September 5 — Gov. Larry Hogan, Gov. Andy Beshear, Claire McCaskill and Barbara Comstock
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This Sunday, a divided America. People are enraged on both sides of the issue, and it's completely |
| 0:09.0 | tearing this community apart. The country split in two on multiple fronts, one battlefield, |
| 0:14.1 | COVID and masks. As do not stop the spread of this virus. It only stops the spread of friendship |
| 0:19.9 | and learning. This is all smoke and mirrors. |
| 0:23.7 | This is tyranny. Even as the pandemic is again killing 1,500 Americans a day. I feel like I'm in some weird |
| 0:29.4 | twilight zone, why we're still going over wearing masks and having safe schools for our kids. It's bananas. |
| 0:36.6 | This morning I'll talk to two governors trying to bridge |
| 0:39.1 | that divide. Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Blue State Maryland, and Andy Bashir, |
| 0:43.9 | the Democratic governor of Red State Kentucky. Plus, the newly elevated fight over abortion. |
| 0:49.6 | Texas enacts the most restrictive abortion law in the country, dismaying abortion rights advocates. |
| 0:57.5 | As a matter of reality, Roe versus Wade is a dead letter in Texas today. |
| 1:01.5 | And the Supreme Court lets the law stand for now, cheering abortion opponents. |
| 1:06.5 | The child is a child, that this person is a person. |
| 1:09.5 | My guest this morning, former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, |
| 1:13.1 | and former Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock of Virginia. |
| 1:17.1 | Also long-term power outages in Louisiana, record rainfall and flooding in the northeast. |
| 1:22.7 | What Hurricane Ida tells us about the threat of climate change. |
| 1:26.1 | Joining me for insight and analysis are Yamishal Sender, the moderator of climate change. Joining me for insight and analysis are |
| 1:28.0 | Yamichael Sindor, the moderator of Washington Week, |
| 1:31.3 | Washington Post-contributing columnist, Matt By, |
| 1:34.2 | Betsy Woodruff Swan of Politico, |
| 1:36.1 | and Republican strategist Brendan Buck. |
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