happy birthday, everybody. thank you.ha so disney has announced the next star wars movie will be directed by a woman. adm oh, you heard that right. disney admitits they define def a womainn, but the new director is not just any woman. no, she s sharmeen obaid-chinoy annoy, a pakistani canadian feminist activist. ofs you know exactly the kind of person that star wars lectchise needs. the kind whose idea of fun is lecturing you about oppression, welcoming dandruff out of her armpitsf . not heard somebody like that.t h that fancy. i save that one. ant the star secree star wars audience is mostly male. and by mostly i mean. so here s sharmeen in 2015 talking to jon stewart about how she interact s with that horrible gender with the y chromosome. e me i like to maken men uncomfortable. i enjoy making men uncomfortable. see, that explains why jon stewart looked so comfortable. well, no doubt she s made plenty of men uncomfortablene, y especially the ones that own disney
. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. welcome to the best day of the week. your favorite. nobody it is likes saturday. even if you have to work, saturday is pretty cool. good to have you along. here is what we re watching this morning. i have to admit it is nice to be able to breathe one more time, but we can t let our guard down because we still know it is coming. city leaders and workers along the u.s. mexican border say they are bracing for an influx of migrants after title 42 expired this week. the concerns from officials and the legal challenges the white house is now facing after letting the policy expire. guilty on all counts, an iowa jury convicted daybell in the murder of her children. and what her family had to say after the verdict. we all just want to new explosions reported in eastern ukraine. we ll take you there to the frontlines as ukrainian troops work to
midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
constitutional right t abortion was eliminated in thi country nearly a year ago. a federal judge in texas las night issued a sweeping ruling to reverse the food and s 23 year old approval of a key abortion drug, the rulin orders the fda to hold thi medication from pharmacy shelves in every state regardless of whether or not abortion is legal in tha state. u.s. district judge matthew ha put a seven-day hold on hi willing to give the government the opportunity to repeal it the justice department did fil a notice of appeal last night. let me tell you what is at stake here the drug in question is one of a standard two drug regiment commonly prescribed by doctors for medication abortion across the country. medication abortions account for more than half of al abortions in the united states according to the good doctor institute. and this was approved by the fda in 2000 is one the mos heavily studied and scrutinize drugs on the market. studies show that it is safe than penicillin,
it is report card time the maga-controlled house just marked its first 100 days in power. democratic congressman gre casar is here to help us great their work plus, double trouble special counsel jack smith s investigations into trump ar both ramping up, and his forme top aides are finall testifying before granaries. then, a worst of the wee first. ted cruz makes his debut appearance facing off agains lindsey graham who s gonna take the top spot? i am ayman mohyeldin let s get started. bear with me here for a moment, professor ayma mohyeldin has some grading t do this week, kevin mccarthy an the maga-controlled hous marked 100 days in power, 10 days of score settling for right virtue signaling, an circus like hearings at a pace that would put the wrangling brothers to shame. it has been such a hectic 10 days that it is easy to forget that all the individua episodes of bedlam the gop unleashed in the holes o congress just a few short months ago, house republicans requi