appointed judge who will make that call. plus, trump s legal liability. simultaneous investigations are underway from january 6th to georgia. what poses the most peril for the former president? also, rudy giuliani s role in january 6th should come as no surprise to those of you who remember the new york police riots. we ll talk about rudy event than in rudy now. i ve ever jury guesses comedy paves the way for others to follow. this is american voices. erican voices. we begin this hour and texas. a judge will hand down a ruling that could affect the future of abortion access across the country. it could affect laws that protect reproductive freedom. it comes down to one man, a judge with a long history of antiabortion beliefs. judge matthew because merrick has, quote, the opportunity to impose the most far-reaching limit on abortion access since the supreme court overturned roe. he will soon rule on a lawsuit seeking to revoke u.s. government approval of mifepristone, a ke
country and what this means for crucial health care. that is not the only the president visiting cellmate today to punctuate the ongoing battle over voting rights. one of democratized joins us, plus new details in the exclusive nbc news reporting of migrant minors working in dangerous conditions. the department of homeland security is now expanding its investigation. and later, congress poised to investigate george santos for ethics violations, congresswoman leading the charge to hold him accountable. is here to talk about. it this is american voices. we begin this hour with the escalating fight over reproductive freedom, shaped by the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. the antiabortion movement now chomping at the bit to further restrict abortion access, even in cases where reproductive rights are protected by law. any day now, federal judges with a long history of antiabortion beliefs could rule on a lawsuit that aims to block access to abortion medicatio
Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u
her country shaped her fiction? anne enright, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. well, it s great to have you here. now, to an outsider, you do seem like a deeply rooted writer. that sounds so dull, doesn t it? yeah, no, ishould have gone places and done things, and i did a little, but, yeah, i returned to ireland. but would you acknowledge that those roots are hugely important to you? i pass the building where i was born when i go into town. so it is, it is quite close. yeah. it s fascinating because, just the other day, i interviewed a colombian novelist and he said to me, i only really was able to write about my country and the things that really mattered to me when i left it, when i had a little bit of space and distance and freedom to actually express what i really thought. but you ve always felt free enough from within. orfoolish enough one or the other to say whatever i wanted to say at any given time. yeah, um. ..so i think it was difficult in the deep pas
be reunited by the biden administration s reunification efforts. we have his latest on everything from the student debt to immigration, to economic initiatives, to threats to democracy. and we enjoyed talking with many celebrities about the influence they wield over culture and over politics, small p and capital p, and their efforts to engage voters in the democratic process. we really tried to be good on the promise of the show s name. to elevate the voices of lived experiences of americans who are most impacted by the lessons of those in power. parents whose trans kids are being bullied by politicians. abortion providers, who are not sure how much longer they are going to be able to provide their patients with much needed medical care. individuals have come to the united states for a safety and refuge, looking to waive themselves into the fabric of this nation, what makes america truly great. this is our last episode of american voices, but we re taking that ethos, centering