good to be with you, i m katy tur, as chris jansing just said, we are waiting for police in louisville, kentucky, to update us on the latest mass shooting four dead and nine are wounded at the old national bank sources tell nbc news the shooter is believed to be a current or former employee of the bank it was unclear how the shooter died the question is what does or does not happen now? kentucky is a split state. it has two republican senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell, who sent tweets offering a version of thoughts and prayers. while its governor is a democrat, a democrat who is now not just professionally affected by gun violence, but personally. here is governor andy beshear in front of the bank this morning. this is awful i have a very close friend that didn t make it today and i have another close friend who didn t either, and one who s at the hospital who i hope is going to make it through joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken de
first, in nebraska, on the floor was a bill to ban abortions at six weeks. but the republicans who have a 32-17 seat majority over the democrats could not pass it because one of the cosigners of that bill ended up abstaining. we re going to tell you why he did that in a moment. then in south carolina, a near total ban also failed. it s the third time the gop has tried to pass this bill down there since roe was overturned. this time, all five of the chambers female lawmakers struck down the quote human life protection act, including three republicans. here s two of them. maybe i m confused about this legislation. or maybe the men who wrote it know more about pregnancy than the women in this chamber or across this state or the country who can actually get pregnant and give birth. women don t have sex just so they can go have an abortion. just like men, i don t think, have sex to get pregnant every time. abortion laws have always been each and every one of them about control
pill, mifepristone justice samuel alito, putting a temporary pause on any changes to the way the drug is currently administered, but only until wednesday, the court giving itself more time to decide if restrictions on the drug will go into effect if the full court doesn t choose to act after wednesday, doctors will be instructed to only prescribed if a princeton up to seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the 10 weeks now, however, doctors typically have discretion to ignore those instructions. and it will get harder to access the pill. women will have to see a doctor in person and pick it up. instead of talking to a doctor online and receiving it by mail , according to a newly published study, nearly one in 10 abortions obtained last year after the supreme court reversed roe v. wade used for preston subscribed during a telehealth visit with a doctor and overall , the drug is used in more than half of all abortions. the justice department urged the supreme court to put all the
it doesn t matter whether or not there is a statutory exemption, there are still a medical procedure that is understood to be an abortion now right when figures initially cast out on the story. and they are forced to backstop after police in ohio arrested a man who confessed to raping the child. still indiana s attorney general, todd rokita said his team will be investigating dr. caitlin bernard. the indianapolis-based physician who performed the abortion. they suggested that dr. bernard failed to report the case but abc news has obtained a copy of doctor s report that verifies her story. here s a doctor pronounced lawyer told her yesterday. we set mr. rokita a cease and desist letter. demanding that he stops marrying my client and falsely accusing her of things that she has not done. our hope immediate hope with that letter that we sent today is that mr. rokita will stop vilifying my client. and stop trying to change the story away from what really happened here, which i
Resilience and redemption on the band book club. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning to you, it is saturday, may the fourth. Week three has wrapped in the first criminal trial of donald trump. The Republican Partys twice impeached for four times impacted presumptive president ial nominee. He is the first former president to find himself facing a criminal trial and the possibility of spending time in jail. Even though hes in this precarious position right now he continues to be the same abrasive man he has always been, someone who thinks the rules dont apply to him. On tuesday, the judge presiding over his criminal trial, judge juan merchan, ruled trump has violated his Gag Order Nine Times so far. He ordered the former president to pay a total fine of 9000. 00 and if necessary, he would impose a cursory tory punishment. Trump could face more consequences as soon as next week. In addition to that ruling, another hearing was scheduled, was held this week rega