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the media member who won t tell you the rest of the florida story because it had a happy ending. if the plot line changes and goes against the narrative, the press skips to the next act. if you are unmasked or unvaxxed, you are a deadly weapon. children are not just suffering and dying at greater rates, they are spreading covid through the population at higher numbers. people do not get to walk around shooting loaded firearms randomly into crowds. and people are not entitled to turn themselves into deadly weapons randomly killing innocent people. jesse: if you don t play by the left s rules, you will be deemed a health threat, you are a bio weapon. you are an ar-covid-19. the government used covid-19 to strip you of your first amendment right, freedom of speech and right of association. voting was altered. prisons emptied. these emergency powered fundamentally quhaingd america. a virus so threatening the survival rate was 99%. now that we have the vaccine the threat i ....
in the west. plus, american journalist austin tice held captive in syria for almost ten years now. his parents will join us to tell us what they just told president biden. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and the seismic health, political, and legal news. a document obtained by politico and confirmed as authentic by the u.s. supreme court reveals that the highest court in the land appears poised to overturn roe v. wade. nearly 50 years after that case legalized abortion in the united states. in this draft opinion, five conservative justices, samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett argue in favor of overturning roe v. wade s holding of a woman s federal constitutional right to an abortion. the u.s. supreme court underlined in a statement today that this document is not a final decision by the court or a final position by any justice. it was circulated amongst the court at the beg ....
decisions relating to your private life, who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not, whether or not you can have an abortion, a range of other decisions, how you raise your child, what does this do? does this mean that in florida, they can decide they re going to pass a law saying that same-sex marriage is not permissible, against the law in florida? there s a it s a fundamental shift in american jurisprudence. politico obtained and published a leaked draft opinion written by conservative justice samuel alito. now, the opinion would eliminate the constitutionally protected right to abortion. alito writes this in part. the constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. roe was egregiously wrong from the start. the supreme court chief justice john roberts confirmed the leaked draft is authentic but he cautioned that it is not final. roberts slammed the leak as a betrayal a ....
institutions. we ve seen quite a bit of it. about to speak after the highest court in the land rocked by this unprecedented leak, the president really said nothing. he was asked about this earlier, what he thought about the fact that there was this leak, this breach. he didn t comment on it. we ll see if he does a few minutes from now. he served for eight years as the chair of the senate judiciary committee. so we expect that no matter where he falls on this issue and he sort of has been on both sides in some way, we can talk about that. you would expect he would feel strongly about the issue of this breach, of this leak. the court confirming that the document that was leaked is justice alito s draft opinion that was written in february. in it he talks about the majority overturning roe v. wade and ordering an internal investigation now into this leak. we have a great line-up. we ll have marc thiessen first, fox news contributor. senator mike lee will join us in just a ....
sandra: we look forward to that. chief justice john roberts confirming an unprecedented breach of the court. a leaked draft opinion on roe v. wade to end nearly 50 years on precedent on abortion in america. i m sandra smith in new york. great to have you back. john: good to be back, i m the other john roberts in washington. chief justice roberts saying he has directed the marshal of the court to find the source of the leak. each state would have full authority to decide laws on abortion themselves. sandra: right now the opinion is just a draft and not final as the chief justice reminded everyone through a statement this morning until p published by the somebody. moments ago senate majority leader chuck schumer spoke on the steps of the capitol. if the report is accurate, abomination, one of the worst ever in modern history. of course, republicans have sought this outcome for years so you would think they would be celebrating such a decision but they are aren t. ....