tens of millions americans i now uncertain after conflictin decisions by two separat federal judges late lost night first, a texas judge blocks th food and drug administration s approval of the abortion pill, mifepristone the ruling is on hold for just seven days and attorney general, merric garland, along with th manufacture of the abortio pill and the fda were quick to file former notices of appea to the conservative fift circuit. second, just a few minutes after the texas ruling, a judg in the state of washington issued a separate decision regarding the same drug. and that judge granted a victory to a group o democratic attorney generals who wanted to protect abortion access but that ruling would only apply to the 18 states tha suit in the washington decision meaning that right now, th fate of a pill that is use nearly all medication abortion in the united states i frighteningly uncertain. there s a lot to sort out here
campaigns. august 15th before an election to november is sort of thi sacred space it s why they don t brin charges against candidates because it s sort of the saf space. but this one, trump was gettin down and dirty that s when he wrote in hi national enquirer pros that s when he has cointelpr take out his cheesy home equit loan it s the crime confessed to on sean hannity it s also tawdry it may be exactly why merric garland and lisa monaco said you. but it s so brazenly and plainly criminal that it makes
and to be honest, merric garland could ve started thi case a new, you know, when h took over the justic department and january, 2021 but i think he s focused on th january 6th cases. but right or wrong, that was the practice you know, there was in a pus to sort of criminall investigate bill clinton whe the monica lewinsky thing wa brought up, when he wa impeached for that, using this same standard. i m not defending the standard we have had this practice in the country, and maybe it wrong. it s too deferential to sittin presidents, or forme presidents and you know, that does no exist anymore. and to be fair, no president you know, no modern presiden has been accused of this scope of wrongdoing by any stretch since at least richard nixon so, that s what makes trump so different. david, al sharpton, when yo say scope, 30 counts or more were told, is it not you
administrations. and particularly, under merric garland. he s been super strict on no sort of coordination and whether it s proper or not i think he would be very, very leery of it being seen, that there was somehow a plot by, you, know a democratically, yo know, democratic administration, justice department i washington reaching out to a democrat, you know, attorney sorry, prosecutor in georgia and a prosecutor in manhattan, trying to coordinate their actions together so, i haven t heard that and i think everyone, to sor of cataract trump and his, constant, i think claims o conspiracy against him, they r really going by the book so, they re not talking to eac other. i ve heard nothing about the justice department talking t georgia or new york about thes cases. david, very quickly, this i katie phang. you know, trump loves an audience he s bombastic in his speech not only in what he says, bu what he writes, but this is very unique situation here he s indicted.
course is the much large investigation into january 6th and what he has done has bee to work his way up the totem pole here of witnesses and now he sits with the vice presiden getting testimony about what was going on in very, very confidential situations within the white house walls. i think at that point, once he has all of that evidence, he has to sit down and merric garland has to sit down an they have got to make really really tough decisions her about whether either of thos cases are going to be brought, and there are reasons to bring either one of them, or not bring either one of them that is going to be a really tough call for both jack smith and merrick garland. all right, former congresswoman donna edwards, thank you all so much.