Virginia in the state legislative races. Alaska in a cOngressiOnal race. It doesnt matter where you are in the country make their own Health Care decisiOns, even if they may have their own views On abortiOn. They dOnt think that they should be putting them On somewhere else. One out of three women are now living in states with extreme abortiOn bans. You have women bleeding out in parking lots. You have states that are looking at a texas and a Court Case tried to do limiting mifepristOne. Ivf is at risk. Birth cOntrol, all of this will be On the ballot in november. And i do want to ask you about this. Vice president harris has called for restoring roe versus wade, but that requires a cOngress that is able to do that. If democrats lose the senate this electiOn or you dOnt take back the house, doesnt that get complicated . Well, that is exactly why we have to keep the senate. And were feeling so good about all our races across the country. We are ahead with our candidates, with all the in
The Supreme Court says that itll decide the biggest question of all about donald trump and the presidency thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby philip in new york, april 22. Thats a date that you should circle on your calendar. It may go down as a defining day in the history of the republic. Its the de, that the Supreme Court says that it will hear oral arguments on the question hanging over the 2024 election, like a guillotine is donald trump immune from prosecution on charges that he interfered with the 2020 election . Is he immune from anything related to that violent january 6 insurrection that he encouraged . The high court revealed its plan and to dry paragraphs, the justices set out a clear timeline. There one that collides directly with his other trials and with the election that is very much underway. March 19, for example, is the due date for briefs. March 19 is also the day when voters in arizona in florida, in illinois, and kansas, and ohio all head to the polls.
Say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. Im not going anywhere any time soon. However, ill complete my job, my colleagues have given me until we select a new leader in november and they take the helm next january. John as youve been following, Breaking News in the past 30 minutes. Mitch mcconnell stepping down from his Leadership Post this november and with that, welcome to our wednesday edition of the program. Im john roberts in washington. Sandra, big news in just the last little while. Sandra another Breaking News afternoon. Sandra smith in new york. Eightterm senator announcing during remarks on the senate floor moments ago he will continue to serve on capitol hill but hes giving up his Leadership Position within the Republican Party that he has held since 2007. John chad pergram is live on capitol hill with more. Chad, you were saying just in the last hour that he is the longest serving republican leader ever. Longest serving eithe majority or Minority Lea
welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. and coming up this morning, rebellion in russia gives way to a retreat. a mercenary leader is heading for exile. vladimir putin is in power. but his grip on the russian government appears weaker tan ever. plus is russia s nuclear arsenal still secure. we re ask a member of the house intelligence committee next. and donald trump casted himself as a crusader who delivered a shift on abortion but what he won t say might be just as important. up first for us, vladimir putin stared down a mortal threat and strikes a deal to save his skin. they reacted to a world wind weekend in russia and i rebellion aimed directly at the heart of moscow. do you believe this is the beginning of end for vladimir putin? i don t want to speculate about that. we ve seen this aggression against ukraine become a strategic failure across the board. russia is now distracted that putin has to worry about what is going on inside of russia as much
conservatives had second thoughts, and what the leaked draft did to any hope for compromise. now a year and a half later, the high court is on clean up duty. agreeing to take on the first major complication from its ruling, this one on the abortion pill. mifepristone. the decision, which could effectively ban the pill nationwide should come next june, meaning the court will keep abortion front and center in the summer before the presidential election. an issue that has repeatedly proven to boost democrats, especially as republicans are still struggling to figure out what to say on it. just listen to senators ted cruz and john cornyn on this week s decision by the texas supreme court to deny kate cox an abortion. senator, are you supportive of the texas supreme court s ruling in the kate cox case that prevented her from getting an abortion after she learned her fetus was not viable. call the press office. i have for two days, and i haven t received an answer. are you w