member of congress defending the suspected leaker of thos classified documents the growing concern over our national security. our friday night cap is here taking up all the majo headlines of the week. there and the b picks and some news on a holiday classic, a the 11th hour gets underwa right now. good evening once, again i a stephanie ruhle. the nation s highest court i stepping in to block a rul lower court from rolling bac access to abortion pills for now. that restriction was set to go into effect at midnight, i less than one hour late this afternoon, justice samuel alito issued a hold tha keep the drug widely available for just five more days, while the court reviews the case this latest development comes day after florida governor ron desantis quietly signed a la banning most abortions after six weeks. that signing took place in a private ceremony yesterday, an there was no publi announcement until just afte 11 pm last night meanwhile, several republicans with their ey
that restriction was set to go into effect at midnight, i less than one hour late this afternoon, justice samuel alito issued a hold tha keep the drug widely available for just five more days, while the court reviews the case this latest development comes day after florida governor ron desantis quietly signed a la banning most abortions after six weeks. that signing took place in a private ceremony yesterday, an there was no publi announcement until just afte 11 pm last night meanwhile, several republicans with their eyes on 2024 or front and center at th national rifle association convention in indianapolis today. i guarantee you that i will continue to stand with the nra the second amendment ensure that the american people hav the capacity to defend their lives, fortunes, and sacre honor. i will stand with each an every one of you, in protectio of what we all know is commo sense. i am a concealed weapon permit owner myself. my husband is a hunter the media would h
competitive race but if they are going to kee going down this road on i think anybody carrying tha banners glendive trouble one issue, or one topic, i guess that is bipartisan, sadly, is ou nations lack of trust in our institutions we see it every week this week it is a suprem court. these revelations of justice clarence thomas, the connections he had to a mega wealthy donor. every day there are more thing coming out and this realization for u that the supreme court does no really have any ethics rules with any disease so, what do we do about th fact that whether it is in congress a trading stocks or the supreme court having littl to no rules, there are all sorts of unethical but illegal things the supreme court, what we d about that because almost no one readin this clarence thomas stuff feels great about it i don t think clarenc thomas should ve been there in the first place. i think should stop him. but, look, john roberts need
so the politics within the party are moving towards a six -week ban. desantis did not want to, do i but he is the governor he made the decision to sign it but he did it at night he issued a very awkward statement. this is a governor who i unsteady on this issue he is worried, and the biggest tell of all, stephanie, is tha this morning he was at liberty university addressing an arena of christian evangelical christians and did not onc mention his signing a six-week ban. he is terrified of the actions that he took on this issue las night. he knows it could ruin his entire presidentia aspirations. but with that audience, tha is music to their ears it is i actually think what is going on stephanie is that he does not want to be on tape championing a six-week ban even though he signed it look, he is a politician above all else we do not really assign hi
individual, why he did what he did. we do not know if it is becaus he went online and wanted to impress his friends. but we do know, and it appears it least, that he has been o right-wing chat groups that he has made some racist and antisemitic comments if you go back a couple of months ago, we had two activ duty rhea marines arrested for their role in january 6th. the problem with that is tha they were intelligence marines with access to this type o information. that is what we saw this week. amy, you are delivering serious nightmares for us on this friday night, but w appreciate you bringing us the truth every time you are here. it s good to see you all right when we come back, how do you look at the calendar it is friday night you know what that means our