to terminate pregnancies on hold effective seven days from now. kristen is the name of the drug at first got fda approval more than two decades ago, and until recently the notion of a judge having grounds to reverse approval of it was seen by many legal experts is dubious at best. however, abortion opponents steered their case to a judge named matthew kiss merrick of the fifth circuit in texas, and he has ruled as they hoped just after that. we got word of a ruling in a different federal court in washington state, affecting only some states on the same drug, so there s a lot to get to cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue joins us right now on both rulings. so first tell us about the texas ruling and what that means. it s been an unbelievable night, right? both of these rulings opposing and they both have to do with the fbi. today s approval of the medication, abortion drugs, and that approval came in 2000. in this first case, what the federal judge said is he blocked the g
i m jessica dean on capitol hill. and this is cnn. captioning is brought to you, by page publishing. want to publish a book? review your manuscript for free book page publishing can help you through the process . we cut through the confusion of the publishing wke it easy for you call 805 630741. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news to court rulings, the first potentially life altering for women in this country. a federal judge in texas putting government approval of a drug widely used to terminate pregnancies on hold effective seven days from now. kristen is the name of the drug at first got fda approval more than two decades ago, and until recently the notion of a judge having grounds to reverse approval of it was seen by many legal experts is dubious at best. however abortion opponents steered their case to a judge named matthew kiss merrick of the fifth circuit in texas, and he has ruled as they hoped just after that. we got word of a ruling in a different fed
family is nowhere to be seen. and you re somebody like donald trump. it s possible you can t rule it out. let s put it that way. i these people that see him as indestructible at age 78. he s going to write himself back into the white house. i think that s also far fetched. consider. what do you think of that? yeah i m sorry. i was getting some bad audio, so i couldn t catch what you said there. anderson he said you were a great person, adam. i said you were a great person caught that part. that part was saying he thought that that that that trump might actually just you know, faking illness or something and ultimately drop out of the race. well, i think it be great if you i mean and that s yeah. i like your theory. i like his theory. i just i m still i don t know. maybe i ve been through this for long enough to just kind of be under the impression that you know, like this guy. i mean, everybody is just waiting that you know, donald trump s gonna magically get out of the race
anderson: two years ago, the former president left washington and president biden took over. the midway point of first term, question is two fold, what is he doing and what is he doing about a second term, former president declared he s running president biden could soon do the same, he s started framing his how does the president feel about the first half of his term. i spend the last five day speaking to half dozen of his closest advisors and the most striking ask two-fold, they deeply president biden is in the best position boy far he s been in since he took office two years ago tonight. second they don t believe the ongoing special counsel investigation is really many people outside of washington actually care about, they take it seriously not dismissing it but they believe the issues what the president ran on and they think has deliver on is what matters most it s not just the advisors they think you have the have a window into the president s view when he was to
everybody has to unionize and do it, but they won t do that. anthony, what do you think? i mean, do you think that there is going to be a sort of a wait of more indictments coming? i mean, if that what will that have an impact. see i have a different take on all this. i do think that s going to impact them. it will be a very time consuming, but i think the absence of his family members in this campaign is gonna knock him out of the race. he just doesn t do well without them. he he ran trump organization with them reality television with them the white house with them the 2016 campaign and the 2020 campaign. they want nothing to do with this campaign anderson and they were conspicuously absent from the courtroom, so i think he s gonna have a hard time he may not even make it to the iowa caucuses, not because of anything other than the combination of the lawsuits. and the families absence. it may not be anything to do with the republican adversaries that he s facing, so you think he migh