menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
the torture of a mentally disabled man in chicago, streamed on facebook live, as a despicable hate crime. also, the winner of the bbc‘s sound of 2017 has been announced. ray burke. greg burke. 22 year old south londoner, ray black, has been described as embodying female black britishness. and a more ancient noise. how stonehenge may have sounded, thousands of years ago. good morning. it s friday 6th january. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the us president elect, donald trump, has voiced fresh scepticism about claims that russia tried to interfere in the american presidential election, just hours before he s due to receive a detailed briefing from intelligence chiefs on the alleged cyber attack. he appears to be sticking to the opinion. the in a series of tweets overnight, he said: the three intelligence heads have collectively insisted the kremlin ordered the attack to undermine mr trump s opponent, hillary clinton and have warned the president elect ag
Any other eye where do we put our trust? certainly not in this court, i doesn t seem to have any interest in policing itself or even maintaining the objects o being above board and no partisan lisa marie, if you are up t me, this entire show would be recitation of your tweet threats. thank you so much for bringing your expertise and analysis to us every weekend i appreciate you i want to bring in democrati congressman she s also a civil rights an criminal defense attorney, which i ve been thinking about a lot, congresswoman, as i hav heard you breaking down over and over again what is happening legally with abortio in this country. i want to play some sound from vice president harris. this is on abortion access take a listen. there is no question that the president and i are goin to stand with the women of america and do everything we can to ensure that women hav the ability to make decision about their health care, their reproductive health care in manner that is what they nee
Though we can t avoid it, is that right now we are doing the exact same thing that kirsten sinema wants us to do, because we are talking about kyrsten sinema. this is precisely why she chose this moment and this time when the democrats were excited about increasing their numbers in the senate. she said, wait a minute, enough people were not talking about. me now television stations, writers, we all have to be shifting our conversation to her choices that do not reflect the voices of her voters in arizona in the future of the democratic senate. i used to be a teacher so i understand a lot of negative attention seeking behavior. there are people who just want the spotlight. they don t care about whether or not the choices they make are actually positive in order to get that spotlight. i ve seen tweet threats from her, i ve seen articles, interviews with her. i cannot tell you what she actually stands for. the only real thing i heard is
Is his tweet threats that get us closer to war or this kind of muscular use of executive power which raise the question of how much power does the president have and what happens if it gets into the wrong hands and why doesn t congress do more to check the president? that is the bigger question beyond president trump that is front and center. depending how you view this president, it could be makes him look guilty or obstruction of justice or makes him look insecure. he wants loyalty around him and he wants it to go away. you are right. i think it will play out if it moves forward in the court of congress. those perceptions actually matter. part of what will happen whether republicans in control of congress or democrats, how did they see what the president did. it is not totally a legal issue, but a political issue. that is why some of the stories can have a very big impact on