answer so let s get started breaking news, access to the abortion pill, mid upper stone and legal limbo after duelin federal rulings. what does this mean fo tightening reproductive rights in america plus, support for the tennesse through pouring in, by s president kamala harris me yesterday with the lawmakers after the republican-controlle house votes to kick two of the out of the state legislature i will speak with the member who managed to hang on to he seat by just one vote. and later, michael cohen i will go one-on-one with th star witness in th unprecedented indictment of former president all of that and more is coming up our good saturday morning to you i am katie phang we begin today show with breaking news out of texas the fate of abortion access fo tens of millions americans i now uncertain after conflictin decisions by two separat federal judges late lost night first, a texas judge blocks th food and drug administration s approval of the abortion pill, mifepristone
mifepristone, first, federal judge in texas invalidates the drugs fda approval, hours later, a judge s ruling in anothe case, saying the opposite. that abortion rights advocat leans in on what the dueling rulings mean, for women access to potentiall lifesaving care. plus, the case against donal trump. we ll dig into the facts behin those 34 felony counts acros falsifying business records, i new york and where the histori prosecution goes from here i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. 136,378 people in tennessee ar now without representation i their own state house, all thanks to the action of th republican majority. yeah, this week republican lawmakers in tennessee, treate the second memo with mor reverence than the very bedroc of the republic they claim t love i m talking about democrac itself as parents students and legion of other everyday tennessean s demonstrated against gun violence, passionately but peacefully, at the state capital last week
towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm
zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing
to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still