potential presidential campaign just ahead plus what we re learning about donald trump s deposition yesterday in new york after spending eight hours at the attorney general s office. and we ll have the latest on the arrest of the young air national guardsman suspected of leaking classified documents all right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 14th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire we begin in florida where ahead of a likely presidential run governor ron desantis signed a six-week abortion ban into law yesterday, a move that underscores just how controversial the move is. the typically boisterous desantis announced the decision with little fanfare last night, putting out this tweet just after 11:00, hours after the ban was approved by the gop controlled state legislature just two out of the 28 republicans in the florida senate voted against the bill, which makes exceptions for pregnancies involving rape or incest up until 15 weeks thosexes
place restrictions that would prevent it from being sent to patients by mail the new york times reports the supreme court justices, quote, will most likely rule on the biden administration s emergency application in a matter of days. they may restore full access to the pill, endorse the restrictions outlined in the appeals court, or sus spend access entirely as a federal judge in texas did the biden administration would need to win the votes of at least five of the nine justices on the supreme court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority. as you may remember in a 5-4 ruling last summer the high court overturned the landmark roe v. wade decision, which guarantees a constitutional right to abortion. all right, and joining us now to unpack this all is health care reporter on capitol hill for politico, the one and only alice olstein. alice, thank you for joining us. really appreciate it what kind of potential timeline are you hearing for this doj
people are looking at his allegiance to barbara lee. we may see more of that conversation in the days to come all right congressional reporter for the hill, mychael schnell, thank you for unpacking that appreciate it. up next, a look inside the gop s 100 day weaponization war. on morning joe, the latest in the legal battle over abortion medication as a newly signed ban on the procedure puts the national focus on florida. plus, the head of the center for reproductive rights will join the conversation. also ahead, we ll hear from a member of the house intel committee, congresswoman abigail spanberger, on the arrest of an air national guardsman in connection with the leak of highly classified pentagon documents. morning joe is just moments away i think i m ready for this. heck ya! with e trade you re ready for anything. marriage. kids. college. kids moving back in after college.
4,000 in the year 2020 the white house is reacting to florida s new abortion ban calling it, quote, extreme and dangerous. the statement reads in part this, quote, the ban flies in the face of fundamental freedoms and is out of step with the views of the vast majority of the people offlorida and the united states. we will continue to fight to protect access to abortion and defend reproductive rights meanwhile, the fast moving legal battle over the most widely used abortion pill in the u.s., that could soon be heading for a final showdown at the u.s. supreme court. attorney general merrick garland said yesterday that the justice department, quote, strongly disagreewise the fifth circuit court of appeals decision to allow restrictions on the drug mifepristone, and it ll seek an immediate review by the supreme court. that s after the fifth circuit declined to suspend fda approval of the drug, but it did keep in
introduced tim scott refused to say if he did. eventually said he did support a 20-week ban. what reaction are you hearing to tim scott s early performance? well, people are shocked, given abortion was a key issue on the 2022 midterm elections. it s coming and will continue to be a litmus test for gop hopefuls in terms of where they stand on the matter that many swing voters are paying close attention to, in terms of whether or not they want to vote red or blue. we have nikki haley, also from south carolina, who said she, of course, is pro life, but she does not judge those who view the issue differently. she, so far, seems to be the only person who has entered into the presidential race, who isn t going headstrong into a strict abortion ban. yeah. all the more surprising for scott because he has centered his appeal to evangelical