during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. we have news out of the supreme court. today is one of its last three scheduled decision days, and the news is a clue that the court may be slightly backing off its anti-roe and anti-choice rulings as of late. i say a clue, not a formal ruling yet, because while the court has not issued its ruling about whether to possibly allow emergency abortions in idaho, a very conservative state that has limited them, today i can tell you something unusual. the supreme court s website appeared to accidentally post what appears to be that draft decision. and it would, according to what i m telling you, which is apparently a mistake in leak or draft of it, it would allow those procedures under that draft. so, this is an apparent clerical digital error. and it marks a win for the biden administration. the draft of six justices siding with the biden doj
from that wall street journal reports claiming president biden is slipping. the white house and democrats pushing back hard and boeing s starliner successfully lifting off. now headed to the the international space station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here the cnn news central some dramatic testimony in court today as former romantic partners of hunter biden take the stand in his federal gun trial. hunters former girlfriend so casten just finished testifying about hunters heavy drug use, including, she says, just weeks before he bought the gun that s at the center of this case? she also described hunters efforts to get sober, including how we moved to california to work on his recovery, but then ultimately relapsed. and this morning, hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle, told jurors about finding drugs and paraphernalia in his car on multiple occasions. including in 2018, when he bought the gun, cnn s paula reid is outs
access to ivf in the aftermath of the dobbs decision the of course, the politics lost on nobody here, republicans know full well, how republican democrats have weaponize this issue effectively in a number in the recent campaign cycles, they themselves trying to push for an alternative measures to protect themselves from the political backlash from blocking this. democrats, though he rejected those other measures, saying they re too weak and they said the voters ultimately will make that decision on who does support over these key issues in the fall that s all right manu. thank you so much for that update from the hill and out of some of the other headlines that we re watching this hour the un says the world is on a quote, highway to climate and hell as we set yet another record and it s really not the good kind of record new data revealing that we ve now seen unprecedented temperatures, 412 straight months of full year now that means it from june 2023 feet to this may every single mo
there was a recognize from the stage last night in which he conceded there and it appears that herschel walker will be leaving the political scene here. where does the republican party go from here? does it try to go and follow the likes of governor brian kemp who beat stacey abrams by 8 percentage points? it s not quite clear. donald trump is the only candidate running for 2024. means he will have a major stake in this party here. but at the same time it s the voters who will decide. republican voters and that will be left up to them. lindsey? these are great questions, vaughn. this is going to lead to soul-searching in the parties. the new york times says walker s loss will lead to soul-searching for a party who must decide how firmly to tether itself to a former president who has absorbed powerful political blows in three successive campaign cycles.
control. right? i just need to remind everyone here that trump has been giving antisemites and white supremacism a platform for years, and that whole time, the gop has been riding right along with him through charlottesville, where they were very fine people through the campaign cycles and courage to hit black attendees. republicans were welcoming those white supremacists into their party, and also into the ranks. that s why folks like taylor greene, gosar, are gonna be fully empowered to run a game on mccarthy in the next congress. they know the biggest has their back. and nobody s gonna stop them. no one s gonna stop them. and the statements were hearing from republicans are weak at best. structured just show you exactly what to do, what to say, and none of them have the call or courage to speak up. you you don t even have to look to a democrat to know what to say. i wanna put into perspective