your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
so-called, trigger laws. and the next 30 days or so sick states would similar laws on the books are likely to join them. and within the coming weeks and months, six more states are expected to issue new bans on all or most abortions. meanwhile, abortion will remain legal and protected in 20 other states and washington d.c.. that means abortion access is pretty much decided in 40 states. that leaves us with ten states. shown in the gray on this map. they represent tens of millions of americans literally living in a gray area. in those states access to a safe and legal abortion will likely hang in the balance based on a few external factors like which political party gains control in the midterm elections. that is the case in michigan. which is not a law that criminalized abortion back in 1931. that law was superseded by roe in 1973. now michigan s governor, gretchen whitmer, has promised to quote fight like hell to prevent it from going back into place. here she is speaking ex
revelations of the latest january six hearing. i am michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. almost me left this room court overturn roe v. wade this country was effectively split into three separate americas. with three very different futures. hair is the landscape as we come on the air. since biden s decision at least eight states have enacted so-called, trigger laws. and the next 30 days or so sick states would similar laws on the books are likely to join them. and within the coming weeks and months, six more states are expected to issue new bans on all or most abortions. meanwhile, abortion will remain legal and protected in 20 other states and washington d. c.. that means abortion access is pretty much decided in 40 states. that leaves us with ten states. shown in the gray on this map. they represent tens of millions of americans literally living in a gray area. in those states access to a safe and legal abortion will likely hang in the balance based on
january 6th, 2001, which played out this way after the disputed results in florida. it is the objection in writing and signed by member of the house and a senator? the objection is in writing and i don t care that it is not it is not signed by a member of the senate. the chair will advise that the rules do care. now we all remember what happened next. george w. bush s election was certified by al gore, the vice president at the time and bush was the president. vice president al gore did not stop that. no one suggested he had constitutional authority to do so since, in fact, that was never a thing despite a history of multiple disputed american presidential elections including the one which also hinged on disputed florida results back in 1876 which led to the creation of the elect oral count act. during today s hearing gregory jacob who was lead council to vice president pence was asked if he confronted eastman s interpretation and this is what he said. back in 200
party you probably not want to hear this forecast from election experts political analysts he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november midterm election. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat that president obama was called special lacking. republicans are already planning for that victory, full control of congress. what are they going to do? i ll tell you this. it s not gonna be health care policy or tackling prices. conservative think tankers on eastern shore of maryland trying to find ways to investigations into the biden administration. that s right. they re already looking for excuses to launch congressional probes according to axios, that retreat was painful at a heritage foundation by the conservative partnership institute and by the american accountability foundation, which apparently is run by the trump administration. alumni. yes, the accountability foundation. any such thing as accountability w