one-on-one with vice president kamala harris. her take as such a pivotal decision divides the nation. and the cost of living. a closer look at sky-high rent prices and the crippling effect on so many people just trying to get by. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead. and fallout from the monumental supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. today, a portrait of an increasingly divided america. at least ten states now have effectively banned abortion with varying exceptions or none at all. another handful of states are expected to enact bans in the coming days and weeks. meanwhile, abortion rights activists are launching new legal challenges on the state level while democratic governors are promising to expand abortion access and protect people who travel there for care. a fourth day of protests is planned in cities across the country today after a weekend of marches, rallies, and at times violent demonstratio
with the latest, hi peter. mike, president by ms. here in europe making the case all these things boudin is doing out of the g7 control represent a very timely opportunity to go green. the entire world is feeling the impact of russia s brutal war on ukraine. and on our energy markets. we need worldwide effort to invest in transformative clean energy projects. to ensure critical infrastructure is resilient to changing climate. critical materials are necessary for clean energy transition. and got the video of the g7 leaders. you can see they are all looking in different directions. but that is not what is actually happening there. the whole point of this meeting in germany is to show putin everyone at that table is together and the russians are on an island. putin has been counting on from the beginning and somehow nato and the g7 would splinter what we have and we are not going there. can t let let integration take more on that it has. behind closed doors meeting say
that he and the rest. that is not the image of putin shirtless on the back of a tiger. that s more like the emperor has no clothes. yeah. you can understand why putin would have done that in the moment. if he starts a big military fight and no deal with prigozhin, then he will need troops for that fight. he will have to pull back from the front lines in ukraine. that s enormously embarrassing for him. maybe he s concerned that not everyone is going to actually stand up and fight. maybe he thinks some of his own soldiers might have laid down arms. he looks even worse on the ground in moscow. so i can see reasons why putin decides i m going to give this guy the ability to go to belarus. he will embarrass me. i ll live to fight another day. that does not strike me as a place where they re going to hug it out, right? putin absolutely has been wounded by this man.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau jokingly argued over whether they should undress, with the British leader saying that showing off his "pecs" would make him appear "tougher than Putin".
months to put ukraine in the best position it can be to of course try to defeat russia. and some g-7 leaders were heard also lightly mocking putin during a working lunch. tell us about that. yeah, it s obviously no secret that they do not have this chummy relationship with putin, especially since this invasion happened. but as they were silting down, you saw british prime minister boris johnson asking the others if they were going to wear their suit jackets during the lunch. he made this off-hand remark about looking tough in front of putin. then you heard the canadian prime minister justin trudeau respond, making fun of those photos you have seen of putin shirtless on a horse. you have seen other ones where he s fishing and what not, they were making fun of it as they were all getting together to discuss very serious issues that are every one of their countries is dealing with, and also taking time to make fun of putin as well. kaitlan collins traveling with the president near t