reporter: i don t think anybody is happy about the price tag, particularly given there s going to be another gubernatorial election just a year from now. people will be voting on whether or not gavin newsom should be the governor again in 2022. if you would have asked me about the surprise a month ago, the answer potentially would have been yes. but the fact that gavin newsom is going back to work in the building behind me this morning after the last couple of weeks that we ve had here in california, i don t think it s a surprise. certainly not to his campaign. they felt very confident about how this was going to play out, especially with the late campaign turn, larry elders, and he wasn t going to accept the results of the election. and the reality is people support gavin newsom s policies, they support him on covid vaccine mandates and mask mandates, support his effort to help the unhoused population, to close the inequality gap and fight the wildfires fueled by climate c
it doesn t require that at all because, obviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion. that s not even the part of abbott s comments yesterday that capturing headlines today, but we ll stop right here. failure number one to grasp the basic concept about pregnancy. banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy doesn t give women six weeks to think about what she s going to do as abbott seems to suggest there. for the vast majority of all women based on the way pregnancy is calculated, a pregnancy test may not even turn positive until what would be considered the fourth week of pregnancy. abbott s six weeks to think about it in a six-week abortion ban gives women really a couple days not the month and a half he seems to be suggesting there. we ll continue because there s much more on abbott s answer to the critical condition why should a rape or incest victim be forced to carry a pregnancy to term? that said, however, let s make somet
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they can sue for as much as $10,000. you can sue the lyft driver that takes a woman to get a procedure. which, of course, makes it much harder to challenge in court which is by design. this is all happening because the u.s. supreme court failed to rule on an emergency request to block the law before it actually went into effect last night at midnight. the justices could still put this law on hold, but for right now as of 8:00 a.m. this morning they have not. and if your doctor finds a fetal heartbeat, you cannot get an abortion in texas right now. in this law there is no exception for rape or insist. only medical emergencies. cnn supreme court reporter aryan deveaux joins us know. can you tell us whether or not the supreme court is going to weigh in and why have they not weighed in on the emergency request to block this? reporter: it s interesting shall. as you said, roe v. wade is in jeopardy with this new conservative court. i want to say what the supreme court did or d
what diplomatic sources are telling us about getting americans out of afghanistan and how the taliban worked with the u.s. in the final days of america s longest war. plus the new threat coming from the house republican leader. kevin mccarthy s warning sparked by the january 6th commission, what he says a would-be gop majority will not forget. i m hallie jackson in washington along with julia ainsley, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid joins us as well. julia, let s start with the law out of texas, the most restrictive abortion law in the country. here s what it can you see, not just bans abortions after the fetal heartbeat or roughly six weeks which is before many women know they re pregnant, only a couple weeks after a missed period and has no exceptions for rape and incest and gives private citizens the power to sue anyone who helps somebody who is going to get the procedure, that means somebody who