all msnbc contributors. i have to start with you, claire. it s almost you could tell a joke. how bad is it? it s so bad for the supreme court after being the cause, the driving force for democrats to defy decades of midterm election history just got worse. another account of a leak of another alito opinion. yeah. and remember the righteous indignation of all of the trump senators and all of the right about how dare anyone leak anything? well, if you read this entire account, and i urge people to do that, to read all about what these groups were doing to try to infiltrate the court and influence the court from joining the historical society to getting invited to parties, they were there was a campaign to infiltrate the court and i
seen the leaked alito opinion even before it was delivered by the court. she said she was surprised because she never thought that the court would actually do this. it has been peaceful and the law enforcement is prepared and the crowd is a bill smaller than yesterday but still quite noisy. back to you. joe johns, thank you so much. outside of the supreme court. let s go to mississippi now. naddio romero there outside the only abortion clinic and it is still operating in that state but what is happening? reporter: well, fredricka, it has been a confrontational day all day. and as it gets further along through the day, and temperatures rise, the tensions seem to rise. i want to take a look right outside. you could see there is much more police presence here than what we had earlier today. there is one traffic enforcement officer, one just left. and what is happening here is that on the other side of this street, so as you come along north state, you make a right
it s why it s so important, and why the actions of this court and the alito opinion just go and undermine that. i think it dramatically damages the credibility of this court. your colleague, your mocratic colleague, jo mahin, says he s a lawrence that justices kavanaugh and gorsuch voted to overturn roe. after testifying, they believe the case was settled legal precedent. manchin said he would support legislation to codify roe, but i don t think he s changed his position on the filibuster. your colleague, nancy klobuchar told me yesterday that without the filibuster, that s not codifying roe. that s not gonna happen. that s exactly right. amy, that s exactly right. the filibuster rule basically says you have to have 60 members of the senate in order to pass a piece of legislation. mind you, understand that when mitch mcconnell change the filibuster rule so it doesn t apply to supreme court
all right, live pictures right now in nashville, where a proabortion rally is underway. people making posters, people gathering. it is just one of several cities where protesters over the supreme court ruling are happening today. cnn s camilla bernal is in los angeles. and joe johns is at the u.s. supreme court. joe, to you first. reporter: hi, fred. this is crowd in front of the united states supreme court. a large crowd but by the way not necessarily as large as the crowd that was here last night. variety of emotions being expressed. a lot of people very angry about what the supreme court did yesterday. even though it was very much expected given the fact that the alito opinion had a been leaked