access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the
will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century american jur
richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.
the january 6th committee is not done, collecting new testimony for hearings to come in september. today we ll be seeing never before seen footage from key depositions including jared and ivanka. they are still seeking ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, he was e-mailing john eastman, author of one of the failed plots to overturn the election. they say they may subpoena her. the committee is engaged with her counsel. we certainly hope she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she is not. cheney is not deterred by the prospect of losing her seat in congress because of trump s organized opposition as punishment for her role spear heading the investigation. if i have to choose between maintaining a seat in the house of representatives or protecting the constitutional republic and ensuring the american people know the truth about donald trump, i m going to choose the constitution and the t
her majesty to travel from windsor castle outside london to the center of london st. paul s cathedral and get inside the cathedral. she would have to, even though there was discussions of could she go in through the side entrance, not do the what all the dignitaries are doing, she could have gone in through a side entrance, even that it was decided it was too much for the 96-year-old monarch. it was great for the country to see her yesterday. the world appreciated seeing her on the balcony. she has been frail. she has mobility issues and the decision then was made last night she wouldn t be attending the service of remembrance. not attending either, the duke of york, prince andrew, disgraced really in the royal family because of the accusations he denies of sexual abuse, he will not be there either, and that s because he tested positive yesterday for covid. so he s absent. the queen is absent. the service will be led then from the royal family side by prince charles. there wi