i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday and our nightcap is standing b to break down another historic newsweek so, don t go anywhere. but we are going to start this broadcast again back in th city of nashville, where two black state lawmakers were expelled from the tennesse legislature after peacefully protesting against gun violenc in house chamber the former state representative, justin jones, might not be former furlong the majority of the national city council say they will vot to reinstate him until a special election can be held the tennessee expulsions o cause national outrage president biden posting this photo of his virtual meeting who are now known as the tennessee three earlier. vice president harris called the situation undemocratic and dangerous and travel t nashville today to meet with the expelled lawmakers here s just some of what has been happening over the last 2 hours. we called for you all to ba assault weapons. and you respond with an assaul on democracy fr
abortion pill ruling from th texas judge is in. what it means for access acros the country and what comes next and our friday night cap i here with other major storie of the week, and they re mvps, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday and our nightcap is standing b to break down another historic newsweek so, don t go anywhere. but we are going to start this broadcast again back in th city of nashville, where two black state lawmakers were expelled from the tennesse legislature after peacefully protesting against gun violenc in house chamber the former state representative, justin jones, might not be former furlong the majority of the national city council say they will vot to reinstate him until a special election can be held the tennessee expulsions o cause national outrage president biden posting this photo of his virtual meeting who are now known as the tennessee three earlier. vice president harris called the
answer so let s get started breaking news, access to the abortion pill, mid upper stone and legal limbo after duelin federal rulings. what does this mean fo tightening reproductive rights in america plus, support for the tennesse through pouring in, by s president kamala harris me yesterday with the lawmakers after the republican-controlle house votes to kick two of the out of the state legislature i will speak with the member who managed to hang on to he seat by just one vote. and later, michael cohen i will go one-on-one with th star witness in th unprecedented indictment of former president all of that and more is coming up our good saturday morning to you i am katie phang we begin today show with breaking news out of texas the fate of abortion access fo tens of millions americans i now uncertain after conflictin decisions by two separat federal judges late lost night first, a texas judge blocks th food and drug administration s approval of the abortion pill, mifepristone
mifepristone, first, federal judge in texas invalidates the drugs fda approval, hours later, a judge s ruling in anothe case, saying the opposite. that abortion rights advocat leans in on what the dueling rulings mean, for women access to potentiall lifesaving care. plus, the case against donal trump. we ll dig into the facts behin those 34 felony counts acros falsifying business records, i new york and where the histori prosecution goes from here i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. 136,378 people in tennessee ar now without representation i their own state house, all thanks to the action of th republican majority. yeah, this week republican lawmakers in tennessee, treate the second memo with mor reverence than the very bedroc of the republic they claim t love i m talking about democrac itself as parents students and legion of other everyday tennessean s demonstrated against gun violence, passionately but peacefully, at the state capital last week
and a little ice cream wit senator turned presidentia nominee turned secretary o state john kerry i talked to one of my othe former boss is about the threa of climate change and the work he s doing to fight it many of us across the countr breathed a big sigh of relie on friday when the supreme court announced that the mos widely used abortion pill will remain available while an appeal moves forward. it s welcome news, but, let be clear, the abortion pill is still in jeopardy, and the political stakes just got a lo higher whatever the appeals court decides, the case will likel end up before the supreme cour next year. meaning a final decision could come at the height of the 2024 presidential race. remember, roe v. wade wa overturned just a few months before the 2022 midterms and that turned out to be a majo driver for democratic voters which brings us to the other major story to break this week after a long wait and a lot of speculation, president joe biden is finally ready t