decision from nineteen seventy three. the very same peoplee who consider the bill of rightsl a racist relic quickly dismissed out of hand those same people quickly become emotional as they describe the sublime bec beauty of roe versus wade yesterday when democratic officeholder described the roe decision as quote sacred. and it s not an overstatement for many democratsan it is sacred.ea they will tell youn and they mean itt that this country cannot continue without roe, without roe darkness willme america revert to slavery and cannibalism and other varieties of hobbesian miseryni so gruesome they re best left on described between a bright new tomorrow and the of the handmaid s tale stands only roe v.ta wade. they re telling you that on channels right now across the spectrum s it s all pretty bewildering if you consider what roe v. y wade actually is and that is true no matter, what you think of abortion itself, whether you re strongly for legal abortion, the decision as a dec
more previously unknown visits to the white house back in 2016. as attorney general merrick garland faces growing pressure to appoint a special prosecutor. an argument today before the supreme court over whether or not the biden administration could do away with the trump administration s migrant protection protocol commonly known as the remain in mexico policy. arizona attorney general mark brnovich is standing by live to weigh in. we have team coverage tonight in the twitter verse in an uproar over elon musk s $44 million deal to take over the giant. we begin with trace gallagher on those apparently not taking the news so well like twitter employees. let s begin with the company itself. many of twitter s current employees were either so shocked or distraught by elon musk s $44 billion buyout they couldn t compel themselves to speak out about his push to promote free speech. in fact, all some employees could muster was a tear-filled emoji or meme of emotional distress. th
they re going crazy over an electric car carmaker who supports free-speech. that shows you how ridiculous they are. shannon: temporary victory for summit states suing the biden administration to keep idol title 42 emplaced for the trump era pandemic policy allow the federal government to quickly expel illegal immigrants . standing by to debate. and the supreme court is now considering arguments over a case involving a high school football coach neulasta s job after playing with this player on the 50-yard line after games. with the decision could mean fo your freedom. we begin with twitter s new owner, the tech guy accepting the $44 billion takeover bid monday. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher i on the case. gate not only does elon musk have 83 billion twitter followers, he s about to own th whole platform for as you say roughly $44 billion. he called himself a free-speech absolutist. he believes that free-speech is a bedrock of a functioning democracy coati
late for that oligarchy s already here. every major tech company is t already controlled by billionaires. that s been the case for a long time. so this is nothinga tim new . the reason today s sale ofal twitter is big news. the reason it could turn out to be a pivot point in our historyk is that elon musk does not agree with the rest ofth the billionaires in the tech business, unlike the leaders of facebook, google, apple, amazon, elon musk believes in free speech. he thinkscl everyone should be allowed to talk, including people who disagree with him. i hope that even my worst critics remain on twitter. ttmy wrote today on histh new platform because that is what free speech meansat. now that sounds like an entirely american sentiment, but in this atmosphere that is a revolutionary posture of the five companies that control the flow of virtually all informationn is consumed by ther citizens of this country. twitter is te by far the smallet of the group, but it doesn t t mat
enters its third month us secretary of state antony blinken is expected in kyiv the first top us offical to visit since the invasion. the row over lockdown party breaches in downing street continues. a conservative minster says removing boris johnson from office would lead to instability . now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. iran s rocky relations with the west have cost a host of individuals their freedom. the islamic republic has imprisoned citizens from the us, britain and a number of other countries for spying. now, the charges may be trumped up, but tehran s determination to use western prisoners for political purposes is very real. my guest is the australian academic, kylie moore gilbert, who was released from an iranian jail in 2020 after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on