Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melder. It is good to be back with you.

And we're tracking several stories this hour. Donald Trump has just made this unusual

appeal to the Supreme Court in the classified documents probe. I also have some important

civil rights developments for you later tonight. Our top story right now is how women's rights

and abortion continue to upend these midterms. It's a story that in politics night has two

lanes. First, the growing mobilization of women and women's rights supporters eyeing the

midterms as we have an election here that they say will be the chief way in the nation

to oppose the overturning of row, a dynamic that you see on display here that already registered

in the traditionally Republican state of Kansas. It's also an issue in many races around

the nation. We are 35 days out from these midterms. And right now the scandal engulfing

Republican Herschel Walker is in one race, but it tells a similar story as he faces this

bombshell daily beast report which states that he has backed abortion in his own personal

life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman in 2009. That was before the Supreme

Court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. And it is that personal act that

is exactly what Walker also claims to be running against the beast as you see here documents

what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account

from the woman involved in another source while he publicly claims the opposite and wants

to take away that right from others. It is running. He is running on this plan to ban

abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting him. And so in its own personal

scandalous way it is an echo of the larger questions about who makes these decisions whether

this is really about what they say religion in life or whether this is something else

entirely a hypocritical effort to control other people's bodies and not live by the same

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