. it s 4:00 in the east. happy friday. it is just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that completely up ended women s health and american politics. of course we re talking about the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade and eliminating abortion access and abortion rights for millions of american women. looking back it is hard to understate the legacy of that dobbs decision. first there is, of course, the rulings near immediate impact on women and reproductive health care in america. the new york times reports this. in the year since roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country s patchwork of abortion access. at least 61 clinics, planned parenthood facilities, and doctors offices stopped offering abortions in the last year. most were in the 14 states that banned abortion outright, but the uncertainty surrounding laws in several other states also caused providesers there to shutdown. all of it h
our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater
there is, of course, the fall-out from what trump is accused of doing when he is facing 37 criminal counts for doing and the potentially grave national security implications of that. we ll get to that in a minute. but there is also a legal process that has been kicked off, which begins in earnest tomorrow when the e-president surrendered for his court appearance. the political world s eyes will return to miami when president trump is expected to surrender. after leaving office, he obstructed efforts to retrieve them and that he made false statement. the event will be the former president s second courtroom appearance as a criminal defendant after his arraignment in april in a new york courthouse on state larges that he falsified business records in connection with a hush money statement to a porn star just before the 2016 election. one of the big outstanding questions, though, ahead of tomorrow s appearance, who will be there representing donald trump? nbc news reports that t
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. with a gap between the reality of our post-january 6th politics and the republican party s alternate reality with its paranoid delusions about the deep state and the glorification of the capitol insurrection has never been wider. today s hearing on capitol hill by the so-called weaponization committee led by ohio republican jim jordan, involved, according to the republicans on that committee, fbi whistleblowers talking about supposed abuses at the bureau. that delusion was undercut by the reality before the hearing began. the washington post reported two fbi agents set to appear before a house subcommittee thursday had their security clearances revoked this morning over security concerns. that is according to a letter sent by the fbi to the house judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, mr. all
investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss