The issue of women's rights remains in
the spotlight after court rulings continue
to put the availability of the abortion
drug myth Apris Stone in a state of limbo.
Those arguing for legalized abortion gathered
outside of Pot City Market on Saturday,
hoping restrictions for the
drug can remain on hold.
On Friday, the Supreme Court std
into an ongoing legal battle and
temporarily blocked a lower cout
decision that would have limited access
to the abortion pill Methopra S.
The high court's temporary stay until
midnight on Wednesday gives the justices
time to to consider what to do .
Right now, the pill is still
legal in Georgia,
while abortions are banned after
a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Georgia is one of 17 states with some
sort of abortion restriction in place.
The majority of states with
restrictions have banned abortin
from the point of conception.
Joining me now is Chuck Todd,
moderator of NBC's Meet the Pre.
Chuck, good morning.
This morning you have Senator Ty
Baldwin and Senator Bill Cassid,
both who are on the Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee.
With the issue of abortion
remaining in the spotlight,
how do you see Republicans
handling this in 2024?
Has the party learned from 2022,
or do you think they even have a desire to?
Well, it's not clear because there's no
one really in charge of the party and
that is comes through crystal c.
There is no, they don't have
a position that unifies them.
When Roe V Wade was law of the ,
the position that unified him
was overturned Roe V Wade.
But they never thought about the fact
that they didn't agree on the details
and not every person that wanted to Roe
V Wade overturned wanted abortion banned.
And I think that is the mistake that many
of these Republican leaders have made.
That said, the party has the infrastructure
of the Republican Party has essentially
organized itself around the issf
of of opposing abortion And sudy
with that gone and with a thirdf
Republicans he sent being beingn
support of of of abortion right.
It is just,
it is just sort of taken the pa.
Where you can't win a primary
without being a hardliner on on
being against abortion rights.
But I don't know if you can win
in general if you're a hardliner
on access to abortion rights,
and I think we saw evidence in ,
it may take another election bee
more Republican leaders decide o
publicly start to change their t
least tone and rhetoric on the issue.
The FBI arrested a 21 year old Air National
Guard member after he posted sensitive
materials in an online chat gro.
That info apparently posted in the group
for weeks before it was discove.
Chuck, are we going to assume tt
this is going to lead to changen
who gets classified information?
I'm assuming it would but why ds
something that serious have to happen
for there to be a wake up call?
Well, this is again,
I'm going to use a phrase called
failure of imagination and if
you go all the way back to.
Frankly, the 9/11 attacks,
that phrase failure of imaginat,
has been applied to the
intelligence community quite a .
And I think this is one of those cases.
Obviously, our intelligence,
you know, needs to be easily
accessed at a moment's notice,
whether you're a military commar
in overseas or you're at the Pentagon.
So you need people to maintain
those computer networks.
This gentleman was tech support.
Are you telling me you didn't realize that
somebody who would has to have the keys?
To the digital Kingdom couldn't
possibly end up being having
their own motivation to abuse
that privilege that they have.
Did you not vet the tech suppor?
And I think this is pretty clear because
to think that you would just goh
a low level Air National Guardsn
without a lot of experience doig
this before he entered the mili,
It sounds to me you didn't realy
vet the people that were in chae
of the networks that actually
had access to this material.
All right. Chuck, thanks so muc.
Meet the Press. There's a 10 rit
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