have access to an abortion pill. this hour, president biden will announce he is running for a second term as early as next tuesday. the anniversary of his 2020 announcement will that set up a rematch with donald trump and as we celebrate earth day tomorrow, i ll be joined by white house special presidential envoy john kerry as the u.n. secretary-general criticizes the biden administration s progress in reducing greenhouse gases enough to avoid a disastrous outcome for the world. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington where the clock is winding down on that supreme court s midnight deadline tonight to announce what he s going to do about controversial lower court rulings that would severely limit access to the most widely used abortion pill the justices have been meeting in their regularly scheduled friday morning conference where the issue is expected to come up a decision could be posted at any moment options include the court could grant a full stay send
this is andrea mitchell reports. with new reaction to that damming report from the texas house of representatives condemning the response by officers and the egregious decision making that prevented law enforcement from storming the robb elementary classroom and stopping the mass shooting when 19 grade school students and two teachers were killed. there s nothing we didn t already know. the only difference was they stopped pointing fingers. leave it to the department of public safety to have superior fire power. should have gone in. they knew better. they stood around just like everybody else. police body cam footage showing the police force waiting more than an hour in the school s hallways after the initial interaction between police officers and the gunman. along with an earlier attempt to communicate with the shooter by embattled police chief pete arredondo. there was a deadly mass shooting in indiana at a mall outside indianapolis where three people were killed a
missile defense system and artillery in the coming days. another supreme court decision, this one rejecting states rights on gun safety . i ll speak to a noted expert on the second amendment as president biden signed into law some gun safety measures. we begin with abortion. nbc s pete william and linda greenhouse. pete, first to you. states are acting quickly today and over the weekend. what challenges are you following that we should expect more of? i think there are going to be many more of them. they all follow a similar pattern saying, we understand the u.s. supreme court has said the u.s. constitution allows states to ban abortion, but what about state constitutions that oftentimes differ and provide more protection in certain categories than the federal constitution does? we have a lawsuit in utah that says the state constitution provides more protection for personal autonomy and family planning issues. one in florida says state privacy protections allow abortio
at the highest levels of inflation in 40 years and prices are soaring, especially at the gas pump which just set another record high this morning at $4.40 a gallon. the markets already reacting. yesterday the dow tumbled for the fourth straight day as investors began to sour on the u.s. economic outlook. some on wall street warning of a recession because of inflation possibly as soon as next year, mika. that s one reason why president biden addressed it in a major white house speech, calling inflation his top domestic priority and trying to shift blame for rising prices by attacking republicans and what he calls their ultra maga agenda. he also blasted their policy ideas as extreme and said they would make inflation worse, not better. really ask yourself how well are we going to sleep at night knowing that every five years maga republicans, if they re still republicans as i said, this is not your father s republican party. if we re going to have to vote on whether you w
There are many complications that could derail the negotiations, but if a deal comes together The Middle East Strongest Military and most technically advanced power, israel, will be allied to the regions strongest economic power, saudi arabia which is still the Swing Supplier of the worlds oil all under an American Security architecture. That would be a major win for washington. For over a decade now the u. S. Has been searching for a role in The Middle East that is not the Old Quasi Imperial One and yet skurs American Interest in this crucial region allowing washington to focus on the larger challenges posed by russia and china. By organizing a soft alliance between israel and saudi arabia, biden can rely on these two countries to anchor the region economically and militarily. There is a price, of course, and its substantial. Saudi arabia wants an American Security guarantee and American Technology to build a Nuclear Energy industry. That includes the domestic enrichment of uranium wh