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from both kavanaugh and gorsuch that they respected precedent and that roe v. wade and casey were here to stay. and susan collins and lisa murkowski both were committed because of those statements that were made, but you still have to, then, get them to agree to do away with the filibuster as it relates to this specific law. this specific bill. and i just don t think that they will do that. so the next step is raising everyone s awareness about how diabolical this draft statement really is. because justice alito has every intention if this goes forward as drafted to do away with the right to abortion completely. it would be totally left up to the states. and all you have to do is look across this country, the states are made a majority of them are by men who make these decisions. and we basically have a situation where we will have government mandated pregnancies that women will have to endure, and it is something that we ve got to get our brains around because, in fact ....
police say he had. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening just breaking as we come on the air tonight, a stunning milestone reached in this country s battle with covid. according to an nbc news count, the number of dead who had the virus in the u.s. has just crossed the one million mark we ll get to that in a few moments. but we begin here tonight with a scramble over the future of abortion rights after that leaked draft supreme court decision that appeared to show the handwriting on the wall, a court inclined to rule there is no constitutional right to abortion, sending the decision to the states democrats left with no way to stop the train, now looking to make republican opponents of abortion pay a political price as the midterm election campaigns heat up. president biden setting the democrats tone, warning abortion could be the first of many rights stripped away by the court. emotions running high on both sides with the outcome de ....
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mariupol. just a moment, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor. it s been 27 months since the first confirmed case of covid in this country. now, the u.s. has passed a stunning 1 million deaths from the virus. 1 million people. we ll discuss how we got there and where we go from here. willie, there s so much to talk about here. of course, we re going to start with the story about the russian generals. it s certainly consequential. but it does seem like we ve all just sort of breezed past that 1 million mark. we all remember back in the spring of 2020 when we had officials saying maybe 70,000 people would die. maybe 100,000 people would die. i remember there was a british maybe it was kings college, but there was a british research institution, university, that said up to 1 million people would die. my god, the chuckling from the maga freaks, the disregard from the maga freaks, the same people who worshipped donald trump for saying it was two ....
in kansas, but half a world away in ukraine where russian soldiers are continuing to pound the donbas region aided by russian airstrikes. we ve seen better than a thousand airstrikes a day on the part of the russians, and that is well beyond what s going on in the donbas region. let s go to matt finn with the latest. matt. reporter: and, neil, a senior u.s. defense official says russia s latest offensive is going slower than planned. ukrainian forces are pushing back, they are fighting off russia s attempts to gain the donbas region and the south eastern portion of this country, that area it wants so badly. when russian forces retreat from a city or region, we are able to get a look at the atrocities and the catastrophic devastation left behind. so often residential neighborhoods and communities. take a look at this new video showing the extent of the damage in the town of irpin near kyiv. it was the scene of intense fighting last month. russian forces have since with ....