and the anger, even from house speaker nancy pelosi. this morning, the radical supreme court is eviscerate-ing americans rights. and endangering their health and safety. the republican control has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman s right to make her own reproductive health decisions. because of donald trump, which coddle, at the republican party. if the supreme court, americans they have less freedoms than their mothers. this ruling takes us backwards. and you get a sense of just how far backwards when you listen to what s an nbc news correspondent said when roe was decided back in january, of 1973. from the beginning, abortion has been forced to see this issue as a constant on an individual s choice. abortion is now legal in every state. the basic fight is now over. the basic legal fight was thought to be over. but then they waged a decades long political fight to stack the supreme court. now because of this, political court ruling, about h
their lives worse. americans voiced that opposition as protests continued across the country today. protesters demanding the federal government step up and act. congressional democrats constrained by slim majorities and the filibuster seem to be passing the buck over to the president. on saturday, 34 senate democrats signed urging president biden invited to take immediately bold action and, quote, use the full force of the federal government to protect abortion rights. more on that in just a moment. now to state the obvious, this decision was not exactly a surprise. back in may, political obtained leaked draft of the courts opinion signaling the very outcome. not much changed from a draft to june s majority opinion. but the decision did offer us a first look at the other side of the dissent. in a scathing rebuke, the courts three liberal justices of said the decision stripped women of their status as free and equal citizens. justice breyer, so to my and kagan warned that no o
president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is friday, june 24th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. a sentence that rang across the halls of the capitol and this morning might very well be ringing into the courtroom. after a day of sworn testimony about how former president trump tried to weaponize the justice department to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, even some former trump administration officials and allies are acknowledging to cnn that the revelations were damaging. the most damaging yet. even bleak. so why, why so damaging? and what now? that is the focus this morning. testimony about a relentless almost daily effort to push officials to say things that were not true and do things that arguably were not legal. a scheme that seemed minutes from success to install a man named jeffrey clark, an environmental lawyer, an election lie prom
less overthrow the election, pressured them almost every day, asking officials to say things that were not true, that they told him were not true, and trying to get them to do things without precedence and that were arguably not legal. watch. let s take a look at another one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do. what i m asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. i made the point that jeff clark is not even competent to serve as the attorney general. he s never been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a trial jury. and he kind of retorted by saying, well, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals and civ