i d be coming. it s so good to be back in ireland. forgive my poor attempt at irish. i m at home. i m at home. after my aged, as you can see how old i am, i have a little wisdom i have more experience than any president in american history. doesn t make me better or worse, but it gives me few excuses. president joe biden bringing some jokes with him during a speech yesterday to the irish parliament the president wraps up his visit to ireland today, marking 25 years since the good friday agreement, which ended decades of violence. meanwhile, at home, the fbi arrested a 21-year-old air national guardsman who is suspected of leaking national documents. we ll sort through how that young man got his hands on the documents. plus, florida governor ron desantis took a break from his nationwide book tour to sign an extreme abortion ban into law late last night. we will dig into the legislation, and how it could impact his potential presidential campaign. also ahead this mornin
also right here on msnbc. from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i ll see you this weekend. ou this weekend. thanks to you at home for joining us this evening, we have some big breaking news, nbc news has now confirmed the former vice president, mike pence has been subpoenaed by special counsel, jack smith. the man who is overseeing the investigation into trump s effort to overturn the results of the 2020. election including the attack on the u.s. capital. the news was first reported by abc news. we don t know exactly what information was sought, in that subpoena, but according to abc it comes after months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and pence s legal team. both the special counsel s office and the spokesman for the former vice president are declining to comment to nbc about this new development. but, this is the first time the former vice president has been subpoenaed in any matters, related to the 2020 elect
missile defense system and artillery in the coming days. another supreme court decision, this one rejecting states rights on gun safety . i ll speak to a noted expert on the second amendment as president biden signed into law some gun safety measures. we begin with abortion. nbc s pete william and linda greenhouse. pete, first to you. states are acting quickly today and over the weekend. what challenges are you following that we should expect more of? i think there are going to be many more of them. they all follow a similar pattern saying, we understand the u.s. supreme court has said the u.s. constitution allows states to ban abortion, but what about state constitutions that oftentimes differ and provide more protection in certain categories than the federal constitution does? we have a lawsuit in utah that says the state constitution provides more protection for personal autonomy and family planning issues. one in florida says state privacy protections allow abortio
Legislation designed to force a radical view of democrats in the senate that abortion should be universally available, common, without limit, and paid for by the taxpayer. That is an extreme and radical view. It is a view shared by a tiny percentage of americans, although a very High Percentage of activists that the Democratic Party who find, provide manpower politically. And it is also a very real manifestation of all war on women given the enormous Health Consequences that unlimited abortion has had damaging the health and sometimes even the lives of women. I have with me 317 statements from texas women who have been hurt by abortion along with letters from texans opposing this bill, along with letters from prolife doctors, nurses, lawmakers across the United States. With the chairmans permission i would like to have it entered into the record. Without objection. A number of the restrictions of this legislation would be invalidated, commonsense restrictions the vast majority of ameri
Services. So if abortionists like kermit would be able to practice and set up shops and we did see many of the state Health Departments decide after hearing and realizing they havent don hadny kind of inspection of the clinics they went in and started doing them and they were finding some horrible tuitions and clinics have been shut down because of that but this would save it for law is specific to abortion it is invalid, or if it would indeed access to abortion and even then from there it has to go on to whether or not the state can prove that its going to improve access or Health Benefits for women and even then it would be yes the than is the punaro means possible plaques there are so many layers set up that practically any law dealing with abortion or impeding access in any way to abortion would be considered invalid. Some states have laws on the book that would require that providertheproviders of abortioe located near the Health Facility in the event that medical care is needed a