ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack smith notches a major victory, securing a
immediately themselves lisa rubin is here to make sense of the law and both new york magazine and uc law professor mary ziegler are here to discuss the consequences for health care and politics let s get right to the reporting and the law, and joining us now are msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin as promised and uc davis law school professor, an expert on the law, will join us in a moment let s talk, lisa, about what the law currently says and what that might mean for how the justices decide on this katy, today is anyone s guess. i wish i had a magic 8 ball. right now as it stands, the supreme court issued an administrative stay, a temporary stay of the lower court s ruling that effectively means that access to mifepristone was exactly as it was before this litigation started but the supreme court has a big decision to make by midnight tonight. self-imposed deadline, unless they extend again. if they did, mary can correct me if i m wrong, i m not aware of any administratio
block representatives adam schiff to eric swalwell from returning to their post on the house intelligence committee. schiff and swalwell are outspoken californian democrats who previously served as impeachment managers during the impeachment of donald trump. republicans also sought retribution against ilhan omen, the congresswoman, saying remarks she said in the past which he publicly apologized in 2019. two congressional terms ago. this is the first time republicans have been back in power in the house. on thursday, all but one republican members voted to remove omar from her seat on the foreign affairs committee. that s not even a half of it. in addition to keeping members of committees, republicans created the so-called select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. which will be shared by ohio representative jim jordan. jordan has repeatedly compared his subcommittee to the church committee. one of the most respected and effective channels in congress
Newsroom starts right now. Live from washington, im paula reed in for pamela brown tonight. The top stories, surging cases of a respiratory illness are forcing some hospitals to create tent cities just to deal with all the patients as Health Officials say they have seen more cases now than in the past two years. Plus, an underground network sending Abortion Pills from mexico to women in states where the procedure is now illegal. And chinas former president seated right next to the current one is shockingly yanked from the room as the communist Party Congress party comes to an end. Youre in the cnn newsroom. First tonight, breaking news, a deadly shooting in a hospital in dallas, texas. Details are still coming in to cnn, but so far police are confirming that at least two people are dead, both employees at the hospital. I want to get right now to cnns camila bernal. What are you hearing so far . Reporter so this shooting took place at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. According to author