Speaks perfect english. Good morning, im Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. This morning, executive power. The president asserts he is, quote, totally out to be involved in the mueller investigation. Even saying he could run it if he wanted to. But despite months of claims that hed sit down with the Special Counsel, hes now worried it could be a perjure trap. They simply dont have any evidence of collusion and they have no evidence of obstruction other than their version of the truth. Going fishing. Microsoft seizes control of websites created by Russian Hackers intended to look like conservative think tanks and the u. S. Senate with the intent of Stealing Passwords and yet deny chuls of users. And courting support, documents on the Supreme Court nominee are released as judge Kavanaugh Heads to the hill. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. He said he believes he has the authority, for example, to fire rod rozrozen rosenstein. He cant technically
in a decade that followed, those laws proliferated. they became more extreme and more burdensome. those 20-week abortion bans evolved into 15-week abortion bans like the 2018 mississippi law that is now at the center of the supreme court case that we have been talking about, and the eventual near total abortion bans that have vigilante provisions in them. there was one that went to effect in texas last year. the barrage of anti abortion laws was by design. the laws were designed and written to provoke legal challenges with the intent of getting the case to the supreme court, which republicans hoped would be composed of majority conservative judges. that day has come. it came at the end of 2020 when the third supreme court nominee, barrack, was confirmed, shifting the balance of power to a 63 ultra conservative majority. that is where we are today. at the precipice of a dangerous
restrict access to abortion it s fetal heartbeat. states like texas and georgia want the public to believe that most abortions should be banned after just six weeks of gestation, because that s when a heartbeat is detected. wrong again. medical and reproductive experts say an embryo does not even have a developed heart at that stage, let alone a heartbeat. if that s the case, what is that sound that s picked up by the ultrasound? well, doctor niche of irma, physician who provides abortion services and the fellow of the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists, explains to the texas tribune quote, when i used the stethoscope to listen to a patient s heart, the sound that i hear, that s typical you here is the heartbeat that s created by the opening and the closing of the cardiac valves. in six weeks of gestation, those valves don t exist. those valves don t exists. the flickering we see on the ultrasound, super early into
as we ve been showing you on those graphics we ve been putting up, once the landmark abortion rights case overturned, but we re about to find out how many republican senators would vote to save it. and going to speak with senator tammy baldwin, a lead co-sponsor to the bill in a few moments. at the top of the hour, i ll talk to rip ayanna pressley, about the tail that exposes the bad faith that characterizes abortion policy making. multi day trip in europe, we just got this new video of the first lady at a romanian public school, which is hosting ukrainian refugee students. first lady biden help the children with arts and crafts projects. she is set to meet with more ukrainian mothers and children tomorrow. up next, evacuations from the azovstal steel plant in the ruins city of mariupol are expected to continue in just about two hours. a member of mariupol s state council joins me live after a break. f mariupol s state council joins me live after break.
situation in which we find ourselves. the end of roe v. wade and the handbook of the post bro america. she s the director of the west alabama women center and the author of these two important books. joining now is the president of reproductive rights. an organization dedicated to defending reproductive rights. the center of reproductive rights also represents the jackson women health organization which is the lone abortion clinic in mississippi. it is the one that is at the center of the current case on abortion. nancy, thank you for being with us. you want to carry on this conversation about what it looks like after this expected to station were to come, assuming that the draft is representative of what they will do, as you expect to be the case. we are going to see a vote on the senate about abortion rights. they are slim to no chance of that bill passing.