pair of dueling decisions, creating a flash point in the fight for abortion rights. in texas. a federal judge is halting the fda is more than two decades old approval of the drug medford pret zone, one of the main medications used to provide abortions. but less than an hour later. conflicting court ruling out of washington state the federal judge, they re protecting access to the drug in 17 democratic led states and the district of columbia, which suit to protect the medication. the two decisions are the most significant on the on abortion since the supreme court overturned roy roe v. wade last summer here with us now is cnn senior supreme court analyst joan baez. cubic joan. good to see you also, you re the author of the new book, nine black robes. so two rulings now two very different decisions. what happens next? well, this puts the abortion issue right back on the path to the supreme court. attorney general america ireland last night that the government is going to app
the crime. that is what we are watching this hour. hello, everyone, thank you for being here, i m kate bolduan. right now the supreme court is hearing the arguments for two cases that are at the heart of americans. at the heart of it is the biden administration student loan forgiveness program. the argument is that the president overstepped his authority here when he said he would give up to $20 million in student debt. that is a lot of money for a lot of people and hanging in legal limbo today. signs of how much interest there is in the court decision, take a look at the crowds out in front of the court this morning. jessica snyder is also live outside of the supreme court as this is playing out. she is joining us now. jessica, you are listening to the first hour-ish of oral arguments. what are you hearing? the justices are zeroing in on the price tag of the program, and whether the president way of the extensive program. these are the numbers. 40 million students are
rage against the machine. i need a little more information from you. jericka: frustrations with customer service at an all-time high. i yell at the phone because i want a representative. pope francis is leading holy week ceremonies in italy on this good friday. he was originally scheduled to lead the stations of the cross procession but the vatican announced the pope will miss the ceremony. jericka: and on the road with an unlikely leader of a chess club. his name is mr. bishop, which is pretty cool. he is very caring. he just includes everybody. keeps people motivated to keep practicing and get better and better. jericka: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. i m jericka duncan in for norah. tonight the two lawmakers who were expelled by their republican colleagues following be reinstatedotests could soon- and it comes as we witness the political fallout over the tennessee three. one stat
never for busing white house photos were just made public showing then president obama and top officials as the historic mission to kill osama bin laden was playing. out the man behind the camera, former white house photographer, pete souza, he will join us this hour. welcome to our viewers here in united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. here in the situation room. tonight nearly two dozen ukrainians, men women and children, are dead. at least four children among the dead after a russian strike on a residential building. residents fearing that more bodies maybe found as crews continue to search the rubble from multiple missile attacks. cnn s dick paton walsh is on the ground for us in ukraine. nick, russia unleashing this new barrage just ahead unexpected ukrainian military counteroffensive. give us the latest. as is often the case, we simply don t know what russia thinks it was aiming at, if indeed it was too concerned about where it s missiles landed. but in
now, people are using the clock to speed up other things. look at this interview from the president. is your age into your own calculation as to whether to run again? first of all, look, first of all, to look, they the no but yes. there you go. it worked. jimmy fallon having some fun with baseball s new rule. we have a lot to get to this morning. a major conservative conference is going to be missing some star power. we ll go through the big names in the gop who are skipping cpac. we ll tell you which event many of them are attending instead. meanwhile, ron desantis takes control of a key figure in his so-called war on woke. we ll explain what is happening in florida. and we ll have the latest bombshells to come out of court documents in a lawsuit against fox news, including rupert murdoch s testimony on false claims about election fraud. also ahead, we will be joined by education secretary miguel cardona, as president joe biden s plan to cancel student