access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the
will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century american jur
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Sixweek abortion ban to take effect in the state. But the court also is greenlighting a vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment protecting Abortion Rights for women and a new flashpoint in The Middle East right now is around threatens retaliation for a deadly attack on its Consulate Building In Syria, blaming israel for the airstrike. Were getting new reaction from a key member of congress this hour. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, a urine the Situation Room the skis, cnn, breaking new a very busy night of Breaking News. We begin this hour with the new request to expand Donald Trumps gag order in the hushmoney criminal case. Exactly two weeks before the trial is set to begin. Thats going to see cnns chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid. Paula give us the latest on this request by the Manhattan District Attorney and the trump teams response. So wolfe here, prosecutors are asking the judge to expand the gag order
Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u