allowing strangers to sue anyone suspected of helping a woman get an abortion. the new york times describes the court s decision like this. quote, the majority opinion was unsigned and consisted of a single long paragraph. it said the abortion providers who had challenged the law in an emergency application to the court had not made their case in novel and procedural question. the majority stressed it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the texas law. it did not need to limit proper challenges to it. justice sonia sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent. the court s order stunning, a flagrantly unconstitutional law designed to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny? a majority of justices opted to bury their heads in the sand. sotomayor also describes the texas law like this. quote, in effect the texas legislature has deputized the state s citizens as bounty hunters. offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their ne
house correspondent john harwood, senior political analyst ron brownstein. gentlemen, so happy to have you. good evening to both of you. it s the top of the hour now. we re glad that you re here. john, two big wins for the biden administration today. the house voting to move forward on this massive $3.5 trillion budget and the john lewis voting rights act. the president also talking about the economic plan before the afghanistan announcement. does this show you where he thinks americans are focusing? it s not only where he thinks americans are focused, will be focused, but it s also what he thinks will be the best way he has to counter some of the political damage that he has sustained over afghanistan. joe biden has centered his presidency around trying to bring material changes to people s lives, trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, trying to deliver concrete benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, in the form of human benefits, child t
population is fully vaccinated. it s a state where the daily-average number of hospitalizations is north of 12,000. and just to break that down for you, in more human terms. that means mortuary trailers are coming in to store bodies of covid victims. it means dozens of children are newly hospitalized with covid every day. with pediatric icu beds unavailable in some areas. in case texas leadership is listening right now, i am going to speak in very blunt terms. texans are dying. parents are dying. their children are becoming orphans or they are sick and hospitalized, themselves. this child has died of covid. and yet, the state s thrice vaccinated, covid-positive leader, governor greg abbott, has spent months blocking mask mandates. abbott tested positive for covid this week. 24 hours after attending this maskless fet. covid is a serious matter, even for someone waging war against preventative measures, which is why abbott got treated right away with regeneron s monoclonal anti
stay beyond august 31st if necessary? depends on where we are and if we can ramp these numbers are to 5,000 to 7,000 a day coming out. if that s the case, they ll all be out. so americans should understand that troops might have to be there beyond august 31. no. americans should understand that we ll try to get it done before august 31st. if we don t if we don t, we ll determine at the time who is left. and? and if there s american citizens left, we re going to stay and get them all out. situation on the ground in afghanistan remained tense as the taliban now dig in and assert control over their country. our veteran chief veteran correspondent richard engel is in kabul again for us tonight. reporter: the u.s., did led evacuation is finally moving quickly and movingly from the military side of kabul airport. planes arriving and departing around the clock. it s a far cry from the bedlam monday when thousands of afghans broke into the airport, so desperate to
fronts in the war against covid. starting with booster shots, which will be offered to all americans beginning the third week of september. the reason most people in america don t worry about polio, smallpox, measles, mumps or rubella today is because of vaccines. the threat of the delta virus remains real. but we are prepared, we have the tools, we can do this. if you aren t going to fight covid-19, at least get out of the way of everyone else who s trying. the biden administration will also require that nursing home staff be vaccinated in order to continue receiving medicare and medicaid funding. these developments come as america s hospitals are back in crisis mode, overwhelming health care workers who are facing burnout. states like alabama are out of icu beds. they re done. a hospital association president called it uncharted territory with some patients being treated on gurneys in hallways. but what is perhaps most troubling is the spike in covid cases among childre