from s&p sea world headquarter here in new york welcome to alex witt reports we begin this hour outside a serving court in washingto d.c. there you see protesters gathering, it s happening today, over the next few days as th showdown over reproductive rights returns to the nation s highest court. mifepristone, the drug at th center of this legal battle, remains available to women across the u.s., at least unti wednesday, while the court way the latest gop led efforts t ban the drug a new reaction this hour t comments made at the nra convention, including donald trump s remarks that mas shootings are not a gu problem. here s what to advocates for reform told my colleague jonathan capehart. camilla congress, and to se the cowardice from my go colleagues is just gross everyone is too comfortable. we walk around with our suits, we talk to our donors, w raised all of this money, an then we go on banded kne pandering to the nra are you kidding me the united states o america s o
this six-week ban wouldn t tak effect until the florida supreme court rules on a cas that they have in front of them which is likely to occur i june one of the things that we ar telling folks across the state of florida, and the sout because you are, right peopl do receive the reproductiv health care in the south and i florida, to keep their appointments to reach out to their providers, this is a really dark day and very terrible time i m curious about ron desantis himself because h signed this bill, late night thursday in a closed-door ceremony, quite a notable departure from the way he was signing the 15-week ban before large audience in a church and he did not explicitl mention the abortion law durin his speech at libert university on friday, for th thousands of evangelical students take a listen to what he said. we have embraced freedom, w have maintained law and order. we have protected the rights o parents. we have elevated the importanc of family and promoted a
go back to senator scott for a second because he told m colleague, alec batali, that i he s president he would sign the most harshest restrictions on abortion that congress coul pass he doesn t define whethe that s five, six, seven or ten weeks. the reality is, scott know that even his colleagues senator graham, from south carolina s bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks, woul have no chance of passing in the senate and the house anytime soon because of course there is the 60 vote threshold which prohibits democrats from passing any kind of codified protections for roe, for abortion, but on the flip side it prevents republicans from going rogue and imposing any kind of national band. julie tsirkin, thank you fo that another big story we are movin to, the latest classifie documents leaked following today s court appearance b u.s. air minute, jack sierra he is accused of sharing classified documents and a group chat what can you tell, as george alex, we are basically at the tip of t
culture of life. we have respected our taxpayer and we have rejected wok ideology just curious if that was th royal we, or what that is. about but why do you think h is downplaying the signing o this bill? i think it s because he knows this is not popular in the state of florida 75% of floridians do not support this type of abortio ban. it is wildly unpopular, it i extreme and it is in his six-week nature let s call it what it, is an all out abortion ban it is a huge, departure he did it in the dark of night. i believe the announcement cam out at 11:00 at night. and it is different for hi because, you see oftentimes he is never at a loss for words and i think he knows this is not a winning issue for him. and, really and truly, we wish instate a photo of you jus announced the fact that he s running for governor already because he s completel destroying the state that we