everything in the senate now, requires 60 votes 60 votes. you know how many votes it got? 100, because they basically did it by unanimous consent. unanimous consent is how everything used to go to the floor, you know, like, 30 years ago, and certainly before the trump era and the mcconnell era. so, that moment earlier tonight, when they just went, unanimous consent meant that every single senator who made the slightest noise about getting in the way of this bill was not really serious about getting in the way of this bill. some of them to have points they really need to make and everyone understands that. and that s why they are being accommodated in this fashion tonight. but all of them want to race out of that building and get to the airport at this point tomorrow morning as soon as they can. yes, it s a question of is it a concern about the u.s. default that is making them putting the pep and the steps, or is it just the problem of losing their weekend? only time w
president trump s pressure campaign on to local election officials and michigan to not certify the 2020 presidential election results. is here to talk about this bombshell and about the colorado supreme court s ruling to boot trump from the ballot there. unfinished business, congress left town without a deal on immigration and aid for ukraine and israel, not to mention a overall budget to avoid a government shutdown. we dissect washington s long and incomplete to do list with max cohen of punchbowl news. and reverse migration, charles stops by to discuss his new documentary calling for black americans to change the nation s political calculus by moving to the south. i m jonathan capehart, and this is the saturday show. it s just one page, one sentence. quote, the petition for writ before judgment is denied. that should have been my bad, i m not a lawyer, but with that one sentence, the supreme court rejected special counsel jack smith s proposal to accelerate a decisi
plus deepening legal roles with the former president, as amanda alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk limit house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy nowsays that negotiations won t resume until president biden retur
development in the high stakes legal battle to abortion access, the most high stakes since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. a federal court of appeals heard arguments on why the widely used abortion drug mifepristone should be available. and attorney for the pharmaceutical company and anti-abortion groups squared off and a circuit court of appeals, which has historically been one of the nation s most conservative appeals court. during the tour to the hearing, the panel of judges, all of whom had previously backed abortion restrictions took repeated shots at the fda and, in the process, expose their fundamental lack of knowledge with the facts behind medication abortion. the hearing turned hostile within seconds with the judge james ho interrupting a lawyer after she described the landmark case as unprecedented in her opening statement. judge how asked that she, quote, just focus on the facts of the case rather than have the sort of fda can do no wrong theme. in anoth
this week, the facts finally caught up to two republican-led smear campaigns. let s start with the mess that was thursday s hearing on the so-called weaponization of federal government. for months now, chairman james jordan has promised testimony from, quote, dozens of whistleblowers on how the fbi is unfairly persecuting conservatives. and yet, just hours before jordan s promised blockbuster hearing on that very issue was set to begin, the fbi made a shocking revelation. two of the three self proclaimed whistleblowers who are set to testify have had this security clearances revoked over a question about their allegiance to the united states, reported criminal conduct, personal misconduct, and their handling of sensitive information. so when the hearing began, it quickly descended into chaos. with democratic members on the subcommittee repeatedly calling out chairman jordan for violating house rules by withholding alleged evidence he had gathered. where is the whistleblower