to repeal the state s near total abortion ban from 1864. it took multiple attempts to repeal the law with the exceptions only the save the mother s life and imprison anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion. democratic governor katie hobbs will sign the bill tomorrow adding in a statement quote while this repeal is essential to saving women s lives it is just the beginning of the fight to protect reproductive health care in arizona. that is good news. but, as vice president kamala harris noted, quote, while arizona democrats have worked to clean up the devastating mess created by trump and his extremist allies, the state s existing ban with no exception for rape or incest remains in effect. in florida, women there woke up to a new reality after a near total abortion ban prohibiting the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy before most women even know they are pregnant went into effect today. earlier today, vice president harris was in jacksonville, florida to mark the rol
tonight as a podcast, for free. please scan the qr code on your screen to listen on the go or listen to alex wagner tonight wherever you get your podcasts. now it is time for the last word. good evening, alex. that is good to know that i can listen to episodes of your show when you re jogging or whatever. i am too old to jog, i walk. have a good show. stack today, women in two different states are living in two different realities. women in arizona are one step closer today to undoing some of the damage caused by overturning roe v wade. the arizona senate voted to repeal the state s near-total abortion ban from 1864. it took multiple attempts to repeal the civil war era law that outlawed abortion from conception with exceptions only to save the mother s life and would imprison anyone who informs or helps a woman obtain an abortion. democratic governor katie hobbs will sign the bill tomorrow, adding in a statement, quote, while this is essential for protecting wom
impeachment trials of former president trump. and to do that they aimed for joe biden to be the next american president to face that humiliation. but the effort failed and failed in spectacular fashion. for three years we ve watched republicans reach desperately for something, anything that had even a hint of corruption they might pin on president biden. but their efforts failed to turn up any convincing evidence biden or his family had engaged in corruption. republicans did manage to wrangle one star witness who accused president biden and his family of all sorts of wrongdoing, but it turned out that guy was just a dupe, passing along provingly false information from people with ties to russian intelligence. and he has since been arrested twice for lying to the fbi. watching republicans try to impeach biden has been a lot like watching someone try to boil soup in a paper bag, just a huge embarrassing mess that accomplished nothing. and so republicans then decided they would
fbi s mishandling of the investigation into the disgraced doctor. i m especially sorry that there were people at the fbi who had their own chance to stop this monster and failed. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. we do want to begin tonight with that breaking news of a major settlement between the department of justice and some of the survivors of convicted sex offender larry nassar. cbs news has learned that the deal is in its final stages, and there are reports the amount could be up to $100 million. and the news comes three years after a department of justice watchdog report outlined the fbi s mishandling of the case, including how agents were slow to investigate the abuse allegations into nassar. he was the former team doctor for the women s national gymnastics team. olympic stars simone biles, mckayla maroney, and aly raisman are among the gymnasts who sued the fbi and the settlement, whe
reported $100 million for the fbi s mishandling of the investigation into the disgraced doctor. i m especially sorry that there were people at the fbi who had their own chance to stop this monster and failed. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. we do want to begin tonight with that breaking news of a major settlement between the department of justice and some of the survivors of convicted sex offender larry nassar. cbs news has learned that the deal is in its final stages and there are reports the amount could be up to $100 million. and the news comes three years after a department of justice watchdog report outlined the fbi s mishandling of the case, including how agents were slow to investigate the abuse allegations into nassar. he was the former team doctor for the women s national gymnastics team. analytic stars simone biles, mckayla maroney, and aly raisman are among the gymnasts who sued t