actors on strike. members of the screen actors guild are walking the picket lines after talks fell through. what is at stake? billions of dollars. as republican presidential candidates head to iowa, the governor is about to sign a six-week abortion ban. all of this and more on cnn news central. hollywood pressing pause. 160,000 actors taking part in a history-making strike that will effectively freeze all film and television production in the u.s., and some fear the shutdowns could stretch through the summer or even the end of the year. the studios and unions are feuding over protections from artificial intelligence and how to accurately compensate in the era of streaming. natasha, where are the union members telling you? there s a lot of concern and high people are excited and motivated, yet they re also seeing their colleagues, who are writers, who have been on this very same picket line for more than 70 days. there s also that feeling of apprehension, how long will
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees. two more. he already has appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today. i mean, never. i have taught constitutional law for nine years. this guy knows more about it then most. the fact of the matter is, there has never been a court this far out of step. joining us to discuss is our and missy legal analyst. we have a host of the justice matters podcast. welcome you with a happy father s day. you too. glenn, were you surprised by these comments from president biden? he is pretty forward leaning but he is calling it the way not only he sees it but i think the way most americans see it. we seem to have a supreme court, at least a block of justices, who are not honest brokers of the law. i knew we would talk about the supreme court. one thing i want to remind myself of from the washington post reporting
Across this country and try to substitute his own, claiming he had won those states when he had not. we know this is an investigation that s intensified. we expect some time soon we ll see some charging decisions. then in this other case, in georgia, where we are learning that lawyers are seeking a new court order asked for evidence to be thrown out, didn t they try that before? no? yes? you have to keep trying. they can do that? you can try different courts. certainly the judge overseeing the special-purpose grand jury in fulton county has already rejected the claims, and now the former president s legal team is going to the fulton county superior court and the georgia supreme court, trying his luck there. these are hail mary passes, so to speak, but the legal team in
Divorce yourself from appreciating hypocrisy it s endless but it does suggest that he s afraid it really it really does in football, you have the hail mary passes, the hail kevin pass and it just reekz of desperation. it certainly seems to signal he knows he s about to be charged and in deep trouble otherwise. why would he try a gamut like this that as harry points out has no chance of actually succeeding at this time feels like he is throwing more spaghetti up against the wall here. so it certainly is not the act of somebody who is aware of the legal position or confident about the way this is going to play out, that he would run to his house amajority and ask for some sort of cover he s now a witness for the grand jury against you as he is in this case where do you think, because