right for 50 years. so my question back to justice roberts would be, what is it that has changed that has allowed this court to stand on its head 50 years of an existing right, as lawrence tribe said, the first time that the supreme court of the united states taking away a right of more than half of the people of this country, what is that justification? frankly, they had none today. the only justification they had is, they didn t want women to have the right to access safe and legal abortion, so it was there right, and their mission to take it away. cecilia richards, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate. thanks, lawrence. thank you. former harvard law professor senator elizabeth warren has both analysis of what happened in the court today, and a proposed solution. she will join us next. she will join us next.
really for the status of women throughout the country. but important because it will reverse for the first time, the trend towards expanding rights. and fundamentally important, because it will see that we can put up to a majority vote in each state, the balance of competing rights. an important because it will been into question not only the legitimacy of the supreme court, but the legitimacy and justice of our entire system of law and government. the stakes could not be higher. akes could not be higher professor laurence tribe thank you very much for starting off our discussion tonight. we really appreciate it. thank you. joining us now is to seal richards. she s the co-chair of american which 24 century. she s a former president of planned parenthood. social, i just want to upper your might and just see what was your reaction to what you heard today in the court? i think it was difficult for anyone to listen to today s
yes, planned parenthood says the fight s still not over. here s what cecilia richards is saying about it, the ceo, she says it protects birth control, cancer screenings and other health care for millions of people, and she goes on to say this fight is not over. we are deeply concerned about the future of health care is access in this country with extremists like, again her words with extremists like mike pence and tom price at the helm, of course, tom price over at hhs. no question, bill, gop leaders on the hill will take a close look at how to undo this. bill: certainly will. thank you, kevin corke, from the north lawn. martha. martha: some new information on how a plane that fell out of the sky did so. what investigators are revealing about the crash that killed 66 people onboard with. bill: also back here at home democrats blaming a litany of things on the election loss, but our next guest says that list is way off base. karl rove makes his case on the
religious rights and whether that law now extends to for-profit corporations. camera-hungry ted cruz rushed over to the steps of the supreme court today to tell the world with absolute certainty how the court will rule on this case. i m going to make a prediction right now. i predict that the united states supreme court is going to strike down the contraception mandate because they re going to say the federal government does not have the authority to fort force people to violate their faith particularly when they re granting exemptions to every other powerful interest. joining me now cecilia richards. what is your sense after having listened to the arguments? well, first, of course, the most incredible thing toud today was to see the power of these
supreme court is going to strike down the contraception mandate because they re going to say the federal government does not have the authority to fort force people to violate their faith particularly when they re granting exemptions to every other powerful interest. joining me now cecilia richards. what is your sense after having listened to the arguments? well, first, of course, the most incredible thing toud today was to see the power of these three women on the supreme court. it was different than any kind of hearing i ve ever witnessed before. and as you said, justice sotomayor came out swinging from the very first comment. and they really dominated this conversation. the wonderful thing was having women on the court actually represent the interests of women. and that was, i think, what was