greetings everyone, you are watching symone. former president donald trum indicted by a grand jury o tuesday. he will be formally charged an fingerprinted. it s the first in american history. we are digging into why there a debate over whether president, former current should be hel to the same legal standards as you and i. and in true trump fashion, h is lashing out district attorney alvin brag and his staff, even the judg in the case. targets of attacks on social media and we re talking to reverend al sharpton, a man wh knows all about donald trump s history in new york. last republicans, while they are falling in line. the former vice president elec the leaders, even people trump could be riding against in the 2020 primary all defending donald, trum right now. before we even know the charge or the evidence. i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. no one is above the law. it is not just a slogan, it an american principle that i supposed to guide the ju
msnbc. thank you so much, reverend sharpton, thank you so much, let s begin this saturday with mifepristone and what happen now, supreme court i temporarily protecting acces to the most used abortion drug in united states two of the nine justices justice clarence thomas an samuel alito dissented friday, saying they would have allowed the original ruling, you know, the one by judge matthew kacsmaryk, to stay in effect which invalidated the fda approval of mifepristone this is thanks to the bide administration, the high court got involved in the firs place. this late quote, fridays stay sends long message to the lowe courts that scotus will no entertain the cynical attemp to impose new nationwide restrictions potentially even a ban o abortion if you feel like it is a littl too early to breathe a sigh of relief, well you would b right. mifepristone remains available in certain states wher abortion is currently illegal. that is until the fifth circui court of appeals rules o
Women s rights around the same time mission again repealed its antiquate abortion ban, florida passed a law that produced its 15-wee abortion ban to six weeks. michigan also recently signe into law antidiscriminatio protections for lgbtq people the end of this is a florida s don t say gay bill joining me now, michigan s attorney general, dana nessel, and michigan secretary of stat joscelyn benson. what a treat to have you bot on at this same time secretary, talk me through thi idea, michigan, a swing, state a centrally becoming the opposite of florida, as some i your legislature as callin this for those that are not as well versed in your states politics how did that happen? voters. listening to voters an respecting voters. that s how it happened, and no you have one state with governor obsessed with attacking mickey mouse and michigan has leaders who are obsessed with protecting every citizen s fundamenta rights and freedoms. and injuring businesses ca
The judges presiding over hi own criminal trial he will be a crimina defendant. so when have the real stress test is that donald trump is going to use his clout, hi celebrity, his political power to try and discredit the entir criminal justice system. right, now the republica party s on we ll level falling in line behind donald trump bu on a larger level, what they are also doing is by not waiting to hear what s actuall in the indictment, they ar essentially saying that donald trump should continue to b above the law. that any attempt to hold him legally accountable is somehow illegitimate if one of the two majo political parties in thi country has internalized thi idea, that their leader should be untouchable, that a president and former president can never be charged wit anything, than we are in reall fraught constitutional situation here i do think we are seeing thi with threats, the threats of violence the attempts to
Beefing up their militaries because they understand the world is a dangerous place. what kind of world would be if we were moving away from that just as we are encouraging everyone else to do it. do you think is far left is som are within the 2020, the fact that they re trying to differentiate themselves from each other you think there will be some of the 23 candidates wh are in now who will embrace thi idea? my own sense is they are making a mistake doing it. it s probably not going to help them get too far in the primaries the vast majority, 65 def 70 percent of the primary vote are moderate voters who recognize that we live in a real-world the russians the chinese text message we need frankly to up our military presence, work more closely wit our allies in asia like china