looking for one vote. just one. and he s asking north carolinians to help him. cooper who is not running for reelection is on the campaign trail. campaigning not for himself but for access to abortion. pressure your republican state lawmaker he s pleading, tell the state house a 12-week abortion ban is too extreme. standing in the way of progress right now is this republican super majority legislature that only took 48 hours to turn the clock back 50 years on women s health. if just one republican in either the house or the senate keeps a campaign promise to protect women s reproductive health, we can stop this ban. the north carolina legislature voted to roll back legal abortions from 20 weeks to 12 earlier this month. on saturday, governor cooper, a democrat vetoed that bill, and that would have been that, except for what state rep trisha cotham did back in april. she won and ral bied as a republican, giving she has long spoken on the side of reproductive rights. she
shelby county commission just voted to send justin pearson back to the tennessee state house. his colleague justin jones was reinstated monday. both were protesting for gun reform after three kids and three school staffers were shot and killed by someone who legally bought the weapons and used them to murder school children and teachers. and both lawmakers were expelled from the state government for speaking out republicans said it was because they lacked decorum on the house floor. the backlash to the gop decision has been so intense, it s only helped to fuel the debate on guns in tennessee. and now the southern states governor is actually pushing for some gun reform. governor bill lee signed an executive order on tuesday, strengthening background checks, and he s now calling for gop state lawmakers, the same ones who expelled pearson and jones to pass a red flag law let s first listen to justin pearson. guilty of not expanding health care. guilty of not giving us educatio
good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead, the high intensity at times down right contentious hearing testing the limits of the first amendment, as a lawyer for donald trump fights a gag order in the federal election case. will trump s rhetoric win out or the risk to witnesses? we ve got clues from inside the courtroom. developing overseas, israel releases footage it says shows hostages and a hamas tunnel at the hospital that s become a symbol of the war itself. and what we re learning about heavy fighting happening at another hospital in gaza. the 44,000 hours of footage from the january 6th attack being made public as one republican senator pushes yet another conspiracy theory about that day. we ve got a fact check. and he s been dubbed the oppenheimer of our age. the truly wild shakeup involving the ai guru, who compares the scale of his work to the manhattan project. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developm
it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, we re officially on verdict watch. the fate of a former president now being debated by 12 new yorkers who have never served on a jury before. the final instructions they were given in a case that could alter the outcome of a presidential election. also ahead, trump s red hot reactions. his flurry of online posts before heading to the courthouse, and how his campaign is raising money off the deliberations. defining reasonable doubt, how dueling arguments on michael cohen, stormy daniels, and even the access hollywood tape could come into play. sifting through a mountain of evidence, two jurors, jurors number four and number six instructed on how to use a laptop to call up any evidence they want to take a look at. we look at the critical documents at the center of donald trump s 34 felony counties. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. let s begin with yasmin
Kurdish authorities in iraq. This air drop is the first of its kind and comes after weeks of air strikes. There weather it helps or not could jeopardize relations. The turkish president said yesterday he would oppose any u. S. Arms transfers to kurdish fighters. Right now breaking overnight, the ebola quarantine is over. Those who cared for Thomas Duncan is over. The team able to jump into action on 72hours notice. Tracie potts is live in washington for us. Any specifics on how this team is being trained . They are going to train down in san antonio and their job is going to be, as you said, very quickly get on the ground any time an ebola case is diagnosed right here in the u. S. Reporter 20 Critical Care nurses, 5 doctors and 5 Infectious Disease efforts will be suiting up, training in a texas army base to respond within hours to any ebola case in the u. S. Have you traveled in the country in the last couple months . Reporter today hospitals are preparing for new guidelines from the