that s how it starts. that s the very beginning. this was written by jeffrey berman who ran sdny in southern district of new york for half of trump s time in office. he was fired from that job at sdny and fired loudly in a way that made a difference. we ll have more on that in a second. that s important. but now since he is the former u.s. attorney, he has written this book. to put it in the public record how trump and his administration tried to force federal prosecutors to go after trump s political enemies to go after democrats, to help trump s allies. regardless of the law. regardless of the crimes committed or lack thereof. geoff berman was told to bring the prosecution before the midterm elections. told to do so because some republicans had been prosecuted and so now it was time to prosecute a democrat. he was told to even things out. berman refused to do it. he didn t bring that prosecution. so, yea rule of law for a second. what happened after geoff berman refused
thinks abortion should be in any case, no matter rape or incest, then you have governor whitmer, who s been traveling around the state, we had images of her holding a roundtable saying this is a human right, abortion rights sh and she sees it as a civil right. will s a lawsuit to stop abortion to go into effect in that state. the feeling is that kansas, a red state, if they can vote to keep abortion rightings in their constitution, a battleground state like michigan, the people who are of course the others, they feel like this issue will be a one that will g get a big turnout and michigananders will vote the rights into the constitution. yamiche alcindor, thank you so much for your reporting. greatly appreciate it. willie, it is fascinating to see how this issue will shape the 2022 election. we really don t know how it s going to end up moving voters, but you look at that kansas race, all the polls beforehand showed it too close to call, but a lot of them had pro-life force
also this hour, we will bring you the latest from the justice department issuing a flurry of subpoenas to trump insiders in connection to the january 6 probe. a former top u.s. attorney levels new accusations against bill barr for allegedly targeting prominent democrats for political prosecutions. we will have a report from new hampshire where the midterm s last primary today is taking place featuring a republican battle between a trump candidate and a more mainstream republican to challenge the democratic senator in a contest that could decide control of the senate. we begin overseas with nbc s kelly cobiella and keir simmons in london and andrew roberts and jillian tet. the casket departing earlier today than expected. tell us about the reception as the coffin left after an outpouring of people scottish people in chilly weather lining up to pay their last respects. there were tens of thousands waiting in that long line overnight. some waiting up to five hours or more,
there s new reporting about the story that broke late yesterday, 40 subpoenas going all the way up to line to top people in trump s orbit. it s all about coup and insurrection. we have more on that. also something i told you about yesterday, bill gates is on the beat tonight in depth. climate change, inflation, public health, a.i., the metaverse. what he says we the west owe africa, not a conversation we have every night on the news. as well as a discussion about how mr. gates got somewhat involves in talking to joe manchin about what he says are good ideas by joe biden. so we re going to get into all of that. but we begin with republicans and the push to roll back women s rights at a time when democrats say it s wrong on policy and human rights and that they have a political answer that they think could help win the midterms. here s lindsey graham introducing a bill today. this is news right now, not a drill, that he says would ban abortion nationwide. i think we should
other drugs that can raise up to $70,000 a year based on need. a maximum yearly cost of $2,000. if you re on medicare and you have diabetes, your cost of your insulin will be $35. we wanted to cut the cost for everyone, including the hundreds of thousands of children with type i diabetes. i bet a lot of you out there have diabetes or your children do. republicans blocked limiting that cost to $35 for children. it only costs $10 for the prescription to be made and packaged, $10! drug companies charge families about 30 times more than that for every vial of insulin. i m deadly earnest about this. imagine being a mom or a dad, looking at your child, you know the need of insulin to live and not having the money to pay for it. not a joke. think about what you d think about at the time! think about how you d feel if you didn t have the insurance and didn t have the money. it s wrong! it s not who we are! and we re going to fix that too! it s just two minutes after 4:00. we are li