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wake of the massacres in uvalde, texas, and buffalo, just hours after the supreme court struck down a new york law expanding gun rights now making it easier to carry guns outside the home. our senior national correspondent terry moran has the latest on all of that for us. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, amy. two branches of government, two very different directions on guns in america. at the supreme court those conservative justices handing down a massive victory for gun rights advocates in america while at the senate, after decades of partisan stalemate and bloody tragedies in our streets and schools and churches and stores and so many other places, that rare moment of bipartisan agreement on reforming gun laws in america. overnight, a rare bipartisan achievement on capitol hill. the senate passed a gun safety bill. >> this bill is a compromise. it doesn't do everything i want. but what we are doing will save thousands of lives without violating anyone's second amendment rights. >> reporter: in a 65-33 vote

senators approved the most consequential gun reform in nearly 30 years following two of the country's most devastating mass shootings in buffalo and uvalde. >> i don't believe in doing nothing in the face of what we saw in uvalde and we have seen in far too many communities. >> reporter: 15 republicans including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell joined all democrats even though the measure fell far short of president biden's proposals. the $13 billion package will enhance background checks for gun buyers under 21, strengthen laws to prevent partners convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a gun and provide funding for gun violence prevention programs, school security and mental health. this just hours after the supreme court handed down a sweeping gun rights ruling thursday declaring that a new york state law that puts strict limits on carrying guns outside the home is unconstitutional. in a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority held that the state's requirement that anyone seeking

to carry a concealed handgun must show proper cause for it violates the second amendment right to bear arms. justice clarence thomas writing the majority opinion saying, we know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need. it is not how the second amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense. justice stephen breyer writing in dissent pointed to the nearly 300 mass shootings that have already occurred this year, and says the court's decision does not consider the potentially deadly consequences. >> it's reprehensible. it's not what new yorkers want and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state. >> reporter: 80 million americans live in states with similar proper cause requirements as new york's and those are now likely unconstitutional. >> licensing regimes will still be in place but the teeth are largely removed in places like new york.

those objective requirements are not going to limit the number of people who carry concealed weapons in public. >> reporter: this is a blockbuster case at the supreme court and there are more to come. we're waiting on more rulings from the justices today. some of the big ones still outstanding. there is a major case on the epa's authority to regulate the emissions that are driving climate change. there is a case about coaches leading prayers after school sporting events and, of course, that huge abortion case out of mississippi where that leaked opinion suggests that the court is ready to overturn roe versus wade, but that case could come next week. amy. >> all right, terry moran for us in washington, d.c., thank you. t.j. we turn now to that high-stakes hearing of the january 6th committee. former top justice department officials testified about former president trump's relentless pressure saying he tried to get them to take part in a scheme to overturn the election. chief washington correspondent jon karl has more. good morning to you, jon. >> reporter: good morning, t.j. once again it was republicans, all of them trump appointees, as

the star witnesses. telling the january 6th committee how trump pressured them to chase down wild conspiracy theories and to use the power of the department of justice to help him overturn his election loss. donald trump wanted to use the full power of federal law enforcement to overturn joe biden's election victory and it was the top officials at the justice department, all of them appointed by trump himself, who stood in his way. >> i said, well, mr. president, you're right that i'm not going to allow the justice department to do anything to try to overturn the election. that's true, but the reason for that is because that's what's consistent with the facts and the law. >> reporter: acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and his deputy, richard donoghue, told trump the department, quote, can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. >> how did the president respond to that, sir? >> he responded very quickly and

said essentially that's not what i'm asking you to do. what i'm just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. >> reporter: trump peppered the doj leadership with demands nearly every day. he wanted them to seize voting machines, to go to the supreme court to overturn the election and to chase down wacky conspiracy theories. >> the select committee confirmed that a call was actually placed by secretary miller to the attache in italy to investigate the claim that italian satellites were switching votes from trump to biden. this is one of the best examples of the lengths to which president trump would go to stay in power. >> reporter: doj investigated the claims anyway finding none of them were true. >> as the president went through them, i went piece by piece to say, no, that's false. >> reporter: days before the january 6th insurrection, trump concocted a plan to install a new acting attorney general who would do what he was demanding, a guy named jeffrey clark. the lawyer in charge of the department's environmental

division. clark had drafted a letter he wanted the justice department to send to the state of georgia and to other states biden had won urging state officials to reconsider their election results saying, doj had, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election. >> it was so extreme to me, i had a hard time getting my head around it initially. this was not based on fact. >> reporter: the letter's claims were not only false, these trump justice department officials deemed them dangerous. >> for the department to insert itself into the political process this way, i think, would have had grave consequences for the country. >> reporter: the effort came to a head in a january 3rd meeting in the oval office. the white house call log that day referred to clark as the acting attorney general, a sign that trump had already made up his mind. but rosen, donoghue, and other top officials convinced trump not to go through with his plan by threatening to resign en masse. >> your entire department of leadership will walk out within

hours and i don't know what happens after that. >> reporter: in a sign that the justice department is widening its investigation into the events surrounding january 6th, the fbi raided the home of jeffrey clark, the official that trump wanted to make the acting attorney general on wednesday, cecilia, this is a clear indication that the justice department's investigation is now going beyond those who physically attacked the capitol building on january 6th. >> that could be the next step. jon, thanks. right now we're going to go to rachel scott for the other bombshell. republican members of congress allegedly seeking presidential pardons. rachel, the committee, they were naming names. >> reporter: cecilia, naming names and they say they have the evidence to back it up. trump white house officials testified under oath that at least five republican members of congress asked for presidential pardons. all of them fierce defenders of former president donald trump who pushed his false claims about the 2020 election. so on this list, republican representative mo brooks of

alabama who sent an email to the white house asking for pardons not only for himself, but for the 147 republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election. also on this list, republican representative matt gaetz of florida, andy biggs of arizona, louie gohmert of texas and scott perry of pennsylvania. split reaction coming in from the republicans this morning. congressman andy biggs says that this is a false accusation and then you have scott perry, his office tells me that it's a ludicrous, soulless lie, then republican representative mo brooks, he is not denying this at all. he told me he spoke with trump multiple times after january 6th about his pardon request and that it was trump that told him to put his request in writing. he is standing by his actions this morning, cecilia. >> asking for a pardon for 147 republicans, rachel, thanks so much. amy. cecilia, now to ukraine and the european union granting the war-torn country candidate status. it is a powerful and symbolic moment on the path to full membership that sends a strong message to russia and it all comes as the u.s. announces it

will send another $450 million in military aid. our foreign correspondent james longman is in ukraine with the latest on that. good morning, james. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, amy. i'm at a sports complex her in kharkiv. it was hit last night by a brrage of russian rockets. take a look at the level of devastation. day in, day out, russia is smashing this area. this as we understand ukrainians are now withdrawing from severodonetsk. this morning, a crucial fight in a battle for the donbas in eastern ukraine. russia on the brink of claiming the entire luhansk region, one of putin's main objectives. the ukrainian resistance >> announcer: this is an abc news special report. now reporting, david muir. good morning. we're coming on the air with breaking news from the supreme court at this hour. the justices handing down the highly anticipated ruling on

abortion, and the fate of the landmark roe versus wade decision. this is a majority opinion written by justice samuel alito. very close to what was leaked several weeks back. they say we hope that roe and k.c. must be overruled. terry, bottom line, what has the court said this morning? >> reporter: bottom line, roe versus wade is overruled. there is no constitutional right to an abortion in this country anymore as of today. justice samuel alito in as you say an opinion that tracks very, very carefully as far as i can see at this point with the draft opinion.as leaked, the - it says without question, it is time to heed the constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives. again and again, he knocks down in this opinion as he did in his draft opinion, the claim that there is a right to choose an abortion and the right to

privacy and the right to liberty under the fourth amendment. he says that the adoption of the fourth amendment, abortion was a crime in this country, and there was no talk about a constitutional right to an abortion until the latter part of the 20th century. he says that this court does not have to abide by the roe versus wade precedent because it was to wrong, and because it has not settled the issue, and he says without question, it is time now to return the issue to the people which will open the doors obviously to all kinds of legislation and laws that have already been passed and are now good law in those states, which passed so-called trigger laws as soon as this opinion comes down, abortion is outlawed in many states in this country. the bottom line once again, just as it was in justice alito's draft opinion, this is an opinion that from now on, there is no more constitutional right to an abortion in the united states. >> you know, it's interesting, terry because initially in this opinion that had been leaked, just alito had written

previously that we cannot allow our decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public's reaction to our work, talking about any reaction actually to that leak or what could happen if this ruling came down, and it would seem in delivering the same opinion today, that's exactly what they've done. they've ignored any potential public reaction to this. >> reporter: that's right, david. there was some question when the draft opinion was leaked. boy, this sounds very absolute and extreme. his tone, that roe is egregiously wrong, that any constitutional right must be located in our country's history and traditions. people were concerned about how that might impact gay marriage and other rights that are not specified in the constitution. it looks to me like he doesn't pull back from any of that. now there is a concurrence by chief justice roberts. he concurs in the judgment. so he doesn't sign onto all that. it looks like five justices do. this is not only overturning

roe, but overturning the entire approach to constitutional law, that just because something might not have been a constitutional right when the constitution was written in 1787, perhaps the generalities in the constitution can be read to guarantee these rights, to people marrying people of the same sex. contraception isn't mentioned in the constitution either. it does seem that this opinion opens the door not just to overruling roe versus wade, but to other rights that many americans have taken for granted that are based on the same reasoning, that the constitution can evolve. >> terry moran, stay with us here. you're watching abc news live coverage this morning. an historic ruling this morning overruling roe versus wade in this country. it will have profound impact on abortion rights and as you heard terry mention moments ago, the impact will be felt almost immediately in 13 states.

they have what are called trigger laws which means it would take any abortion rights off the books as they currently stand. 26 states in totality could actually change their laws almost immediately. there you can see the map on the screen there. those are the states expected to ban or severely restrict abortion rights almost immediately. i want to bring in rachel scott, our congressional correspondent. she's live outside the supreme court where people are already demonstrating this morning. rachel, what's the reaction down there? >> reporter: david, this is a seismic shift. people from all over the country gathering here t a look at the reaction. we have seen tears of sadness, sears of happiness from people on both sides take a look. i want to bring you in. that has been brought up around the supreme court. this wraps around the entire supreme court complex, preparing

for this moment. i have been covering this issue for over a year. i have been traveling to many states because they have been trying to restrict abortion. some have traveled miles to get an abortion. that is the new reality in this country now. >> reacting on both sides on this issue in the country. we'll go back to rachel when we can hear her a little more clearly. being drowned out by the immediate reaction. i want to bring in kate shaw, our supreme court contributor and legal scholar. what do you make of the legal decision? what stands out to you? >> you know, this is one of the most important decisions the supreme court has handed down in a century, you know, certainly in the past half century, but it will stand with among the most important decisions of the supreme court. look, for nearly half a century, americans, women, but all americans have structured their lives and made their choices with the sort of understanding that if contraception should

fail, they have abortion. a constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy essentially as a backstop. justice elena kagan -- i'm sorry. justice breyer who wrote it for himself, and justice sotomayor basically writes that the state can control a woman's body and a woman's destiny by taking from her the choice to continue with or to terminate a pregnancy, and i think this will have seismic impact on women's lives and on the choices they can make and really on the course of the country. it's an enormously consequential decision, and justice alito says it doesn't call into question any of the court's other precedents on contraception or same-sex marriage, but it points out that the logic of the majority opinion very much calls those cases into question. whatever the majority says in insisting that it does not call those rights into question. >> kate, let me ask you because you point out the states can control a woman's body and

destiny. the bottom line in those 26 states we were just looking at 13 of them have the trigger laws. bottom line here, what does the future look like for women in those states if they were going to get an abortion? >> well, as of today, you know, in many states, these trigger laws will go immediately into effect, and in other states, there are laws that have been struck down by courts because they were inconsistent with roe, and those decisions will no longer be enforceable, and so those laws will come back into effect in many instances and in several other states, leaders have said they will pass laws to criminalize or prohibit abortion in all or nearly all instances, and so, you know, those women will either seek to travel to other states if they want to terminate a pregnancy or continue with unwanted pregnancy, and some states have also indicated they're going to make it difficult to leave the state to obtain abortion care elsewhere. in no way does this decision end

the roiling national debate about abortion. in some ways i think it's going to kick it into higher gear as we see states begin to respond. >> kate shaw describing the time we haven't seen in this country in 50 years, a situation where women in this country will have to travel across state lines if they're looking to have an abortion if they're in one of these states that will have a trigger law that goes into effect immediately. in fact, there are 13 of those. 26 in total that plan to take action almost immediately. so in 26 states in this country, if a woman seeks to get an abortion, they will most likely have to travel outside that state to find the opportunity to make that decision on her own. i want to bring in devin dwyer who covers the supreme court for us, and devin, this country knows very well these supreme court confirmation hearings and every time there is a justice who comes before the american people and the senate, of course, to answer questions,

they're always asked about this issue. they're very careful with their answers, but almost always we hear about precedent in this country and respect for precedent, and this law was on the books for 50 years. so what are americans to make of the answers they heard from some of these justices before? >> there's been a lot of attention, david, on those statements in at least the confirmation hearings of the three most recent justices appointed by donald trump. remember when he discussed goal of overturning roe versus wade which they've now accomplished and during those confirmation hearings, they were asked, will you stand by roe versus wade as established precedent? let decisions stand. today we saw in a concurrence from justice brett kavanaugh. he said that is not absolute, and making clear that they have a more expansive, flexible view of star decisis, and in cases where cases are egregious, they

must act. they did it with that doctrine and brown versus board, overturning segregation in the '50s. today, this conservative majority making clear they're doing just that. correcting a wrong in their view, david. >> devin dwyer who is with us, covers the court. stay with us. we'll come back with you before the morning is done. our coverage here this morning. stephanie ramos is in mississippi. she's at the clinic that was at the center of this case, testing the future of roe versus wade in this country, and stephanie, what's the scene there? >> reporter: well, david, as you can hear, there are some anti-abortion rights activists on a loud speaker behind me, but you're exactly right. this is the clinic at the heart of the cases. the only abortion clinic left in the state of mississippi. it is run by the jackson women's health organization. it's also known as the pink house. as you thincan see, it's a pink building.

also on the corner, anti-abortion rights activists who are here to persuade women not to get an abortion. now this is where the rubber meets the road, david. families have depended on this clinic. women have relied on this clinic year after year. a recent estimate showed more than 2,500 women received an abortion here in a year in the state of mississippi. now if this clinic closes, it could have severe impacts on the lowest income communities. keep in mind here, mississippi is one of the poorest states in the nation. now that roe has fallen as you mentioned, some 26 states could ban or severely restrict abortions. that's including mississippi, and we know that women have traveled here from other states like texas and oklahoma. they have already set some of these bans in place, but now those women and women here in mississippi may not have an option to visit this clinic, david. >> stephanie ramos at the clinic

at the srnt center of this case. i want to bring in carrie severino. this is considered a major victory for you and the people you work with who have been working for 50 years to get roe overturned. >> absolutely, but most importantly because this is a return to what the constitution simply says, and i think that's what the majority opinion is very clear about is the constitution nowhere provides the right to abortion. that's something that some states may choose to do, but that's not something that's in the federal constitution and the supreme court has to limit itself to deciding cases based on the constitution itself. so this will put that issue back in the hands of our elected represent is. that's where it was for most of history, and i think that's where the constitution leads it, and that's the correct result today. >> i wanted to ask you, carrie, about the most recent polling.

i know you're aware of it, from the pugh research center, that 60% of americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. what do you make of those numbers and the fact this ruling would appear to go against what the majority of americans are hoping for or asking for? >> it doesn't contradict that. it says, if you would like to make abortion legal in all or most circumstances, now you have the ability to do that at the legislative level. that's something that americans again, all the way until 1973 had the ability to legislate on this issue. it's simply not not in the constitution. the supreme court's job is not to say, what do people want? let's come up with laws that reflect what people want. their job is to simply interpret the constitution and interpret the laws that are passed by congress and elected representatives. if most americans want to see that, that's what we will see, be we see it in a legislative way rather than judges using that legislative power.

>> carrie severino, president of a conservative organization. she says this is rooted in the constitution and should be at the state level where the decision is made and that's what she believes the court has decided here today. carrie, thank you so much for joining us. i want to bring terry moran back in because chief justice roberts did weigh in on this decision. you have had more time to pore through this. what have you found, terry? >> reporter: well, david, this case has five conservative justices voting to overrule roe versus wade. it has three liberal justices opposing that, and it has john roberts in the middle. he says that he would have validated the mississippi law at issue here. mississippi passed a law banning almost all abortions in 15 weeks. he says that's all you have to decide. he doesn't decide whether women no longer have a right to abortion, and he says, we adhere

closely to the judicial restraint here instead of repudiating a right we have previously recognized, but also expre expressley reaffirmed. he says the court is too full of certainty on this issue and he would wait for the next case to comp. he's lost control of this court, but it is significant that a justice as conservative as john roberts is looks at what his conservative colleagues did and says, that's judicial activism. >> very interesting, terry, that the chief justice was appearing to write that there could have been some sort of meeting in the middle here, some sort of a compromise. as terry points out, five conservative justices, majority opinion. three liberals and then the chief justice, john roberts who said, we could validate what mississippi is asking for, and that's all we have to do, and terry, one more question before we move on and ask about the white house reaction, what the president might do. we have dr. jen ashton standing by as well, but terry, one more question for you because justice

breyer, in his dissent talks about the court, how the court will be viewed in this country, and i bring this up because you just talked about the chief justice losing control of the court in so many words, what you just said. justice breyer writes that one of us once said that it is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much. for all of us in our time on this court, that has never been more true than today. in overruling roe, this betrays its guiding principles. with sorrow for the american e l fundamental constitutional protection, we dissent. he talks about the guiding principles and there has been such swift change on the court. . >> reporter: and that, david, is what justices are always concerned about. the power of the supreme court comes from the confidence and trust of the people. that is why people respect its opinions.

in its decisions shift because one political party goes against justices, and this is bedrock belief of justices throughout our history that they should abide by the law and the cannons of judicial conduct in a way that doesn't seem to communicate to people that they're just another political constitution, and what justice breyer is saying there explicitly, and what chief justice john roberts is suggesting is this is an activist decision. this is a decision that did not have to be made, and that given the nature of the issue and how it has been brought to the court will suggest that this is a court not of judges, but of politicians in judgebe that is what stephen breyer is alerting the country. >> stay with us here. we'll continue our coverage here this morning. i want to bring in our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega because cecilia, this white house knew since the leaked opinion that this very well could happen, what action

have they been planning if any at all? >> reporter: david, they have been holding a number of emergency meetings behind closed doors in the weeks since that leaked draft opinion came out, certainly preparing for what has happened here today. the white house has said they will be ready when and if this time came, but they've played it very close to the vest what these options are. we have not heard an official reaction yet, certainly not from the president. he doesn't have anything on his public schedule today. he's getting ready to head overseas for a foreign trip to europe, but certainly this decision will impact and overshadow so much of this trip to come. the president has asked the gender policy councils for advice on what to do. the white house counsel has been weighing legal decisions in moves that the president can make. lawmakers have been pitching in in these closed doors meetings and you can see on the screen next to me some of the options on the table. this is a broad range and we're

doing tea leaf reading because they haven't signaled what they will do. we're talking about declaring a public health emergency. they can sue states for being at odds with fda policy. they could allow abortion pills to be provided at pharmacies, and ease restrictions on imports of abortion pills into this country. there's this one. they could lease federal buildings to providers if some of those are out of jurisdiction where the procedure is now banned, but look. david, advocates have told us all along, and people inside the white house will tell you privately this is not something the president can executive order. can executive action his way out of. no matter what the president decides to do, if he does decide to go the executive action route, that is not going to overturn this ruling. the president has been lobbying -- frankly the white house has been asking and hopeful that congress would codify roe into law. they do not have the votes. the democrats do not have the

votes. republicans certainly have not wanted that to happen, and there's to expectation that they will after this, but all eyes, particularly from the left and liberals and progressives in this country are on this white house starting today, starting this minute to see what they will do to help women in this situation. >> cecilia vega, our thanks to you on the potential options. though they are limited for sure that the white house can take. the potential steps that the president might try to take, but again, the road is very limited because, again, we have just witnessed here on our coverage the supreme court ruling to overturn roe versus wade allowing states to ban abortions across this country. i've mentioned the numbers before, but those 13 states with trigger laws can move to ban abortions immediately. 26 states in all planning to take action very swiftly. we've heard from the president of the judicial crisis network, a conservative organization, carrie severino who said this is

what we have been working f for for 50 years in this country, and she made the case this should be back to the states. that's where the decision making on this particular issue should take place. we will of course, hear the other side of this as we continue our coverage here this morning. i want to bring in heidi heitkamp who is with us here this morning. heidi, you come in on the other side of this issue, an extraordinary morning and historic morning. 50 years in this country overturned. what's your reaction? >> you know, my first reaction is who is this going to hurt the most? it's going to hurt low income women who seek abortion mainly for economic reasons, and they can't afford to get on a plane. once again, the difference between the services that can be provided to rich people in this country and poor people in this country have taken a huge impact today, but more importantly, this is the first time in my history that the supreme court has taken a step backward on

individual rights, and it is absolutely amazing to me. donald trump can basically override that will literally millions in this country who believe that this procedure should be available and safe for women across the country. this is no -- this is now no -- there's nothing about this decision that doesn't further divide our country, and by that i mean, now all of a sudden we're going to see huge divisions between these red states and state legislators have basically enacted trigger laws. and blue states, making abortion available, and once again, young women who grow up in a state like mine are going to say, if you can't recognize my right of privacy, i'm not going to live in your state, and so this has

huge ramifications to the political fabric of our country. probably what everybody is going to be analyzing is how this will affect the midterms. for. years, we always said one issue that has driven division is this, but now is this going to be a one-issue vote that people on the other side take and are we going to see implications in the midterms as a result of this decision? >> former senator heidi heitkamp, abc news contributor talking about the divisions between red states and blue states in this country only deepening, she believes because of this particular issue, and now this decision coming down from the supreme court overturning roe versus wade this morning 50 years of precedent in this country, sending it back to the states, and we already know that some 26 states plan to take action if not immediately in the very near future to overturn

abortion rights in their st particular states. one state where that is not the case is connecticut, where they signed the reproductive rights of legislation. governor, first of all, your reaction to the court this morning, and what this means in particular for the women in your state and why you took action in recent weeks? >> i'm shocked that 50 years of precedent is being overturned by this court. the idea that politicians can stand between a woman and her doctor and let them make the right choice, i can guarantee you it's not going to happen here in connecticut. we're going to respect roe v. wade. we've got by law, roe v. wade despite what the federal government does, and if there are any women who feel like their rights are being abused in other states, they're welcome here in connecticut. >> and governor, of course, you're only the governor of connecticut. you don't have any say over surrounding states or for that matter, states across this country. what do you make of what you just heard from the former senator heidi heitkamp who said

this is only going to deepen divisions across this country where you have 26 states planning to take action, and a return to the time when women who are seeking an abortion will very likely if they can afford it, have to travel across state lines in this country to exercise that right? >> i agree with her. i think you're going to find people voting with their feet. i think women and companies may decide i want to go to a state that respects my rights, my right to choose, and connecticut will be one of those states, and if you are somebody who's coming from texas where they have vigilante justice and they try to enforce it against the doctor and the woman if she goes out of state, we're not going to let it happen here in connecticut. we're going to protect those women that come into our state, and we're going to prosecute right back. >> both sides reacting very quickly this morning. governor ned lamont, echoing what we heard from is former senator heidi heitkamp this morning, describing a country where women will have to go across state lines to exercise

their right. of course, we heard from judicial crisis network on the other side this morning saying they believe 50 years in this fight has finally brought victory for them from the supreme court in returning this to the states to make this decision that state lawmakers at the local level should decide the future of these rights. i want to bring in our chief medical correspondent of course, a board certified ob/gyn dr. morning. i always ask these questions. what's the bottom line for women watching at home this morning? what are their options, and where does that stand in the country right now if this is a situation that you are facing or you fear you could face at some point in the future? >> well, first of all, david, i think not only board certified ob/gyns, but midwives and

practitioners and assistants, everyone in the medical profession who has dedicated their lives to taking care of women are concerned, but, you know, we remain committed medically to providing safe, reproductive health care to women, and i want to be clear. this is not just a women's health issue. this affects men in these women's lives. their fathers, their sons, their partners, and reproductive health is not just women's health. it's human health. so i think that what's important right now for women to know is there will always be options, medical options, surgical options. the key is protecting two lives when a woman is pregnant, not just the life of the woman and the mother carrying that fetus, but the fetus as well, and there are medical conditions that literally put both of those lives at stake. you know, obviously there are a

plethora of other issues involved when we talk about abortion, but medically this is literally oftentimes a life or death issue, and i think that the health care professionals who were there yesterday will be there today and tomorrow to help these women. >> and if you are a woman in 1 of these 13 states with a trigger law that goes into effect almost immediately banning abortion, what are the options medically? >> well, first of all it's not one-size-fits all. it depends on the health of that woman, of the gestational stage, how far along she is in that pregnancy which oftentimes is difficult to ascertain. medication abortions are fda approved up until 10 weeks. that's 70 days. again, that's not always a fact that can be known for sure, and there are options to prevent unintended pregnancy. most people confuse the two.

that's so-called plan b which people may have heard of as the morning-after pill. that does not cause termination or an abortion. that is taken after intercourse to prevent an unintended or undesired pregnancy. it's not 100% effective, but usually it's in the high 90s. the earlier it's taken the better. then you talk about medication abortions. this will terminate a pregnancy and cause the evacuation of any content of the uterus. these are given usually orally with two medications that are fda approved again, up until about 10 weeks. time is not always on the side of the woman from a medical standpoint. oftentimes in cases of a fetal anomaly, that's not diagnosed until 21 or 22 weeks. so that's where you get that 1% of abortions occurring after 21 weeks.

of oftentimes because it's not diagnosed before then. it is important to remember also, david, that over 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester. so that's really when time matters. >> dr. jen ashton, really appreciate your insight here this morning. board certified ob/gyn and our chief medical correspondent, reaction within the medical community that will have to react swiftly because of the impact this is happening on perhaps they might be able to or not be able to do in some of these states. our thanks to you. we're getting reaction on both sides of the political aisle. democrats and republicans. former president obama issuing a statement just moments ago saying, today the supreme court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent. it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues attacking the

essential freedoms of millions of americans. that sent out by former president obama moments ago. on the other side, there was a statement by former vice president mike pence who said, today life won. by joverturning roe versus wade the supreme court of the united states has given the american people a new beginning for life and i commend the justices for having the authority of their convictions. i want to bring in our washington correspondent jonathan karl. i loathe to talk about the politics of it all because we're talking about women's lives here and as jen pointed out, it's not just the women's life, but the ripple effect on the entire family, the unit surrounding that woman as well, but the politics are major in this case, and given these two statements in particular from mike pence moments ago, this is something former president trump and mike pence campaigned on going into that election, and then when given the chance, they did appoint. former president trump did

appoint justices who he believed if the opportunity occurred would overturn roe versus wade, and that's what we've seen here this morning. >> reporter: and it's a simple fact, david, that without those three trump-nominated justices, this decision would not have come down this way. what's significant in the statement by mike pence because i think you'll see a lot more of this, is what he says happens next. he says, it is incumbent on all who cherish the sanctity of life that we will take the defense of the unborn and the support of women in crisis pregnancy centers to all states of america. he then says this, we must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of american law in every state on the land. here's the truth about roe v. wade. fur all of these years, roe v. wade has kept this issue -- it's always been, you know, abortion has been a wedge issue. it's been a divisive issue, but

it has been relegated to not the center of american politics because there was a sense that no matter what politicians did, there was a constitutional right to an abortion. now that's gone. so now you see this in every race. the state level, the federal level. the question would be asked, you know, where do you stand on abortion rights, and now you see, you know, one of the leading republican figures, the former republican vice president being first to come out and say, there should be a movement across the entirety of the united states to ban abortion. that's not a position that every republican holds by any measure, but now this issue becomes much more front and center in our politics, and will be right up there as one of the top one, two, or three issues in the midterm elections. >> and jon karl as you say, it's a fact. the three justices appointed by

former president trump, that decision making allowed then this to happen, and i think in recent times, people will look back to the 2016 election no matter what side of this issue you're on and recognizing that that was a significant turning point for the future of roe versus wade. >> no question. no question at all, and, you know, if you look at the polling going into 2016 election, abortion was not one of the top issues. abortion is an issue that people long have had strong views about, but wasn't necessarily an issue that people would vote on, certainly not a majority of people on either side of the issue. now there's an all-out political fight not just about supporting, you know, justices who may or may want rule one way on a decision, but about whether or not abortion remains legal. >> jon karl, our thanks to you this morning. stay with us here. our coverage continues, and you

heard terry moran talking earlier about the chief justice john roberts on the supreme court, and we have been able to take more time to read this decision today, in what the chief justice actually wrote attached to this decision. obviously this was written by samuel alito, five conservative justices signing off with alito, but then john roberts wrote this separately from that. he said, none of this, however, requires that we also take the dramatic step of altogether eliminating the abortion right first recognized in roe. mississippi itself previously argued as much to this court in this litigation would the state petition for our review. aborti abortions before reviability are always unconstitutional. the chief justice said, we are not required to take the step to

eliminate the abortion right which of course, is what the conservative justices have gone ahead and done here this morning. an historic morning no matter what issue you stand on. roe versus wade overturned, handing legislation back to the states and the decision making back to the states. we know this will almost immediately have impact on the women in 26 states, 13 of which have what are called trigger laws which automatically kick in and ban abortion rights in those states. carol tobias, the president of the national right to life group with us here this morning, and carol, your reaction here this morning? >> i'm ecstatic. the supreme court has correctly decided that the right to kill unborn children is not in the u.s. constitution. this is a great day for unborn children and their mothers. >> what do you make of the chief justice -- you heard me carol, mention just moments ago? what chief justice john roberts, a conservative wrote essentially

saying we don't need to take the, quote, dramatic step of altogether eliminating the abortion right first recognized in roe, suggesting that there could have been some sort of compromise? your reaction to the chief justice? >> i'm not sure what compromise he would have come up with that would not result in the deaths of many, many preborn babies. i think the court was correctly decided, and i'm very appreciative for the five justices who had the courage to say this court was wrong in 1973. >> carol, i know this has been a fight for many of you for 50 years since roe versus wade became the law of the land. >> mm-hmm. >> what do you make of the polling? how do you explain the polling from quinnipiac just this week not long ago from pugh research that shows that 60% of americans do believe that women should have the right to an abortion in this country? >> i think the interesting information is when you start getting down into the details.

many people would support abortion in some cases, but they certainly do not support the way it is practiced now. abortion legal for any reason for all nine months of pregnancy. that does not have widespread support, and what the court decision now does is let the people through their elected representatives decide what the law should be, and this is a great opportunity for people to start having those conversations. what should the law be, and, you know, where do we want to go if you don't like the way something the going, the direction in your state, then people have a right certainly to stand up and work for something else. >> carol tobias, of the national right to life group. i know this has been a fight of yours for some time, and we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us this morning. a mixed reaction coming in. carol tobias telling us she is eck statstatic with this decisi. it's something she has been fighting along with people on

her team for quite some time in this country. again, this is a very polarizing issue in this country. you don't need me to tell you that, and we're getting reaction from the other side. for example, the statement from alexis mcgill johnson, president of the planned parenthood action fund sending out a statement saying, knowing this moment would come does not make it any less devastating. the supreme court has given politicians permission to control what we do with our bodies, deciding we can no longer be trusted to determine the course for our own lives. that's from the planned parenthood action fund this morning. i want to bring back in cecilia vega because cecilia, i know we're expecting to hear from the house speaker nancy pelosi, and any moment now, any word from the white house? >> it's hard to say good morning because it certainly is not one. this morning, the radical supreme court is eviscerating americans' rights and

endangering their health and safety, but the congress will continue to act to overcome this extremism and protect the american people. today the republican-controlled supreme court has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman's right to make their own preproductive health decisions. because of donald trump, mitch mcconnell, and the republican party, their supermajority in the supreme court, american women today have less freedom today than their mothers with roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical republicans are charging ahead with their crusade to criminalize health freedom. in the congress, be aware of this. the republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban. they cannot be allowed to have a majority in the congress to do

that. that's their goal. if you read, and again, we're all studying all of this, but if you read what is very clear, one of the justices had his own statement. it's about contraception, i in vitro fertilization, family planning. that's what will spring from their decision that they made today. such a contradiction. yesterday to say the states cannot make laws governing the constitutional right to bear arms, and today they're saying the exact reverse, that the states can overturn a constitutional right for 50 years, a constitutional right of a woman having the right to

choose. the hypocrisy is raging, but the harm is endless. what this means to women is such an insult. it's a slap in the face to women about using their own judgment to make their own decisions about their reproductive freedom, and again, it goes -- i always have said, determination of a pregnancy is just their opening act. it's just their front game. behind it, and for years, i have seen endless congress opposition to any family planning, domestic or global. when we have had those discussions and those debates and those votes on the floor of the house. we are not going to let this pass. a woman's right to choose

reproductive freedom is on the ballot in november. we cannot allow them to take charge so that they can institute their goal which is to cri crimi criminalize reproductive freedom, so criminalize it. right now they're saying in states that they can arrest doctors and all the rest. what is happening here? her faith, her family, not some right wing politicians like donald trump and mitch mcconnell packed the court with. while republicans seek to punish and control women, democrats will keep fighting ferociously to enshrine roe v. wade into law of the land. this cruel ruling is outrageous

and heart-wrenching, but make no mistake. again, it's all on the ballot in november. >> nancy pelosi talking about the midterms approaching saying, all of this will be on the ballot come november. of course, the politics immediately an issue. this significant in this country on a day of history being made and people feeling so stronglien to both sides of this. you've heard the house speaker there saying that american women have less freedom today than their mothers saying that this for american women is an insult, a slap in the face to make their own decisions when it comes to their reproductive health. she talks about a contradiction she said in what we saw for the supreme court yesterday saying that in essence, and you'll remember we covered this yesterday, that new york state could not make decisions that affect the second amendment, the

right to bear arms, but the states can make that decision today saying states should be the ones making the decision when it comes to a woman's choice about her reproductive future. we'll get into that in a moment. i'll be asking terry moran and kate shaw if there is, in fact, a legal contradiction there. the house of speaker saying the hypocrisy is raging, but i want to get immediate reaction from what the house speaker said about american women having less freedom today than their own mothers did. i want to bring in an ob/gyn. she's from little rock, the only abortion clinic in little rock, and dr. kathy, i know that doctors come in from other states actually to work at this clinic. >> yes. there are other state providers at the clinic that does surgical

help here at planned parenthood. we have had a full schedule of patients today and tomorrow that we're contacting now that o the will them we're going to have to make other arrangements. they're going to look at driving s six to seven to eight hours one way to have the care provided for them. >> dr. cathey, you're among the first to crystallize what this means for women immediately in this moment, and again, i say this no matter where you stand on the issue. just underscore what you just said. explain that for our viewers who are watching right now. i work with the planned parenthood of little rock, arkansas, little rock family planning and you said moments ago that you had now begun to call women to tell them that they're going to have to make alternate plans and for many of them, that means six, seven, eight-hour drives ahead to get to other states?

>> yes. just -- and that, you know, one way, and that, you know, the expense involved and the logistics involved and i'm thinking of it on a very personal level, just what it's going to take for any one person to manage their logistics. it's going to be a very complicated process that it shouldn't be. >> dr. janet cathey from a planned parenthood in little rock, arkansas. it's the only abortion clinic in that state, describing how they're already calling women to say, you're going to have to find other plans. she's dealing with this on a very personal level with women this morning, and it just illustrates how quickly this has impact on real lives in our country. i want to bring in alexis mcgill

johnson. we mentioned what she said. she's the president of planned parenthood, the action fund. moments ago we read her statement on the air, and i want to get your reaction to what the house speaker just said, about how women have less freedom than their mothers and how this is a slap in the face and an insult to women about their reproductive futures. >> absolutely. i mean, look. i have two daughters who are 13 and 10, and the idea that they have less rights than i have at the age of 49, my entire life i have had a belief that the, you know, that -- in freedom and equality, and the fact that we have gone back after 50 years is absolutely devastating. it is devastating and we are furious. >> alexis, this decision was leaked several weeks back. samuel alito obviously authoring

the decision for the majority on the supreme court. there was some belief that perhaps the language would be tweaked somewhat. it appears that simply is not the case, that the majority on the court held firm on this. did you believe this was coming given the political dynamic in this country, that the court is now 6-3, given the recent appointments of the court, or did you think that a 50-year precedent would simply hold despite the political dynamics right now? >> we have been believing that this would happen for -- particularly for the last two years, and anyone listening to the oral arguments in december believed that this was a very distinct possibility, but there's a difference between belief and hope, and we spent the last, you know, few weeks after this leak still trying to hold onto hope beyond measure that this would be different, that the outrage that the courts

would need would change someone's mind. that the reality is just going to be devastating. it is going to create a health care crisis in this cenountry where people who need access to abortion care, and so i believed it would happen. i believed the court showed its hands in that leak, and yet i still tried to have faith and hope. >> the president of planned parenthood action fund. alexis who said she's 49 years old and today she recognizes that her own daughters have fewer rights she says than she did when she was their age, talking about the decision they anticipated, but the day has come, and now planned parenthood and those who support a woman's right to choose will have to take action on their own moving

forward. i want to recap for those of you watching. abc newslive coverage this morning, the supreme court overturning roe versus wade, a 50-year precedent in this country, turning that decision-making process back to the states on the state level for legislation involving abortion rights. as you know, if you have been watching here this morning, and forgive me for repeating that number if you are just joining us though, 26 states plan to take action immediately or very soon. 13 of which have the so-called trigger laws in effect that would change the laws immediately when it comes to a woman's right to make this decision on her own. the former first lady michelle obama issuing a statement moments ago. i am heartbroken today. i am heartbroken for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodies. again, reaction from both sides of the aisle, from former president obama, the former first lady, house speaker nancy pelosi moments ago, and on the

other side, former vice president mike pence who of course, ran on this along with former president trump who said if elected that they would appoint justices who would overturn roe versus wade. you can never predict how many justices a certain president will have an opportunity to appoint to the court. in this case, it was three, and changed the makeup of the court significantly. we are here today. i want to bring in rachel scott who we showed you sometime ago in front of the court, and we have seen in these live pictures that the crudowd has only grown and i'm sure there are people there on both sides of the issue. >> reporter: both sides of the issue, dafvid, and the crowd is growing by the minute. this is sending a seismic jolt throughout the country, and we are seeing that play out here right in front of the supreme court because the moment that his decision came out, read out here on this loud speaker, and you have this polarized where on one side you

had cheers and applause, and tears of joy, and this is what you are seeing. on one side, people are saying roe is illegitimate. saying this decision is wrong, and on the other side, you have people celebrating this. we have seen the police presence grow as well. you can see the lines of officers surrounding this fencing right out here outside of the supreme court. this fencing up around the supreme court has been up since that draft was leaked. it started and created this immense response out here. we've seen people gather here outside of the supreme court every single decision day waiting for this to happen. ed a hadvocates say although ths has been a seismic shift, the ground has been shaking for so long. they have these so-called trigger bans where abortion would be remjected or banned altogether, david. >> rachel scott live at the supreme court here this morning.

rachel, i really appreciate you reporting in and reflecting the scene there on the ground, the crowd growing. we'll go back to her should we need to momentarily. the reaction coming in on both sides of this issue. many believe this is a victory 50 years in this country. we heard from carol tobias, the president of the national right to life committee who told me she's ecstatic that this was sometime in the making. we asked her about the polling in this country that shows what the majority of americans believe, that this is a woman's right. she said that should be determined at the state level, and that's what many on that side of the argument continue to say here this morning. what the supreme court did was to give this back to the states which is what they have been fighting for all along. on the flip side, we're hearing from former secretary of state hillary clinton moments ago saying, most americans believe the decision to have a child is one of the most sacred decisions there is, and that such decisions should remain between

patients and their doctors. mrs. clinton says, today's supreme court opinion will live in infamy as a step back from women's rights in the u.s. which takes me back to cecilia vega, our chief white house correspondent. you covered hillary clinton's campaign going into 2016. this obviously was a major issue on both sides of that campaign, and when we think about recent history in this country, it just shows you an election can then determine obviously who gets appointed to the court. it can have swift and major impacts on the direction one way or another in this country. >> reporter: i think, d david, t we are looking at right now outside of the supreme court is the legacy of donald trump. this very much is about what donald trump did, and it's not just on the supreme court in terms of who he appointed. he has appointed a record number of federal judges on federal courts around the country as well, and look. i want to point out we're over

an hour since this decision man made and we have still yet to hear from president biden or anyone at the top levels of his administration. we're waiting to find out if, in fact, he will address the nation on this country. progressives certainly around the country, not just in washington are looking to him and his administration as the face for what happens next. he will be the one to push this fight for abortion rights as we head into the midterms in a few months. the democrats when you talk to them in the leadup to this having read this leaked draft opinion had very much said that the issue of abortion would be a galvanizing one for the mid terms. certainly that is expected to happen, and now we talk about the politics of this, but we have to remember the polling on abortion has been consistent for decades in our country. by a majority of voters, a 2-1 -- more than a 2-1 margin believe the courts should have upheld the roe versus wade decision. president biden had said and has been saying in the leadup to

this decision that this is now going to be about voters at the ballot box, but what is happening at this turn of events, david, this is not just about about federal elections. certainly they matter. what we're seeing here shows the legacy of former president trump. this is now very much going to be about state elections, and state legislators, governors, particularly in red states and these states with trigger laws that are now carrying this out at a state level. this is a decision that has an immediate trickle down effect, and david, on the politics of this, i want to point out one more thing. the white house and administration officials have been sounding the alarm about what this decision means from a broader perspective that today's decision is about abortion. they very much feel that this could then be interpreted to apply to other civil rights issues. perhaps same-sex marriages. will this be interpreted as something that could impact those, and clarence thomas and his concurring opinion, and i'll leave it to terry and others,

this means that the supreme court could reconsider substantive due process cases including same-sex marriage. they have been sounding the alarm on that, and not just that, but things like ivf, and if states are interpreting this as life begins at conception, how many other things in our life will this decision impact today? >> cecilia vega who has been reporting for some weeks now on the president's position on this, the biden administration saying that this decision if, in fact, it is the decision, and we learned today that it is, and it did not change from several weeks back when it was leaked, the biden administration saying this decision does not happen in a vacuum, that it very well could affect many issues in this country beyond simply a woman's right to make her own decision for reproductive future. i want to bring in gene mancini, the president for march for life. gene, we're looking at pictures of this, and as rachel scott just reported, and you don't need me to tell you, the crowd growing on both sides of this issue. i just am curious, your reaction

here this morning and what you make of the court's decision? >> right. well, i'm no stranger to growing crowds. the march for life by way of explanation, we are the largest annual human rights demonstration. we started the year after roe v. wade, and we have hundreds of thousands of people process the supreme court, and we have collectively millions over the years, and so i was just thinking so much about all the marchers over these years as today roe has been overturned, and the question of abortion goes back to the legislative branches primarily in the states also at the national level. i think it's really important not to fear monger about what's happening. i mean, some of the news reports are -- i think that they can evoke a lot of things that are not reality here. so this is about specifically allowing states to be able to decide when the limits to abortion can happen.

so the case that went before this to lead to this was about allowing a 15-week ban on abortion and under roe, our country could not have that 15-week ban on abortion. let's be clear that the united states is 1 of only 7 countries around the world that allows late term abortion, and so this puts us back in line with most mainstream countries in europe for example. so now states will have the right to enact. limitations will be able to protect life and i for one am very grateful. >> jeanne mancini, thank you. we had a doctor on earlier who worked at the planned parenthood, the only clinic in arkansas who this very morning is on the phone with women saying, we're going to have to find alternate routes for you, which could be six, seven, eight-hourates. wh wldouay to those women? you'veis

ifront ofd tt life, actual hum. they're the most vulnerable, the unborn within you and we would love to give you all sorts of resources to choose adoption, to be able to support you to make the choice for life, but there's also chemical abortion in this country. there are also other states, so what we're not talking about is abortion being made illegal in the united states. what we are talking about is states being able to reflect what the people want through their votes. so, you know, if that woman has all sorts of different options in front of her, and i would offer that adoption is a beautiful and noble and viable option as well. >> jeanne mancini, the president of march for life, and the march has began one year after roe versus wade since 15 years ago, embracing what they consider a major victory this morning from the supreme court. our thanks to jeanne for weighing in here with us here this morning. i want to bring back in terry

moran who has covered the supreme court for many years for abc news and terry, we heard from the house speaker just a short time ago talking about what many are going to feel is a bit of a contradiction, a bit of whiplash between yesterday's ruling on guns and today's ruling on abortion. i know there are many differences in both of these cases, but at the -- at sort of the 30,000 feet here, the gun decision said the states couldn't make decisions on guns that would affect the second amendment. today's decision says the states should make the decision on a woman and her reproductive future. help people at home who are going to hear this, and some who will believe yes, that does sound like a contradiction like there is hypocrisy. >> well, david, conservatives would say the answer is simple. guns, arms are in the second amendment of the constitution. abortion is not, but that begs the question really. there are many rights we take for granted that are not in the constitution, the right to travel across state lines, the

right of bodily integrity. you can't be forced to take medicine or undergo medical procedures. that's a right not found in the constitution. the right to choose contraceptions, the right to marry someone of the same sex. all of these rights are not enumerated in the constitution, neither was abortion, and so that begs the question as i say, but we are in a new era in the supreme court of the united states, and therefore in our country. the supreme court is now in the hands of not only very deeply conservative justices, but activist judges or justices. what you saw yesterday and today are justices who reachghe ggissu these very serious debat sithat i just want to let you know what justice stephen breyer said about it in dissent. he said that roe versus wade was upheld in 1991 by the votes of

justices sandra day o'connor, and david suitor. he said those were justices of wisdom, he says. they would not have won any contests for the ideological purity, and some courts want the justices to deliver. if there were awards for justices who left this court better, then they found it and who for that reason left this country better and the rule of law stronger, sign them up. we are in a new era where the reaching for the center to keep the court's legitimacy in the eyes of the public to keep the debate going is over, and we have a very, very strongly activist conservative court. >> terry moran talking about a new era. terry, thank you for that insight. a new era for the supreme court and this country. one in which chief justice john roberts seemed to allude to as well. he said, we do not need to take

the step of eliminating abortion altogether, but the chief justice not getting his way on that point. five justices, conservative justices joining the majority opinion written by samuel alito, and very, very similar to the opinion that was leaked some weeks ago. a final thought from kate shaw, our legal scholar and our supreme court contributor, kate. just for folks watching and digesting it here this morning, the bottom line. the level of impact on lives across this country, of course, in particular on women's lives in this country, what do you make of it? >> enormous and immediate impact, david. it will affect people's access in very tangible ways to a medical procedure that they have become accustomed to having access for nearly half a century. in many, many states, and how the disseptent, many haven't pad exceptions for rape or incest, and in those states, girls or

women could be forced to cons concarry to term, their racrapist's children, and that is unfavorable, and this is d dramatic. the court says in trying to figure out what liberty means or what equality means, we have to look to history, and the dissent says, if we're looking at history, most of history didn't acknowledge that women had full, equal citizenship, and so history is always going to cash out in ways that aren'ted adven adventageous to women and their full equality. i don't think this decision stops in any way with access to abortion, and i do think that things like contraception and same-sex marriage are very much, you know, up for grabs based on the method that majority opinion uses. this case is about much more than just abortion. >> kate shaw on the immediate

impact of women across this country, and then the questions being asked right now about issues beyond abortion in this country that could be impacted given the decision, and how they came to that decision, and the fact it could not impact other issues in this country, deeply personal issues in this country. one last check-in. mary bruce, standing by waiting for word from the president, and we expect to hear from president biden at some point today, mary? >> we have just learned that the president will be speaking here in about an hour at 12:30. we will have to wait until then. he has though, of course, in the past said this would be a radical decision. he has warned as you have been discussing of the potential trickle down effect how it could impact other rights, and he has been bracing for this decision. weighing his executive options. i asked the white house yesterday how quickly the president would move. he's wageighing his options and

hasn't made a decision yet, and though there are things he could do, he's well aware an executive order can't re-establish a constitutional right. any action he takes is likely to be caught up in legal battles and that is why i suspect you will hear the president again today say this comes down to voters. it's not just about elected diinresident the state level has called for, but that means that americans are going to have to get out and elect more pro-abortion right candidates, and that's just something the president has been urging for and you're going to hear him make that plea again today, david. >> mary bruce reporting that we will be hearing from the president shortly, reacting. we will bring that to you live. in the meantime, as you have been watching our congress this morning, the supreme court overturning roe versus wade, turning that decision making back to the states. we know that will have immediate

impact in 26 states in this nation, 13 of which have trigger laws and they change abortion rights and access in their states. our coverage is going to continue on abc newslive and abcnews.com. i thank our team for their careful and thoughtful analysis on all sides of this issue. i'll be back, of course, with the president when he addresses the nation and later for or coverage on "world news tonight." i'm david muir. until then, good day.when they' >> so then we said like we'll shot at ivf and if it doesn't work then we'll move on. ivf worked. and we have rose, our first daughter, who's 8 now. >> yeah. >> they decided to have another child via ivf but this time amy gave birth to their son. ivf costs over $50,000 they said they wouldn't change a thing. >> once you have that baby the

whole struggle, you forget about so much of it. we have the babies now. we're happy, it's good and everything's great. >> some companies are now offering fertility and sur gasy benefits that include lgbtq couples. a tax credit of over 14,000 to cover adoption expenses like legal fees. you get all that you money back, it's good news for all families. >> for all families. that's what's important. becky, thank you so much for. turn now to sam. >> cecilia, thank you for the bacon. >> you're welcome. about being careful here, 12 women on a women's retreat rescued off camelback mountain because of this heat, they needed some kind of heat treatment, this continues through the deep south, for new

orleans, on the west coast of florida, this is also build on the west coast, all of these areas drew: we will have morningg and afternoon sunshine, a widegg range of temperatures. we have some hot temperatures and lind in the mid 90's. the night, the marine layer expands. that will cool us off, mainly into the 50's as we head into saturday. this is the seven-day forecast, keep the temperatures through the weekend. by mid week, temperatures are cooler in ththththththth all right, so you know there's a big secret going on right now. i almost feel like we should whisper even though they're outside. this is jose, by the way, and you're getting ready to pop the question of your life moments from now. your palms are dry. how are you feeling? >> i'm nervous. i'm excited. he, i just saw like a clip of him like running around and he

looks so excited and happy, so he has no idea this was even happening so he's probably freaking out by now. >> i think he's having fun, though. if you're going to have fun with anyone it's going to be lara spencer. this was a tough thing to ask him to do but, lara, how is it going out there? he still has no clue? >> well, i mean, all we know is that we're with genie from "aladdin" on broadway. it doesn't get better than this. genie, will you be kind enough to share with us the next clue in matthew's scavenger hunt so he can find out what the heck is going on? >> you've got three wishes and i will grant you one. i hope your time with lara has been fun, ooh. you're almost there. just a bit more to go. just head down the street to the "gma" studio. >> all right? >> okay. >> thank you, genie. i'll see you later. it's right over here. see you guys soon. come on. >> so the big moment is just minutes away. i think everybody is ready.

they're on their way up here, still don't know what's going on so you guys hang tight. let's see how it goes, jose. >> yeah. we'll be right back. >> thank you. you.

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let play unwind your mind. ikea. drew: take a look at visibility, we still have dense fog along our media coastline. half moon bay is down to zero miles visibility. away from the coast we are doing a-ok. in the 50's, but where we have sunshine we are warming through the 60's and 70's. 72 in oakland. 73 in antioch. cooler in the north bay. santa rosa at 57 degrees. outside, this is from sutro tower, you can see fog stretching through the golden gate into the east bay. we will have the coastal cloud cover in sunshine this afternoon

with a wide range of temperatures inland back in the 90's. reggie: another update in about 30 minutes. you can find us on our news app and abc7news.com ♪ ooh, somebody loves you ♪ all right, hey. we're on. welcome back, everybody. "gma," lara, matthew. >> matthew is here. >> how has it been going? >> you made it. >> hi you guys. >> you have had quite the epic scavenger hunt. >> how are you doing? >> gd. a little shaken up. but -- >> we're going to walk everyone through what you have been through. three clues so far, it started at the r lounge at the renaissance times square. well, it was ages ago and then you made your way, the treacherous trip you made to the

hot dog vendor, the iconic red steps and then -- yes, a very loud hot >> genie. >> i don't know who that possibly could have been and then you ran down to meet the genie in schubert alley. i didn't even know that's what it was called and then he sent him here to grand finale right here in times square. so, lara, you have got the final clue. >> i do. matthew, are you okay? >> yes. >> okay, matthew, a little bit in shock. are you ready? >> yes. >> our journey has almost come to an end which i'm sad because i love you. >> i love you. >> we want you to look up at the jumbotron for your very last clue from someone you might recognize. where's the jumbotron? >> hi, matt. it's alyssa edwards and i have your final clue. a scavenger hunt can be an absolute drag, but you've reached your last clue so i'm waving my flag. solving these clues, you've been quite clever, but now it's time

to start your forever. america's watching. they're in on the plan but one thing is missing, where is your man? [ laughter ] >> very good question. where is your man? >> i don't know. where is my man? >> he is the only thing missing and he does have something he wants to say to you. listen up. ♪ who's around when the days ♪ >> what i love most about matthew he is truly himself 100% of the time. what sort of clicked was the ease of being together. he was just so joyful. we made it official in january of 2021. we were just standing in my kitchen and i was just like, so are we boyfriends and he said, i'd like to be. ♪ somebody misses you ♪

>> i think the moment i realized that matthew was the one was when i told him i loved him. as soon as i said it, he burst into tears. ♪ ooh, somebody loves you ♪ >> matthew uplifts me as a partner. he's always encouraging. he never ever makes me feel like i'm not able to do something. ♪ ooh, somebody loves you ♪ ♪ ooh, somebody loves you ♪ >> i am ready for a lifetime of adventure because matthew is an adventure. i'm at my happiest when i'm with him. matthew, i love you all the time and i will love you all the time and i have an important question to ask you. [ cheers and applause ] >> he's here. [ cheers and applause ]

>> hi there. i was going to bring you roses but i figured i'd bring something better. [ cheers and applause ] you bring so much joy to my life. you bring joy to everyone's life, i can't believe we found each other. i just want to continue having that joy with you. i love you all the time and i will love you all the time. >> i love you. >> will you marry me? [ cheers and applause ] >> yes. [ cheers and applause ] >> you are so crazy, do you know that? >> is this it?

[ cheers and applause ] >> guys, we're the first to say congratulations. >> thank you. >> congratulations, guys. >> thank you. >> you pulled it off. you pulled it off. tears of joy. matthew, i got to ask you, you've been through the scavenger hunt, here we are in times square, you got a ring on your finger. >> yes, i do. >> did you see this coming? >> know, oh, my gosh. i thought we were doing a little disney interview. >> on live national television. jose, you've been planning this for months. >> yeah, yeah. >> why did you want to do it this way? this big? >> i just thought like he deserved it. he's been through so much. it's been a really crazy time obviously the last, you know, year with the pandemic and everything and he's just, despite all of the adversity and things that he's been through, he's just always so happy and just always so kind and always so nice to everybody.

he really is just like joy, so i wanted to give, you know, as much as i could and this is pretty big, right? >> yes. >> now, not everybody could be here, congratulations, who has 13 siblings? >> me. >> you have 13 siblings. >> 12. >> 12. they couldn't be all here but kind of sort of they could. yes, there they are. wishing you congratulations. >> oh, my gosh. >> now, there's a couple missing from up there, because they're right here, lisa and emily, will you please come on out here. >> what? [ cheers and applause ] >> oh, my gosh. >> aw. >> congratulations. >> okay. >> lisa, emily, if you all can, i know it's been a lot this morning, but what's the morning been and what's the moment been

to be here in times square? >> wow, unbelievable. surprise. yeah. >> i thought you were mad at me because you unshared your location. >> stopped sharing my location, i'm out of there. >> so hard. >> it was a surprise so -- >> thanks. we have more surprises for you. we are not done yet and we can't wait to see what the wedding has in store but before that, guys, we've got betty who. we know you love her. she is joining us live right here in times square. she has a song just for you guys. stay with us. we'll be right back. >> wow! ♪ >> crazy. ♪ been here and gone ♪ ♪ ♪ this fourth of july, lowe's has summer savings that pop. all season long. this? this is supersonic wifi from xfinity.

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♪ all right, back now with our final "gma" buzz pick for pride month this week. it's "you made a fool of death with your beauty" by bestselling author akwaeke emezi, one of the most anticipated books. the year all about second chances, grief and the thrill of falling in love. "you made a fool of death with your beauty" is out right now. read along @gmabookclub. we're going to head over to sam again. >> now we're all of breath. all right, now to a great experience for very special kids. make a wish and disney cruise lines are teaming up to honor some brave kids and this is a really great idea. these kids really know the power that a wish can bring.

♪ it's a maritime tradition and a disney one too. ♪ all disney cruise ships have a godparent, you know, like tinker bell, jennifer hudson or mariah carey. it's to bring the ship and its passengers good fortune but the newest addition to the fleet, "the disney wish" will have godchildren giving this honor to make-a-wish children from past, present and future to bless this vessel and its christening. >> i'm a wish kid. >> reporter: jenna was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. and having her wish to grant aulani, a disney resort and spa in hawaii was magical. >> we had an amazing time. >> you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option. >> reporter: 16-year-old disney fan megan is a leukemia survivor and says the promise of her wish helped her to get through some of her toughest days. >> everyone is like, your wish is coming true and i'm going to

meet a disney imagineeer. >> reporter: and colby also battled leukemia. his wish granted next week, where he gets to meet a disney imagineeer. >> i hope we never stop believing in the power of wishes. >> reporter: the three representatives joining together to help others recognize the power of wishes for years to come. >> make-a-wish really changed my whole perspective and made me very proud and happy to be a cancer survivor. >> everyone deserves to hear that phrase your wish is coming true but no one more than these kids. it's so exciting because they work so hard just to be healthy. let's take -- wait a minute. i want to show you in case your weekend plans include the beach. we put a little water temperature graphic together so right around kitty hawk beach, it's 74 in the water, miami, 83. i got hit by a stingray and a jellyfish last week so be careful with the warmer weather temperatures. rockport, at about 84. santa monica, the whole west coast, the only place we're cool because a heat wave is

developing right there. temperatures will be probably well near the 90-degree mark or h this, it's hot inland in the h 90's. here's the seven-day forecast, we will keep that wide range of temperatures. we will cool off inland and now to the newest star on tiktok whose deadpan reactions to other videos has tiktok nation laughing propelling him to the top spot of the platform. will ganss has his story. >> reporter: just over two years ago khaby lame was working in a factory in italy. when the pandemic hit in march of 2020, he was laid off and then the senegalese native picked up tiktok and started making videos to occupy his time. khaby's silent tiktoks often reacting to life hack videos going viral. now, the 22-year-old has racked up more than 2.3 billion likes

and with 143 million fans is the most followed tiktoker in the world. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. >> reporter: he's been called the human embodiment of the smh abbreviation or shaking my head. "the new york times" says he's the everyman of the internet. he almost never speaks in his videos letting the comedy speak for itself and that means his content works for a global audience. khaby unseeding american 18-year-old charli d'amelio as the most followed tiktoker who along with her sister dixie earned an estimated $27 million last year. khaby now on track to make some serious money of his own becoming the face of hugo boss, thanks to his rise to internet infamy. the instagram page for his store selling merch featuring his signature shrug has nearly 200,000 followers on its own. what's next for khaby? his dream is to move to hollywood and follow in the

footsteps of his idols like will smith and eddie murphy. khaby certainly has the comedy chops. will ganss, abc news, new york. >> and our thanks to will for that. coming up, the great betty who performing live.

♪ don't stop ♪ welcome ♪ don't stop ♪ welcome back. just moments ago we saw that. all in tears, jose proposing to matthew. great, of course, as we celebrate pride month and i'm here now with pop star betty who, a huge icon. in the lgbtq community. good to have you here. >> thanks for having me, guys. >> you got new music, but you made people wait for instance till 2019 for it. why have we been waiting so long for this stuff? >> i had to get -- get it together for a second, you know what i mean, but i'm feeling very confident and proud of this new music i'm making that is

where this is the first song i'll play for you the first song that has come out and album later this year, it's all coming together. >> now you actually released the song "blow out my candle" but you released an actual candle and proceeds going where. >> a part of the proceeds of we made a candle that says blow out my candle which is very meta and part of the proceeds go to glaad so i wanted to partner with an organization that especially during pride month it felt pretty correct. they put so much work together for us getting this all together and making it happen. >> i want to bring in the boys. >> hi, boys. >> matthew. >> hi. >> we were all tearing up. you got yelled at. >> i did. i did. i was watching on the monitors when you proposed and i got really misty. it was a lot. >> i know you guys have seen betty who so many times. >> yes. >> and here she is. >> every time you're in dallas. >> can i hug? >> yes. >> of course, you can. >> yay. >> so special performance just for this moment for you two. how does that feel? >> i'm speechless. >> same. i don't know what to say.

>> yeah. >> when this whole thing happened and i was like i can't believe she's going to be here. he's going to flip out. >> for all of us. super exciting. >> we're going to continue your morning of flipping out. a some point we've done too much but the new album from betty who "big" drops later this year. you can catch her hosting a new show "the one that got away other on prime video, but right now, what do we get? the new single "blow out my candle." >> this one is for you. ♪ you don't know me you don't get it ♪ ♪ you really sold me but you never met me halfway ♪ ♪ 'cause you don't see it where this train's headed ♪ ♪ but best believe me you're not gonna get in my way ♪

♪ does it help you sleep does it make you stronger ♪ ♪ to beat up on me i can't take it any longer ♪ ♪ i won't stop running down that road ♪ ♪ i'll keep dancing till i die you can blow out my candle ♪ ♪ but you'll never put out my fire ♪ ♪ so don't stop i've been here and i know ♪ ♪ you can't quit even when it hurts to try ♪ ♪ you can blow out my candle but you'll never put out my fire ♪ ♪ you don't know me you don't understand it ♪ ♪ i'm not the old me crying in the ballroom backstage ♪ ♪ look up and see it where this plane's headed ♪ ♪ that bird you let go is never getting back in that cage ♪ ♪ did it help you sleep ♪ ♪ did it make you stronger

beating up on me ♪ ♪ i won't take it any longer ♪ ♪ i won't stop running down that road ♪ ♪ i'll keep dancing till i die you can blow out my candle ♪ ♪ but you'll never put out my fire ♪ ♪ don't stop i've been here and i know ♪ ♪ you can't quit, even when it hurts to try ♪ ♪ you can blow out my candle but you'll never put out ♪ ♪ my fire, i'm up in smoke soft tires, pump that choke, come on ♪ ♪ who's gonna feed the flame who's gonna feed the flame ♪ ♪ like moonlight you fade away ♪ ♪ forget me, forget my face ♪ ♪ but you'll never forget my name, don't ever forget my name ♪ ♪ 'cause i won't stop running down that road, i'll keep dancing till i die ♪ ♪ you can blow out my candle but you'll never put out my fire ♪

♪ i won't stop, i've been here and i know ♪ ♪ you can't quit even when it hurts to try ♪ ♪ you can blow out my candle but you'll never put out my fire ♪ ♪ i won't stop running down that road, i'll keep dancing till i die ♪ ♪ you can blow out my candle but you'll never put out my fire ♪ ♪ but you'll never put out my fire ♪ [ applause ] [ applause ]

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>> announcer: danny bonaduce, from child star to megaradio personality, then he suddenly disappeared from the public. >> i couldn't walk. >> announcer: now monday danny on the health scare that changed his life. >> this could happen at any moment. >> announcer: only on "good morning america." what a fabulous morning this was. congratulations again to jose and matthew. they haven't stopped smiling just got engaged in case you missed it. right here on "gma."pthanks to for the stunning display outside. there it is. >> so many thank yous. to betty who and the best dancers and band, amazing morning. >> and thank you all for watching. we're going into the weekend cong gs.in

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building a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. good morning. i'm reggie a key from abc7 mornings. jupiter fortson is on her traffic throne. i share and we are celebrating pride here at abc 7 and also celebrating some pretty clear traffic. so we're gonna bring you a live look from the golden gate bridge. there is still a fog advisory and affect and great news from bart. i do want to let you know that the antioch line has returned to normal service. expect that to about a five minute delay because trains are traveling at reduced speeds. hi drew hydro being talking about that fog. we sell thick fog along the coast half moon bay still down to a quarter of a mile visibility elsewhere. we're doing just fine with that fog. we're in the 50s, but our warmest spots already into the 70s away from the coast outside sutro tower showing you a lot of sunshine a little bit of fog here. well that coastal cloud cover throughout the day a lot of sunshine means a wide range of temperatures 60s along the coast seventy eighties around the bay

shoreline inland, it's hot one in the 90s reggie drew. thank you. now for live with kelly and ryan we see you again at 11am from midday live. you can always find us at a it's live's valentine's day special with kelly and ryan. today, she's an actress. he's a journalist. together, they make one lovely couple. ali wentworth and george stephanopoulos. and it's time to kiss and tell. members of the live family play the marriage game: secrets revealed. plus, our good friend steve "amore" patterson hits the streets of nyc to answer the question, "what is love?" also, our amazing viewers share their proposal stories on a special edition of the love inbox. all next on live. and now, here are your valentine's day co-hosts, kelly ripa and ryan seacrest. ["higher love" by kygo & whitney houston] -ah. -[audience cheers]