good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we re beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing roe that may have have doomed roberts efforts. and the abortion rights drama that testified in april that the draft opinion would soon be published. tensions over the fate of roe were heightened over the course of the leak that diminished whatever chance roberts had to disloch the five votes to overturn the rule. joining us, joan biscupic. joan, tell us how hard he was fighting to bring some folks over to his time. good morning, brianna
towards senator jones being investigated but, rather, picking favorites in primary season. the judge didn t buy that because after all, whomever won the primary was going to run against senator jones. the takeaway is she got politically involved in a race where now she s investigating one of the participants an incumbent. does it put the kibosh on an overall investigation? it does not. it will try to create a firewall so the investigation continues but she has to continue with regard to the one focus of the probe. that s an interesting carve joust, right? because he is not the only fake elector notified as being a target, there are others as well so she still in theory has plenty of avenues to go down to investigate, michael? she does. look, all politics are local. there s no surprising there would be this interconnectivity and old grudges and so on and so forth. i have to say, when you re in a
blocking from investigating butter jones as part of that probe to overturn the 2020 election. jones served as one of 15 fake state electors in 2020. cnn s nick valencia is live at the fulton county courthouse in atlanta. nick, tell us what happened. reporter: yeah, good morning, brianna, according to the judge who made that decision he called the optic of what he did as a what are you thinking moment. they come with prettyial f affiliation and willis to the prettial rival of burt jones and since been disqualified frommy prosecution related to burt jones in his political rival s campaign. we know that burt jones is not just a republican state senator here, he s also one of the