vested denver following several major stories this afternoon two big rulings on a key abortion pill praising the legal stakes to protec abortion rights for millions o women. reaction is coming in, fast an furious. new developments in the ouster of two - lawmakers in the tennessee legislature as the vic president lends her voice to the fight. they understood the importance, these three, o standing to say that peopl will not be silenced we are also keeping a close eye on israel after severa attacks this easter weekend. a new move from the white hous on trans athletes that has all sides of the debate upset. all of that, plus the news thi week that the former vic president will testify against donald trump, what he migh say. once he is under oath. we re gonna look at that comin up as well we begin though with the breaking news on abortio rights a federal judge in texas has essentially blocked the fda approval of mifepristone potentially undoing two decade of legal and safe
representative, justin pearce, down in memphis and shelby county if the officials they re choos to do, that they have no scheduled their initia meeting. so we re still waiting on that but as for what comes next after that the governor will set a date for a special election that will occur sometime likel in the summer. at which point both of the lawmakers would be eligible to run for reelected in, if the were elected they would be bac here at the state house. earlier today austin jones was speaker to his supporters abou what he wants to tell them i this moment of limbo, i want t play a little bit of what he had to say what i will say to the youn people of america is that if w were not powerful, they woul not try so hard to stop. yes i was the youngest black lawmaker in tennessee, formally, and now i m a lawmaker in exil because they were afraid of ou generational shift coming to america. the reckoning that our generation says that we don