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trump s lawyers over a gag order request as the 11th hour gets underway this monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle joining you from colorado at the festival and we are 134 days away from the election. today, today marks two years since the supreme court including donald trump s hand- picked justices took away the constitutional right to abortion. the cause of that decision almost 28 million american women of reproductive age now live in states with partial or total abortion bans. president biden wants to make sure every voter who knows that donald trump is the person responsible and what could be next. here s what donald trump says about your freedom. after 50 years with nobody coming even close, i was able to kill roe v. wade. two years ago, the supreme court justices that trump hand-picked turned over roe v. wade. never before as a court granted and then taken away constitutional right. new laws banning abortion taken away. shattered because
gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, it is exactly 2 years since the supreme court struck down roe v wade, a decision to put abortion on the ballot in the race for the white house . then biden goes off the campaign trail through debate prep while trump focuses on bringing in more campaign cash. plus, the mar-a-lago documents case. prosecutors face off against trump s lawyers over a gag order request as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle joining you from colorado at the aspen ideas festival, and we are now 134 days away from the election and today marks two years since the supreme court included donald trump s three hand- picked justices took away the constitutional right to abortion. the cause of that decision, almost 28 million american women of reproductive age now live in states with partial or total abortion bans and president biden wants to make sure every voter who
where that hasn t traditionally been the case. - i was thinking about this the other day. i have three kids, ages 20, 22, and 24. you know, their generation and even the younger generation have no idea the strides that have been made. they watch something like watchmen and they see some of the, a female lead in regina king throwing down, being active and athletic, and fighting and the supernatural aspect of it all. i find joy when i see these projects taking off. and i see different representation. it s a beautiful thing to see that. - regina king plays this character, angela, who is a cop by day, superhero by night, who s investigating this racist entity that s infiltrated the city of tulsa. - i was reading ta-nehisi coates writing and he mentions something in the case for reparations in just one paragraph, which was the tulsa race massacre. and i couldn t believe that i did not know that this horrific thing had happened