divided nation and snl offers its own trumped up holiday message i ve committed no crime i will be arrested, tried an found guilty sound familiar? i m jonathan capehart this is the sunday show. the escalating war on the right issues is putting th reproductive rights of million satirist just last week, idaho pass wha it calls in abortion trafficking law that makes helping a minor league the state to get an abortion without parental consent punishable by up to five years in prison. in south carolina, republicans are proposed a law definin abortion as murder making it punishable by th death penalty. friday night, two contradictor court decisions. in texas, a trump appointe district judge invalidated the fda s 23 year approval o method for stone, a truck used in nearly all medica termination of pregnancy s after antiabortion organizations argued that th food and drug administration lacked the authority to approv the medication and did not adequately study its safety an ef
laboratories, yesterday. they paused the court ruling that would have restricted access to the nationwide abortion pill, mifepristone. for, now at least until next week access to mifepristone ha been preserved the matter is far from resolved and the future of abortion pills remains uncertain. the order merely maintains the status quo for a few more days to allow the justices time t consider the issue the white house, on the othe hand, is doubling down o defending reproductive rights. on tuesday, vice president kamala harris, will be in reno nevada, to discuss the importance of keeping abortion legal. mifepristone is one of the two drugs often used to induce a abortion a method that is safe, effective and popular. medication abortion now counts for more than half of al abortions performed in the united states. meanwhile, a near tota abortion ban in florida will have dire consequences for those living in the south. late thursday night, the governor s office announce that ron de
use it at home and use it up to ten weeks into a pregnancy, at litigation continues into the supreme court. the generic version of the drug made by a company called gen biopro will also continue to be available. joining me now are the president of the naral pro choice america and lisa reuben, msnbc legal analyst. lisa, i want you to go through this decision with me, because and i think ari talked about it in the previous hour what i read here is something that reads like shade. this decision talking about in recent cases the court has been lambasted for staying a district court order based on the scanty review this court gives matters on its shadow docket this opening with lots of criticism of people who have been critical of the court, is that normal? and what do you make of it this is a court that isn t getting along particularly well, joy, so you re asking me, is this normal? it hasn t been normal up through the trump presidency, and yet, we now have nine justices that a
begin this hour with the 202 race for the white house as republicans tussle over the future of the gop. president biden lays the groundwork for potential reelection campaign. tomorrow, donald trump heads t iowa as he works to cement his hold over the republican primary voters jones visited come just thre days after his latest nemesis, former governor ron desantis for me, it it is in the firs of the nation state on friday. well desantis has yet to announce an official white house run. he appointed to th administration in florida as the, quote, blueprint for th rest of the nation we ll talk about that later in the show meanwhile trump s vice president, mike pence, i calling on his former boss for ten or a sixth that happened in washingto just last night. pence said trump was wrong whe he asked pence to overturn the 2020 election. thank trump put people ad risk the fallout of january six jus a series of legal woes for the president overshadowing th upcoming gop primary battle. t
studio audience in miami you can tune in at 8 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex are you concerned tha desantis just hard that is like, shut it down no entry maybe if he shows that we can do a live interview. i would love that. he s a big fan of the show i m sure longtime watcher an first-time guest that sounds great. i ll be watching thank you to you at home for joining us this hour this was the line to get int the delaware courthouse wher fox news was set to go on tria this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems a corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive the fox and dominion side look like they had enough attorneys to form a soccer team. the soccer team in suits buying the building, the court erected this mysterious canopy walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors an high-profile witnesses to ente and exit the courtroom with