menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
Special counsel, the forme tenure general said that is on that i have been publicly, tha really we wouldn t have know anything about until the trump family is started talking abou it and tweeting about it and going on tv and tellin everybody what was going on, and then it has been, that evidence is very clear that it seemed like the lawyers that donald trum in that case, that is somethin that his this team is very worried about. in the search for roy cohn this is something that you v been talking about for a ver long time. maga - is that and someone that was going t go forward and - for very long time and he is something that on hi team, he wants to see people out to be tough. that is once of those things when, he says like this, t test to seem to see if the will rise to the occasion different way. i want to turn to the new allegations against justic thomas i know it wasn t your byline
Need. we are taking the president s word at the fact that he believes he can get 50 votes in the senate, and you know, i hope that the two senators that we ve been waiting on these months, who have come to the table in good faith and negotiated, that they understand that this is a leap of faith, but you know, assuming we get these final negotiations done, we re ready to pass both bills, and i think the caucus feels very good about the fact that we ve been able to do what we ve said from the beginning, which is pass both bills at the same time. get the entirety of the president s agenda to his desk for signature and ultimately deliver transformative change for people across this country. there s a big if there, if you don t get senate agreement on child care, immigration, prescription drugs, does that mean that you won t go forward? well, i think that we are very, very close is my understanding, and it isn t just the two senators at this point.
Supporters that congress doesn t actually have oversight over these kinds of matters. that can cause confusion in the public square because in fact, congress does have oversight. of course it does. this is exactly what the constitution envisions in a situation like this with serious allegations of wrongdoing, congress is doing its job by going through with the investigation and doing so methodical and thought fulfully it has so far. what s interesting about the president s tweet about so-called kangaroo court is it doesn t appear to invoke any actual executive privilege or argument that would hold up why the witnesses can t go forward, as to why documents can t be produced that congress has requested. so it does certainly raise alarms that what the trump administration is doing is saying we re above the law, we re not going to cooperate with a co-equal branch of government exercising their
reporter: the idea was allowing people in nevada to allow people to phone in their votes. today the dnc said they re worried about security concerns. a memo from the dnc wrote, based on our review process and the recommendation of security experts, we have concluded that there is no tele caucus system avail thabl is sufficiently secure given the magnitude and timing of the iowa and nevada caucuses this cycle. troy price, chair of the iowa democratic party said it s his job to protect voters there and the integrity of the caucuses and that the dnc doesn t think the virtual caucus can be secure, then they can t go forward. julian castro is furious. take a look at this. saying a short time ago, the democratic national committee decision can disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters and decrease turnout by up to one-third in the first in the nation caucus date is an afront to the principles of our