Brooks and Capehart on how abortion restrictions could motivate voters in 2024
PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Biden's son strikes a deal to avoid prison time. |
| 0:04.1 | GOP presidential candidates embrace abortion restrictions one year after the overturning |
| 0:09.2 | of Roe v. Wade, and a report outlines fresh examples of questionable ethics from the |
| 0:14.5 | country's most powerful judges. |
| 0:16.7 | For analysis of this week's news, we turn to Brooks and K-Part, that's New York Times |
| 0:20.9 | columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K-Part, associate editor for The Washington Post. |
| 0:25.3 | It's good to see you both. |
| 0:26.3 | We have a lot to talk about, and let's get to it. |
| 0:29.2 | Starting with the 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls in Washington for the faith and freedom |
| 0:34.3 | coalition, one of the largest gatherings of Christian conservative political activists, |
| 0:39.3 | coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional |
| 0:43.5 | right to an abortion, all of the GOP candidates were really emphasizing their anti-abortion credentials. |
| 0:49.7 | Chief among them, Mike Pence. |
| 0:52.6 | The cause of life is the calling of our time, and we must not rest and must not relent |
| 0:59.9 | until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law in every state in |
| 1:05.2 | this country. |
| 1:06.2 | Jonathan, Mike Pence says he rejects the conventional wisdom that Republicans paid a price |
| 1:11.0 | in the midterms for the Supreme Court overturning Roe. |
| 1:14.9 | You heard him say, there should be restrictions in every state. |
| 1:17.7 | How might that play politically? |
| 1:19.9 | It played well in that room. |
| 1:22.0 | It'll play well among Republican primary voters who are sure, but it is political death |
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