is saturday, april 22nd. i m aymara walker. victor blackwell and you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this morning with the battle over abortion. the widely used abortion bruggeman kristen will remain available to women in the u. s without restrictions , at least in those states where abortion remains. the decision protects access to the drug at least until the appeals process plays out, but the protection could ultimately be taken away again. court ruling in texas earlier this month suspended government approval of the 23 year old drug. it s the latest in a series of moves against abortion rights. cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue is with us now. so the decision stands in the hands in the body administration. they got a big win, also for abortion rights community a major victory, but the battle is not over. right the bind administration is relieved today, right because those lower courts put in these restrictions significant restrictions on this key abortion drug, the b
widely used for decades taken by millions of women? the decision sets up the most consequential abortion related disputes since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade a new appeals process must now play out a process that could take weeks or even months. cnn s larrionda vogue is following this major decision, ariane, the courts brief was left unsigned and the votes were not disclosed. why well, you make a really good point here because it really shows what the supreme court did. the biden administration went to the supreme court and asked for emergency relief. these lower courts had put restrictions on this abortion drug. the biden ministrations wanted the supreme court to lift those restrictions while the appeals process played out. so this supreme court in that order that you referred to agreed to do so it did not rule on the merits of whether the he a had the authority in the first place to approve the drug. it s simply said that right now that drug could remain widely a
i don t know how you feel about that. but i you know, i think that you know, decorum and courtesy and kindness always works, but everybody i know has an opinion about something. i just think we have to figure out a way to have a good conversation without tearing each other down, and i think that we can do that question. today was the first day of the show. what s got what s going on in the world. what s going on in sports? let s go on what would be the topic today? today i think the thing me and ernie actually touched on it on the podcast the other day. i don t want to be the person. they re like every time we want to have one of these mass shootings be like, oh, another mass shooting happened. let s get to the next story. like nah, man, we ve had three mass shootings in the last week. the one in alabama. the young black kid who got shot and knocking on the wrong door. the girl was in the driveway in the driveway who got went to the wrong house and got to do didn t even ask f
anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. this is cnn. the world s news network. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. abortion rights supporters are nervously anticipating what comes next after the supreme court moved to preserve access to a commonly used abortion drug . the ruling allows doctors to continue prescribing the stone and states that allow it, but there s almost no chance to protective ruling will be the final word. on regulation of the drug in the next challenge, the texas case that challenged medford per stones 23 year old fda approval, heads back to the fifth circuit court for an appeal on may 17th right now, we don t know why the court, which last year overturned the historic roe versus wade decision, moved to protect this drug justices offered no explanation with friday nights ruling. i spoke last hour with minnesota democratic senator tina smith about the ruling and what comes next. here s what she had to say. the supreme cou
voluntarily turned over 15 boxes to the national archives and records administration in january. sandra: the with question now, though, what prompted yesterday s raid on his home? fox news team covering now as we kick off a brand-new hour. phil keating has more on former president trump s reaction to all of this. peter doocy, the response from the white house. mike: griff jenkins is following a grand jury probe into the former president s handling of classified documents. sandra: david spunt is live at the justice department. this is not related to january 6th, that investigation? david: hi, sandra, not directly related to january 6th. this is related to the former president allegedly taking sensitive documents after he left the white house. it s important to point out, january 6th happened a couple weeks before president trump left office on january 20, 2021. what we do know, fox news is told by a source that inside mar-a-lago fbi agents looked in offices, safes and