is the u. s supreme court about to impose a limited ban on medication abortion. the lead starts right now. the u. s. supreme court kicking the can down the road for now, pausing restrictions until friday on access to the abortion pill restrictions put in place by a texas judge. but what might happen after this two day stay and for the third time in a week. young people shot after making innocent mistakes. this time two cheerleaders after one of them mistook someone else s car. for hers. i m going to speak with her cheer programs owner plus one day after one of the biggest media defamation settlements in the history of the universe, the ceo of dominion will be here and we ll talk about whether his company took that historic $787.5 million check from fox at the expense of truth and democracy. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with breaking news in our health lead this afternoon, the u. s. supreme court handed down its decision in the blockbuster medication abor
, um, and in the judge s words, you know, quoted it s crystal clear. um that s opinion did not rig the 2020 election. of course they didn t. of course you didn t. and neither did smartmatic. oh of course, the italians. i mean, it s so nonsensical. all of it. ah and yet they completely abdicated whatever pretense of journalism ever had, and it really honestly, this has nothing to do with what every other news network does. this has to do with fox news, mac and o n. n jake. you say that it s of course we didn t and that s great that you never believed that i can tell you that there is a large percent of the population that did believe it because they tune in to fox is their trusted news source. but that s my question. why not force them to tell all those people all those misled americans, which polls indicate millions of them still believe this nonsense. why not force them to say we shouldn t have
in those hearings. we have lost a tremendous leader for our country today, someone here in new hampshire that we admire for his service to our state, and i know that our thoughts and prayers are with his family, an incredible legacy of public service. i consider him a role model and a mentor. martha: well, thank you, kelly, for giving him that tribute and being able to recognize him in that way. and our thoughts and prayers are with his family as well. a lot of people should recognize the legacy that he left, not only in new hampshire but on capitol hill as well. i do want to address the issue that we also brought you here to talk about today, which i know is very important to you as well, because nearly 100 house republicans are now formally opposing ambassador sues than rice potential nomination, hasn t even been made yet as secretary of state saying that she quote misled americans on the benghazi attacks. this as a group of female democratic lawmakers are slamming those republicans