before that catastrophic implosion. a light fast repair just days after a fiery collapse. the major highway that millions rely on back open for business in philadelphia. and attorney general merrick garland commenting just a short time ago on those charges against president biden s son hunter. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc news s ryan reilly on what we just heard from attorney general merrick garland. unexpected for the attorney general to talk about it. he doesn t answer a lot of questions. but what did he have to say this time? i think based on the allegations that had come out through the whistleblower, he felt responsibility to lay it out here. essentially what he said is he has not taken any action in regards to this hunter biden investigation. take a listen. mr. weiss, was appointed by president trump as the u.s. attorney in delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration would be permit
daniels hush money investigation and there s a new dangerous phase for donald trump. also to night, a series of political motivated shootings in arizona show us how the big lies is fueling a new era of political violence in america. in your time sophistication and how the restaurant lobby is using worker fees to keep the minimum wage down. i ll speak to a reporter and activists behind that story. this is american voices. a weekend of protests over abortion access is once again shining a light over the battle of productive rights. it is a battle likely to shape american politics for years to come, and will be a key issue as would begin to talk about 2020. for tomorrow, vice president kamala harris will mark the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade in florida. this is the first anniversary of the 1973 ruling since the supreme court reversed it. harris is expected to lay out of the white house plans to fight new restrictions at the state level, and there is a reason the white house i
22nd, 24th week, the point of fetal viability, and that is the additional language that you will see exported to those red states, to the swing states, when folks try to do the ballot next year. again, in a place like south carolina, a place like arizona, a place like florida, i think you ll see language allowing for restrictions at the point of fetal viability. there is a test tonight in a red state like ohio, giving that type of provision for a prescription along with the constitutionally mandated right to an abortion. if that counts would be politically successful, it clearly is in ohio, and i think that that creates the roadmap for other states, for supporters at this next year. we are going to see a lot of playbook development this evening. i want to get into the specifics here on issue one. it was being positioned on the right as a vote of late term abortion. to be clear, if one does not allow abortions to birth on it when. what it does do is a law for abortion
and we ll have even more projections as soon as we get them in. i tell you them, give you all the information. polls just closed in states across the country, states including ohio and virginia and, yes, kentucky. and there are a number of candidates and issues that are on the path. tonight, all eyes are on the issue of abortion. last, year after roe v. wade was overturned, republicans across the country felt the black clash of a ballot box, especially in states where abortion was literally on the ballot. and now, tonight, republicans in multiple states are trying to flip the script, make their anti abortion policies see moderate, while pink think pro-choice democrats as the real extremist. look at what is happening in ohio, where a vote to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution is literally issue one on the ballot tonight. this is how the right is framing that choice. late term abortion is real, and so is the pain. one allows that right up to birth, abortions t