thank you for watching a sea of back tomorrow at 5 pm eastern for another live hou of politicsnation. we will speak with secretary o education miguel cardona and civil rights icon, andrew yang american voices with alici menendez starts right now. on msnbc - hello to you at home, i a alicia menendez. we begin to saturday wit abortion rights, which is once again in the florida supreme court, a year after the high court ended 50 years of settle law. the court has temporaril blocked restrictions against the abortion pill mifepristone until wednesday. that is the justice time too way to preserve the fda approval o the bill a federal judge in texas invalidated earlier this month as of this moment, the pill is still available with som restrictions that is because an appeals court blocked part of the texa ruling because of aspects, suc as prohibiting the pill to mail, and making it only available t women seven weeks pregnant o less the pill manufacturer joined the biden administr
so much happening. very thank you for joining us very amateur hour is the focus of knight s ankle. in small community, there fred showed up in full gear, they even brought an armored vehicle to take into custody alone scrawny 21 -year-old air force national guardsmen? today the justice department investigate into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information. he is an employee of the united states air force national guard. we will share more information at the appropriate time. actually, the appropriate time is now, so the angle will share more information and provide some much-needed context . let s understand what the biden administration is trying to do here. it is somehow trying to turn on of the worst intelligence breaches in the past two decade into a political win for themselves. let s debunk this and explain it . today they hope to win competency points by the fact that they moved so quickly to arrest big deal,
arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didn t just refuse to participate in trump s campaign to, i don t know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didn t have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a rematch against biden, bowers had a change of heart and is now saying that he will never, ever vote for trump again. here s what he told abc news jon karl after being the subject of attacks from donald trump. i have thought at times someone born how he was and raised how he was and he has no idea what a hard life is, and what people have to go through in the real world. he has no idea what courage is. how do you explain the hold that he has, though, on republicans including a lot of repub
and the important health care item that was blocked by republicans. plus, another loss for supporters of abortion rights. indiana becomes the first state to pass a near total ban on the procedure since the overturning of roe v. wade. and it was a big weekend for maga world in dallas. we ll have the recap of cpac just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senate democrats have done it. after more than a year of negotiations and dead ends, democrats have passed a reconciliation package that includes a bulk of their priorities. the yeas are 50, the nays are 50, the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. no republicans voted in favor of the final bill. it passed with a tie-breaking vote from vice president kamala harris. the bill went through some last-minute changes during an overnight vote-o-rama. that process al
good evening, i m mehdi hasan. let us be clear what happened. a democratic president was elected to office in the midst of a once in a generation crisis, he entered into the white house with a mandate for the american people, a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with eight ambitious legislative agenda. but, a major obstacles hands in his way. a right wing, reactionary supreme court, with very little public legitimacy. sound familiar? this week, the supreme court wrapped up one of its most controversial terms in modern american history, scaling back decades of progress in the matter of near weeks. we ve actually been here before, following a landslide victory 1936, president franklin d. roosevelt was elected to a second term in office. securing what was, at the time, the largest popular vote tally in american history. fdr s victory sold out of not only a personal win, but a decisive victory for his signature legislative agenda, the new deal. despite the progra