tonight justin pierson on his historic expulsion and the anti democratic republican movement in tennessee an beyond and private jet, super yachts, and the every man facade of th supreme court justices there is something normal about it i come from regular stop clarence thomas responds to explosive reporting on the secret gifts that he has bee receiving from a republica maga donor when you, somebody is flyin you around the world and takin you around on their super fanc boots, you are indebted to them. all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes we have breaking news this evening. we just received a shocking if not unexpected audacious, to m mind lawless reeling from federal judge in texas appointed by donald trump. undoing the fda s 23 year ol approval of one of the two drugs commonly used in medication abortion. this pill has been safely used by millions of people across the country for decades, i a sure that people watching this program right
tonight, alex is off and she will be back and joining us next week we re gonna start the evenin with breaking news out of texa were trump appointed federal judge has issued a ruling th lava act on the lives of nearl every person in the country. why do we say every person because it s about every perso who can become pregnant, everyone who cares about someone knocking apartment, an everyone who cares access to regulated drugs. pretty much everyone has a stake in the case. it revolves around the first o two pills better use i medication abortion. mifepristone, first approved b the fda in the year 2000 it s been used overseas fo that gates before that but tonight, the approval is o pause. because of a case brought by a group of conservative christia lawyers, with a history of failed lawsuits talkin transgender student athletes months, ago one month ago, the lawyers on behalf of antiabortion organizations and doctors argue to the u.s district judge, matthew ka merrick, that the f
that turned into a fire stor last night, after the nearly all white republican super majority voted to expel the tw black lawmakers but not th white lawmaker, both president biden and former president obama spoke out after th dramatic speeches, by stat representatives, justin jones, and just in person today, vice president harris flew into nashville to respond to the ongoing protests agains gun violence and the expulsion of the black representatives that is where we had planned t start tonight. and we will have much more o tennessee coming up. but just after 5 pm texas time a trump-appointed federal judg ruled to suspend the fda s approval of the abortion pil mifepristone, siding wit anti-abortion groups in a case that could end up up and acces to medication abortion in al 50 states. that s right in all of 50 states, even in states where abortion is legal the ruling will not go int effect for seven days. and just in the last hour, the justice department filed notic that it wo
they respond to tonight s top story. they ll be with us in justn u a minute. st a now, we begin this monday o with a fox news alert. the department of energy, they are now finally admittinge the obvious truth.s covid-19 was apparently developed in that by chinese scientists at the wuhan institute of virology, likely through gain of function research. now, the deadly diseas the somehowlab an leaked out of the lab and aninfe infected the entire world .ct and by the way, china knew at the entire time, side note, a sloppy attempt to cover up.m and then thatht all ensued from communist chinese and of the communist chinese and of course, their corrupt propagandists in part that we fund for china. woul and that would be the h.o. and maybe even dr. and ye fauci himself. and yet no one has been helde wh accountable. they have yet, to this point, even wanted to admit the truth, which was obvious.th mow, a message fro president reagan is more relevant than ever. quote, the nine most t
constitutional right t abortion was eliminated in thi country nearly a year ago. a federal judge in texas las night issued a sweeping ruling to reverse the food and s 23 year old approval of a key abortion drug, the rulin orders the fda to hold thi medication from pharmacy shelves in every state regardless of whether or not abortion is legal in tha state. u.s. district judge matthew ha put a seven-day hold on hi willing to give the government the opportunity to repeal it the justice department did fil a notice of appeal last night. let me tell you what is at stake here the drug in question is one of a standard two drug regiment commonly prescribed by doctors for medication abortion across the country. medication abortions account for more than half of al abortions in the united states according to the good doctor institute. and this was approved by the fda in 2000 is one the mos heavily studied and scrutinize drugs on the market. studies show that it is safe than penicillin,