the texas supreme court reversing a ruling that allowed kate cox to get an emergency abortion. she had no other option to leave the state to get an abortion. she had the option, many, many women are trapped in their seats. ukrainian president zelenskyy to the white house and to capitol hill as delays for more aid are continuing in congress. the prospects of this getting done before the calendar year is up looks not good right now. the free world hesitates, that s when dictatorships celebrate. good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. we start with an extraordinary request from the special counsel in the election subversion case against donald trump. jack smith, special prosecutor, wants an answer from the supreme court, on whether the president is immune from prosecution and he wants it as soon as possible. smith went directly to the high court, specially leapfrogging what could have been a very lengthy appeals process. it c
here. thank you. again, congressman o rourke, as he mention there had, is off the presidential campaign trail right now, although he said emphatically there, he will be rejoining the campaign trail. he is in contention for the democratic nomination for president in his hometown grieving el paso right now, will be there, it sounds, for the foreseeable future. this was the scene in el paso as the president arrived there today. it was 100 degrees or more in el paso today. but congressman o rourke was out there along with all of these el paso residents and community leaders and elected officials. veronica escobar, why just mentioned, who seceded beto o rourke and is now el paso s representative in congress, they are lucky to have her, she was there today as well. she declined an invitation to accompany the president on his visit today, but she was out there in the community. and there did seem to be this feeling in el paso today that the president s visit wasn t helpful.
by saying if you think about it he really wasn t really white house counsel at all. don mcgahn put out a statement today in response to this lawsuit filed to get him to testify, claiming that he was just a lawyer with a client and that client happened to be the president. and since the president doesn t want him to testify now despite that subpoena to testify he s going to respect his clients wishes and defy the subpoena. unless and until a court order sentences him to do otherwise. that would make a lot more sense had he been the president s personal lawyer. as white house counsel with this lawsuit today in any case the court may very well order don mcgahn to do otherwise and stop defying that subpoena. if this case goes the way democrats want it to, the democrats in congress think this may be the lawsuit that basically breaks the dam and allows congress to finally get not just don mcgahn but all of the witnesses they want who testified as part of mueller s investigation. this lawsu
she declined an invitation to accompany the president on his visit today, but she was out there in the community. and there did seem to be this feeling in el paso today that the president s visit wasn t helpful. that in many quarters, it was not welcome. and that s just a remarkable thing for an american city that has experienced a wrenching tragedy, especially when it s not, you know, a big natural disaster where the city just can t logistically handle a visit. this was an american city telling the president of the united states that he s not wanted there because he was a contributor to the violence that has just befallen them. here was another thing that greeted the president today in el paso. a giant letter to the president on the front of the el paso el paso times. dear mr. president, quote, for many of us, our parents were born in mexico. we re proud of that and we are
so congress is going to get to the bottle of the allegations in the mueller report. obviously they re going to want to hear from the key witness in the mueller report which is don mcgahn. the white house not surprisingly has told mcgahn he can t testify, he shouldn t testify. the president beyond that has called mcgahn all sorts of names and said he s a liar and threatened him and threatened his law firm and incidentally that may itself be witness tampering to keep don mcgahn from talking in a federal ongoing investigation. but for his own part don mac began is trying to get out of testifying as well. by saying if you think about it he really wasn t really white house counsel at all. don mcgahn put out a statement today in response to this lawsuit filed to get him to testify, claiming that he was just a lawyer with a client and that client happened to be the president. and since the president doesn t