Kamala Harris Announces Plan to Eliminate Senate Filibuster for Federal Abortion Law Overturning State Protections

[00:00] so what kamla Harris announced yesterday

[00:01] for the first time is that she is

[00:03] willing to Nuke the filibuster which is

[00:07] a tactic that is used in the Senate it's

[00:10] not constitutional that slows down

[00:12] pieces of legislation effectively saying

[00:15] that we're going to gut the filibuster

[00:17] to reinstitute Row versus Wade now this

[00:21] might sound like something you've seen

[00:22] on a television commercial from kamla

[00:25] Harris but it's something completely

[00:27] different what she is saying is that she

[00:30] will overturn any state that might have

[00:34] pro-life legislation in Oklahoma in

[00:37] Kansas in Tennesse so what is so

[00:40] remarkable about this tape that we're

[00:42] about to play this is KLA Harris in a

[00:44] phone interview I imagine a radio

[00:47] interview of some sort and she does this

[00:50] unprompted nobody asked a question of

[00:53] KLA Harris about the filibuster at least

[00:55] to my knowledge I don't know the

[00:57] question was asked it seemed as if KLA

[00:59] Harris just me standard right into it

[01:00] and said it and her team had it prepared

[01:03] for her to make this announcement KLA

[01:06] Harris wants to tell States like

[01:10] Tennessee what they can do with their

[01:13] pro-life legislation the Brilliance and

[01:16] the moderate ground that President Trump

[01:17] has been saying is this is a states

[01:19] rights issue it has been for quite some

[01:22] time there'll be ballot referendums and

[01:24] state laws KL Harris wants to

[01:27] overturn the stat directed citizen Le

[01:31] component of the pro-life abortion

[01:34] debate listen to kamla Harris saying

[01:36] that she will get rid of the filibuster

[01:39] to accomplish such radical and

[01:43] unprecedented policy objectives play Cut

[01:46] 55 and so I would also emphasize that

[01:49] while the presidential election is

[01:51] extremely important and dispositive of

[01:53] where we go moving forward it also is

[01:56] about what we need to do to hold on to

[01:58] the Senate and seats in the house that

[02:01] being said I've been very clear I think

[02:03] we should eliminate the filibuster fow

[02:07] and and and we need and get us to the

[02:09] point where we 51 votes would be what we

[02:13] need to actually put back in law the

[02:16] protections for Reproductive freedom and

[02:18] for the ability of every person and

[02:20] every woman to make decisions about

[02:22] their own body and not have their

[02:23] government tell them what to do so Blake

[02:25] what does this mean for a state like

[02:27] Tennessee so what she's saying is that

[02:30] she will nuke the filibuster like have

[02:32] the Senate get rid of the filibuster you

[02:34] don't need 60 votes to close debate

[02:37] anymore to basically she says bring back

[02:40] row so what that would literally mean is

[02:43] they would pass a federal law that says

[02:45] the original roie Wade ruling is now the

[02:48] National Abortion law which basically

[02:49] means you can have no restrictions

[02:51] whatsoever on abortion in the first

[02:54] trimester you can't really have that

[02:57] many restrictions in the second

[02:58] trimester uh and then like in the third

[03:01] you're kind of allowed to ban it maybe

[03:04] but that might even just they just say

[03:05] row because they know it's popular so

[03:07] they could easily say we're passing row

[03:09] and it'll just be Nationwide you know

[03:11] New York Legal throughout pregnancy for

[03:14] basically any reason and if you pass

[03:17] that here's what's going to happen now

[03:20] we've often had some like dooming stuff

[03:22] on the right because Pro lifee stuff

[03:24] hasn't always done great when it's an up

[03:26] or down vote at The Ballot Box so you

[03:27] actually mentioned Kansas but Kansas is

[03:29] an example where their Supreme Court

[03:30] said it's a constitutional right and so

[03:32] they actually have very liberal abortion

[03:35] laws because they didn't amend it

[03:36] successfully get rid of it Montana we

[03:38] didn't Doo great there but if you set

[03:40] those aside here states that have very

[03:43] strict laws right now Texas second

[03:45] biggest state in the Union Oklahoma

[03:48] Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Arkansas

[03:51] Tennessee Missouri Kentucky Indiana West

[03:55] Virginia South Dakota uh Idaho all of

[03:58] those have essentially at least

[04:00] according to the abortion supporters

[04:01] they have basically outright bans

[04:03] Georgia has a heartbeat Bill 6 weeks

[04:05] Florida has a heartbeat Bill 6 weeks and

[04:08] we might lose that one but it's a 60%

[04:09] threshold to amend so that very easily

[04:12] could survive in Florida we'll see you

[04:14] have heartbe Bill in South Carolina you

[04:16] have a heartbeat bill in Iowa so I

[04:18] didn't keep Exact Track but that's about

[04:20] 20 States oh North Dakota had a ban and

[04:22] then a judge threw it out but it's like

[04:24] a low-level judge they'll probably

[04:25] reverse it so you basically have about

[04:27] 20 States here that have vastly more

[04:30] restrictive abortion laws thanks to the

[04:33] Dos decision that have so far not been

[04:36] overturned in any vote and you know it's

[04:38] actually been almost four uh it's been

[04:40] over two years at this point they're

[04:42] they've stuck around a little bit

[04:43] they've gotten through an election cycle

[04:45] and if you have pro-lifers deciding to

[04:48] stay home because Trump doesn't want a

[04:50] National Abortion ban like what you are

[04:52] effectively doing is you are you're mad

[04:55] at Trump over something that won't

[04:56] happen cuz I'm just going to tell you

[04:57] they're not going to pass the National

[04:59] Abortion ban and if they do we will lose

[05:01] the following election I don't like that

[05:04] that is true Blake is super pro that is

[05:07] what would happen it's like saying like

[05:09] we should like Nuke China to stop

[05:13] abortion like okay that's just a dumb

[05:15] thing to do because it would have

[05:17] massively destructive follow-up

[05:19] consequences so we won't do it and that

[05:22] is the same thing here you're going to

[05:24] not vote for Trump because he's not

[05:26] pro-life enough but you'd rather have

[05:29] National

[05:30] and really once Congress passes that I

[05:33] strongly suspect it will be very

[05:35] difficult to ever get it repealed so

[05:37] let's not have them pass it and and in

[05:40] in the the key part of this is not just

[05:42] that she supports it she's willing to

[05:45] remove the filibuster to get it done yes

[05:48] and that means everything else that

[05:50] they've talked about doing to get rid of

[05:51] the filibuster they want to make Puerto

[05:53] Rico and DC states which would among

[05:56] other things mean the US flag gets

[05:57] uglier you don't want that to happen and

[06:00] you know four Democrat Senators more

[06:02] safe electoral votes and so on stacking

[06:05] the Supreme Court stack the Supreme

[06:06] Court pack the Supreme Court all those

[06:07] gun rights decisions you like they can

[06:09] get rid of those religious liberty G

[06:10] religious liberty G school choice gone

[06:12] scho Choice G Free Speech gone they can

[06:14] just rewrite everything they want corre

[06:16] and they're they have a long list of

[06:18] packages that they want to do like you

[06:20] know how we got in trouble for like

[06:21] project 2025 there are 50 different

[06:24] liberal nonprofits with 50 million more

[06:27] or assets and they all write their own

[06:29] project 202s and almost all of them have

[06:32] a massive list of things they can do if

[06:34] they get rid of the filibuster and if

[06:35] you're pro- lifee out there if you're a

[06:37] Christian or a Catholic and you say I'm

[06:39] not voting for Trump because he's

[06:40] insufficiently pro-life let me be as

[06:42] clear as I can not voting for Trump is a

[06:45] ticket to one party Rule and would have

[06:47] nationalized abortion it would overturn

[06:50] every single state where we made

[06:51] progress and then you would be giving

[06:54] the keys to the Democrat Party to add DC

[06:56] and Puerto Rico Estates because they'll

[06:58] use the filibuster for that they'll get

[06:59] pH Buster for that pack the Supreme

[07:01] Court and then also pass hr1 which is

[07:04] universal mail and balloting and just no

[07:06] no amnesty they'll pass amnesty and and

[07:09] look I'll be honest I was talking to

[07:10] some pro-life leaders last night and

[07:12] they said yeah we're organizing people

[07:14] to protest against Donald Trump and I

[07:16] said you're being immature children

[07:17] throwing the country out that not only

[07:20] is your point stupid but it is

[07:24] materially it's like not only is your

[07:27] protest Point stupid but if Donald

[07:29] Donald Trump wins the pro-life movement

[07:31] stays alive if kamla wins it could be

[07:34] obliterated for a generation a

[07:37] generation and not to mention kamla

[07:39] Harris will use the FBI the Department

[07:41] of Justice and the IRS to go after any

[07:43] pro-life leader in the country and so I

[07:46] hope you guys are listening carefully

[07:47] here she'll attack Pregnancy Crisis

[07:49] centers every state that has past

[07:53] pro-life legislation will just be

[07:54] overturned and reversed but I guess it's

[07:56] worth it to not vote it is it is what do

[08:00] you call it Blake moral virtue signaling

[08:02] right yeah it's you'd rather go back to

[08:04] the era where things were worse because

[08:07] I guess like you had more moral Clarity

[08:09] then or something no that that's what

[08:10] some people say makes you wonder you

[08:13] know what team they're actually on want

[08:15] to play more tape here of the push to

[08:17] get rid of the filibuster Blake explain

[08:19] to our audience again the significance

[08:21] of the filibuster because this is being

[08:22] met with massive opposition from Joe

[08:26] Mansion Kirsten Cinema both leaving

[08:28] though yeah so so what is the like tell

[08:32] tell us what what are the components of

[08:33] the filibuster so what the filibuster is

[08:36] is

[08:38] in the Senate you need a majority of

[08:40] votes to pass something 50 votes or uh

[08:43] 51 votes or 50 plus the vice president

[08:45] kamalo right now and but they have rules

[08:50] that govern how the Senate works and

[08:52] some of those rules govern debate and

[08:55] what a filibuster is is when someone

[08:57] refuses to allow debate to end

[09:00] and what they've done with the rules is

[09:02] they say you need 60 votes to force an

[09:05] end to debate they call this

[09:06] cloer and if you are not able to end

[09:09] debate there's no time limit on it so

[09:11] they can just perpetuate it indefinitely

[09:14] and so this used to be a pretty rare

[09:17] thing and it used to be like to

[09:18] filibuster you'd have to physically keep

[09:20] talking so you occasionally have Thurman

[09:23] St Thurman did it for I think 24 hours

[09:25] to I think it was 27 I'm something like

[09:27] that yeah and so you used to be that way

[09:29] but over time there's been this move

[09:31] towards making it more sclerotic not

[09:35] able to do stuff so now you can just

[09:37] fill a buster forever and you don't need

[09:39] to be physically talking so it's

[09:41] essentially become you need 60 votes to

[09:44] pass anything now this is something of a

[09:47] legal fiction because you can get rid of

[09:50] the filibuster by majority vote it is

[09:53] not in this it's not that I want to be

[09:54] very clear it is not in the US

[09:56] Constitution that I'm holding up right

[09:57] now it is purely a norm that the Senate

[10:00] maintains and you can get rid of it so

[10:02] for example you used to be able to

[10:03] filibuster uh Supreme Court nominees the

[10:06] GOP got rid of that so they could get

[10:08] Gorsuch on the court you could

[10:09] filibuster Lower Court nominees uh I

[10:12] believe I think I think Obama got rid of

[10:15] that well that's right so Obama got rid

[10:17] of it first for circuit court for

[10:18] circuit court and then the Supreme cour

[10:20] took the precedent and because remember

[10:22] McConnell said you're going to regret

[10:23] doing this yes and then McConnell win

[10:25] you know we win and we get Amy con

[10:27] Barrett Gorsuch and Kavanaugh almost

[10:29] works like it's kind of like it's like

[10:32] nuclear war like es like military

[10:34] escalation like you can escalate back

[10:36] and forth and so in theory you could get

[10:38] rid of the filibuster well they they

[10:40] used they used it for the inflation

[10:42] reduction act yes well so that was did

[10:44] they get rid of the filibuster or was it

[10:46] that technically the filibuster doesn't

[10:48] apply to not sure there was one of the

[10:51] reconciliation that was a part of

[10:52] Obamacare yeah no that's correct yeah

[10:54] because of Scott Brown winning in

[10:56] Massachusetts and so there's all these

[10:59] complexities to it and what is

[11:00] ultimately the case is you can just get

[11:02] rid of the filibuster by majority vote

[11:04] so what's funny about the filibuster is

[11:06] it actually it doesn't quite protect the

[11:10] minority the way people say it does what

[11:12] it actually does is it protects the

[11:14] majority from votes they like don't

[11:17] really want to take and they need a

[11:19] political excuse for not doing that's

[11:21] why Republicans loved it so much can't

[11:23] pass can't secure the Border we don't

[11:26] have 60 votes sorry guys whereas if

[11:28] there was no filibuster they would have

[11:30] to be much more over that we actually

[11:32] kind of support open borders so that's a

[11:34] really good summary Thank You Blake and

[11:36] on that this is uh Joe Mansion saying he

[11:39] will not endorse kamla Harris because of

[11:41] this play Cut

[11:43] 63 I think I've been very clear in my

[11:46] whole career is that this the 60 vote

[11:48] threshold that we uh that we basically

[11:51] operate under in the Senate is is a is

[11:54] essential would you endorse her for

[11:56] president then I'm not endorsing I'm not

[11:58] inding

[11:59] secondly uh this is um let's go here cut

[12:04] 56 um on CNN about the filibuster now

[12:07] that she has said that she would got the

[12:09] Senate Phil Buster rules and her passed

[12:10] a me a measure Mansion tells us this

[12:12] morning he will not endorse Harris or

[12:14] president he's one of the staunchest

[12:15] supporters of the filibuster play Cut

[12:17] 56 now that she has said that she would

[12:21] gut the Senate filibuster rules in order

[12:24] to pass a measure to preserve abortion

[12:27] rights Mansion tells us this morning

[12:29] that he she he will not endorse Harris

[12:32] for president he is one of the

[12:34] staunchest supporters of of the

[12:37] filibuster in the Senate he mantion

[12:39] argues that it is essential to forcing

[12:41] bipartison consensus and compromise in

[12:44] the Senate is in the minority of

[12:46] Democrats in particular who are pushing

[12:47] to gut this all together because it

[12:49] would lower the threshold for advancing

[12:52] legislation from 60 votes to 51 if kamla

[12:56] Harris had her

[12:57] way so so the they're basically trying

[13:01] to set the the precedent here that the

[13:03] FI Buster is not going to mean anything

[13:05] and we're going to use whatever is at

[13:07] our disposal to do what so this time

[13:11] they're using row because that's like

[13:13] that's you know their winning issue they

[13:14] never shut up about abortion but you

[13:16] have to understand Democrats don't see

[13:18] this is not get rid of the filibuster

[13:20] for this and it's totally around for

[13:21] everything Democrat activist want to get

[13:23] rid of it for the whole shebang they're

[13:25] thinking this is why we can't get the

[13:27] green New Deal climate stuff this this

[13:29] is why we can't this is why we can't get

[13:31] amnesty this is why we can't get

[13:33] statehood for all these this is why we

[13:35] can't pack the courts and that's what

[13:37] the the the key thing the real key thing

[13:39] is pack the courts because then you can

[13:40] just have a court say all the other

[13:42] stuff is required it's the cons this is

[13:43] vital in a modern era for checks and

[13:46] balances kamla wants to get rid of it to

[13:48] bring in a radically communist agenda to

[13:51] the country pay attention if she wins

[13:54] watch out