a day after the six-week abortion ban went into effect, a judge has ordered the law to be put on hold. anyhow it s up to the all-male justices of the state supreme court. plus we re on standby for another member of the oath keepers to be sentenced for their role in the january 6th capitol insurrection, one defendant telling the judge she was just another idiot running around the hallway. then, 12 people are injured and the big question is, why did he do it? hello, everyone, and welcome to the lead, i m biana. a judge has blocked south carolina s new abortion restrictions from going into effect. yesterday, governor henry mcmaster signed a law banning most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy before many women even know they re pregnant. it did allow for some exception b s but it s all on hold. dianne gallagher is following these developments for us. what happens now? zbl. reporter: so, at this point in south carolina, the limit on abortions returns to wha
the time is ticking for congress to take action, because it s congress that has an exit constitutional responsibility here. they swore an oath to and the 14th amendment of that constitution says, the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be question, which presumably means, you need to pay the debt. june 5th is only nine days from now. the house of representatives has adjourned for the long memorial day weekend. republican leadership said, they will provide 24 hours notice before scheduling voting days, and addressing the potential default. while some republicans might just be hoping to extract a greater cuts to the social safety net in exchange for not crushing the american economy, with others, the motivation is less clear. take, for example, the chaos caucus, a group of the most disruptive members of the republican caucus right now. the chaos caucus, many of whom are members of the freedom caucus, succeeded and complicating and stalling kevin mccarth
you re a candidate now, ron. thanks to what is sure to be remembered as the most awkward campaign launch in american history. plus, that s not fair. trump s lawyers channel their inner 8-year-old in a whining complaint to the u.s. attorney general with due apologies to 8-year-olds. later, one year after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in uvalde, texas, an activist group floats a radical proposal for reining in america s deadly gun culture. and we begin tonight with a question. would you ever hire someone who participated in a deadly insurrection to overtake the u.s. capitol or fellow rioters threatened to kill the house speaker and hang the vice president? would you hire a woman who was once arrested and charged with stealing the campaign signs of a political rival who she had run against for public office? personally i wouldn t and i imagine most of you wouldn t either. but florida governor ron desantis did. this is sandra atkinson. her investigation by
president biden and vice president harris are determined to restore roe v. wade and they will never allow a national abortion ban to become law. as long as they are in office, decisions about your body will be made by you, not by them. joining me now, susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst, and jay jordan, comedian and writer. susan, let s talk about your party. you have gotten all of those guys on the debate stage, sort of bragging about the fact they want a national abortion ban. you have south carolina s all-male supreme court under his eye doing a six-week abortion ban. you have glenn youngkin, trying to join the abortion ban caucus in virginia. west virginia judge ruled the state can ban access to abortion pills even though they re legal. i could go on, but the whole south essentially is now a, you know, womb slave state territory. there s nowhere you can have bodily autonomy in the whole south. how are republicans believing
trying to hide behind your bar license and your legal privilege and claim that somehow this booking that you see on your screen, this mug shot is itself the injustice is at a minimum rich. prosecutors say they have the evidence that defendant giuliani and others committed crimes and they ll prove it in court. after his booking, giuliani was seen entering what you see right here in this aerial shot. again, brand-new tonight, second chance bail bonds in atlanta. i want to get right to our top guest, a former watergate prosecutor nick akerman. james carville and others join me tonight. but we want to begin with you. i want to put this shot back up on the screen. this is something that this man says an injustice and that he and others thought could never happen. big picture, what does it mean to see the mug shot and the booking of giuliani tonight? the big picture is he s been indicted. he s been charged with a crime. and he s basically gone through