tonight breaking news and what is now the most consequential ruling since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade trump appointed federal judge has just suspended the fda approval for a widely used abortion drug. that means the drug called mifepristone could soon be banned nationwide, even in states where abortion remains legal. now, this is a hugely consequential ruling. the drug has been on the market for more than 20 years and used and more than half of all abortions in this country. we have reporters covering this story across the country for us, but first let s start with ariane de vogue, outfront live and washington, ari. and what else can you tell us so far about this judge s decision? absolutely right. this is the biggest ruling we ve had since last spring, when the supreme court reverse roe v. wade here, this federal judge has halted the approval of this popular medication abortion pill. now what s important orton . here is he s put this ruling on hold for a wee
who they were representing. it s about whose voices they were channeling. understand that. and is that not what a democracy allows. democracy says you don t silence the people. you do not stifle the people. you don t turn off their microphones when they are speaking. ryan young is outfront live in nashville for us. so ryan, what is the latest on the ground there tonight? bianna. you can really feel the anger from a lot of the citizens here throughout tennessee. we walk through some neighborhood today we talked to some people on the streets. we wanted to ask them what they thought about all the actions that happened at the statehouse. even some republicans, so does they thought this went a bit too far. they wanted some civility to return to the state house, and so far, they re not seeing that. it s sad and pathetic to think.
consular access to get gourevitch has not been granted since his arrest more than a week ago. matthew chance is outfront for us in moscow tonight, matthew. this is a grave charge that carries a potential 20 year sentence. so what happens next? well the bureaucratic wheels in russia, you know, make make another turn because this was a formal procedure. the authorities here have 10 days to charge a suspect with a crime formally or they have to let him go. and it s been exactly 10 days since evan gush covic was detained in the city in central russia of your katarina berg. on suspicion of espionage, and so they re exactly following the letter of the law here in that, in that formal sense, it also dashes any hopes, of course, that the russians would have had, you know a change of heart that they would have backed down, perhaps decided to set evan bush devic free you despite your amid all
second one actually only applies to the states that brought the case and all this means is that this is really going to move quickly on an appeal. you ve got two courts, saying two different things. biden administration is outraged. by the first ruling. all this says is this issue is going to go back to the supreme court. really on short order, but as things stand right now, the first ruling is on hold for appeal. this one only applies to a few states, which means a higher court is going to have to step in and resolve. this confusion for all of us. this is high stakes, high level of confusion coming on a friday evening. of course, we will be following this story throughout the evening and waiting to hear from the doj and the white house in response is well, thank you so much. thank you. reon. thank you to our guests. meantime outfront next president kamala harris tonight meeting with the
, four african americans, it is congressional delegation down to zero in 20 years. congressman clyburn. thank you so much for your insight. for your words. they are very powerful indeed. and we appreciate your view tonight on a very important night here indeed. thank you so much for joining us. thank you very much for having me. and outfront next more on our breaking news, the federal judge suspending the fda approval of a popular abortion drug ruling that could ban the drug nationwide. democratic congressman katie porter is next. plus fears of more violence in the middle east after one person was killed from a quote terror attack in tel aviv. we re live in israel with the latest. my relationship with my credit cards wasn n t good. i got into debt in college and noo matter how much i paid followed me everywhere. the high interest felt tracks. so i broke up with my credit card debt and