administration should ignore this ruling. how will the fda respond? health and human services secretary javier bezerra and democratic congresswoman alexandria koziol cortez next and political retribution. tennessee republicans expelled two democrats over their gun reform protests during session they think of the issues over we ll see you on monday, another flashpoint in the guns debate. you ve aldi congressman tony gonzalez will join me, plus ultra mega, a defiant former president vows to fight charges against him as other ongoing probes accelerate our republican voters responding do not go to the gutter avoided, it turns off the voters. hello i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering what doesn t become politicized these days, we just closed out an especially bitter and divisive
institution. tions it s dangerous when we erode them. i want to move on. but i just want to 0.1 important thing out, which is that mifid press down isn t just used for abortion. it s also frequently prescribed for women experiencing a miscarriage and by some estimates as many as one million women miscarry every single year . so are they just on their own ? if this ruling is uphold, upheld no, i think it s important that we take care of women, and it s important that we have real discussions on women s health care and get off the abortion. get off the abortion conversation. women have a whole lot more other issues than just abortion. let s have those real conversations and let s talk about, you know, let s talk about the other things that are happening in this world. you know, i ve got a picture of a meal. emily amelia and maria they recently passed away three weeks ago. do it to a small googler in my district. what does that mean? that means there s all these other things
market. so yes or no as the hhs secretary, do you want the fda to enforce the texas ruling if it is upheld? in the short term . yes or no. we want the courts to overturn this reckless decision. yes or no? we want yes that women continue to have access to a drug that s proven itself safe. millions of women have used this drug around around the world for the 60 countries. but what if they don t act in the interim before you get to that point to believe that an appeals court the supreme court, whatever court has to understand that this ruling by this one. judge overturns not just access to mifid kristen, but possibly any number of drugs. what if they don t? that s speculation that i think is not worth engaging in. are you taking it off the table that you will recommend the fda ignore? a ban. everything is on the table. the president said that way back when the dobbs decision came out, every option is on the table. so i want to
instead, it is much more likely to have a negative effect on republicans, at least in the short term at the ballot box. and i think that s one of the things that has been kind of, you know, opened up by the ruling in dobbs last summer is that it put the issue back in the forefront of the political conversation in a way that it wasn t prior to the ruling. but that is primarily a conversation that democratic activists are happy to have. while republicans . it s the third or fourth tier issue for many republicans want to turn to the situation in tennessee? these two lawmakers, state lawmakers who democrats who are expelled because they protested on the floor of the legislature in favor of gun reform. let s listen to what one of them said. we re being spilled, not because of crime, not because of the ethics violation because we stood with these young people who are demanding that we act students and rather than address the issue of banning assault weapons, my former colleagues, republican
now is will they have access to abortion medication after this week? well they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it s available to them not just in a week but moving forward period because mifid kristen is one of the safest and most effective medicines that we ve seen over the last 20 years to help women with with their health care, especially abortion care. so uh, it is incumbent upon us as a country. to make sure women have safe and effective medication available to do that. well we ve already filed an appeal of this court s ruling. one judge in one court in one state. turned upside down. the fda is approval process for safe and effective medications. we have to go to court and seek an appeal. what happens if the ban is upheld? will this drug disappear from the market market overnight? so that s dana. that s big speculation. first and foremost