it for weeks, it suspended fda approval of mifepristone, th drug that, as you know, ha been safely used for more than 20 years, has become the mos common method for terminatin pregnancies in this country. within an hour, another federa judge in washington state, contradicted that ruling ordering the fda to keep the drug available at 17 states in d.c. president biden last night condemning the texas route calling it, quote, the next bi step before the national ban o abortion by republican elected officials have vowed to make a lot america. vice president kamala harris committed to fighting back there is no question, president and i are gonna stan with the women of america, and do everything we can to ensure that women have the ability to make decisions about their health care, their reproductiv health care, in a manner tha is what they need, and the decide that, not their government the drug will continue to b available for now, since the texas judge gave the fda seven days
joining me now is nbc legal analyst lisa reuben, along with the president of naral pro choice america we are waiting for them right now, but i want to let you know we re following both of these two stories so we will have the speech that we know vice president kamala harris gave at this university in tennessee, that was happening while we were waiting to come on the air, and this ruling came down just a moment ago let me tell you a little bit about this judge in his writings, matthew kacsmaryk out of texas has described being transgender as a mental disorder. he s called homosexuality disordered he has had sexual revolutionaries have made the unborn child and marriage secondary tothe desires of liberated adults he sided with a christian father that anyone under the age of 18 in the state of texas needs approval by their parent before getting birth control. he is a university of texas law school graduate who has focused his attention on the legal foundations for aborgtion righ
there were four lives not fatalities, lives, there wer four lives that is one of two new mass shootings overnight happenin right as the nra is ramping up an annual convention featuring donald trump and others vowing to fight any kind of gun reform we re also looking ahead to key wednesday midnight deadlin for a supreme court stay allowing access to a key abortion drug after a texa judge s decision which would ban it everywhere. we do not need judges politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have look, what we have in texas is a judge who is not guided by science. but is part of a extreme republican concerted effort to ban abortion nationwide. and we do not need judges, politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have all that and a deadly error as police and you must go shoo and kill a man after going t the wrong house. more on that story ahead a well of first happened again in alabama,. four peop
senator amy klobuchar joins me in studio to weigh in on that, plus new ethics concerns about justice clarence thomas. and other hot button issue facing the senate, as they return to work this week and tennessee representative justin j. pearson is back on the job in the state house i will ask him about being bac at work with the sam republicans who expelled him and where his fight for gu safety reform stands now i have something to say. congress is back in sessio tomorrow after a two-week break, and they have their work cut out for them judicial nominations in th senate, controversy in a supreme court. but first, we are discussing a case that could have drastic effects on peoples lives one of a two pill treatmen used to terminate a pregnanc in its first two weeks it has been in circulation for more than two decades. it is a safety record of 99% it is the nation s most common method of abortion a single judge in texas has pu that axis in jeopardy. judge matthew casimir ha suspe
. vice president kamala harris is in nashville, tennessee, throwing her support behind to tennessee democrats ousted from the statehouse for protesting gun violence, will have details on her meeting and the vice president s message. also tonight. israel reeling from an apparent terror attack, killing at least one person and wounding six, tele viv, there are new fears right now that the conflict could escalate and spread. cnn is on the ground in the middle east as violence in the region heats up, and justice clarence thomas firing back, claiming his luxurious vacations with a conservative mega donor. personal hospitality. but even some republican judges aren t buying his explanation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in tennessee, where vice president kamala harris is meeting with two democratic lawmakers who were expelled from