meet the press daily. and our coverage continues with geoff bennett right now. it is good to be with you. i m geoff bennett. and it is a critical day on multiple fronts in the battle over abortion rights. the justice department is against stepping in, urging courts to rein-state the suspension of that texas law that bans nearly all abortions across the state. the appeal is to a lower court, but the message to the supreme court is unmistakable, quote, if texas scheme is permissible, no constitutional right is safe from state sanctioned sabotage of this kind before in effect, the doj saying to those conservative justices, the way texas found to get around abortion rulings could be used for instance by progressive states to enact bans on gun rights for instance. and as we await that ruling, a