inspector general s investigation have even been released. and right now, arguments are set to begin in louisiana where the fate of a widely used abortion pill rests in the hands of three judges our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. yamiche alcindor is following the case in louisiana. yamiche, what can you tell us about what s happening today? starting just this hour, three conservative judges will be hearing oral arguments on whether mifepristone should remain available. each of these judges, we should put our names and faces up of people have a history of supporting restrictions on abortion, and each were nominated by republican presidents. as viewers may remember, a group of anti-abortion activists to get this pill off the market. they are arguing it is unsafe, and the fda should never have approved it when it did two decades ago. the justice department is arguing that taking the medication off the market would cause great harm to women and
thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly
and i think that s, i think, part of the reason that you ve had so much discussion today about what s next, because if they re willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don t care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, because he has clarence thomas on the supreme court, and the reagan justice there right now. but from george w. bush, to ronald reagan and donald trump, it is just a statistic statistical likelihood without even getting into their life histories. it s a statistical likelihood that it least one of them has personally, in some sense, participated in an abortion, possibly by paying for it. as is very commo
mark: hello, america, i m mark levine this. is life, liberty and levin. vivek ramaswamy and january nguyen. we want to john nguyen. we want to pick up a bit where we were last night and underscore an issue here. the same media that helped force joe biden on us is now leading the way to remove biden is get a different nominee. if this doesn t demonstrate once and for all the media and democrat party are one in the same, in fact the media lead the democrat party in many respects to nothing well. nothing well. this is a battle now between the media and democrat party activists. that is media wanted to replace biden activists and some do and some don t. 99% of the democrat primary are committed to joe biden. that s not giving up and saying the new york times tells us to throw off biden. what the media want is the complete dis-enfranchisement of millions and millions of voters throughout spring, early summer and primary period. they promoted them and they would run in the democr
mark: hello, america, i m mark levine this. is life, liberty and levin. vivek ramaswamy and january nguyen. we want to john nguyen. we want to pick up a bit where we were last night and underscore an issue here. the same media that helped force joe biden on us is now leading the way to remove biden is get a different nominee. if this doesn t demonstrate once and for all the media and democrat party are one in the same, in fact the media lead the democrat party in many respects to nothing well. nothing well. this is a battle now between the media and democrat party activists. that is media wanted to replace biden activists and some do and some don t. 99% of the democrat primary are committed to joe biden. that s not giving up and saying the new york times tells us to throw off biden. what the media want is the complete dis-enfranchisement of millions and millions of voters throughout spring, early summer and primary period. they promoted them and they would run in the democr