i'm going to go out on a limb and say i do not think that this law is ever going to go into effect in alabama. i do not think it will be the vehicle for the court

school class in georgia yesterday. the south bend, indiana mayor was invited by carter to read from the bible as part of the less lesson. the buttigiegs later had lunch with carter and the former first lady at their home. according to a statement, the two politicians quote, enjoyed a conversation about topics ranging from faith to the rigors to the campaign trail. buttigieg later tweeted that he was humbled calli carter a servant. >> what a remarkable man, jimmy carter. >> oh, my gosh. >> remains. it's just extraordinary. >> you don't have to ask where i stand on that. ruth, what do you make of this meeting and also buttigieg has had a pretty solid rise, but then there's this attitude, i think among democrats that he's -- can he not make it with fund raising or with the minority community? >> well, the rise has been so immedia that i think we're going to have to pay attention to him and see how far he can take it. i've been a little skeptical about a mayor of the fifth largest town in indiana being able to make it all the way, but i have to say watching that interaction between presiden

"birth of a nation" there. you shot it in savannah, georgia, i believe. >> yes. >> there's been this backlash against georgia because of the heartbeat bill recently. that in mind, would you ever shoot in georgia again? >> it's a very tough political question. those people who are working on that film are people who are probably of a different political persuasion. people who are, you know, not interested in having their livelihoods ruined by the film business. on the other hand, i think if you have a political view and you think this is a way of doing something to enforce it, the same way i was able to make this movie, then you should do what you believe in. >> okay. we'll see how it all plays out. >> yep. >> it puts a lot of film makers in a tough situation. >> sure it does. >> elizabeth thanks to you for your work and being here. really appreciate it. fantastic movie as well. thank you, guys. elizabeth gilbert and ed zwick. thank you. that does it for this hour of msnbc live. i'll be back next saturday at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. up next "kasie dc." happy mother's day to all the mom

event. taking a stand against the laws in alabama and in georgia. we saw cory booker speaking. chuck schumer walking around and others making sure their voices are heard when it comes to roe v wade. >> thank you for your coverage. >>> next, a look inside the bitter partisan battle over the control of the supreme court and how the federalist society and senator mitch mcconnell have spent years transforming that court into a more conservative one. you are watching msnbc. e consere one. you are watching msnbc geico makes it easy to get help when you need it. with licensed agents available 24/7. it's not just easy. it's having-a-walrus-in-goal easy! roooaaaar! it's a walrus! ridiculous! yes! nice save, big guy! good job duncan! way to go! [chanting] it's not just easy. it's geico easy. oh, duncan. stay up. no sleepies. what you need and so much more. at wayfair, you'll find just it's geico easy. you get to spend less time searching and more time loving every room, even the ones you never thought could look good. you get great deals on the things you need and actually want. you get fast a

, it is far from the only effort to restrict be borings. lawmakers in mississippi, ohio, georgia have passed so-called heartbeat bills. the laws ban abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. emboldened by trump's presidency, opponents of abortion rights have launched their most aggressive efforts on the state level to date with a common goal. as joyce vance writes, quote, they are looking for a clean vehicle to take to the supreme court. they want to overturn roe vs. wade sub planting it with something that looks like state laws the law of the land. joining me now our national reporter and also amy ho. heidi, what is next for this ban? we know it goes to the governor kay ivey. is she expected to sign it and what would the immediate court challenge look like? >> she has not indicated yet whether she will sign it. most likely a lower court will block it because it is blatantly unconstitutional, but the broader issue, this is not the only case coming to -- pushing to try to get before the court to essentially all do the same thing, which is to establish personhood for a fetus, t

morning, former u.s. president jimmy carter fell at his home in plains, georgia. he's recovering comfortably from surgery to repair a broken hip. his surgeon stated that the surgery was successful, his wife is with him. president carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit. he hopes that the state of georgia will allow him to roll over the unused limit to next year. and tonight, former president or not, we've heard from the georgia wildlife resources division, they aren't having it. quote, while we are saddened to hear of former president carter's unfortunate incident this morning, we do limit all turkey hunters to three gobblers, male turkeys, every year, still one of the most liberal bag limits in the u.s. we don't roll over limits from one year to another. they go on to wish him well, but they're not having it. while limiting him to just the three gobblers. this is probably as good a time as any to repeat the goals of the former president and his center from the front page of their website. waging peace, fighting disease,

understand states like alabama or georgia or missouri, you can't understand that without understanding new york. and without understanding that as those who care about this issue, as you and i do, watch what's going on with the court, with the supreme court, watch what's going on with the polling, with the abortion rate, even, now being the lowest it's been, even in new york since 1972, the year before roe v. wade, we expect that the abortion issue will return to the states. and when it does, it will be a legislatei matter. and just as new york legislated the reproductive health act, other states like alabama, like georgia. >> so the polling, you're right, does remain -- has remained relatively consistent over the years, if you ask the question, are you pro-life or pro-choice, but when you get into a little more granularity, as you suggest, and ask people about the criminalization of abortion, the number of people who believe that abortion should be criminalized under all circumstances, as this alabama law suggests, drops down to below 20%. so that doesn't actually have sort of 50% support

states are limiting abortion procedures including alabama, arkansas, georgia, mississippi, ohio and utah. now the bill now in alabama is the first full outright ban on abortion with zero exceptions for victims of rape or incest and while this sets up some new legal battles the law doesn't go into effect for another six months or so. joining me is our legal contributor. hot button issue.% and if you look back at these cases you've seen that these challenges are successful. meaning that the aclu, they will win on these issues and then they will go the 11th circuit court of appeals which will again confirm you can restrict access to abortions in states such as alabama because of roe v wade. so the transparency behind a bill like the one in alabama has been clearly advanced. opponents said we want to challenge roe v wade that's why we're taking an extreme challenge. it's going to be a flop. it won't make it to the supreme court. people who are backing this bill, they are not going to be looking at this bill any time soon. >> can i ask if all this threatens roe v wade, especially if it finds

something he's talked about on the trail consistently and a similar law in georgia some months ago. sanders said not only are the la laws unconstitutional and forces women to quacks, to back alley abortions and says will take people's lives and it's come up in every one of his speeches and events i covered down here. i'm quite certain it will again tonight. after he finishes this rally, he'll go across the street to join a protest march about this very issue and i have to tell you, richard, he is not alone. some of the voters i talked to here said they drove from other states to be a part of the protest here today. take a listen. >> how important is it for you to hear your candidate talk about it? >> that's why i came out here. >> reporter: on that issue specifically? >> yes. >> i hope that every company in america that was considering coming to alabama or missouri or georgia will send the governor a letter monday saying we are a letter monday saying we're withdrawing our application. we need the boycott alabama the way south africa was boycotted. >> the right to abortion is a cons

state. georgia is a blue state. and the next time, they should see people coming into their neighborhoods. i'm going to be elected and a party that's not interested in beating rerepublicans. it is by uniting americans for the cause of justice. and we'll start building in the grassroots. that's how you win. so i understand that eave legislative agenda. from common sense things. to rejoining the paris climate accords. i can give you many things. many i can do with a stroke of a pen and not even wait for congress. this has to be, understanding, this is a moral moment. this will affect the next generation of americans. and we've lost something. we've become a society where people mistake wealth for worth. celebrity for significance. folks are struggling for a sense of meaning and feel like they've hossa the sense of dmut. so this is a great country. you know the history. there is an entire political party. bits anti-immigration called the no nothings. when we created larger rainbow coalition that's help our country to get back on track. to see each other. to see the vulnerable,

georgia that built a film industry and as a result. their own restrict. new abortion ban. the impact. that boycott could hurt many. same people hurt by the ban itself. there are not that many points. . age to bring them back from the precipice and you are going to see a lot more. this kind. action. fill up for the chance to win free fuel for a year. that's one of thousands of prizes in the shell great gas giveaway! fuel rewards members are automatically entered when they fill up at shell. fuel rewards members are automatically go to the pharmacy counter for powerful... congestion and pressure? claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray is indicated for 6 symptoms... claritin-d is indicated for 8... including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d. get more. >>> last night "wall street journal" broke a truly insane story about the lengths the white house went to to make sure "john mccain" never crossed the visual path of the very easily upset president when he was in japan. the journal quoted an email from a command official to u.s. navy and air force officials with instructions f

fight. we have to fight now harder than we have ever fought before. so i'm traveling to georgia tomorrow to talk about the law that is just passed there. to lift those voices up of the women who are affected and make sure that america understands that this is going to be a fight for something that is so important and personal to every woman that decision to make these kinds of life or death intimate decisions about our families and our bodies. >> senator, how do you take this number, 79% of americans still support abortions in some instances. and this law would really go against overwhelming public support for access to abortions in the case of rape or incest, when the health of the mother is in question. how do you take that and protect yourself and the entire democratic field of candidates, from being painted as extreme on this issue? an effort that the republicans spent a lot of time, energy, and i don't know if everyone understands how much money they spend trying to paint anyone who's for access for reproductive health services for women as extremists. >> i think that's why we have

a bit more cautious. senator bennett joins me now from atlanta, georgia. senator, welcome. explain to us why you're not joining this growing list of candidates who call for impeachment proceedings? >> stephanie, thanks for having me. just listening to what bernie said, i think if i had a difference with him, it's only semantic and not important and he's absolutely right to say we should begin an inquiry and take this first step. my only point is if you impeach trump tomorrow, that's a get out of jail card for donald trump and his dream come true. and, frankly, maybe i wouldn't call it an impeachment inquiry, the impeachment committee called the watergate committee because what trump is looking to do here is to say that he was railroaded. the rule of law, it's ironic, because he doesn't believe in the rule of law himself. but he was railroaded for political purposes and he knows his backstop is mitch mcconnell and the republicans in the sena senate. so, by all means, i agree with what bernie said on your program. i think we should start the inquiry. we should have bob mueller up the

georgia, mr. collins, for his opening statements. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for all that have gathered here again. here we go, again. the theater is open and, in fact, right now we're running over the norms of congressional oversight and dabbing and asking for things. and i am glad that the chairman read into the record today the mueller report. i'm glad that he quoted, as he said, this is a quote directly from the mueller report. i wish my chairman would read the rest of it that he has been offered to read, which he has chose not to read. but he did leave out one thing. he left out something in the mueller report from just now. he read mcgahn's testimony beautifully. but he read out what he doesn't want to come back to and the frustrating thing that brought us back here again and again. there was no collusion. no obstruction charges. there was nothing here. after two years of doing this, we can read it in and talk about how you don't like it and talk about what you would like. at the end of the day, reading the quotes that make the headlines we're also going to read in the bo

was to tell allies of the united states, like georgia, armenia, you need to extricate yourself from economic tanglings with iran. it is moving a little closer toward direct confrontation with iran. >> wanted out of the iran deal. you did it. what was the strategy behind it? was there going to be a new deal? did you want a confrontation? what was the plan? >> the strategy was to try to bring about the end of the iranian regime. what we've done is put tremendous economic pressure on iran. we've told our allies and others, you have to choose. either have economic relationship with us or have an economic relationship with iran. you can't have both. we put tremendous pressure on iran. now, iran is beginning to push back. there was inevitable. the question is, now what? they're basically threatening in 60 days that they're going to start breaking out of this agreement. is that a red line for us, for the israelis, the saudis? this was inevitable in u.s. policy when we turned up the heat on iran. we were going to bring about a confrontation with iran. >> ifs iran is crossing a red line in o

, republican from georgia that says this is another example of politicians putting their own self interest ahead of national interest. it is pathetic some members have chosen this moment to grand stand and get into the national headlines. any way of putting pressure on massey to change his mind? >> reporter: well, massey is one of the freedom caucus members who is at times willing to go it on his own. chip roy was more of a surprise, he is a new member. david perdue, senator of georgia who is facing re-election coming up understands that this is the product of a lot of hard work from members on both sides, and everyone thought there was an agreement. so to call out a fellow republican is notable. will it put more pressure on others that have to travel back to washington to be in the chamber, to personally exercise their objection, we'll see if that happens. it could pass when they try again this week. >> thanks very much for helping us understand. kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. >>> on the trail with 2020 candidate senator kamala harris as she prepares to roll out a plan to prote

pregnancy to term. that also comes on the heels of georgia signing a bill into law basically bands abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and that is not including what is happening in plenty of other states such as arkansas, kentucky, mississippi, ohio, and utah, states that have all passed new anti-abortion bills. republican-controlled states all over the country are basically rushing to pass the most restrictive draconian abortion bills, in some cases, making it a felony offense to perform an abortion with no exception for rape or incest. in doing so, they are effectively trying to mount a challenge to the supreme court's 1973 roe v. wade. this is how the right has decided to run and we're seeing it all over the country. but something has changed in this fight because this time around democrats are embracing their place as a pro-choice party. they're not shying away from this debate. in fact, they're going to the heart of it. for example, massachusetts senator and presidential hopeful elizabeth warren introduced a plan to save abortion rights, that congress can protect choice b

week, georgia governor brian kemp signed into law a bill that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most women even realize they're pregnant. just think about that for a moment. the law doesn't stop there because it grants person hood to fetuses. even a woman w.h.o. a mischanger could be investigated by law enforcement and potentially charged with a crime. georgia is the fourth state to pass a sick-week abortion ban this year. in ohio, republicans are proposing a bill to prohibit covering abortions. but could also limit access to birth control. that bill also mandates a medical procedure for women with ek topic pregnancies where the embryo would be reimplanted, a procedure that doesn't exist. as one gynecologist told "the washington post", nothing can be done to continue that pregnancy. these laws have yet to take effect and some are being challenged in court. but some republicans are making their motives clear. the post reports that terry collins who sponsored the bill said its purpose is to spark litigation. after the break we'll talk about the republican assault

to push the court to revisit that verdict. states like kentucky, mississippi, ohio and georgia have all recently passed bans on abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected. but the fight is long from over. the aclu and planned parenthood filed lawsuits today challenging ohio's heartbeat bill and alabama has pledged to fight the alabama law in court. at this time, the governor has not indicated whether or not she will sign the bill. it's another six months not accounting for the lengthy court battle. here to tell us what's next is kerry sanders who joins us live from montgomery, which is alabama state capital 37. >> the bill will have made it from this here at the state house across the street to the capital to the governor's office, but as you said, she indicates she's not necessarily going to make an immediate decision. she did say earlier today what she would like to do is to have her legal team review the bill, go through it line by line. the bill was presented and sponsored by represent i have terri collins. she did not write the bill. she had the bill penned by an attorney here

what's happened in georgia with this six-week issue, you know, with both of those issues and we see corporations and other folks sort of on the outside after the fact or as these bills are sort of moving to completion kind of speaking out and pushing back, but remain largely silent as voters were being suppressed in the lead-up. and now we have political makeups in these states that are only going to rubber stamp these regressive policies. the question will be how do all of these folks that have enabled these policies to come to bear stand up as we move forward. >> i think the flipside of it politically that i think of too, ben, if there is the suburban voters who didn't like trump to begin with, maybe this being something that keeps them away from him, we look to it how donald trump has gotten ahold of this republican party politically there was a poll today. i saw it in new hampshire that is favorable rating with republicans there. 86%. this issue, what he has done with the courts in general, the supreme court a big part of that. >> a huge part of that, and a reason why evangelica

abortion law. >> reporter: we've seen several states, in georgia and now alabama, very strict anti-abortion law passing there, no exceptions for the anti-abortion, the banning of abortion in alabama. the president has come out with a clarifying statement about his position. asme most people know i'm strony pro life life with three exceptions, rape, incest, taken by ronald reagan. and then his spokesperson had this to say. >> the president is for exceptions, i for rape, incest d the life of a mother. we're talk about a life of loss life. democrats are losing on this issue. >> reporter: so, what the president and his spokeswoman aret essentially saying that ty are pro-life but the alabama law may go a little too far. and the president in tweets last night went so far to say, if we were foolish and we don't stay united then gains will disappear. remember, this is a republican argument in support ofs the president in that he is appointed a record number of federal judges who have a pro-life record or assumed to have ad pro-life record or assumed to be pro-life. this is a record the pre

say rural maine, new hampshire, minnesota, democrats come back with arizona, georgia, north carolina, texas. gabe? >> there are a few things here. one of the things we should note, the person that loves this conversation that we're having more than anyone else is joe biden because we haven't mentioned he is not the nominee. what he wants more than anything else to be in this one on one contrast with trump. the other thing we often do is forget the 2018 midterms happened. democrats swept by enormous margins in these three states. they're all doing well economically and have democratic governors and senators, all democratic senators now, that says a lot about where the minds of voters are. they turcned out in suburban an other areas. the fact trump is going to these places, they long thought pennsylvania would be the state for him, it has been the state that looms large, more than florida, minnesota, wisconsin. it holds a special place for him psychologically. that's why he keeps going back. >> 20 electoral votes, any calculation gets trump reelected, they have to be there. thank you a

to come. >>> georgia boycott. the state where "avengers: end game" and many more blockbusters were shot now facing a major boycott from several film companies. t >>> the uproar of the anti-abortion bill just signed into law. will it have an impact. >>> congressional testimony from former white house counsel don mcgahn. it all came after bombshell reports that officials wanted don mcgahn to testify that donald trump asked him to obstruct justice. now house judiciary committee chair jerry nadler is determined to find out what really happened while firing off a stern warning for mcgahn. >> we've subpoenaed mcgahn and we're expecting him to show up on the 21st. and if he doesn't, he'll be subject to contempt. unless he has a court order telling him he can't, which i don't think he would get. and we have -- he has to respect the rule of law like everybody else. >> the bottom lines are drawn. nbc's mike vacaria is following the story from the white house. good morniafternoon, mike. >> congress threatening to hold don mcgahn in contempt. really, this gets to the nut to the question of whe

the beginning. a peanut farmer from georgia at this point had something look i'm from stats that in pb then you have to show hugh you're going to pay for them. i'm out there talking about that. we have an operation that's grow and growing. the fact that the guys are up front, the guys were better known from the beginning and i always say may the best rom within. >> and you've got a plan and you're making it a prim rye focus. for me health care is about everything from bringing premiums down to paying for pharmaceuticals. but this mental health addiction issue is personal. my dad when i was growing up had two dwis. when i was in ms jail or strach and in his words, he was pursued by grace. that meant his faith and and he's in assisted living and he told me a few months ago it's hard to get a drink around here anyway. but his a&m kwoup right to be pursued by grace. when you look at what's happening with mental health especially, we went from state mental health issues to community based but the money and the bed didn't follow. and we have a but also just people that we have seen the ve

georgia and ohio and iowa and they're all trying to bubble up to the supreme court and overturn roe v. wade. that is the more unlikely way it will be overturned. you have to have privileges at a hospital in order for a doctor to do that. you know, the hallways have to be x wide. you have to see 17 videos. you have to see 15 sonograms. all these different things they're doing to widdle away at the right and will allow a supreme court that is opposed to abortion. now that kavanaugh has taken the place of kennedy who supported abortion and kavanaugh who is, obviously, very opposed. it allows them to do it in a way that is not quite so obvious. this alabama bill is so extreme it probably will not be the way roe v. wade is overturned. it is more to me this middle ground where they just destroy it and take away so many rights that eventually there are no clinics. that's the way i see it being overturned. and it will be with the supreme court. or right to choose is very much threatened. >> cynthia, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for your legal perspective. i appreciate that. >>> fol

georgia, a member of the house judiciary committee that will have to decide to vote to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress and dalia is a senior editor for slate.com and the host of the pod cast amicus and one of the great legal authorities we have on this program and gene, let me start with you on this document unlike anything i held in my hands with all of these federal prosecutors, what brought you to sign this document? >> i have a moral compass and i am embarrassed by the antics of the people who are running the department of justice. lawrence, what is important about this document, this letter is it's republicans and democrats but there is one significant to signature that people have ignored, don heir was department attorney general of the united states department of justice under george h.w. bush. '89 and '91 or '90. the same time bill barr was head of the office of legal counsel and bill barr replaced mr. heir. for mr. heir to sign this document is not only a courageous act, he is saying that bill barr's analysis of obstruction of justice is insane. >> and congress

certainly the goal. alabama, ohio, kentucky, mississippi, georgia, they all are very clear that their goal is to take us backwards 46 years and overturn roe. but at the same time, as you mentioned, alabama will be voting today to criminalize abortion. rhode island will be voting as well to advance a bill that protects abortion rights. illinois has a similar bill. new york did that earlier this year. unfortunately we'll be looking at the situation in the future where your ability to access legal abortion care will depend on the state you live in. >> the supreme court, this fight over the court has long been a more mobilizing issue for republicans than for democrats. in 2016, 21% of all voters said future appointments were the most important factor. president trump won those voters by 15 points. do you see that changing some do you think this issue will end up mobilizing democrats more than they've been this year? >> absolutely. i think there's a clear through line from the women's march to the me too movement, the kavanaugh confirmation protests and certainly the november 2018 elections whe

swing states. not just pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan, but also georgia and florida and arizona. let me just say last quick point, there are trump voters who were anti-clinton who were not trumpists. sherrod brown got 12% of trump voters, debbie stabenow got a share, bob casey got 12%, tammy baldwin got 14% of trump voters. there are these voters who are not satisfied with trump, they are working people who will respond to the same arguments you're going to make to the democratic base, which is trump hasn't delivered for us, i'm -- thank you next, if i can quota reena grande. >> of course you can. here is the thing, those are all incumben incumbents, people that those voters were familiar with. when you are talking about running a nonincumbent, the democrat will be the nonincumbent, i have not seen evidence that very many -- with all due respect with my friends here who have taken a stand dense donald trump. this is a farmer who leads the african-american farmers and was talking about his fellow farmers who were not african-american. take a listen. >> we need tear trade. all i w

recovering from surgery to repair a broken hip after falling at his home in georgia yesterday morning while on his way to go turkey hunting. the surgeon said the procedure was a success but according to carter's press secretary, the main concern for the 94-year-old former commander in chief is that turkey season ends this week and he has not yet reached his limit. a little humor there. we wish him the best, our prayers to the former president. >> in 2015 donald trump told "morning joe" he wanted a deportation force to move out millions of undocumented immigrants. four years later, a new reporting says the white house has a secret plan for mass family arrests. we'll get to that story. but let's go to bill karins for a check on the forecast. >> good morning to you, mika. yesterday a tornado touched down in sections of east carolina. it was an ef-2 tornado, winds in excess of 150 miles per hour. still the story today is the northeast and how unusually cold, damp, raw and dreary it has been this spring. it continues this morning. we've had snow overnight in the mountains of northern new e

business in georgia if this takes effect, will this end up being a major economic issue? >> specific for georgia, disney, netflix, our company nbc universal, georgia has been a very popular place for filming movies and television series, they get up to $3 billion in revenue a year, it produces 92,000 jobs. this is actually a serious economic threat. disney, netflix, and possibly nbc universal, say they're considering pulling their filming if the law that was signed, the heartbeat law that was signed, is actually enforced in georgia. we're not there yet, georgia is not there yet, it's not being enforced on the ground. that's an important part of the conversation. >> but the conversation is being had. thank you, steph, very much. >>> we're going to dig into these stories including the statement from the attorney general that he disagrees with how robert mueller interpreted the law. >>> and later, how trump's tariff announcement caused two powerful republican senators to say the president was going too far. guess what, you have two hours with me this morning, we'll dig through all of it

challenge to take on georgia incumbent david purdue but said recently she's not going to run for the senate. so the democrats have a enormous presidential field and a very real and pressing issue in the u.s. senate. here with me now to talk about the u.s. senate, barbara boxer, herself a former member of the senate and co-host -- author of "one nation after trump." senator boxer, what do you think is going on here. >> well, i think it's really a non-issue that some of the more famous people have decided they don't want to be part of a legislative body, and i'll tell you why. i think there are three factors that will weigh into whether we take back the senate, and, boy, i hope we do. one is recruitment. >> yep. >> but sometimes you get some fresh face -- >> mmm-hmm. >> and that person is going to win. in my race, i ran against an establishment lieutenant governor. i won. i got there. now, secondly, the top of the ticket. remember, this is a presidential year, so if there is a huge amount of enthusiasm, our candidate can get in. and lastly, unique to this, the senate has turned into a

, it's also in mississippi. it's also in georgia. what we are talking about here is ending abortion in the first trimester because i think margaret was really smart to tell people what roe means. under roe which is current law, you already had a lot of bans in 43 states abortion is banned after a certain point. in many states it's after 20 weeks. the debate we are having right now is really about the first trimester. even as the president is trying to distance himself from something that is very unpopular, national polls tell us among a lot of republicans he is stoking it based on our reporting. the president himself has been beating the drum. it's almost become a standard line at a lot of his campaign rallies accusing democrats of wanting to execute babies. he is talking about a virginia law and really distorting it. it has to do with viability of fetuses that are born that are nonviable in the third trimester. he is calling that executing babies. we caught a fundraising e-mail that went out about abortion. he is screening anti-abortion films at the white house. even though with the o

abortion ban enacted by georgia and four other states so far this year. kirsten gillebrand promised to protect abortion rights as president. >> as president, i will both defend reproductive rights from political attacks and make guaranteeing and expanding those rights my priority. as president i will codify roe v wade. i'll make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that women in this country have a guaranteed right to an abortion. >> ukraine's top prosecutor says despite allegations from president trump's lawyer and other republicans his office has no evidence of wrongdoing by former vice president joe biden or his son hunter who was once elm employed by a private gas company in the country. despite contradictions in timeline, trump's allies like rudy giuliani and senator rand paul said biden influenced an investigation into the company while he pushed anti-corruption agenda for the oust of the attorney. but the current attorney general said neither were part of an investigation. he added he planned to offer details to attorney general bill barr about the payments so american authori