visit tdameritrade.com/learn ♪ a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new reaction to the reinstatement of the nation's strictest abortion law in texas. the law had been blocked for two days before a federal appeals court put it back into effect. the department of justice now has until tuesday to file a response, while a house bill to protect women's rights under roe versus wade appears headed for defeat in the senate with skepticism over a senate bill being drawn up by senator susan collins. >> this bill preserves what exactly is in roe versus wade,