the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee, and it might be regarding steve bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing on amicus brief in his appellate work there in his case today speaker of the house mike johnson and several other republican members of the house voted to make the formal position of the u.s. house of representatives, the formal position that the january 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore steve bannon should not have to go t to step back here for some context, remember that the reason steve bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that s despite clearly knowing a lot about
it is good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, breaking news. a supreme court document on a closely watched abortion case gets posted early by mistake. what it says about procedures when the life of the mother is at risk. the destructive flooding sweeping through south dakota and other parts of the midwest. entire neighborhoods under water after record rain. in minnesota, a home teetering at the edge of a failing dam collapses into a river. unbelievable footage there. also ahead, an nbc news investigation. the search here in the u.s. for more than 50 migrants with ties to an isis smuggling network. and a legal saga that began more than a decade ago. wikileaks founder julian assange with a clenched fist to clears as he steps off the plane a free man. our nbc reporters are following all the latest developments. we start with the supreme court and this document that was not supposed to be posted today on emergency abortions. ms
confidence. the court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued cases yet to be announced this term. today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case which was obtained by bloomberg law. a supreme court spokesperson confirmed that the document was, quote, inadvertently and briefly up loaded but noted that the ruling has not been release and would be in due course. nbc news has not independently verified the document. it is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things. the document has since been removed from the website. well if the document did signal was that court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of idaho to perform life-saving abortions which they are unable to do under that state s defensive life act. that passed in august of 2022. the law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. it prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions for the life of the
the court s website, but adds the court s final opinion has not been released and will be issued in due course. this case is about whether women, people have the right to receive emergency care, for women specifically, emergency abortion care in a state that bans abortion. the biden administration is arguing, yes, it is federal law that a hospital must provide emergency medical treatment, no matter what. the groups who supported the biden suit offered a number of examples including an example of a woman who was 18 weeks pregnant experiencing a condition that would result in a miscarriage. but instead of treating her, idaho doctors sent her home worried they would be breaking the law by giving her an emergency abortion. her condition was so dire that traveling to another state was out of the question because the risk of miscarrying and bleeding to death was too high. so she waited. eventually, she delivered a stillborn baby and consequentially developed a serious and rapidly d
news babes might win again, we ll see see some good form out there. look forward to hearing about the results. the lead with jake tapper for starts right now, go press the stages set the stakes, could not be higher. welcome to the lead live from cnn s campus and atlanta, georgia, where final preparations are underway for tomorrow s historic presidential debate. right here you re on cnn, i m phil mattingly, info jake tapper, president joe biden, and former president donald trump will be here tomorrow night. and the most important event of this election cycle. so far. here s a glimpse at the stage where the two men will face off the first time in history, a sitting president and a former president will debate. i just walked the debate stage and i ll bring you an insight. i d look and just moments, but first, we re going into details about how those last-minute preparations are actually playing out. cnn s mj lee and kristen holmes start us off here and lana in jake, let s start