trump following soon after. going head to head tonight in a showdown filled with political land mines that could be hazardous to both campaigns. we will have full team coverage with live reports from atlanta. a detailed review of the last showdown. a look back at presidential moments with michael beschloss. the supreme court releasing that idaho abortion case, similar to restrictions in six other states that was mistakenly posted online yesterday, confirming the court will not decide yet whether hospitals have to provide emergency abortions preserving the current federal requirement they do for now, but sparking a furious dissent from justice sotomayor. a damage settlement overturned, meaning years of negotiations have to start over. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are just hours away from what could be a turning point. until now, it has been a closely fought race between president biden and former president trump. that could change tonight. t
political ads do. pennsylvania, you can freely vote by mail now. some lawmakers want to get rid of it motivated by trump s false claims about the fraudulent nature of it. a lot of people will use it. there is a partisan divide in how voters use it. the republican national committee is trying to under dl mine that. democrats vote by mail in higher numbers. ads like this will keep the divide. you did so much reporting about election integrity and looking into what is new in different election cycles. thank you for your efforts. appreciate this reporting. stay on it. that s it for us today. see you back here tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. catch our show online around the clock on youtube, on other platforms any time. thank you so much for joining us. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, biden and trump are in the final phase of debate prep, but taking opposite approaches to what could be a game changer. team trump
his thumb is working! i do like this coin toss thing. why stop with the debate side? let s have the coin determine who wins the election. yep. it would be so much less stressful than five months of campaigning. just flip the coin! heads, it s trump. tails, it s biden. if the coin bounces and rolls into the sewer, it s rfk jr. i say he ll come out all jacked up, right? all jacked up. yes, all jacked up on metamucil. trump says he wants them to both submit to a drug test before the debate. do you have any idea how long it takes to get a urine sample from men close to 80? i m 74 and the only time i i don t have to pee is when i m pee ing! the great marty short filling in for jimmy kimmel this week. not a bad substitute. we are two days away now from the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. we will have the latest what we are learning about president biden s strategy for dealing with two different versions of donald trump. primary day in new york and colora
majority, voted to overturn roe v. wade, eliminating in an instant 49 years of precedent and productions. now, a lot of the country s minority, to make life-changing decisions for the majority. on the basis not of science or medicine, but religion, specifically on when conservative christians believe life begins. that decision set off a cascade of new state laws, either severely restricting or completely banning the procedure. making an abortion so difficult to get that pregnancy itself was suddenly at risk. you ve heard just some of the stories. amanda, we ve had her on this show from texas, who was denied an abortion even as she was miscarrying and septic, and onda in florida who lost half the blood in her body and had lasting damage done to her uterus after doctors sent her home to miscarry at home alone at 16 weeks because there was still a fetal heart beat. kelly shannon in alabama who was denied an abortion and forced to drive across state lines for crucial reproductive
okay. here s a question that you don t normally hear a candidate it asked at one of his final campaign stops before a presidential debate. that s a fair question. after all, the debate is on thursday, and trump s sentencing for 34 felony convictions is exactly 2 weeks after that. it doesn t bother me. we have a corrupt group of people. and you know what? it s really working out the other way. we just got the highest poll numbers we ve ever had. they cheat so much, it helps us in the end. because if we don t win, our country is finished. allow me to finish. if we don t win, that i m worried about going to prison. and he kind of should be worried. because as serious as the new york convictions are, the much more serious charges are still hanging out there. and for all of his talk about a corrupt system, he is sure getting a lot of help on that front right now. just take a look at exhibit a in the new york times this week. after trump appointed judge eileen cannon was assign