us. many are women and children who have spent 60 days trapped in the uk. there are calls for windfall tax on oil companies as bp records £5 billion of profit. and a look at why forest replanting schemes around the world designed to fight climate change don t always deliver on their promises. we re going to start with a huge story in the us now. it s a leak from the united states supreme court published by the politico news site. and the headline reads, the supreme court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draught opinion shows. that draught document is called the opinion of the court . it s been confirmed as authentic by the head of the supreme court. it s written by justice samuel alito he s a conservative judge. it runs to 98 pages, but can be summarised in one line. roe refers to roe vs wade a 1973 supreme court decision which allowed the constitutional right to abortion. first, let s hear the reaction from president biden today. you know, if this decision hol
roe v. wade and this is what conservatives have often believed constitutionalists have believed, originalists have believed, is that it enumerated a right that did not exist within the constitution. what s interesting about this is the draft opinion, unflinching repudiation of the 73 decision guaranteeing a federal constitutional protection on abortion rights as they report in politico. planned parenthood versus casey that largely maintain that right. if this report is true, justice alito writes it was egregiously wrong from the start and we hold that they must be overruled. he writes in the docket labeled opinion of the court. it is time to heed the constitution, return the issue of abortion to the peoples elected representatives. that s where the issue of judicial philosophy comes into play. do you enumerate a right not specifically spelled out in the constitution, or should it be up to the states, which is what conservatives always argued. deliberations on controver
also right here on msnbc. from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i ll see you this weekend. ou this weekend. thanks to you at home for joining us this evening, we have some big breaking news, nbc news has now confirmed the former vice president, mike pence has been subpoenaed by special counsel, jack smith. the man who is overseeing the investigation into trump s effort to overturn the results of the 2020. election including the attack on the u.s. capital. the news was first reported by abc news. we don t know exactly what information was sought, in that subpoena, but according to abc it comes after months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and pence s legal team. both the special counsel s office and the spokesman for the former vice president are declining to comment to nbc about this new development. but, this is the first time the former vice president has been subpoenaed in any matters, related to the 2020 elect
would you like me to read the tweet? now that it s my hour we can put it in. we can put in public record, that s awesome, and hilarious. i m sorry the studio could hear me chortling. i m glad, you know me. i love laughter. it was a plus television production my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. we have some big breaking news. nbc news has now confirmed that former vice president, mike pence, has been subpoenaed by special counsel jack smith. the man who s overseeing the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. including the attack on the u.s. capitol. the news was first reported by abc news. we don t know exactly what information was sodden at subpoena. but according to abc, it comes after months of negotiations between federal prosecutors, and pence s legal team. but the special counsel s office and a spokesman for the former vice president, are declining to comment nbc about this new development. thi
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