justice clarence thomas where he writes, quote, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this court s substantive due process precedents, including griswold, lawrence, and obergefell. he is talking about reconsidering decisions on gay rights and the right to contraception. joining me now inside the growing protests, nbc s julia ainsley. josh letterman is at the white house where the president just spoke and barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst. julia, i ve watched the crowd grow bigger by the minute. what is it like there and what is the mood? what are people telling you? reporter: well, here, chris, if you saw that, what we got from the leak just a few weeks ago would take any steam or pressure off this situation when the final decision came you would be wrong. i was there that day. it is even more fraught today. we re seeing a lot of intense emotions. some women are crying. people who had an abortion and some people who feel directly, personally viol
champion the cause of the unborn until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of american law where it belongs. support banning abortion even in cases where pregnancy isn t viable. so, the question is, if a doctor looks at a ultrasound and sees the fetus is missing part of a skull or a brain and i bring it up because it is a real scenario that a woman testified to in texas this week, you re saying that the woman should still have to carry that child to term even if there is no chance that the baby would survive? well, let me be clear about this because we have to be clear on language. look, i m pro-life. but i ve always recognized and accepted abortions in tragic circumstances. rape, insist, the life of the mother. and candidly, in cases like an ept optic pregnancy, i would
i mean, there were red flags along the way. but maybe after action. laura, thank you so much. nice to see you. and later this morning, we ll hear president biden s plan to combat high prices for working families. plus what the president said about vladimir putin when the tv cameras weren t around. and what are the real chances of a national abortion ban? sxwri cfp® professional. dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it s natural. treat it that way. aveeno® daily moisture with prebiotic oat is proven to moisturize dry sk all day. you ll love our formula for face, too. aveeno®.
marched to the homes of justices john roberts, brett kavanaugh and sam alito after the leaked draft indicated that roe v. wade could be overturned. and the u.s. marshal said that it was helping to respond to increased security concerns. and mitch mcconnell is using his perch to criticize democrats for forcing a vote this week to shore up abortion rights. schumer wants the senate to vote again on a bill that would legalize abortion on demand. their bill is written to protect abortionists rather than mothers. the bill isn t about abortion on demand and the bill doesn t contemplate abortion through all nine months. that is what is known as a straw man. it is about codifying roe v. wade something democrats see as urgent perhaps even more sore after mcconnell said that
national ban was possible if democrats pick up seats in the upcoming elections. and even his own party is throwing cold water on it. and joining me is zachary wolf, senior politics writer. let s start with some simple math. a national ban on abortion would require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. mcconnell doesn t have the 60 votes. but he is saying that he would never blow up the filibuster to get it done if the republicans took back the senate. so what is it? well, this is mitch mcconnell, so we have to kind of look at what he is saying and then look at what he is doing. and we also need to remember that the person who blew up the filibuster for streaupreme cour justices was mitch mcconnell. so while he is saying that he would always protect the filibuster, he has done more to undermine it. and i think that we have to assume that there aren t the