From msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with decision 2024 and 66 days until election day, 10 days until the first residential debate, and six days until voting by mail starts in north carolina. New today, another push by the harris campaign for open microphones at the september 10th debate with donald trump. We will have more on that in just a moment. Also new, reaction from the first gen z member of congress, touring college campuses and talking with potential student voters. Maxwell frost is telling my colleagues at msnbc s, the weekend, that young people are energized. People are fired up all across the entire country. North carolina, arizona, ending today in pennsylvania. The rooms are packed. Students are assigned to go organize. Young voters have been so neglected in politics for generations, and we are seeing a candidate run a full campaign to court the youth about, and people are saying, this is out of this world. Morning rea
same-sex marriage, too. and the first gun legislation passed in years. now on its way to the president biden s desk and our nbc news exclusive, one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. his message about the americans captured while fighting in ukraine. what he is now vowing to do. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone where do privacy and personal freedom begin, and where do they end questions that framed an enduring divide in modern american, one many thought was settled nearly 50 years ago when the supreme court affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion today, the court answered that question again, this time in a 5-4 vote taking away what was regarded as a fundamental right. right now, new laws banning abortion are taking effect in several states, just hours after the court overturned the landmark roe versus wade decision leaving it to states to determine whether abortion is legal. justice samuel alito
it feels like a betrayal it feels like my country doesn t love me and appreciate my body as a woman. reporter: the court overturned nearly 50 years of abortion precedence in a ruling that was a first never before has the court granted then taken away a widely recognized constitutional right the court voted 5-4 to overturn roe chief justice john roberts said going that far wasn t necessary to uphold mississippi s law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. the court voted 6-3 to uphold that law. the majority opinion overturning roe tracked closely with the version that leaked in may touching off nationwide protests including at the homes of some of the court s conservatives. justice samuel alito s majority opinion said no right to abortion is protected by any supreme court constitutional provision. the roe decision he said was egregiously wrong and deeply damaging like winston churchill said this is the end of the beginning. it has been a 50-year battle to protect
tucker: j.d. vance, bane of the liberal publish mind is leading in ohio tonight. he s not won officially. we ll keep track of the results. see you tomorrow. good night. sean: welcome to hannity. we re monitoring primary results from ohio. we ll have them throughout the hour as well at the bottom of the scream. the far left mob is at it again in what is a blatant attempt to intimidate the u.s. supreme court, obstruct justice and someone leaked justice alito s majority opinion overturning roe v. wade. it was only a draft. that doesn t necessarily mean that s the final decision. tonight we re going to on this
If there were any violation here, and he were prosecuted, that would set future administrations back. of course. okay. the decision last night, it seems like let s see. what was chris matthews quote last night that i liked so much? there were so many. the court got into somebody else s marmalade. i think that is what ed. i thought after reading through it, alan, that the ninth judges were very fortunate that anthony scalia still wasn t around to write a withering majority opinion overturning what happened last night. sort through what i think was nonsense. well, that is the dilemma, i think, the conundrum faced by the trump administration. they have a winning argument potentially on the merits if it ever gets to supreme court, especially as it relates to people who have never been in the country and have no connection to the country, the family in yemen that simply