personnel from the u.s. embass evacuated overnight from sudan s capital city o khartoum a former army general is gonna join me and what it took to ge embassy officials out what the future holds for the war tor african nation plus, new nbc news polling wit a fresh look at the upcoming presidential election, and wha they re saying about president biden just days away fro announcing his reelection bid. and why governor ron desantis hopes of being a presidentia contender may have already failed we ll take a look at all o those numbers, plus, could w see donald trump take th witness stand this week? a hint, the answer has nothing to do with elections coming up in the next, our special guest, senator alex, right here in california joining as well. you don t wanna miss tha conversation, we re gonna ge his thoughts on what he like t ask the chief justice of the u.s. about ethics concerns a the highest levels of th supreme court. we begin with that breakin news, overnight, out of sud
continue to see pushback in th streets. rachel, we thank you fo joining us on this, as always. want to continue thi conversation with dr. pate former senior policy directo to president obama and edmundson d.c. medical contributor. thank you for joining us i think from a physician standpoint, a scientific standpoint, looking at thi decision, obviously at the effects of taking mifepristone off the mark, about have o special disenfranchise community of women, black an brown women, that are seekin abortions across this country. also, kind of the fda approval process, right the fact the judge is weighing in on a drug that was approved by the fda, 23 years ago, with a 99% safety rating, right talk us through that approva process and your worries whe it comes to this yeah, it s not just the approval process, really ove the past few decades, there been an incredibly strict risk mitigation strategy in effec
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kavanaugh, and coney barrett have at least a smidgen of concern about the way that the play their role, eithe increases or decreases the legitimacy of the court. i think who has been tied to the dobbs leak and possibly another leak and of course, clarissa thomas and the current ethics scandal he s in, i don t know that the can disgrace the institution anymore. so, on politics and continuing the, you, now kind of th erosion of public faith an trust in the institution i don t think it s on thei list of concerns yeah, i just wanna make it, clear we hear nbc news, we don t have any reporting on th confirmation of a little being the source of that lake when i comes to jobs. what happens from here, rachel especially top what your organization, the action, part of this whole thing, we re looking at may 17th, of course with this circuit and possibly