good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the o
rivals. and affecting bidens two years in office. the battle he faces in congress. our favorite historians is here as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it has been seven months since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. but today, antiabortion activists came to washington for the annual march for life. the first since roe was struck down. and two days before the 50th anniversary of that original decision. the anti-abortion rights movement has achieved one of its main goals, the washington post points out there is a, quote, internal debate about how to make an abortion ban nationwide. march leaders emphasized friday that rose overthrow was just the start, that they will be launching dozens of local marches. most abortions have been banned in more than a dozen states and a support for national ban has been the major theme for today s march. the march began as a response to roe, we don t and as a
consequences for its frivolous lawsuits, a scathing view from the judge were trump s actions and manifesto against his rivals, and, reflecting on president biden s two years in office the battle he faces and our favorite historian is here is the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it has been seven months since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. but today, antiabortion activists came to washington for the annual march for life. the first since roe was struck down. and two days before the 50th anniversary of that original decision. the anti-abortion rights movement has achieved one of its main goals, the washington post points out there is a, quote, internal debate about how to make an abortion ban nationwide. march leaders emphasized friday that rose overthrow was just the start, that they will be launching dozens of local marches. most abortions have been banned in more than a dozen states and a sup
are struggling around the globe and russia is already getting a billion dollars every few days in oil and gas revenues, why did opec slash production? everything has a price. we will explain. but first, here s my take. one of the few issues on which there is a consensus in washington, d.c. is that american policy toward china was built on an intellectual tariff. liberals and conservatives both believe that beijing s embrace of free markets and integration with the global market would fundamentally change china. but they didn t, so the consensus goes, we should recognize this was a naive belief. in fact, viewing china on the eve of the 20th party congress, i m struck by how little that line of analysis captures what has happened in china over the last decade. china has gone through profound economic and social changes. its per capita gdp has gone up almost 30 fold since the start of economic liberalization in 1978. mass education and urbanization have changed the face of