precedent. we have to do everything we can. senator, always good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. she is on the science and transportation and is the co-sponsor of this new legislation before the senate. a vote will be held on wednesday. do not go anywhere. straight ahead, pressley an i discuss that this is having control over women. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning. it is saturday the may the 7th. it is 9 am in the east. it has been five days since we got the post row reality that the supreme court is poised to usher in with the sam alito draft opinion erasing abortion rights in america. we still do not fully understand the far-reaching consequences that this decision could have. the implications of rolling back women s rights in this particular way. using this decision and the reasoning laid out by justice alito will have a ripple effect that is beginning to come into full view. this is as legal experts digest the opinion and anti-and p
projected. laura: by any objective measure, america across the board is facing the most severe challenges in our nations history. in china, we have a dangerous geopolitical threat. there is a war raging in eastern europe. the dow dropped 1,063 points today. inflation is outpacing wages. our industrial base is crippled. and of course, we are 30th $30 trillion in debt. this is the time when america needs leaders to attack all the major issues one by one and a practical and sophisticated way. unfortunately, with biden, we have a fundamentally frivolous and unfundamental group of people. let alone having the type of executive leadership and judgment that we all need and deserve. now, nobody even things at this point biden does anything anymore. essentially, he is staff escorts him in and out of events and they hope they avoid grabbing at the air when he supposed to walk off the stage. he s team should have surrounded him with a cabinet of experts. who could do the parts of the
of rape saying it was easy to make. the instruction is known as the hale warning. he didn t have much use for charges of marital rape either. in his book, history of the pleas of the crown he wrote, quote, the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, meaning that a wife was a man s property and, therefore, he cannot commit a crime upon her nor can she refuse her consent. interestingly or rather horrifically, justice samuel alito in the leaked opinion draft that would overturn roe v. wade cites that book in his argument to end abortion. citing hale as an historical authority not once, not twice but nine times in a 98 page ruling, mathematically that s once almost every ten pages, hale was one of the people alito relied upon for one of his most extreme assertions, that, quote, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion from 17th century english common law to the late 20th century. that could apply in almost everything. contraception, inte
decision. roberts ripping the leak as an egregious breach of trust and is ordering an investigation. president biden and democrats ignoring the leak and instead attacking republicans and conservative justices on the high court. if this decision holds, it s really quite a radical decision. this is a dark and disturbing morning for america. this is a five alarm fire. we need to get rid of the filibuster and roe is just exhibit a. part of this november s election reproductive rights will be on the ballot. this would appear to be an invitation to have, you know, hand maids tale type antifeminist regulation. these justices are acting like this is somehow something that they have the right to change. they do not have the right to change this. greg: this isn t coordinated at all. democrats also telling their supporters to get out there and protest. meanwhile republicans say the leak was meant to intimidate the justices into changing their vote. the radical left imm
a betrayal of the court ask there will be an investigation into its origin. if the contours of this draft hold, which is expected by many court watchers, it would mean a seismic shift for the court and the country taking away a right for millions of americans and throwing the issue of abortion access into chaos. president biden addressed the news just over an hour ago. this is as urgent and as real as it gets. we will vote to protect a woman s right to choose and every american is going to see which side every senator stands on. over on capitol hill, it has been an urgent day of reaction. senate democrats are rallying on the steps of the capitol with chuck schumer vowing action saying he will bring legislation codifying the right to an abortion to the floor, even if he doesn t have the votes. the senate s republicans both suggesting they have been misled by the justices about how they would handle the issue. susan collins says the content of the opinion is inconsistent wi