I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, December 6th.

We'll get a take now on how we got to this point on abortion rights, where the Supreme Court does actually seem likely to overturn Roe v.

Wade in the coming months, despite it being precedent for nearly 50 years.

Spoiler alert, Rebecca Traster from New York Magazine doesn't just blame the right,

but also in large measure the liberal establishment which failed to prioritize or protect it enough,

including Democrats named Bernie, Hillary, and Barack. Rebecca Traster is New York Magazine

staff writer and author of the influential books, Good and Mad, All the Single Ladies and Big

Girls Don't Cry. I'll also ask for her reaction to the firing of Chris Cuomo by CNN over the weekend.

Rebecca, always good to have you on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

It's always good to be here, Brian.

Want to start with Chris Cuomo since it just happened, another high-profile man willing to deprioritize

women's safety and respect while saying he prioritized and

respected them? Yeah, I mean, you know, I haven't reported on Chris Cuomo. I'm reading the stories about him

as, as you and many listeners are. One of the things that has struck me about the Chris Cuomo story

is the absolute speed and readiness

with which his first his suspension and you know was was framed as well he put family above his

job because he was advising his brother and that's that has just made me so um you know furious and just sort of sick to my stomach.

The notion, especially in the context of this period where you have so many people out

there actually juggling their professional responsibilities and their family responsibilities

and the idea that he made unethical choices as a journalist to try to work to cover up

his powerful brothers, misdeeds and power abuses.

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