gaining house seats. if there is anything approaching a silver lining for democrats, it s the issue of abortion. the leaked supreme court draft decision, 60% say it should be legal and 37% say it should be illegal always or most of the time and abortion has become the top issue for people who will decide how to vote based on a single issue. yesterday i spoke to bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermont about what he thinks democrats can do to avoid a shellacking in november. let me start with what you know probably instinctively these days but our polling has found 75% of the country think we re headed in the wrong direction. in fact, just 28% of democrats right now think the country is headed in the right direction. where do you stand? do you think we re headed in the wrong direction? i sure do. look, what we re looking at is a nation today where the billionaire class, the people on
those are the days that we are looking at. the leaked supreme court draft decision was not a shout or surprise to me, because of something we expected. elections have consequences, and we have seen what has happened with the courts cycle after cycle with republican president after republican president, putting justices on the bench that basically lie in front of the senate judiciary committee, when they talk about their beliefs on roe v. wade and it being an established precedent. we need to make sure that we are taking this serious on a national level, and we are looking at things like doctors being criminalized, giving people the hearing that they need. this is the time we need to be affirmative and our support for a woman s right to make her own medical decision with her doctor. we don t need government interference in this and so i am here to stand on behalf of the 68% of people in this country, not 68% of republicans,
hour. a small aircraft caught fire after crashing into a bridge in miami, this afternoon. you see some of the images there. officials saying that that plane possibly crashed into some vehicles on the bridge. miami authorities confirming at least two patients were transported to an area hospitals. a total of five people were involved in the crash. we are going to bring you updates on this, as we get more. those images are starting to see. want to go to our nation s capital, as well, thousands of demonstrators gathering in support of abortion rights to oppose the leaked supreme court draft decision that would overturn roe. it is one of more than 300 rallies happening across the country, right now. nbc s antonia hilton is following this for us, in washington d.c.. antonia, good to see you once again. i see that you have moved locations now as this rally is continuing to go on and throughout the day here. bring us up to date as to what more you are hearing from folks. hi yasmin. that s r
production act to be put into use. obviously, the country got introduced to this concept early on in the covid crisis, the idea of, you know, ramping up ppe production. would that be an appropriate use of that act now to help replenish baby formula on shelves? or do the lack of suppliers make that not really possible? let me just say this. that was one of the first things i investigated when this occurred. and we find out that we are unable to use the defense production act the way it s currently constructed and that we would that there are a lot of legal dimensions to that. which we can t deal with right now. so it is not a viable alternative at the moment. i ve got one more question for you on a different topic before we let you go. we re looking at a lot of different protests planned all over the country this weekend, as part of the fallout from that leaked supreme court draft decision on roe v. wade potentially being overturned. how do you see democrats right to harness the e
father and worked at a telecom company. he told me he was pulling people from bombed homes on the front line when russian forces opened fire what did you see i saw shelling of civilian houses. they don t look at what the targets are, military or civilians, he said. they flattened everything to the ground. that fighter told us as soon as he s well, he s going back to the front line like so many we talked to, he says he sees no quick end to this war, lester kelly cobiella in ukraine, thank you from state capitals to the homes of supreme court justices, growing protests tonight aimed at shaping the future of abortion rights in america after that leaked supreme court draft decision that would overturn roe v. wade blayne alexander now with that story. reporter: with the landmark roe v. wade decision hanging in the balance, the protests are becoming increasingly personal. in madison, wisconsin, a pair of molotov cocktail shattered the windows at the wisconsin family action office,