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morning, everyone it is saturday . april 8th. i m amro walker. i m victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin with the abortion debate across the country. this time, it s over access to medication. abortion after federal courts issued conflicting rulings began after a federal judge in texas ruled to suspend the fda s two decade old approval. of method. pistone then washington state judge ruled the fda must keep the pill on the shelves and 17 democratic states and the district of columbia. cnn s senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen joins us now. so explain what medford press stone is and what happens next. so victor medford. redstone is one of two drugs that are used in medicated abortions. in other words, abortions that are used by pill rather than by a surgical procedure. as you said they ve been used safely from more than 20 years. they have an excellent safety profile, and actually, they are now quite common. let s take a look at what s happened wi
our country. when i look to the future, i see america strong once more. and the america i see, the permanent politician will finally retire. and mandatory mental competency test for politicians over 75 years old. good morning, happy saturday morning. good morning micah, happy saturday. i love saturdays, you bring me my coffee. i do, and we re probably watching this right now while you re drinking coffee that i get for you. it s delicious. she literally pushes me out a bed at 5:30 okay, okay, that s a little much. people don t want that mental image. okay. it s her saturday morning routine. and your saturday morning routine of course is watching morning joe weekend. it s saturday february 18th, former south carolina governor nikki haley officially kicked off her candidacy this week at an event in charleston on wednesday. in his speech she said, there should be mental competency test for politicians older than 75. micah, that was kind of a dig at president biden
a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
night. alice wagner tonight starts right. now california has a lot on its plate, chris. but housing has they need to build more housing in upstate and given where they are in terms of environmental decline, the housing situation is complicated as well. thank you, my friend. thanks for being here tonight. tonight, we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj. and using it to go after president biden so-called political enemies. here s garland testimony before the judiciary committee in october of 2021. more republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members, just to be clear that was a memo on protecting school board members. take a listen. a leave it at this, general garland, you weaponize the fbi in the department of justice, it s wrong, it s unprecedent