of the fact that americans are looking for action be it on the economy or inflation, and that is why you see the president holding events like this one today where he is touting some of the progress the administration has made as the treasury department is estimating the federal deficit will fall by $1.5 trillion. now, the president is also making a play for senator joe manchin with all this talk about deficit reduction as joe manchin has repeatedly said that any economic agenda that passes through congress must reduce the deficit. take a listen to how president biden describes some of the progress that s been made and how he believes his economic agenda will ease some of those economic pressures. the bottom line is the deficit went up every year under my predecessor before the pandemic and during the pandemic, and it s gone down both years since i ve been here, period. they re the facts and why is it important? because bringing down the deficit is one way to ease inflation
it s overturning of unkongs constitutional rights since the early 70s. huge story. no doubt you ll be covering for the next two hours. see you tomorrow. appreciate it. this is don lemon tonight. poli, i poltico obtained a draft wrote by samuel alito. it s an unheard of breach. we re covering all angles of this huge story tonight. we ll go straight to joan and jeffrey toobin and laura coats and pete. i want to begin with joan. good evening to you. this is only a draft opinion that we re looking at now. it is not a final unpublished a final published, i should say. if this does hold, it would be a seismic shift for this country. what more are we learning? absolutely, don. first of all, cnn has not i independently obtained a copy of this opinion or verified it but our own reporting is consistent with the fact that the five most conservative members of this court were ready to take roe down completely and chief justice john roberts was willing to say that the mississipp
right to an abortion. and to see those words, it s very stark, i think, to read them. it is stunning when you first do so. it s surprising, i think torsion see it in this format, that looks like a final supreme court opinion. but i do think, john, if you step back and you think about the decades-long effort by conservatives and conservative legal activists, toed edbuild their numbers on the court. you think about the fact that former president donald trump managed to get nominations and confirmations of very conservative justices to the supreme court. in part, because of the hubris of senators mcconnell, you could see this is a long time coming. it s a culmination as you say decades in the making that accelerated over the years and the impact is very, very real. by some estimates, we can put up a map, i think, so people can see, if this draft opinion becomes the real opinion, this means that the states seen in red there would almost immediately outlaw or severely restrict a
that suggests the court is ready to strike down the landmark decision that legalized abortion, that has stood for almost 50 years. the leak is a stunning breach of the court s confidentiality and secrecy. what do we do? stand up, fight back. what do we do? stand up, fight back. demonstrators rushed to the supreme court overnight. supporters of abortion rights and those opposed to abortion. we re expecting a statement from the white house this morning on this. and if this is the decision, it could almost instantly criminalize abortion for millions of american women, by some estimates about half of u.s. states would move quickly to ban or restrict abortions. and this decision raises questions about the future of other supreme court rulings, including decision s on same se marriage and contraception. and cnn got exclusive video outside the home of chief justice john roberts as he left for the day. do you have any comment on the court supreme court s draft opinion
stand up like that. what do we do! stand up like that! as you can see the news to the demonstrations overnight at the supreme court. people on ground, at times, protesters did clash with one another. there has never, ever been a week like this from the supreme court. but the impact of the looming decision is of much greater consequence. it could almost instantly criminalize abortion for millions of women. and it raises the question of the future of other women on supreme court rules, even contraception. let s go to cnn s jessica snyder first out of the gate with the latest. jess. reporter: brianna, a monumental and consequential decision if this is reached. for this court, it never gives a hint of its decisions before decision day but pretty tow reports that justice samuel alito has drafted this opinion, combleeding leading to the court established in roe v. wade. politico writing this is part of the draft here, we hold that roe and casey must be overruled. the co