closing up shop here for the night. but as for the first couple of hours, we saw that initial protest from those who are opposed to abortion rights, who were elated, and celebrating, and happy. and after a few hours, they left. the streets were filled with hundreds and thousands of people who were the ones that were hoping that maybe we would see a compromise. they were maybe hoping that it away, we re expecting to see this decision come down, it s not what they got today. we saw tears of joy and despair. we had very emotional heavy conversations. and we will hear some of those conversations, stephanie. a lot of things have been going through my mind, anger, deep sadness, and a desire to turn this around the. this is going through my mind. it s a rollercoaster emotion! it s completely utter joy that roe is overturned. women are going to die between now and when we get legislation passed, which is untenable. we heard a lot of concern around that last statement you hear
so here we start this hour by wishing all of you a very good today here from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. again, we are going to keep a close eye on. thanks buckingham palace. but, before beginning with a brand-new insight into what issues matter most to voters. of, course just months ahead of the november midterms. and you from abc news and if ipsos shows the economic concerns are growing at only due to 61% of americans disapprove of how biden has handled the economy, but because most american faith, the, economy and gas prices are the top issues affecting how people will vote in the coming election. up next, making a case for our publicans should vote. the bottom line is there are two very clear in very different approaches here. there is our approach, which is to find solutions to invest in our supply chains, like we are doing with the infrastructure money in my department and in others, to do everything we can to lower costs
leaving three people, including the shooter dead. and an update on a texas inmate who escaped last month and now in police custody, but not before they say they ve committed more murders. it could be by people, some of them children. we are check tracking full stories for you tonight. a partially defunded police department there there and anonymous that you investigate both cases of sexual assault. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. we begin with the president weighing in on the done debate in a primetime address. kevin couric is tracking the latest for us. declaring and not, enough here president biden urged gres mall lawmakers to ban assault weapons and implement other so called sensible gun control measures to address the string of mass shootings that has struck the country. a plea that may not produce everything he s looking for but might, just might at least this time produce something. for god sake, how much carnage are we willing to accept . and a primetime ad
whitmer, in michigan, and basically states that democratic rule has basically come to the entire state where we have not seen it for a while, and it does seem on the state level and sort of what i called the great like battleground states, that all of a sudden, democratic priorities are getting past, which is a difference from what i fell over the last decade, where it was republicans basically passing laws on the state level, while federal government was standing still. it seems like democrats are finally playing, and in some cases, winning at the republican game. absolutely, and that s what i think it s significant important patron that we re seeing in this area at the country. josh shapiro, democratic governor, newly elected in pennsylvania as well, this is a great moment. in these dialogues, there is still an intensely republican state senate that these laws would have to clear if they have a hope of getting to the governors desk and actually becoming law. in other states where d
this just happened moments ago, so what now? within this past hour the north carolina state house passed this 12-week abortion ban. now, i want to be very clear, the billets of is about 26 hours old, currently, right now. it is one step away from going to the governors desk. they introduced this bill late last night, it went to a committee hearing in the morning. and was already in the house with a vote, tonight. the republican party in north carolina has felt quite empowered with this new super majority that they have. this is something that if you had asked people, a year ago, with a be able to do this? they would say no, they re not gonna do this, it s not the climate. it is happening, and it is happening at a rapid pace. because a democrat switch parties to give them a supermajority. this particular abortion bill, we talk about a 12-week band with the mid acceptance. so 20 weeks, exceptions for rape and incest victims. 24 weeks for what they call life limiting fetal anomalies.