Pregnancy, before many women even know theyre pregnant, but it alSo provides no exceptions for rape or incest. And it relies on citizens, regular citizens just like you and me to enforce it, basically letting them sue anybody who helps a woman get an abortion and awards them ten stacks if they succeed. The most pernicious thing about the Texas Law, it Sort of creates a Vigilante System where people get rewards to go out anyway. And it just seems i know this Sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican what were talking about. President biden says the Justice Department is looking At The legality of the new restrictive abortion law, but this is a huge blow to roe v. Wade. It has spurred democratic leaders to try to codify the protections into federal law after the Supreme Court just allowed it to stand. But no surprise, other states are already working to use the law as a blueprint for copycat measures, and Texas Lawmakers have advanced yet another restrictive bill limiting access to abortion m
This as president Bidens Deadline to get out of the deadline quickly approaches. Hello, everyone. Im sandra smith, Monday Morning here in New York. Nice to see you, john. John in washington, d. C. , A Little Bit of a time difference but not much. [laughs] hope you had a good weekend, sandra. Im John Roberts in washington, good to see you. This, after five rockets were fired at the airport over night, when making it through Defense Systems and landing inside the perimeter. U. S. Officials are stressing this is the most dangerous time of the mission, the phased withdrawal of u. S. And couldnt leave the forces still on the ground even more vulnerable to attack. Sandra indeed. Weve got a packed hour. Just ahead, Walid Phares will join us, Morgan Ortagus Coming Up, and Congressman Peter Meijer is here, as well. Fox Team Coverage begins now. Bill hemmer will join us in moments. John but first to the Pentagon And Jennifer griffin to kick us off this monday afternoon. Hey, jennifer. U. S. Troo
Vaccinations lag like the south. We have a top public health official in the states most at risk ahead. Welcome to monday. It s meet the press daily. I am kasie hunt in for chuck todd. It could be a big week when it comes to the future of the democratic voting, and leaders are not exactly on the same page. President biden is expected to focus for the next two days on an intense series of meetings with lawmakers on infrastructure. Senator manchin signals the group will be showing what is in it today. The progressives in his party are not thrilled with the talks because these talks are likely to produce a deal that is more than what progressives want. This is expected to be in the ballpark of $1 trillion or less, and compare that to what bernie sanders is working on, which carries a price tag of $6 trillion. There s a sweeping piece of legislation that will not get the 60 votes it needs to precede, and may not get 50 if manchin opposed it, which means democrats and the democrats will hav
Enough tonight either. Arriving tonight for friday s g7 summit, he is seeking to repair relationships that were strained by his predecessor, not to mention recommitting to nato and coordinating transatlantic policy on fighting covid, facing down china, cooling the planet. Oh, and don t forget, confronting vladimir putin, whom he ll meet next week and who is at the center of some ominous moves tonight involving dissident alexei navalny. If that sounds like a lot to you, there is also the small matter, as the president sees it, of saving democracy. I believe we re in an inflexion point in world history. The moment, where it falls to us, to prove that democracies will not just endure, but they will excel. As we rise to seize the enormous opportunities in the new age. We have to discredit those, who believe that the age of democracy is over, as some of our fellow nations believe. So, there s that. And there s everything back home. Stalled legislation on infrastructure, police reform, votin
and we had standards of what he would accept and not. and that process intensified. we had very intense negotiations in doha. and we re grateful to qatar and oman for helping in this. and when the arrangement came together on terms that we could accept, the president made the difficult but right decision to move ahead. one of the we had an activist on earlier in the show who expressed concern that this only incentivizes hostage taking by governments such as irans. there is no question that president biden with a statement just three days ago on the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini about the support for the rafrn why not people. and at the height of the protests last year, about one this three were using anti-censorship stools stools united states. and we see an opportunity to bring home five american citizens and as you said, in the case of simak namazi, he was in prison for five years. sharghi the same amount of time. and iran really gain no benefit. there are n