vested denver following several major stories this afternoon two big rulings on a key abortion pill praising the legal stakes to protec abortion rights for millions o women. reaction is coming in, fast an furious. new developments in the ouster of two - lawmakers in the tennessee legislature as the vic president lends her voice to the fight. they understood the importance, these three, o standing to say that peopl will not be silenced we are also keeping a close eye on israel after severa attacks this easter weekend. a new move from the white hous on trans athletes that has all sides of the debate upset. all of that, plus the news thi week that the former vic president will testify against donald trump, what he migh say. once he is under oath. we re gonna look at that comin up as well we begin though with the breaking news on abortio rights a federal judge in texas has essentially blocked the fda approval of mifepristone potentially undoing two decade of legal and safe
i ll be back tomorrow. some answers are now greetings everyone, you ar watching simone. this is a big week and the assault on women s bodil autonomy from supreme court to stat legislators and relentless efforts to chip away at access to abortion care, even in blue states i m talking to governor jake and say of washington s date about how he is fighting bac for what he calls an issue o freedom. donald trump is spending mor time dealing with his lega problems lately, giving second deposition in new yor and this time, he actually answered questions but he is fighting progress and othe investigations it is really hard to keep them all straight so we will brea it down for, you don t worry plus now that the expel that tennessee lawmakers are back i action, they have a lot of wor to be done for the democracy that they are fighting for we will take a look at wha is next the movement they have inspired i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. it s been a very busy wee
government the story is not over an hou folks because although pearson and jones are back at work, th pair still have to run in special election later thi year if they want to keep thei seats for the rest of the term it s crazy with thousands of young people mobilizing and tennessee ove these issues, the electora landscape in tennessee could see a major shift. we saw the impact young voters had on last year s midterms, the tennessee republicans to not get the message? here to discuss is the cofounder and vice president o the equity alliance tequil johnson. it is very nice to see you thank you so much for coming o today. i was on the ground in nashville and i was there th day after the expulsions to si down with the all three of lawmakers not known as the tennessee three. i felt and i saw the energy on the ground i saw that young people. what is the tone and tenor o the ground now i mean the energy aroun this movement has definitely been ignited or reignited.
require and allow and encourag debate and discussion. and yes, dissension! but this so-called leaders tried to shut it down instead. but we are not having that vice president, kamal harris there on her meetin with the so-called tennessee three in nashville president biden also spoke t three lawmakers on the phone inviting him to the white hous in the near future meanwhile, state representatives, jones and pearson, look to regain thei seats as representative after surviving by one vote. adrian shropshire is the executive director of blac pack, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciated we got lawmakers intern assist in tennessee, it is just the latest in a pattern of by stat republicans targeting the blac community. what has this pattern been
of that, what we saw was the tennessee legislature attemp to criminalize organizations for registering voters we saw, obviously significan gerrymandering, includin splitting up nationa congressional seats. we see now that takeover of th nashville city council and their economic assets. obviously now we see thi incredible attack on democracy with the removal of these tw young men from their seats let s talk about justin jones expected to be appointed back to his seat b the nashville council. both him and justin pierson ar eligible to be gained thei seats through a specia election to fill the vacancies what is your organization goin to do in getting behind them t make sure they re both reinstated the good news, and th