ex-president it is explosive reporting from the washington post. there s this saying when it comes to donald trump and his slogan, remember the one on the hats, make america great again, that what maga said make attorneys get attorneys. the late breaking news from the washington post proves this case that now donald trump s attorneys appear to be in special counsel jack smith s cross hairs including some of the most notorious ones. federal prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election have asked witnesses extension sieve questions about the actions of rudy giuliani, including where he got his information about alleged fraud, what he did in the days around january 6th and what he knew about the actions coming that day. people who have appeared in front of the grand jury say. investigators looking into classified documents pertaining to mar-a-lago have sought testimony from another trump lawyer, ben cork ran saying there is evidence that the former president u
energy underestimated is being underestimated again. this is a today problem. this is a tomorrow problem. this is an everyday problem for women in america regardless of their age, gender and it would appear based on what could be imminent, their geography. i know of physicians in new york state who are performing more sterilizations on young women than ever before in their lives because all women everywhere are terrified. and i feel like once again, policymakers in washington are misreading the room. why isn t there urgent action today in washington to ask walgreens why they re not selling these drugs that are legal? i think we re going to see some action. i was talking to democratic lawmakers this morning, and about the larger topic about where is business? where is pharma? we ve got this case in texas that could undermine 20 years of
we are now all living if a patch work nation. where some states protect women s reproductive rights and the ban to reproductive health care keep coming. any day knew a ruling from a federal judge in texas could come down that could ban a key abortion medicine. when medication abortions now count for 50% of legal abortions across our country. last night a major announcement from walgreens that will have a huge impact right now on women s ability to access reproductive health care. from politico, the pharmacy chain confirmed it will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal. acting out of an abundance of caution. amiding a shifting policy landscape, threats from officials and pressure from anti-abortion activists. the battle to protect women s preproductive health care is where we begin the hour.
and the legality of it, especially across state lines. there is a lot of questions, certainly state law is state law. but i think there is a lot of confusion and misperceptions around how women in different states could get access to drugs in other states legally and by the right that they have, especially related to something that a large box retailer such as walgreens sending out this message to communicate to people. so they could put their press conference out and say we re not going to do this. but i think what is deceitful is not make it clear that that is their business choice and just like the biden administration put pressure on insulin makers, nicole, to get them to eventually lower prices, that is the kind of action that i hope is taking place right now not just in the white house, but i hope legislators are also doing the exact same thing. there is still time to get walgreens and other pharmacies back in the game on something safe and legal for women across
axios reporter and contributor alexi mccann is here and mini timerage and. kavita patel is back now an msnbc medical contributor. i m coming to you in your former obama policy hat. what could be done to try to unring this bell that walgreens has said, i will be intimidate and restrict access to legal medication and deny women in america access to drugs they are legally entitled to have. i could only imagine that there were immediate calls and had probably even before the press conference were done, but i would say kind of number one, reinforcing this is legal and not only did the biden administration but the food and drug administration, the department of health and human services and by the way every single major medical society have reinforced not just the value of access but the safety