won t stop and now they re coming after all other forms medication provided abortions. these are rights we cherish have always taken for granted. and this is an insult to all women, and it has to stop. now supporters of abortion rights are furious over the ruling to block the drug. democratic senator john fetterman slammed it as yet another attempt by republicans to impose a nationwide abortion ban. cnn s elena treen has more now from washington. democrats immediately started railing against the court s decision once it was announced, and some like senator ron wyden and congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez went so far as to say that president biden should ignore the routing the ruling altogether. republican lawmakers , meanwhile, have been far less outspoken, and some of the leaders have virtually been silent on the issue. now that s something that senate majority leader chuck schumer pointed out on a press call saturday morning. here s what he had to say. i think the republicans kno
minority whip excuse me, john thune both silent on the issue after this, but a lot of this support also extends beyond congress. we re seeing his rivals like governor. desantis, who has not been willing to go this far yet also come out and support donald trump he tweeted as well on thursday night. he wrote the weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the role of law on its head. it is un american. he later wrote. florida will not assist in an extradition requests, given the questionable circumstances that issue with the source backed manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda, so clearly a lot of support for the former president. and i will add victor tomorrow that this is what donald trump s team wants. they think that this could potentially be beneficial to him in the long and of course, we don t know what the long term effect of this indictment will be, but they re currently enjoying a lot of the support from people on capitol hill and republicans bey
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in the coming days. cnn s elena treen joining us live with more on all this, elena. so um, who are among the republicans that we are hearing from? and what are they saying? puerto rica immediately after news of the indictment broke on thursday, we saw republicans in congress as well as nearly all of donald trump s potential 2024 arrivals rally around him and come to his defense. we saw florida governor ron desantis seen as his top 2024 arrival right on twitter that he thought this was politically motivated and said that florida would not participate in an extradition request of donald trump of that were to come. we also heard from vice president mike pence. he told cnn on thursday that the indictment was an outrage and that he thinks it s politically motivated. and, of course, vice president mike pence on shaky ground with donald trump ever since january 6th but having very strong words and defense of him and his former president ah to cnn on thursday. okay sorry
thought that it would benefit him. politically in the long run. now what he s facing, though, is not an impeachment. it s a criminal indictment, and he s virtually no control over how this legal process will play out. elena treen, cnn washington . for more legal analysis. i m joined now by bernarda via nova , a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor in new york. it s great to have you on the program. thanks so much for joining us. thank you for having me bianca. so let s begin with a simple question. what is next? now in this legal process? well the next step in this legal process for donald trump is that he s going to have to surrender, meaning that he will have to come from whether it s full order or wherever he situation situated to new york, and when he comes to new york he is going to be presented in front of a judge, but before he s even presented in front of a judge, he has to go to the rest process, which means that he has to be fingerprinted and photographed known as