austin johnson with a spot-on impersonation of donald trump, and interrupting the last supper nearly a week after trump s historic arraign marraignment, s showing more americans agree with the charges. up 5% this week. his former attorney general is predicting another indictment for the former president we ll get into that straight ahead. we re also going to dig into the competing rulings from federal judges on a commonly used drug for medical abortions. the impact on women s health care and the political impact on the republican party by the way, mika, you know let s just say, it s not good. based on conversations we ve had with friends and others that have voted for donald trump, this is really it s more bad political news, obviously, for women s rights, but especially for republicans i ve got to say, i was really taken, and i ve been taken over the last week especially, of people who have been trump supporters for a long time. yeah. who you start talk
these are difficult issues, right? i mean, the definition of life and the roe system i mean, this isn t easy. no. there are people of enormous goodwill, enormous goodwill, who differ from lots of folks that we re talking to and about but you take it to the system, you take it to the constitution, and if there is a decision, you respect it if the decision goes the other way, you work within channels. you don t throw people out of legislative bodies yeah. there you go. you know, it is, it is a very difficult issue, abortion. it is a nuanced position people it s complicated. have layers and layers of thoughts and beliefs, and there are good people on both sides. but if you want to know where
though some may have been doctored. let s bridng in retired cia director, marc polymeropoulos. also the washington post s david ignatius still with us, as well marc, let s pretend you are at a cia briefing 30 seconds to explain to your superiors what the hell is going on here. what the hell is going on here potentially serious compromise we don t know. one, we have to catch the traitor. two, reassure o youallies three, damage assessment it looks like a compromise of signals intelligence this is not end of days, possibly serious time will tell. what are you most concerned about? the biggest concern, by far, is the compromise of signals intelligence collection. on a good note, there is nothing about human intelligence nothing to do with our agents, spies on the ground. no loss of life would likely occur. this has to do with collection
to fight this out in terms of hearts and minds convince people to make different choices. versus the more dominant faction, which says, no, we got this win we need to go to ramming speed, as many punitive pieces of legislation and court rulings as possible so the pro life movement could have taken the dobbs ruling and said, hey, we got a win let s chalk it up. let s advance more pro child, pro family pieces of legislation. mm-hmm. find the sweet spot in public opinion. instead, they have decided to double and triple down you saw that in wisconsin. you re going to see it in places like florida, as well. so you re absolutely right there are a lot of people who called themselves pro life, but until the dobbs ruling, you know, they there were no actual live bullets in the gun they at ndidn t have to work ou exactly what does that mean? does it mean exceptions for rap
republicans. i m hearing that from people who never voted for a democrat before and women who considered themselves pro life forever. then this ruling this weekend is just, again, the quicksand quickens for republicans. well, part of what s happening is i think what mika eluded to a moment ago, which is, the vast gulf, the difference in the way the extremists who are pushing one punitive bill after another in states across america. right. punishing women it is clear to voters that this is about punishing women and providers rather than protecting life so there s that. then there s women and all those in our lives who care about us and love us, who cannot separate abortion from health care but also cannot separate abortion from the other slew of reproductive health care that we