abortion pill with the justices demanding briefs and next steps on wednesday. another american town devastated by a deadly mass shooting, this time the pictures are teenagers at a sweet 16 party in dadeville, alabama. i ll speak to congressman jason crow, an iraq and afghan war veteran about the diplomatic and political fallout from the intelligence leaks allegedly carried out by a 21-year-old air national guardsman with top secret clearance good day i m andrea mitchell. in washington, where the supreme court is back at the center of the abortion debate for the first time since it overturned roe v. wade last june after samuel alito put a temporary hold on an appeals court ruling from the fifth circuit that limited access to the abortion pill court papers submitted by the u.s. solicitor general on behalf of the fda say even the potential changes to mifepristone s labeling required by lower court rulings would create, quote, regulatory chaos for the drugmaker. nbc s senior
have come to believe that we can t be trusted but they have no choice. we re the biggest intelligence collector in the world and the leakiest ken, thank you as always you ve been all over this story. joining us is democratic congressman jason crow of colorado on the intelligence and foreign affairs committee and served as an army ranger in iraq and afghanistan. thank you very much. i ve been pointing out this is bipartisan concern and the leakiness of the new jersey particular and you know the military better than i do. how does a massachusetts guardsman at otis air force base in cape cod, not only have the access but they don t have enough secure procedures to know that he s taking stuff home? well, andrea, this is outrageous there s no doubt about that. this is a terrible leak that s going to have consequences for our ability to gather information, for our sources to
so looking at that article that was published a couple of hours ago in the new york times, the supreme court is now starting to look like the other branches of government, and starting to look comparably leaky, in ways that can only damage its legitimacy going forward. so let s assume that there are a lot of americans who think the legitimacy is damaged. either because of the politicization of the court or the leaks or things like that. what s the fix? and in attempting to fix it, do you risk more damage? i think that the fix is really, first of all, to think about how to stop leaking, right? but i think more deeply, more importantly as you gestured at the top of the conversation it is to make sure we keep our eyes on the prize and what s important. because when i think about those two threats to the legitimacy of the court, there are really two of them. one is the leakiness, and the other one is the substance of the draft itself. and as threatening as these leaks are, they are n
homeless shelters, prisons, among others. is this third shot if and when it s authorized to me you could almost make the case for any person who works with other people could go out and say i feel particularly vulnerable in this environment. would this approval on that level functionally be if you are worried about covid and transmission in your workplace you can go get a third shot? yeah, i mean, you re right, the way those fda recommendations came out last night, it s almost like a back door way of their original efficient to put the question before the committee should we do universal third immunizations for everyone over the age of 18. that was a pretty strong rebuke from the verpac committee but this is a back door way of doing the same thing if it goes through because as you say it just has you know, the leakiness in terms of underlying