radical and said it s a slap in face to women eviscerating their right. what is happening at this hour? the courts ruling today means there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion in this country. that historic decision up ends 50 years of abortion rights. it immediately transformed the landscape of women s reproductive health and their choices in america. the court s ruling is very similar to that draft which was written and leaked last month. at issue is the mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy . reporter: it s identical to what the justice wrote in the draft we saw in may. this one not much different. what he said is roe v wade was wrong from the start. the decision has had damaging consequences and far from bringing a national settlement. it s inflamed debate and deepened division. what this opinion does, this ruling from a 5-4 supreme court eliminates the constitutional right to an abortion and now leaves the issue to indivi
that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t
fantastic group here to help us understand all that s going on in the political news. kelly o donnell in the white house, the co-founders of punchbowl news and the editor of the nevada independence. kelly, what are the president and vice president going to say about this bill that hasn t always been said? a lot of it will be a focus on the real underpinning of this. the biden administration, president in particular, wants to sell to the public that government can work for them. that they can accomplish golds that were campaigned on, promises that were made. in the specifics today president biden will talk about the limitation phase. it s not the sexiest part of this kind of a law but it is critically important and also one of the areas where there s all kind of land mines and things that could go wrong. president biden knows this firsthand because he had been in charge back in the obama administration of implementing the recovery plan at that time so he knows there are a lo
Existing fan on gas and oil leasing and republicans and democratic senator john manchin voted in favor of the bill while the rest of the committees democrats voted against it. Alaskas senator Lisa Murkowski chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. Before we begin this mornings marked up i would like to send a special welcome to some of the folks that are here this morning, there come a long way. Several alaskans have flown down from the north slope to be with us. Recognizing that this is their home. I think it is important that they are here with us today so we welcome them. I would also like to add just a farewell at the same time that we acknowledge a welcome. I do not see angela but she is over there. Angela who has been staff director i understand is moving back to the west coast. And this is perhaps your last day on the committee or last week on committee and i just, i want to acknowledge the work that you have done.
Scavenges started about economic growth. Congressional republicans in sync with the president . Washington editor will interview mitch mcconnell. Please welcome them. [applause] thank you for making it here. Not much. Weve had conversations today about tax cuts, tax bills and tax reform. A lot of people who think it will happen or hope it happens, guy who has to make it happen. Will it happen . Can you guarantee it will happen by the end of this year . Yes, it will happen. Just a contrast beatitude the republican conference in the senate with regard to healthcare. Interesting contrast. Every meeting i had on healthcare was like a trip to get a root canal. Nobody wanted to be there. A solid a challenging undertaking that was. I bring that up because on this issue theres genuine enthusia enthusiasm. Everyone wants to get to yes we believe its important to the country and important was politically as well. Im confident well get now come by using the reconciliation process it contrasts my