rachel s excellent team of journalists, however, is producing this hour all week every week. and as always, we are glad to have you with us. it s always a powerful image when a group of people gather together to champion something they believe in. to stand up for their rights. but when people do it on the steps of the most powerful court in the land, life gives you goose bumps. i m thinking of when there were celebrations in front of the supreme court in 2015, after the court of from the right for same-sex couples to get married. it happened in 2012, when people gathered in that same spot to champion the court s decision not to take health care away from millions of people in this country. and it doesn t take a big crowd to pack unemotionally bunch. this was 1954. a mom and her little girl sitting on the steps off to the court ruled that it was unconstitutional desegregate schools. this week again, there were demonstrations in front of the high court, although this time, and
same-sex couples to get married. it happened in 2012, when people gathered in that same spot to champion the court s decision not to take health care away from millions of people in this country. and it doesn t take a big crowd to package an emotional punch. this was 1954. a mom and a little girl sitting on the steps of the supreme court, who said it was unconstitutional to desegregate schools. this week again, there were demonstrations in front of the high court, although this time not to celebrate the protection of a right, but to protest that one important right is about to be taken away. in light of the draft opinion that leaked from the court this week, signaling that the court is poised to take away the enshrined right to obtain an abortion, protest outside the court have taken place every day. moms brought their daughters, even babies. these are affecting images. they may be the last images we get over this particular issue, from outside the court. now, this fence was
revisited since it has been leaked to the public. and that may have something to do the motive of the leak. that is the leading theory which why it might have been conservatived. we don t know. but this fear that kavanaugh was polling one of the other conservatives decided to leave roe in tact and then we may have already had a revision. that is the main theory, right. is that this early draft that was intended to lock in all of the conservatives behind the sweeping reversal of roe. all right, new york magazine jonathan chait, thank you. there is so many different propgs to this story. right now democrats are trying to pass legislation to codify abortion rights. it is not going to pass because republicans won t support it. so, wonder what the point of that is. we ll talk about that. we kick off the fourth hour of morning joe now. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. 6:00 a.m. for the early risers out west. and coming up on this hour, in just about 30 minutes, the markets will ope
reporter: now, just a couple of states have rent protections in place, rent controls in place, the majority do not including right here in the state of florida, but, brianna, with high inflation and increased demand analysts we spoke to say unfortunately we can only expect rents to rise even more. brianna? yeah, this is the squeeze that we are seeing and so many people are suffering. vanessa, thank you for that great report. we do appreciate it. new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, april 28th, i m john berman with brianna keilar and we do have major breaking news this morning for millions of parents with young children and babies. moments ago moderna announced it is seeking emergency use authorization for its covid vaccine for children six months through 5 years old. this has been the missing link, these people kids have not been covered, not bee
he was coughing up blood and appeared to have tuberculosis and they freed a russian pilot sentenced to 20 years in an american prison for drug smuggling. reed s parents spoke to their son after they were physically swapped out at an airport tarmac in turkey. he was kind of subdued. i think he is a little overwhelmed. he seemed to be in shock a little bit. they have moved him to a moscow prison this week. we didn t know that. he went to the first prince i think paul whelan was held in for a long time and then they flew him from there to turkey and then they quickly told us that the american plane pulled up next to the russian plane and they walked both prisoners across at the same time like you see in the movies. just in, we have learned that russian prisoner was returned home, cnn s caitlin colin joins us as well as kaylee atwood, what have you learned about why this came to be and why now? reporter: a good question of why now, u.s. officials are saying this was a l