good morning. i am jonathan capehart. and this is a sunday show. this mother s day. breaking news out of ukraine. first lady jill biden crossed into ukraine this morning, and dr. biden met with her ukrainian counterpart. olena zelenskyy. for two hours. at the school housing displaced people. before crossing back into slovakia, just moments ago. according to nbc news, this is the first time the ukrainian first lady has appeared in public since the war began. we will have much more on ukraine with retired general stuff later in the show. but first, here in this country, the clock could potentially rollback on 50 years of women s reproductive rights. something the majority of americans oppose. wednesday, the senate will vote on the women s health protection act of 2022. which would block an abortion rights before the supreme court could officially overturn them. the measure is expected to fail because of the filibuster. but the debate is a vital for true servicing these key fa
are glad for your depth of experience, on wheels like this lawrence because these are tectonic shifts, these are seismic shifts. even though we knew this is what the supreme court was going to do, the reality of the fact that it is happening has got to have everybody in this country thinking about what s next and what freedom actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming to
actually looks like. actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming today. but we have never been through anything like it. and i m gonna take us through a little bit of the history that joe biden mention today that got us to where we are today. i look forward to it lawrence, thank you, have yourself a great show. thank you. the supreme court is facing a crisis of legiti
institutions. we ve seen quite a bit of it. about to speak after the highest court in the land rocked by this unprecedented leak, the president really said nothing. he was asked about this earlier, what he thought about the fact that there was this leak, this breach. he didn t comment on it. we ll see if he does a few minutes from now. he served for eight years as the chair of the senate judiciary committee. so we expect that no matter where he falls on this issue and he sort of has been on both sides in some way, we can talk about that. you would expect he would feel strongly about the issue of this breach, of this leak. the court confirming that the document that was leaked is justice alito s draft opinion that was written in february. in it he talks about the majority overturning roe v. wade and ordering an internal investigation now into this leak. we have a great line-up. we ll have marc thiessen first, fox news contributor. senator mike lee will join us in just a moment
forcing an opinion change that they think has been all but baked in. hence the release of this early opinion before it was an official opinion. never mind the details. it s separated the two camps, pro choice and those looking at where to go from here in the pro life camp. no way to telegraph how this goes, but what we do know is that it s predictively falling along party lines. shannon bream has more on this from washington. shannon? so neil, here s what we know. there s officially an investigation underway by the u.s. marshall s office and the supreme court did something unusual this afternoon. forced its hand. they admitted that this draft piece that is out there by justin alito, current by february, it s legit. now, here s how draft works. that majority opinion goes out. it s circulated. the clerks are involved in this process. that s how dissents are crafted. concurrents will be crafted as well. they re involved in this process. so now we have to wait to see what the a