Welcome to the week. Let us begin with breaking News Story i swear sounds like something a Bond Villain would do. Government of belarus forced a Passenger Plane to land there apparently because a dissident blogger was on board. President did not just tell the plane to land, he ordered a Fighter Jet to intercept it in belarusian airspace. Founded a popular opposition social Media Channel in belarus. Latest from Matt Bradley. Reporter theres a reason why belarus is commonly referred to as last dictatorship in europe, because of stuff like this. What we saw in the president ial elections or immediately after the president ial elections last year. Scenes of horrible Police Brutality and mass arrests, protests in the streets over what many called a rigged election. Thats why this young man roman petrosovic, who was detained on flight going from greece to lithuania. Lithuania is going to prosecute and bring a lawsuit against the belarusians for stopping plane in midair. Scrambled a Fighter J
tolerance policy set by the trump administration in may of 2018 in which anythings ap henned everyone cross agents apprehended everyone crossing the border including those seeking asylum, that means children and adults were separated from parents where children enjoyed greater legal protection under immigration law, many remained in the u.s. child welfare shelters or relatives while the adults were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally. many were deported. the trump administration failed to build a system to track the relationships between the migrants before separating them. the aclu has identified about 5,500 children separated at the border during the trump administration. around 940 claims have been filed so far, according to the new york times. in june of 2018, the aclu won a nationwide injunction blocking family separations and upon filing a lawsuit in 2019, here s what the aclu alleged. that thousands of children, including babies and toddlers were quote-unq
an abstract exercise. this is not just one vote and then the issue goes away. you will hear a lot from us in the next months, all the way through november. no one gets to hide democrats don t have the votes for this to pass. and republican susan collins is, well, already reportedly a no. over at the white house, the president and his team are weighing their next steps. the washington post is reporting that the administration s options to guarantee abortion rights are -limited. even so, attorney general merrick garland said that the justice department was ready to act if the high court does overturn roe v. wade. the justice department has steadfastly been committed to defending the right to abortion. if the law changes, we will address appropriate next steps at that time. but what will not change is our commitment to defending the rights of women and all americans. meanwhile, first lady joe jail biden is speaking out about the draft leak opinion in an interview with si
organizations have been harmed, they have been forced to divert resources, and explaining the dangers of the harm from abortion drugs. one of the primary reasons that s required is in 2016, the fda took away the requirement that abortion providers report adverse events aside from that would be anybody who is aggressive or vigilant about bringing lawsuits, just simply by resources to advocate their position in court, you say now, causes an injury, and that seems easy to manufacture. i don t think that s true in this case, justice thomas. i realize the lower court talks about where they prelude to cases, and those cases don t count, and in this case they note they have performed studies and analyzed studies and several of those are in the record and they are not short, and they comb through medicare data and other data so they get a true nature of the adverse events and neither are prelude to litigation and would not have occurred but for the fda s conduct in the case.
a container ship slammed into one of its supports. the ship issued a may day call minutes before saying it lost power and steering. that warning allowed officials to stop traffic from getting on to the bridge but not enough time to clear the overnight construction workers who were filling potholes on that bridge. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, george soliz. you re on the banks of the bay there where the bridge collapsed. what else did we learn from this news conference? reporter: i think i may have lost you, but what i can quickly tell you is that we are on the rooifr and behind me, you can really see the aftermath of this wreckage, of the collision. i m going the step out so you can really get a sense of what we re seeing. that is the cargo ship, the dali. behind it is the francis scott key bridge partially submerged. at this hour, the search is on going for those six souls presumed to be in the water. you heard from the ntsb chair that they are not going to be bo