hear in the next few minutes? reporter: they are walking into the room where they will have this bilateral meeting, this is at a hotel here in hiroshima. the president there shaking the prime minister s hand. and this is real an important moment. u.s. officials say that they view prime the prime minister a political ally in the surprising role that he has taken over the war in ukraine and applying sanctions on russia that haven t been a guarantee. so you hear a lot from american officials how pleased they are at how strong the relationship has become. this summit only takes place every seven years so i think that you will see china playing a significant role. of course president biden wants the leaders to coalesce to counter beijing s military and economic aggressions. and you have seen that the backdrop is quite significant. that hasn t always been easy. there are significant differences in how they want to approach china. and so heading out of the summit president biden w
roe v. wade was overturned the justice department says the high court needs to weigh in again to iron out the details of its decisions to give the issue back to the state. doj has filed an emergency application asking the justices to strike down a texas ruling that essentially band the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide we re going to explain what doj is arguing and how soon the court might decide on hearing the case and what happens if it does not decide immediately. we ll also get into what happened overnight in florida. governor ron desantis signed a bill making abortion illegal after just six weeks well before many women, as you know, have any idea they are pregnant desantis s new ban did not come with fanfare, no news conference, no on camera pats on the back the only announcement was this photo right here, posted to social media at 11:04 p.m. the politics of abortion have not been a winner for the gop, and polling suggests it will be an albatross around governor desa
house republicans escalating probe into president biden. a couple hours from now, the full house will vote on formalizing a biden impeachment inquiry. the gop s probe has failed to show links between biden and his son s questionable business dealings. republicans think the resolution will give them more leverage. this morning hunter biden showed up at the capitol right outside as you see, offering to testify publicly in the probe. but republicans want a closed door interview first. so, now, they say they re going to pursue a contempt of congress referral against hunter biden. manu raju has been following this. you ve been a busy man on capitol hill today. what do we expect to see in the coming hours? reporter: we expect the republicans will get the vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry. the inquiry has been going on since september, when then speaker of the house kevin mccarthy announced this investigation would go forward. they don t need a vote to authorize the inquir
It is very likely that the three judges will side with the anti-abortion doctors bringing the case and perhaps block access to the pill mifepristone. even if they do that, the supreme court has said any restrictions or blocking the drug won t take effect until the supreme court has are canned the case. so a ruling can take several week. and even then it won t go into effect immediately. this case could impact the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone which of course is used for majority of abortions in this country. jessica sthidchneider, cnn, washington. tiktok to be banned in montana. the governor signed a bill that makes montana the first state to ban the social media app for all users. it goes in to effect in january.
The politics of abortion have not been a winner for the gop, and polling suggests it will be an albatross around governor desantis s neck, if the governor decides to run to be president so why do it joining me now is nbc news senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett. also with me is nbc news correspondent ali vitali who s in charleston, south carolina with an exclusive interview with tim scott. let s start first with abortion and the supreme court. laura, explain to me what the doj is asking the supreme court to do? the justice department and the manufacturer of this pill mifepristone are essentially asking the supreme court to freeze everything in place right now, to stop this looming deadline that is on everybody s mind when the clock strikes midnight tonight, part of that texas ruling will go into effect, and so all they re saying is supreme court, please make sure you take that off of the sort of parade of horribles that could happen, if you will,