will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century american jur
as the crowd size swelled and tempered flared. police say demonstrators were refusing to follow orders to stay off the road and several tried to interfere when an arrest was made. and in oregon pepper spray was used to disperse dozens of people. ten were arrested. in rhode island a fight broke out among protesters. police say off duty an off duty officer and state senate candidate punched his political rival, jennifer rork. she says it happened as she attempted to deescalate the situation. we have reportered on the kr ground covering on the latest. let s go to the u.s. supreme court first. we ve been seeing crowds swelling. how does it look today, this sunday? reporter: that s right. we certainly have. we re in the shadow of the supreme court here as you can see there is a large and very vocal crowd behind me. it has been growing slowly all day. and this frankly is the scene that we have seen outside of the supreme court for the last three days since that ruling came