good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday. april 22nd. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your day with us. we re creeping towards may i just realized i didn t just realize that hopefully my husband s not up yet. it s our 11 year anniversary second. i mean, it was our anniversary six am not six p.m. so you re good. you re good. not too late. what we re watching for you today a major victory for abortion rights supporters after the supreme court, hands down a decision to protect a widely used abortion pill, but the battle is not over. so where does the legal fight go now? fierce fighting in sudan despite a 72 hour ceasefire now, u. s officials say preparations are being made in case diplomatic personnel need to be evacuated. we will have a live report next. and a cnn exclusive. lawyers for hunter biden set to meet with the department of justice next week as scrutiny around a longstanding investigation intensif
is saturday, april 22nd. i m aymara walker. victor blackwell and you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this morning with the battle over abortion. the widely used abortion bruggeman kristen will remain available to women in the u. s without restrictions , at least in those states where abortion remains. the decision protects access to the drug at least until the appeals process plays out, but the protection could ultimately be taken away again. court ruling in texas earlier this month suspended government approval of the 23 year old drug. it s the latest in a series of moves against abortion rights. cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue is with us now. so the decision stands in the hands in the body administration. they got a big win, also for abortion rights community a major victory, but the battle is not over. right the bind administration is relieved today, right because those lower courts put in these restrictions significant restrictions on this key abortion drug, the b
valencia. thanks so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield. a new legal battle is taking shape after the u. s supreme court issues a last minute order to protect a common abortion drug court deciding last night to freeze a lower court s ruling that place restrictions on the drug press town, the pill is the predominant method for ending pregnancies in the u. s. but now that decision sets up the most consequential abortion related dispute since the overturning of roe v. wade another appeals court is scheduled to take up the case, meaning it could be weeks or months before a final decision is made. cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue has more. fredricka the biden administration is relieved lower courts had put significant restrictions on this key abortion drug. the government and manufacturers had raced to the supreme court, asking the justices to put those rulings on hold. while the appeals process plays out, which co
state of georgia, a cnn exclusive reveals for the first time text messages between two men working with the former president s legal team who are tasked with finding alleged voting fraud messages. the operatives are trying to figure out what to do with data in a breach voting machine from a rural georgia county and whether they should or even could use that information to try to decertify the state. eight senate runoff in 2021. here s one message, one of the operative writes this here s the plan. let s keep this close hold. we only have until saturday, decide if we re going to use this report to try to de certify the senate runoff election or if we hold it for a bigger moment. the men did not respond to cnn s requests for comment. now to another cnn exclusive. the investigation into hunter biden is heating up as legal teams. his legal team rather is set to meet with justice department officials next week. sources say the long running probe into the president s son is focused on potenti
learning that trump s lawyer, rudy giuliani, did seem to outline the same sort of plan during an oval office meeting that trump attended in december , 2020 suggesting that trump was at least maybe aware of this plan that was ultimately put into place and successfully executed on january 7th 2021 in coffee county. hmm all right. zack cohen. keep us posted. thanks so much. all right, and now to another cnn exclusive the investigation into hunter biden is intensifying as his legal team is set to meet with the justice department officials next week. sources say the long running probe into the president s son is focused on potential tax crimes and a gun purchase. cnn s paula reid has details. we have learned that this meeting between hunter biden s legal team and justice department officials was actually arranged at the request of biden s legal teams seeking an update on this year s long investigation into biden, now at