Codefendants. Also tonight, cnn has learned that Secretary Of State Antony Blinken just spoke by phone with paul wheeler, an american wrongfully imprisoned in russia. And as the death toll of the Maui Wildfire climbs above 100, there are now growing questions about the cause of the disaster and the governors response. Josh green will join us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Tonight the wheels are in motion for Donald Trumps arrest, arraignment and trial in the Georgia Election subversion case, the Fulton County District Attorney proposing some key dates amid negotiations with trumps lawyers about details of his surrender. Lets go to cnns sarah murray who is just back from atlanta where shes covered the indictment and done an excellent job. Tell us about the d. A. s proposed trial date and how it fits into this already very busy legal and political calendar for the form are prer president. As
immediately themselves lisa rubin is here to make sense of the law and both new york magazine and uc law professor mary ziegler are here to discuss the consequences for health care and politics let s get right to the reporting and the law, and joining us now are msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin as promised and uc davis law school professor, an expert on the law, will join us in a moment let s talk, lisa, about what the law currently says and what that might mean for how the justices decide on this katy, today is anyone s guess. i wish i had a magic 8 ball. right now as it stands, the supreme court issued an administrative stay, a temporary stay of the lower court s ruling that effectively means that access to mifepristone was exactly as it was before this litigation started but the supreme court has a big decision to make by midnight tonight. self-imposed deadline, unless they extend again. if they did, mary can correct me if i m wrong, i m not aware of any administratio
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
moving into this official impeachment inquiry phase. it has now been formalized. a new election year headache, house republicans have officially opened an impeachment inquiry against joe biden as they look into the family finances. this morning continued questions, though, for proof, any proof of high crime or misdemeanor. a judge pushing pause on the federal election subversion case against the former president. what does it mean now for that march trial date. u.s. intel says nearly half israeli munitionop gaza. that means they re unguided and precise and they could be contributed to the staggering civilian death toll. cnn this morning starts right now. house republicans have officially launched their impeachment inquiry into president biden, even though they ve struggled to say what he did wrong or show any evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors after 11 months of digging. republicans voted along party lines unanimously to formally approve the probe with zero su