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
seized papers marked top secret when they searched the florida home of the former president donald trump on monday. the search warrant shows he s being investigated over possible violations of the espionage act. the 82 year old taking on new heights. nick gardner tells the bbc he s ready and very excited to scale the final peak in his mission to climb all of scotland s 282 munros. good afternoon. the agent for sir salman rushdie says he remains on a ventilator and may lose an eye, after he was stabbed repeatedly on stage at an event in new york state yesterday. sir salman, who s 75, has been the subject of death threats from islamists since the release of his book, the satanic verses, in 1988. a man has been arrested. nomia iqbal sent this report. the attack happened in full view of an audience. there was panic and confusion, as sir salman rushdie lay injured on the stage after being stabbed. the suspectjumped onto the stage and attacked mr rushdie, stabbing him at least
washington tonight , cutting losses. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now it s natural that we as humans often have a hard time letting go , admitting to ourselves that the path we re on is a dead end, that the goal we set is unattainable or that the cost of achieving are just too high. instinctively we feel like ending something prematurely. maybe it s a sign of weakness that quitting for losers but especially in politics the opposite is often true with joe biden as president, there are sadly many areas where america needs to cut her losses first we need to cut our losses in ukraine. if you hadn t noticed, the ukrainians are not winning as our own nation is hurting. we ve allocated more than fifty three billion dollars and counting in humanitarian military aid to help them beat back the russians. but now well, here s a headline from bloomberg. putin may win in ukraine, but the real war is just starting and more americans now say russia rather than ukraine is winning th
in a letter to colleagues, speaker of the house nancy pelosi gushed over what was happening saying we ve been moved by how many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful action. they even got support from the white house. these activists posted a map with the home addresses of the supreme court justices. is that the kind of thing the president wants to help your site make their point? i think the president s view is that there s a lot of passion. laura: deputy white house press secretary andrew bates tried to kind of clean that up earlier today, tweeting jen psaki never encouraged people to protest outside justice s homes providing a transcript in which he highlights her saying protests have been peaceful to date. but he didn t include the whole part. so i know that there s an outrage right now, i guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges homes. laura: when the angle recognizes re
lebanese turn out for a parliamentary poll? a bbc team has uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian soldiers were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. the local police chief has said that more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. 0ur east europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, has been investigating one case in particular. and a warning her report contains some distressing details. this is a place where dark acts were committed. civilians tortured and killed by russian soldiers fighting a war in which they break all the rules, like they do not know them or even care. we were shown underground to where five men were held captive, then shot in the head. in the gloom, we saw the chilling evidence. the men s bodies were found kneeling here, beaten, their hands tied