can pretend like they are the pro military party as they oppose u.s. support to ukraine which actually is preventing the united states military from having to get involved directly against russia. as they hold up nominations because of the difference on abortion opinion. and have these members of the military that are reliant on their promotions for better pay and better leadership. the military that needs theme fill these positions holding them up for politics. look, there s plenty of criticism that can go around in terms of politicizing the military in this case it is the the republicans or more specifically tommy tubberville that s doing exactly that. so all of this is spawning sort of spinning off of the fact that he is unilaterally holding up these military nominations right over the pentagon s abortion leave policy. how problematic sit and witness-3 seeing this affect the nomination for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
and a hunter. that s why you need versatile, durable kubota equipment. several legal stories making headlines. justice samuel alito told the wall street journal he has a pretty good idea who was behind the leak of the draft abortion opinion. it was someone who didn t want the landmark case reversed while saying the leaker was not a conservative. justice alito stopped short of naming names leading to speculation. i want to bring in former prosecutor michael zelding. michael, great to see you. is justice alito offering any proof to back up what he is saying? absolutely not, and, in fact, the marshall of the court who was entrusted to conduct this
pulled the trigger. that s not what the actor says. and despite an eight-month investigation at the highest levels, the supreme court has apparently failed to find who leaked last year s abortion opinion. and constitutional lawyers say that is as frightening as the leak itself. but we begin with president biden who said tonight he has no regrets about his handling of classified documents. the white house correspondent kevin corke live in the nation s capitol with more. kevin, good evening. kevin: evening, trace. the president s son hunter who as you know is facing a number of investigations dealing with his businesses and other controversies actually once noted he and other family members quarantined at his dad s house where the classified documents were recently found. just to reset, his memoir was published in april of 2021, in it, he said he and his family members spent election night 2020 at the house in wilmington.
the polls. of course it s smart for them te to harness this politically, butm they re saying things like contraception and same marriage are now going to be a threat and they re pointing to a line in a concurrence from . stice thomas but what he said if you go and read that is he says there is nothing in this opinion today, this abortion opinion that has anything to do with those rights. ill not him. mpact dth t it should not. but he doese go on to sayts that he thinks the court should engage in a different s kind of process for other cases moving forward. and he does mention reexamining a substantive due process rights in cases like kielburger film, which isig the one that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. that signed on to this opinion today agrees there is no threat. threat there should be no threat. let.ng me read something from justice alito to those otherio key opinions. he says wens have stated t unequivocally that nothing in this opinion should be understood to cas