revisited since it has been leaked to the public. and that may have something to do the motive of the leak. that is the leading theory which why it might have been conservatived. we don t know. but this fear that kavanaugh was polling one of the other conservatives decided to leave roe in tact and then we may have already had a revision. that is the main theory, right. is that this early draft that was intended to lock in all of the conservatives behind the sweeping reversal of roe. all right, new york magazine jonathan chait, thank you. there is so many different propgs to this story. right now democrats are trying to pass legislation to codify abortion rights. it is not going to pass because republicans won t support it. so, wonder what the point of that is. we ll talk about that. we kick off the fourth hour of morning joe now. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. 6:00 a.m. for the early risers out west. and coming up on this hour, in just about 30 minutes, the markets will ope
armed gunman in combat fatigues stormed the city building where a concert was taking place before opening fire on spectators. russia state news agencies say 40 people are dead and 100 more are injured. the roof of the concert hall which is engulfed in flames is in risk of collapse. russia sent out a bulletin warning that extremists in russia had a plan to target large plans in moscow including concerts. let s bring in senior national security analyst john brennan. director, thank you so much for being with us. this is of course a developing situation. you could give our audience any understanding of the climate in russia right now? well, unfortunately, moscow is not a known to terrorist events. over the course of the past couple of decades moscow has been the scene of some terrorist attacks by different groups. and so this was taking place at a large gathering which is why i think the early reports are the high number of dead and wounded. it appears as though, this was so
boy, that is a nice image. the president is also asking americans to continue to do their part, to get vaccinated, not to let their guards down in the coming months, like wearing masks. john harwood is at the white house. and john, the president, other top officials, they re going to hit the road and promote this. i m sure they have the experience of the 2008 rescue package in mind. started popular, not as pap lar as this. and you see republicans attacking the package around the edges here. is the intention to try to keep this popular. absolutely. and they ll get some help when the checks start arriving in bank accounts this weekend, $1,400 for adults and children in families with incomes under $150,000. so that is going to help them. but they do have to make sheer the other benefits of the plan including new benefits for small businesses that haven t been touched by previous rounds of paycheck protection. but this is a was a speech last night where the president was no
assert themselves. well, and here we are. guys, i don t even know where to begin. that is all we have for mtp daily tonight. in the midst of the breaking news, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this national security imploegsion. and our breaking news continues with ari melber. i don t know if i don t know if breaking news is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the trump white house might be unraveling. i heard you say nightmare and unraveling. we have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a secretary of defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. where do we go from here? and if you believe jeremy bash who said the president that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him.
so it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, maj
Roe v. wade. right, they didn t have to put up a vote measures that would criminalize abortion, that would subject women and doctors to the legal prosecution that would ban abortion in the first few weeks of a procedure so now all of a sudden the things that ruling is insolated from are right front and square of the political debate and they re not ready to enter that world yet. jonathan, a assume like you, massive amounts of pieces for the hunt for the leaker and yet among all of the things that i ve read including in your fine piece in new york magazine, i have not read a certain date when this draft opinion may have been written. it could have been written a couple of months ago. it could have already been rewritten. have you read anything that would give a date certain around an approximate date certain of when it was written? no and the speculation i ve seen is that this was an early draft that may well have been