tonight, alex is off and she will be back and joining us next week we re gonna start the evenin with breaking news out of texa were trump appointed federal judge has issued a ruling th lava act on the lives of nearl every person in the country. why do we say every person because it s about every perso who can become pregnant, everyone who cares about someone knocking apartment, an everyone who cares access to regulated drugs. pretty much everyone has a stake in the case. it revolves around the first o two pills better use i medication abortion. mifepristone, first approved b the fda in the year 2000 it s been used overseas fo that gates before that but tonight, the approval is o pause. because of a case brought by a group of conservative christia lawyers, with a history of failed lawsuits talkin transgender student athletes months, ago one month ago, the lawyers on behalf of antiabortion organizations and doctors argue to the u.s district judge, matthew ka merrick, that the f
we re still in the tlhroes of this life threatening situation. good morning, everybody, it s monday, december 26th. don and kaitlan are off, i m glad to have sara sidner with us. good morning. let s talk about the death toll rising in new york from the storm. thousands of delays and cancellations impacting many air travelers many failing to make it home for the holidays. in a cruel, dangerous and shameful stunt, the white house blaming texas governor greg abbott for sending residents to the home of vice president kamala harris on christmas eve. first, though, a storm for the ages in western new york state. at least 17 weather-related deaths are being reported this morning, most in the buffalo area. governor katy hochul has requested emergency disaster relief from the biden administration. a state of emergency remains in effect. this has paralyzed so many parts of the state and the country, bringing this region to its knees. more than 12,000 customers are still wit
of the state. buffalo and other cities are struggling to dig out of 43 inches of snow and freezing temperatures and power outages. i ll talk with the buffalo police commissioner this hour. many americans are still feeling the effects of the arctic blast, including millions of air travelers. southwest airlines experiencing massive disruptions, with more than 65% of its flights canceled just today, adding to the holiday travel chaos. also tonight, vladimir putin claims he s ready to negotiate a solution to the ukraine war, but a key ukrainian official says the russian president needs to get back to reality, as moscow continues to slaughter innocent civilians. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the deadly weather emergency in western new york. governor kathy hochul is calling it, and i m quoting her, the blizzard of the century and she is warning it is far from over.
oath keepers to stay on the outside and stay fully armed and prepared to go in armed if they have to. if it kicks off, you rock and roll. that was oath keepers founder stuart rhodes. you hear that audio, why have prosecutors introduced that? what do they think it proves? this audio is damming according to the doj s case here, these are conversations between the group that sound like they re specifically planning violence in response to political transfer of power and that s obviously the crux of the government s case in this trial. but i think on the defense side, there are obviously going to be some holes that can be poked in that audio and that s going to be the question here, whether the prosecutors can reach that proof beyond a reasonable doubt when there are questions about the vagueness of some of the comments in there. we ll talk about the defense in a second. there s also sound of them talking about weapons. listen. pepper spray is legal, tasers are legal, and
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Census. Up until 1950, we did have it on the census. The census changes and we didnt ask that question. Tell us about the posture of this case and this police judge, jesse furman. Laura what is happening here is that these judges are, you know, taking these cases and imposing their own judicial philosophy and new standards that are not written into the law into these cases. You saw the exact same reasoning that judge furman used here, which is that wilbur ross, in charge of the census in his department, had made some remarks about the reasoning behind wanting to count citizens that raised an issue of animus. Well the United States Supreme Court recently ruled that this Animus Theory is bogus and one of the elements that shouldnt be applied. Clarence thomas has spoken out on nationwide injunctions. So basically, this is a
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