closing up shop here for the night. but as for the first couple of hours, we saw that initial protest from those who are opposed to abortion rights, who were elated, and celebrating, and happy. and after a few hours, they left. the streets were filled with hundreds and thousands of people who were the ones that were hoping that maybe we would see a compromise. they were maybe hoping that it away, we re expecting to see this decision come down, it s not what they got today. we saw tears of joy and despair. we had very emotional heavy conversations. and we will hear some of those conversations, stephanie. a lot of things have been going through my mind, anger, deep sadness, and a desire to turn this around the. this is going through my mind. it s a rollercoaster emotion! it s completely utter joy that roe is overturned. women are going to die between now and when we get legislation passed, which is untenable. we heard a lot of concern around that last statement you hear
began. and where the conservative majority, super majority, frankly, on this court, is taking us. we all know our country has three branches of government. each branch is supposed to restrain the others from exercising too much power their checks and balances. that is actually how all this is supposed to work, but the supreme court is acting as if it has no restraints and as if it is the sole decider with its decision in west virginia versus , which on thursday, limited the epa s ability of regulating emissions that cause climate change. as justice elena kagan s dissent, the court does not know how to address climate change, but the quarter points itself, instead of congress or the expert agency, as a decision-maker on climate policy. i cannot think of many things more frightening. unquote. also can t think of anything more frightening than a rogue supreme court whose ruling has run roughshod over the role of congress, the executive branch, prior to court precedents. and, o
death of ray liotta, best known for his iconic role in goodfellas. the tributes pouring in tonight announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from uvalde, texas. good evening from uvalde where the memorial behind me is growing tonight and so are the questions. questions and anger over the response by law enforcement after a gunman walked in a school, locked himself inside a classroom, and carried out the unthinkable. today police confirm that the school door appears to have been unlocked, that there was no school safety officer present, and that it took a full hour for law enforcement tactical teams to arrive at the classroom to end the siege. parents and relatives like 10-year-old jackie cazares uncle outraged at the response he told me jackie s father tried to go into the school himself. there s all this police presence, but then he s saying, let me in, let me in he said there s 20 of them standing there. reporter: today was supposed
a great president. i don t about polls, but i dow know about winning the races one district at a time and utterly delusional. nancy pelosi says everything is awesome and joe biden s america and the democrats deserve to be rewarded in the midtermrm. meanwhile, back in the real world, the president is setting records again for all the wrong reasons. biden s approval hitting a record low in a new ap poll just 39% of the country thinks s he s doing a good job d. but record inflation is crushing americans wallets and surging gas prices, setting a record for 11 days in a row and are now projected to go up to six dollars this summer. w but the biden administration does want to talk about it. do you believe that gas prices are too high? completely understand the crunch that so many americans are under rightan now think that they re that americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world t events that areng making things difficult fors all
in just minutes will land in south korea and the present six day asian swing intended to highlight trade and global economy as well as sending a message to china to stay out of taiwan. the president preparing for the trip tweeting i m on my way to the republic of korea and japan and my first trip to asia as president. i look forward to strengthening alliances and deepening economic alliances and help shape the rules of the road for the 21st century. but as you guys mention, the president s trip overshadowed by the mountain crises he leaves here behind. the record inflation and baby formula shortage but the soaring gas prices front and center, as you mentioned, look at this just released a new daily record high $4.59 for a gallon of gas and that is up 1 cent from yesterday. and thursday to pass the kratz bill with price gouging on gasoline. yet members of the president s cabinet want to place the blame on russia instead. you can thank the activity of vladimir putin for invad