Sen. Warren: Nowhere is safe for abortion rights if Trump wins

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>>> TODAY, PRESIDENT BIDEN CAMPAIGNED IN FLORIDA, WHERE NEXT WEEK, GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS' ABORTION BAN GOES INTO EFFECT. >> FOR 50 YEARS OF THE COURT RULED THAT IT WAS A FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF PRIVACY, BUT TWO YEARS AGO THAT WAS TAKEN AWAY. LET'S BE REAL CLEAR, THERE IS ONE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS NIGHTMARE, AND HE IS ACKNOWLEDGING AND BRAGGING ABOUT IT, DONALD TRUMP. TRUMP BRAGGED HOW PROUD HE WAS TO GET RID OF ROE V. WADE, HE TOOK CREDIT FOR IT. HE SAID THERE HAS TO BE PUNISHMENT FOR WOMEN EXERCISING THEIR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOMS. HIS WORDS COME IN A MINE. HE DESCRIBED THE DOBBS DECISION AS A MIRACLE, MAYBE THAT CAME FROM THAT BIBLE HE'S TRYING TO SELL. I ALMOST WANTED TO BUY ONE JUST TO SEE WHAT THE HELL WAS IN IT. IT WAS A POLITICAL DEAL HE MADE WITH EVANGELICAL BASE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO LOOK PAST HIS, THEY LOOK PAST HIS MORAL CHARACTER FLAWS IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS COMMITMENT TO COURT OVERTURN ROE. DON'T THINK HE'S MAKING A DEAL RIGHT NOW WITH MAGA EXTREMISTS TO BAN NATIONWIDE ABORTION, BECAUSE HE'S MAKING UP. I WILL VETO THAT BAN. ELECTED DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS,, HARRIS, AND I, WILL PAVE THE WAY TO CODIFY ROE V. WADE AGAIN. >> A BALLOT INITIATIVE IN FLORIDA WILL GIVE VOTERS OPPORTUNITY TO PROTECT ABORTION ACCESS IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION. >> ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY FROM OHIO, KANSAS, MICHIGAN, KENTUCKY, WISCONSIN, VIRGINIA, WOMEN AND MEN IN EVERY BACKGROUND VOTED IN RECORD NUMBERS TO PROTECT REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM. THIS NOVEMBER, YOU CAN ADD FLORIDA TO THAT LIST. YOU CAN. ARE YOU READY TO DO THAT? YOU HAVE GOT TO SHOW UP AND VOTE. ARE YOU READY TO PROTECT FREEDOM? DONALD TRUMP RIPPED AWAY THE FREEDOM OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN. IT IS UP TO US TO RESTORE FREEDOM OF RIGHTS TO WOMEN IN AMERICA. WE WILL TEACH DONALD TRUMP WHAT AN IMPORTANT LESSON THIS IS, DON'T MESS WITH THE WOMEN OF AMERICA. >> DONALD. >> I THINK FLORIDA IS IN PLAY, NATIONALLY. THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT GETTING OUT THE VOTES, IT'S ABOUT PUTTING TOGETHER A CAMPAIGN THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY, NOT USE ALL TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE, BUT EVERYTHING FROM KNOCKING ON DOORS TO PUTTING UP ROAD SIGNS TO MAKING SURE WE GET PEOPLE TO THE POLLS, ALL THOSE THINGS. >> AND A UNION WORKER THANKED PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR SAVING HIS PENSION. >> THE ONLY REASON I HAVE A PENSION IS BECAUSE OF YOU. >> WELL, WE DID GET THAT DONE. >> JOINING US NOW IS SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN OF MASSACHUSETTS. SHE IS A CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION THIS YEAR, ALONG WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. SENATOR, THERE IS THE PRESIDENT IN FLORIDA TODAY. HE IS COVERING OBVIOUSLY THE ABORTION ISSUE IN THAT STATE, AND THE BAN THAT IS GOING TO BE IN EFFECT THERE IN FLORIDA THAT WOMEN WOULD HAVE TO LIVE UNDER. IN MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE IT APPEARS THAT RIGHTS LIKE THIS ARE SAFE. >> WRITES NO WHERE IN AMERICA ARE SAFE IF DONALD TRUMP RETAKES THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE REPUBLICANS HAVE MADE THAT CLEAR. THE EXTREMIST WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OWNS THAT PARTY. AND THEY HAVE MADE CLEAR THEY WILL GO FOR A NATION-WHITE ABORTION BAN. RIGHT NOW THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION IS ACTUALLY LAYING OUT PLANS SO THAT EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE HOW IT IS WHERE THEY CAN GET DONALD TRUMP INTO THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY OUTLAW ABORTION ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. NEXT WEEK WE ARE GOING TO SEE, IN FLORIDA, THIS EXTREME ABORTION BAN GO INTO EFFECT, AND THE PRESIDENT SAID IT RIGHT. THERE IS EXACTLY ONE PERSON, WHO IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, AND IT IS DONALD TRUMP, WHO HAS BRAGGED ABOUT THE EXTREMIST SUPREME COURT HE PUT IN PLACE TO REMOVE ROE VERSUS WADE, AND NOW WE ARE JUST WATCHING CHAPTER AFTER CHAPTER AFTER CHAPTER OF HOW THE EXTREMISTS ARE COMING FOR ABORTION RIGHTS, IN RED STATES, BLUE STATES, PURPLE STATES, EVERY STATE. >> DO DEMOCRATS BELIEVE THIS CHANGES POSSIBILITIES IN FLORIDA BEYOND JUST THAT BALLOT MEASURE? >> LOOK, I THINK IT'S CLEAR THAT DEMOCRATS CAN WIN FLORIDA. ABORTION WILL BE ON THE BALLOT. IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN ALL 50 STATES, AND FLORIDA IS GOING TO SEE IT FRONT AND CENTER WITH A SPECIFIC INITIATIVE.THIS IS ABOUT AS CLEAR IT GETS IN COMPARISON, DONALD TRUMP IS THE GUY WHO PUT IN PLACE THE EXTREMIST SUPREME COURT SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERTURNING ROE VERSUS WADE. AND YOU HEARD IT FROM JOE BIDEN, HIMSELF, GIVE HIM A CHANCE, GIVE THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, THE SENATE, AND THE WHITE HOUSE, AND WE WILL MAKE ROE VERSUS WADE THE LAW OF THE LAND. >> THAT ONE GENTLEMAN RECEIVED CHEERS AFTER SAYING IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU, PRESIDENT BIDEN, THAT I HAVE A PENSION. >> YEAH, THIS ONE IS ABOUT SOME LEGISLATION WE GOT THROUGH SHORTLY AFTER JOE BIDEN GOT INTO OFFICE TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT PEOPLE'S PENSIONS THAT HAD BEEN HOLLOWED OUT DURING THE 2008 CRISIS. AND I WANT TO ADD HE DID ANOTHER THING FOR PENSIONS TODAY, OR FOR RETIREMENT FUNDS, AND IT WON'T GET A LOT OF BIG HEADLINES, BUT THE FIDUCIARY RULE HAS GONE INTO PLACE. JULIE SUE, THE ACTING SECRETARY OF LABOR, ANNOUNCED A RULE THAT SAYS YOUR INVESTMENT ADVISER HAS TO WORK IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS, NOT TAKE MONEY FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES AND OTHERS IN ORDER TO PUT YOU INTO FINANCIAL PRODUCTS THAT ARE NOT IN YOUR BEST INTEREST. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT MAY NEVER GET A HEADLINE, BUT IT'S GOING TO MEAN A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN THEY HIT THEIR RETIREMENT YEARS ARE A LOT SAFER, BECAUSE OF JOE BIDEN AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. >> SENATOR, I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS, ESPECIALLY IN YEARS PAST THAT SEEM IN THE DISTANT-- OUR DISTRICT HISTORY, WHERE IT DIDN'T SEEM TO MANY VOTERS TO MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE WHO THEY VOTED FOR, BUT THERE WAS ALWAYS THE SUPREME COURT, THERE'S ALWAYS THE SUPREME COURT, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEORGE W. BUSH'S CHOICE FOR SUPREME COURT AND AL GORE'S CHOICE. HAS THAT FINALLY PENETRATED ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE ELECTORATE? >> I THINK SO. I THINK PEOPLE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT SO MUCH OF WHAT WE COUNTED ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME, AND THAT WAS THE SECURITY, THE INDEPENDENCE OF OUR COURTS, THAT OUR COURTS WOULD NOT BE POLITICAL, AND THEY THEY WERE FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT DETECTING OUR RIGHTS, NOT HOLLOWING OUT THOSE RIGHTS OR ACTUALLY TAKING THEM AWAY, AND THE REPUBLICANS FOR A LONG TIME HAD BEEN ON THE ATTACK. THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF EXTREMIST COURTS, AND THEY HAVE PUSHED IN THAT DIRECTION, THE WHOLE IDEA AND I HAVE TO SAY, DEMOCRATS DIDN'T TUMBLE TO IT NEARLY AS EARLY, BUT WE MAKE WAKE UP LATE, BUT WE ARE FULLY AWAKE NOW, AND WE KNOW WHAT'S ON THE BALLOT. WE NEED JOE BIDEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT WE ALSO NEED HIM THERE. MANY THINGS THAT TOUCH EACH OF US INDIVIDUALLY EVERY DAY. ND THIS ELECTION IN NOVEMBER IS
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Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)
Published: Wed Apr 24 2024
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