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Melania Trump's husband may have once voiced support for a national abortion ban, but the former First Lady is making it clear she's 100% pro-choice.

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00:00Melania Trump has now inserted herself in the election,

00:05whether that was her intention or not,

00:07but inserted herself in a huge way.

00:11She has a book coming out called Melania

00:14and she put a video out on her social media

00:17to promote the book and she has taken a position

00:22which is markedly different from the position

00:25her husband has taken on one of the biggest issues

00:29in the campaign, abortion.

00:32Individual freedom is a fundamental principle

00:35that I safeguard.

00:38Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise

00:41when it comes to this essential right

00:44that all women possess from birth.

00:47Individual freedom, what does my body, my choice really mean?

00:54So the idea that Melania Trump,

00:57five weeks before the election,

00:59is coming out and saying that she is staunchly pro-choice,

01:05when Donald Trump, he has kind of waffled on this

01:08and you go back to the 90s,

01:11Donald Trump, before he had real designs on the White House,

01:16was a pro-choice guy.

01:18He was solidly pro-choice.

01:20He has changed that and he vowed to overturn Roe versus Wade.

01:26He seemed okay with the states doing anything

01:30they wanted to do after Roe.

01:32He's now tried to moderate that a little bit

01:34by saying 15 weeks is about the ban that he wants.

01:39His wife has-

01:41No, I've been trying to figure out,

01:42can I reconcile these two positions

01:45and is there any way they fit together?

01:46No, I don't think they do, Harvey.

01:47I don't think they do either.

01:49She is taking a different approach, a different opinion

01:52to this very important issue

01:54and I am surprised, but I do think the takeaway here

01:58can be you're not going to agree with a candidate

02:01on every single issue and that doesn't necessarily mean

02:03that you can't support that person.

02:05Clearly, they're on separate sides here.

02:06I have a different take on this

02:09and I think Jason just started.

02:11Jason, I wanna just throw this out to you

02:13and see what you think.

02:14Here's my take.

02:15Donald Trump realizes that abortion

02:18is gonna cost him dearly when it comes to voters

02:21and especially female voters

02:24and if you've noticed, he has tempered a lot

02:28over the last couple of months.

02:29He says he's now against a federal abortion ban.

02:32He says he is now-

02:33I don't know that he ever said

02:34he was for a federal abortion ban.

02:36He skirted it, he skirted it.

02:38He wouldn't answer the question in the first debate

02:40and now he's saying he's against it.

02:43He's now, he's supporting 15 weeks as the limit.

02:48I think in a way, he wanted Melania to do this

02:53to soften his position more.

02:55I think there's a very, very good chance that is right.

02:58I think this doesn't hurt him.

02:59It doesn't hurt him at all.

03:00Husbands and wives disagree on important issues all the time

03:03and I think this doesn't hurt him.

03:05I think it could potentially help him.

03:06I don't really think it helps him much but it could

03:09and I think that he is not upset that she put it out.

03:11I did, I do wanna focus in on one thing

03:13that she said in her statement

03:15which is that there is no room for compromise on this issue

03:20and I thought that was pretty fascinating

03:22and to be that stark about it means

03:23that we can't even agree to disagree.

03:26We cannot honor the opinion, I think,

03:30that it's not too much of an extrapolation to say

03:33even the opinion of somebody who takes a different position,

03:35there is no room to compromise.

03:37I found that very interesting.

03:38I wanna go one, I wanna go a step further than that, Jason.

03:43When she says there is no room for compromise,

03:45I think what she's really saying

03:48is that this should not have been left to the states

03:51because when the states make decisions,

03:54they're all over the board.

03:56This is almost like her saying it was a huge mistake

03:59to overturn Roe versus Wade

04:01because it nationalized the standard.

04:03Yeah.

04:04Hi, this is Buki from Texas.

04:06We love Melania, we're glad she gave Michelle a gift

04:10but hey, let her vote her choice, her pro-choice.

04:13I wish she had told that to Donald a little bit earlier

04:15but I hope she votes her pro-choice.

04:17Yeah, I just find this so fascinating.

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