So what, what is going on here? What happened? And what's your reaction to this?

Well, obviously the story is sort of unfolding minute by minute, and there's a lot of, there's a lot that we still don't know.

But, but here's what we do know.

We know that under Title IX, universities are obligated under the law to create a safe environment on their campuses.

And when President Obama was in office, he issued guidance to universities, which was reiterated by the Biden administration.

Trump sort of in between tried to mess with it, but basically the guidance said universities were responsible.

What's interesting is that many universities in that time, because of the scrutiny, decided not just to, like, amp up and beef up their policies, but also to think about how to manage claims when they came forward, like to outsource them.

So, so-

His speech was met with largely silence here in New York, and then he's been extraordinarily deferential with Xi Jinping, even traveling to the An- Andrews Air Force Base to greet him at the bottom of the stairs.

I mean, he loves a strong man.

I mean, it's just really incredible.

I mean, he does this over and over again.

And his sort of references also to ma- the Hall of the People in Beijing, maybe that we're gonna name the ballroom the Hall of America.

It's, it's all very bizarre behavior relative to somebody who is really an adversary of the United States.

And to your point on the UN week, you know, it's been remarkable how little the, you know, how little anyone seems to care about his presence at the UN this week.

Republicans know it's a very challenging moment.

And if you have any sense of whether or not this is actually going to impact disproportionately Trump voters, because they're the ones who are listening to him day in and day out, fearmonger over our voting system.

Well, you got to also put this in context, Jackie, which is that he's been doing this as long as he's been in political life.

And that is he has used his pulpit from nearly the beginning to sow doubt into the validity of elections.

And of course, he's never challenged the validity of the elections that he's won.

But any election that he's lost...

He has doubled down on every wild claim of voter fraud, none of which has ever proven to be true.

And of course, that led to the riots on January 6th.

Is this helping Republican candidates who are already facing such headwinds with Trump's approval rating and disapproval when it comes to all of these issues that he's him and his administration have prioritized by having this administration in the final sprint towards November in these last 60 days now? Going out there and making this a part of their message that ICE is going to be a part of the election system to patrol undocumented immigrants who, according to all of the research and the statistics we know, are not fraudulently voting?

Yeah.

And that's just devastating.

We haven't seen that really since COVID.

And in COVID, obviously, we saw, you know, really huge numbers of women leaving the workforce, in part because what we understood then was this just huge collapse in childcare possibilities and just the fact that kids were not in school and there were no other options.

To see that now, and then I think part of what is disturbing, it's not just that the jobs number in July was bad, it's to your point about this overall number of women who've left the workforce since January and have now stopped looking for work.

It's really important to note there were definitely losses in sectors that are dominated by women, including hospitality.

But the other issue is that when you look at, you know, the inflationary factors, childcare, the cost of childcare, the inflationary cost of childcare has been double the rate of inflation this year.

... are getting hit harder?

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I mean, especially in a race like, uh, with Mike Rogers.

You know, I mean, he, this is a guy who has not especially...

I mean, look, all Republicans es- embrace the president, but Mike has his kind of his own identity in the State of Michigan, and he's got two very, very different primary challengers.

Um, this story has, about Michigan, has been completely about these rifts between the sort of f- you know, DSA-backed, left-leaning candidates, and Haley Stevens, who's en- endorsed by the, by the governor.

And, you know, he can't stand not being part of the story, and so there he goes inserting himself.

But I think you're right, the question is, does it make any difference at all, especially when you're, when the focus is really this Democratic primary.

Not a good look.

Tell us about it.

Well, so look, everyone and their cousin in the last few days has had an opinion on the Platner race, suddenly saying that they thought all along he shouldn't have been in the race.

I mean, it's just, like, so little too late.

And, and one of the takes that I have not seen anywhere was really my experience, which is that here on the show and then in my own social media, I called on Platner to drop out over a month ago.

And when I did, I was hit with a barrage of absolutely virulent antisemitism.

I was accused of being a shill for Israel.

I was told that I must be in the pocket of APAC, and that that was the only reason why I opposed Platner.

But there are others in the party who feel like, yeah, Texas has been our white whale, but they feel like this is a shot, and they, they do have a chance to get it.

Uh, Lauren, uh, take a question to Doris, if you will, but before you do, give us your thoughts here as we head into 250 about we hear so much about the Founding Fathers, but talk to us about the role you, you're, as you're thinking about the women who played such a vital role at the birthplace of this country.

You know, less than 15% of the American history that kids learn in school is, includes the history of women's contributions to this country, and that remains, uh, just a massive gap.

Um, we are and have always been essential to the founding, development, growth, success, and, you know, impact of this nation around the world.

And I, I'm very heartened by some of the new books.

Um, Nora O'Donnell's new book that calls out, you know, we the w- uh, We The Women.

This sort of interest now in capturing the stories that have been overlau- overlooked, whether it's Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures or other women who, you know, were so fundamental.

And I do encourage Americans this week as we're thinking about the Fourth, you know, not just to dig into the well-known history of women like Abigail Adams, who, you know, really tried to fight for women's leadership from the beginning, um, but so many other women that contributed to the country.

And the great thing about being here in the TR Library right now is that in addition to all the libraries we have for the other presidents, this one is different because it was built 107 years after he died.