with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. and i will see you tomorrow night, also on the panel discussion, and leitao will do the last word to 10 pm. i think tomorrow, rachel, the case about what happened in georgia it s gonna be clearer than ever to this country. and i long felt that that is where the clearest case of criminal conduct is to be found. i think that, i think that isim for the crime to happen on tape, and be released as soon as it happens, that should just be a new rule, that you have to crime on tape, and the tape has to be on tv that night. that helps, i think, in terms of this like, simple-ing it down so that we can all get it. you know, i ve listened to many hours of wired taps by the fbi investigations that they brought to court. and you know, you listen to the, what did he say, what did he mean, what was that. and he kind of mumbled that thing. there s a lot of interpretation that goes into it. they wire tap, and that s r
a legally aggressive and, frankly, publicly unpopular decision, drawing backlash around america and intense interest around the world, including people gathering at the high court where folks have been coming together and even though a version of this ruling did leak earlier, which was very unusual, today seeing the actual gutting of roe come down has been shattering for many. illegitimate. illegitimate. this is insane. going over to the other side, especially i wanted to yell at the people there. just how the young women who are on opposition who don t understand how at risk their lives may be. abolish abortion! now that the final ruling is out, we can report for you what it says and what it does. six justices voting to uphold mississippi s sweeping ban, a binding majority of five voting to ending roe entirely, stating abortion destroys potential life and what mississippi republicans called, quote, an unborn human being. bush appointee sam alito writing the opi
access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the
guaranteed that a woman confronted with unplanned pregnancy could, within reasonable limits, make their own decision about whether to bear or child, with all the life transforming consequences that that act involves. and in the safeguarding each woman s reproductive freedom, the constitutional protective the ability of a woman to participate equally in this nation s economic and social life. but no longer, and quote. in a decision that is no less devastating, because we knew it was coming. the supreme court today decided that bodily autonomy is now a privilege, given only to men. a conservative majority overturned roe versus wade and casey versus planned parenthood. they ruled that we were constitutional right to abortion isn t protected by the constitution, after all. quote, we hold that roe and casey must be overruled. the constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, and quote. 5 to 4. the conserv
order to help people access the health care and abortion services that they need. i anticipate there will be more debate and discussion. or was interesting about the supreme court decision, it gave the authority back to the states to make these decisions. so now that the decision has been made, it will be up to each of the state legislators and people there to talk about their elective representatives about what their laws looked like. we also get a new look at how americans see this decision to overturn roe, from the yougov poll out this morning, it was 41% of americans approved, but nearly 16% 60% disapprove. 67% of women overall in the survey do not agree with this decision. you ve got washington, also in the meantime, still feeling the aftershocks on another topic, a week of bombshell testimony at the january 6th hearings. as folks now brace for more in the coming weeks, this morning, one member of that committee, congressman adam schiff lays out what he thinks the