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
as some states rush to ban abortions, others work to protect them. hours ago mississippi certifying the state s trigger law that makes nearly all abortions in the state illegal. we re following all the developments and the supreme court s latest decision that sticks with a familiar trend, dismantling the separation of church and state. first to cnn national correspondent nadia in mississippi. nadia, talk to us about the state s latest move and where it falls in the big picture. well, we knew that the state s first female attorney general, lynn finch, was a big supporter of overturning roe v. wade. it was a matter of time before she certified the trigger law in mississippi. that happened just this morning. so now there s a ten-day period where the clinic behind me, the state s last abortion clinic can continue to perform abortions. today they are not performing abortions. the clinic is closed, but they will begin again tomorrow and for the next nine days after that. once tho
keeping a lot of this under wraps. the committee just announced a surprise hearing for tomorrow with very few details. it s set to begin at 1:00 and the committee is saying they will present what they re calling recently obtained evidence and saying they ll hear more witness testimony. no word yet on what the evidence is or who may be testifying, not even an indication on how many people will be testifying. but there has been this sense that the committee was getting inundated with new information and it was just last week that the committee remember jamie raskin talked after one of the hearings about this deluge of information that the committee had been receiving, including via the tip line they have, and even chairman benny thompson has been calling for more people to come forward. he s done it repeatedly after some of the hearings. we saw last week, that was hearing five, this would be hearing six, and last week showcased some compelling testimony. we saw three former top
supreme court striking down a woman s federal right to an abortion. at least nine states have now effectively banned abortion just since friday s ruling. in louisiana, a judge there just temporarily blocked its trigger law. emotions are running high as we see demonstrations on both sides of the issue. legal battles also continue. abortion rights advocates filing lawsuits in florida and utah to head off the bans, and we could see a similar lawsuit this week in ohio. california lawmakers are rushing to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to protect access to abortion target, no responses to our request for comment, and i just jumped off phone with him a few minutes ago, what are you telling your clients, companies that are reaching out to you asking what to do and he said, look, if this does not benefit you to speak, don t, which i thought was really interesting, and i asked in this environment, can you make a case for not saying something when employees want to he
one-on-one with vice president kamala harris. her take as such a pivotal decision divides the nation. and the cost of living. a closer look at sky-high rent prices and the crippling effect on so many people just trying to get by. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead. and fallout from the monumental supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. today, a portrait of an increasingly divided america. at least ten states now have effectively banned abortion with varying exceptions or none at all. another handful of states are expected to enact bans in the coming days and weeks. meanwhile, abortion rights activists are launching new legal challenges on the state level while democratic governors are promising to expand abortion access and protect people who travel there for care. a fourth day of protests is planned in cities across the country today after a weekend of marches, rallies, and at times violent demonstratio