governor signed a new law banning abortions after a fetal heart rate is detected. it can be as early as six weeks. our correspondent jonathan serrie has the latest details. good evening, jonathan. good evening, ed. supporting a bill to restrict abortion is certainly going against the grain of national democrats but luigi louisiana governor john bel edwards explained in a written statemenn 2015, i ran for governor as a pro-life candidate. after serving as a pro-life legislator for eight years. as governor, i ve been true to my word and by police on this issue. the louisiana state house passed the bill by a vote of 79-23. banning doctors from performing abortions once a heartbeat can be detected. as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. it makes no exceptions for cases involving rape or incest. i i don t know how we said we can think we can make judgment on someone who has been
impeaching donald trump. attorney general william barr is pushing back tonight on robert mueller after he appeared to contradict some of william barr s summary of the russia investigation. could have reached a conclusion, to indicted president when he is in office but he could have reached a decision whether there was criminal activity. but he had his reasons for not doing it which he explained. i m not going to argue about those reasons but when he did make a decision, the deputy attorney general rodriguez and sign and i felt it was necessary for us as the heads of the department to reach that decision. very limited cia analyst, welcome to both of you. buck, we have the latest count is 51 house democrats breaking tonight are now saying to nancy
louisiana democratic governor signed a new law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected which can be as early as six weeks. reporter: supporting a bill to restrict abortion goes against the grain of national democrats but louisiana governor john bell edwards explained in a statement in 2015 iran for governor as a pro-life candidate. after serving as the pro-life legislature for eight years. as governor i have been true to my word and my beliefs on this issue. louisiana state house passed the bill 79-23 banning doctors from performing abortions once a heartbeat can be detected. as early as 6 weeks into a pregnancy. it makes no exception for cases involving rape or incest. i don t know how we can sit here and think that we could make judgment on someone who has
john bell edwards plans to sign it jonathan serrie has more. governor edwards explained in a written statement in 2015, i ran for governor as a pro life candidate after serving as a pro lay-off legislator. as governor, i ve been true to my word and my beliefs on this issue. the louisiana state house passed the bill by 79-23 banning doctoring from performing an abortion once a heartbeat can be detected. it makes no exceptions for cases involving rape or insist. i don t know how we can sit here and think that we could make judgment on someone who has been violently raped or incest. we celebrate freedom in america. i believe that my choice ends
finances. [ bleep ] . congressman grimm says he will resign on january 5. to another house republican in hot water this morning, majority whip steve scalise denying ties to a white supremacist organization but admitting he likely spoke to that group in 2002. scalise reportedly addressed a group founded by former kkk leader david duke when he served in the louisiana statehouse. the congressman maintains he didn t know the group held racist views and says he detests all hate groups. cnn s athena jones is following that story from washington.