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temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the order the dissented with the majority.

but the situation is far fro resolved the case will now go back to the fifth circuit court of appeals, which is considered t be the most conservative appellate court and the country, where it will be argued in front of a three judge panel beginning on may 17th. meanwhile, there are at leas two other cases regarding th legality of mifepristone in a separate case out o washington state, a judg recently ruled that the fd must preserve access to th pill, although the ruling in that case only pertains to the 17 states and the district o columbia that signed on this point of three days ago, genbiopro, the manufacturer of the generi version of mifepristone filed new lawsuit against the fda, i a bid to ensure their produc doesn't get pulled off the mar it at eight yet another strand of complication to the entir issue. because of how contentious confusing and conflicting this situation has become in just a matter of days, it's almos guaranteed we are going to regardless of how the fift circuit rules on that may 17th hearing, it will be appealed

again and it will wind up back at the supreme court at a late date joining me now is a room karma senior correspondent for new york magazine, co-author of th book, then the tories rpg, the life and times of bruce bade ginsburg good to see you. thanks for being with us this one is a little hard to follow for folks there was this ruling, then it went to the fifth circuit cour of appeals, then upheld part o the initial texas ruling then, it went to the supreme court, and two of the justices said they would have actuall continued to uphold some parts of it's a, where are we now as it relates to mifepristone? >> right now, we are at th status quo i think you're right when yo said - what's left in abortion access because the status quo is no good for the sauce of th country where abortion i illegal, except for very narro exceptions that are extremel hard to -- mifepristone, it is on the market, one of two pills [inaudible medication abortion, and we ar

[inaudible still legal, continues to be a option for people. one of the realities of th post-roe [inaudible] if the clinics that provid procedural abortions, as the i clinic abortion, are swamped and medication abortion become even more important fo [inaudible in lieu of [inaudible] we are at the status quo o [inaudible four people, but what th supreme court did last night was not make it worse. >> right if we were going backwards, we are not rolling backward for this immediate moment. in the opinion that he wrote for dobbs last year, justice alito wrote it was time to quote, return the issue of abortion to the people and elective representatives that's a quote from him. that is not exactly what's happening. to the extent there have been, there has been the ability o voters to sound in on th issue. there were five ballot measure last year, some introduced b people who wanted to preserv abortion rights. some who wanted to erode

it and in all five cases people voted to preserve them. , then we sought this election in wisconsin, which was also seemingly decided on the issue of abortion. so, when we're trying to decid this is about the people's ability to make decisions, that's not in keeping with wha these decisions look like. >> i think you hit the nail on the head look, some things also have to be left to experts the fda is not infallible, but it did evaluate dozens o studies. it has been for decades, safet profile for this drug. it is safer than tylenol the american medical association says a medicatio abortion has a lower risk righ that getting your wisdom teeth out, then a colonoscopy. so, i think the question is one, yes. states where abortion is legal and states that have had these referendums have shown overwhelmingly, for th democratic prophesy, tha justice alito says he wants to lead us to in the dobbs opinion, that they want abortion to b legal.

this would severely limi access that is the whole point of the lawsuit. and secondly, isn't the role o a judge in texas, who is shooting fish in the barrel fo the plaintiffs because the know they are going to get him and the fifth, which you mentioned, the mos conservative courts, apple it' court, in the united states, t overrule the fda to actually make medical polic from the bench especially with the fift circuited, they use less incendiary language than thi judge in amarillo, just ka merrick, but they said thi changes the idea made unde advisement - it's okay. the other ones are not what qualifies the fifth circuit to make medical policy let alone override the will of the people in states where the legislature where th referendum have made abortio legal? it's a question, and we're not done asking those questions, because this is a temporar measure. >> good to see you as always thank you for making a complicated issue a little clearer for our viewers this morning. irin carmon is the senio correspondent at new yor magazine, the coauthor of th

bestselling book, victorious rpg, the life and times of rut bader ginsburg for more on this topic, i' joined now by kathleen severely, previous secretary of health and human services during th obama administration and as th democratic governor of kansas. she is now the president and ceo of sibelius resources. madam secretary, good to see you again. thank you for being us thi morning. >> good to be with you >> your thoughts on this development about the suprem court ruling, the decision, th fact is going to the fifth circuit court of appeals meaning it will probably end u back of a supreme court? for now, mifepristone remain available in the states wher abortion is legal. >> that's right. we have to go back to dobbs, which was, to me, a horrifying ruling taking away our right that women across this country have counted on for 50 years and now we have a really mismatch of laws throughout th country, limitations legislatures trying to control women's reproductive healt

choices, making it ver difficult, if not impossible for them to make their own decisions with their doctors and their partners thank heavens that the supreme court has left the status quo, at least for mifepristone, for now. over 5 million women have used this medication safely to have a medication abortion. over the last 23 years, afte it was on the market for 1 years, the fda and a ver cautious move, after 16 year of safety, the expanded access saying you can use telemedicine you can melt the drug. you can get to a pharmacy. limited the number of doctor visits that have free via slee in required. so, providing more access. it's a very safe drug, as yo just heard and a supreme court has said for now, it remains on the market but want judge, what merrick

did, was raised the spectrum o an individual federal judg overruling 23 years of medical safety results, overruling a regulatory process that wa intense and vigorous, an cautionary steps and the implication that tha could have, potentially, on th future of drugs in this countr is really terrifying >> the president last nigh said, vice president, said ultimately, this is likely going to get solved by voter electing a congress that wil codify the protections that we knew of existing in roe v. wade that hasn't happened it didn't happen for the entir time roe v. wade was law, unde democratic administrations some argue democrats, for th next election, have to fully fully lean into this issue because most of americans favo legal abortion that hasn't changed for while. what is your sense of it having served in the federal government what is your sense of the wa out of this situation?

>> i think that the presiden was absolutely right i live in kansas, and we have vote, a referendum on th ballot in kansas at the primar in august. the first vote after dobbs and it was almost a 60 4 decision, and the very red state of kansas that said, people want to make their ow decisions about reproductive health and reinforcing our supreme court ruling that th kansas constitution protects women's privacy, protect women's right to choose. we then had a reelection of ou democratic governor, but frankly, we're in a catch-22 were a lot of the legislator who sit in topeka, it doesn' matter to them what thei constituents voted in august and the fact that they seem to be intent on trying to limit women's right to choose.

the governor continues to veto bills. we'll see if those vetoes ca be sustained, but the only answer now for the people of kansas is actually getting som new legislators in 2024, makin sure that legislators follow the will of the people i think that's exactly what ha to happen in congress. we need members of congress to step up and say, we will protect women's reproductive health we will protect a women's righ to choose. and codify it across the country. >> it's that likely to happe in this kind of congress is it the kind of thing that democrats have to campaign o and hope that they take back control of congress in order t get on >> i don't see it that's eeril happening in today's mixed congress with a republican house and a very slim majority in the senate. i think it can be a robust campaign issue for, during the presidential race and fo members of the senate who ar on the ballot, and every membe of the house

it needs to be front and center what we found out is if you as people and remind people tha this is one of the choices they're making when they go to the ballot box, this is at the front of the line that we will get people to step up and say, we want to keep politicians ou of our choices we want to keep unelecte judges out of our choices. we want to make our ow reproductive health decisions. >> kathleen sebelius, good t see you as always. kathleen is the former u.s secretary of health and huma services under president obama and previously served as the governor of kansas the presidency of the senate for reproductive rights, not the north, up says banning mifepristone has zero basis in law and fact the supreme court temporaril allowing use of the drug t continue i'll speak to her about th next steps needed in the fight for reproductive rights. plus, russian opposition politician vladimir kara-murza has been sentenced two decades in prison for daring to decade

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kara-murza, russian opposition politician and vocal critic of the putin regime, is set to be released from prison after spending roughly a gea behind bars on monday, kara-murza was convicted o charges of create treason an denigrating the russia military he was sentenced to 25 years i prison that sentence is reportedl that lengthy guest ever handed down to one of vladimir putin' political opponents. now, while the sentence is somewhat shocking, it's no necessarily a surprise for years, kara-murza has been highly critical of vladimi putin and the authoritaria russian government that's not him a prime targe of the kremlin vladimir has survived tw separate near fatal poisonin attempts, which he says were retribution for speaking out against the government however, according to th associated press, the charge he most recently faced quote stemming from his march 15th 2022 speech to the arizona house of representatives, in which he denounced russia'

military action in ukraine, an quote. shortly after that speech, kara-murza, returned to russia in spite of the country's hars new laws that criminalize th spreading of quote, fals information, end quote about the country's military an example of what the kremlin considers false information is referring to russia's invasion of ukraine as a war. making such a remark in russia could get you up to 15 years i prison kara-murza got 25, by the way. now, while i was in ukraine year ago, i spoke with vladimi on this show i asked him if he was worrie about being back in moscow after being so outspoken about the war and about the russia government he told me being a political person there are even facing death what's the price o freedom in putin's russia. >> we all know the price we all know the cost we also know there are million of people in russia who ar categorically opposed to rasheem, in terms of bot domestic repression and in terms of the externa aggression we know there are many peopl in russia who want our country

to be a normal, modern democratic, european state i think would be ver demoralizing to those of us, the -- public faces of the opposition would all just leave the country. i do not condemn any of thes people, it's a persona decision, but if you ask about me, i'm a russian politician russia is my country russia is my home. this is where i have to be >> i am worried for you, m friends. you have been a source of my information for many, many years. i will worry on your behalf. >> kara-murza was arrested the next day since vladimir kara-murza ca do longer speak to you directly, i will share some of his own words on his behalf. in a statement to the russia court, he said, quote, i am in jail for my political views. for speaking out against the war in ukraine for many years of struggle against vladimir putin's dictatorship, not only do i no repent of any of this, i a proud of it. i also know that the day wil come when the darkness over ou country will dissipate end quote. joining me now is bill brower,

head of the global - justice campaign he is the ceo of - capital management the author of the importan book, freezing order, a true story of russian money laundering, murder, an surviving vladimir putin's wrath. bill, thank you. it's good to see you it's worth noting that you are in a similar category to vladimir kara-murza. you are one of those peopl vladimir putin would very much like to see arrested he has used or name in publi to that and. and sadly, you and i bot talked to vladimir before he went back, and we are both ver brief this is exactly what would happen >> indeed. vladimir was smithee three day portrait back to russia. we were having dinner in london. and i begged him, i said please don't go back to russia we had already gone throug these two near death experiences where they tried t kill him through poison an that war had already started and i said, i don't want t spend the next ten years of my life trying to get you out o prison he said, sometimes, things are

more important than you and to me, bill this war has to be, we have to stand up against putin, agains this war how can i lead the russian people to stand up against putin if i am not willing to g to my own country? he went back, and i watched hi on your show that day. i was counting the days unti he was going to leave th country, and then, the ver next day, he was arrested. as you point out, he is no just arrested, he's bein really mistreated in prison. he suffers from all sorts of ailments from those tw poisonings, specifically, he can no longer feel his fee anymore from nerve damage. he can barely walk, because he can't feel his feet. he's losing sensation in the left side of his body. he shouldn't be in jail. he will die in jail. this is not a 25 year sentence this is a death sentence for volodymyr kara-murza >> i look back in history, a you, do at martin luther kin day and mike gundy, and nelson

mandela. a lot of leaders who went to prison and that did fortify th movement against a repressiv regime that's what vladimir wants right? he's got a wife. he's got children. he does not want to be - i've not seen him in the entir time he has been incarcerated. he wants and bags and talk about a free, democratic russia tell me about that the effort to get. that because most of russia' major leaders are now in prison >> that's absolutely correct vladimir is in prison, facin the longest sentence alexei navalny, who many viewers may know the name of the movie about him on the academy award. jansen, basically, there's three things that could happen to you if you are opposition i russia you are either in prison, yo are dead, or you are in exile. there is no oxygen whatsoeve left for any type of dissent against vladimir putin what that shows is how scare putin is of any type o alternative thought, because h

is taking russia down a very dark road. people like vladimir kara-murz are trying to stop him, an vladimir is a symbol he is also in the same categor as martin luther king, nelso mandela, - pawel, nathan chemerinsky, these are all famous political prisoners. he is now a historic, famous political prisoner, and he wil be a symbol for everything tha is not putin everything russia should be, instead of what is right now >> i want to illustrate, and o course, your book, read notice illustrates this very well your first book. back when you first learned yo were in trouble in russia, you got out because you had an accountant pursuing the things you were looking for that's accountant died in custody, at the hands of th authority. surrogate magnitsky, the namesake for the global back i its key justice campaign vladimir lawyer has left the country under because he was warned of threats against him. that is how it works in russia

right? they go after people and sometimes it relates to what they are investigating, bu sometimes it's not sometimes, it's a kind of thin governments, unjust governments, just used to throw people in jail to threaten them to intimidate them. >> there are literally n rules. journalists are open targets lawyers are open targets there are no rules of course, we know about the wall street journal reporter who was just arrested as, yo mentioned, but - vladimir current mrsa, who has been his lawyer for many years he had to flee the country i was with him in washington earlier this week, on capito hill, as he was describing wha has happened to him. i should also point out, really, ominous connection you mentioned my lawyer, serge magnitsky, arrested, torture for 300 days and killed in a russian prison the person who was in charge o the prison where he wa tortured is now in charge of the person where vladimi kara-murza is being kept and tortured he is also the person that

vladimir kara-murza, togethe with me, lobbied for him to be brought on the magnitsky sanctions list this is a conflict of interest of massive proportions the person who vladimi kara-murza got sanctioned is now in charge of his torture i prison >> this story is very hard t talk about, bill thank you. you and vladimir and i hav been on this show together i the past, and he, i think he knows and we will appreciate that we are keeping his stor alive. bill browder is the head of th global magnitsky justice campaign and the author of the book freezing order, a tru story of much russian mone laundering, murder, an surviving vladimir putin's wrath. he is also the author of red notice these two books are required reading for the world we are i right now. in 2021, america's mos prominent foam pillow salesman put his money where his mout was, spending $5 million no on could disprove data that h claimed to have shown chin interfered in the 2020 presidential election. 100 -- one 63 year old trump vote took that betting quickly find out the date that most closely resemble to quote, randoml

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citing, of course, quote, filt and pornography. you may remember this is the same county where 100 year old grace lin, a proud member of the velshi banned book club, took to the microphone at school board meeting to expres your concern about the far-reaching book bans and so did this veteran of the u.s. navy, who is also the father of a middle schoo student in the district. >> i grew up in rural sout carolina books got me out of the traile parks. my parents trusted those educators in the librarians, but ones who let me read what needed to read 21 years in the naval -- propulsion program, where i wa set of recovering. questioning attitude was the key to the nuclear power program. i want my son exposed to different ideas, different viewpoints so we can learn to think critically and not be force fed somebod else's opinion we've all been exposed t different opinions it makes us better it makes us stronger diversity has made me stronger

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wildfires in the united states in the around the world. destructive, extreme wildfires cost the u.s. billions o dollars every year as wildfires intensify, they are becoming more and more difficult to suppress. yet, suppression tactics haven't changed that much in decades. so, one organization is trying to find a solution or rather, it wants someone to find a solution. x price designs years alon competitions with millio dollar prizes to intensifies teams from around the world to come up with innovativ solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges now i should mention, i'm on the board of trustees at xprize, that is an unpaid role prior xprize competitions ar focused on challenges in spaceships, oil spills, global health and medicine, food and, hundred creation, and more anyone can answer it's competitions, whether you are career scientist or a high school student no matter where you are in the world, you might have a worl changing idea. the xprize competition model doesn't just put forth a singl solution the price itself creates a marketplace for ideas, and

oftentimes, it's not just th winners of the competition who develop exciting innovations yesterday, xprize wildfire was launched it is an 11 million dollar competition to transform how wild fighters are detected managed, and fought. the objective was designed by group of experts, scientists firefighters, forest managemen experts, the college's, an engineers, and the competing teams have a specific goal t use emerging technology, like i, robotics, drones, satellites, and sensors, to detect wildfires at their inception and put them out in a matter o minutes. joining me now is jake stalnaker. jay has worked and wildfir response and management for 25 years. early in his career, he fought wild land fires on the frontlines as an elite federal smoke jumper he went on to work and fores management as an operations management fo a complex disaster management. he also found the nonprofi warriors on the river to hel first responders facing ptsd now, he is working with xprize as a technical lead for thei wildfire competition

couldn't be somewhat better to do it then you, jay! thank you for being a lead and for being with us this morning first of all, my executive producer and i were talkin about the images of smok jumpers. that is a wild thing what is that like, to jump out of a plane into a fire >> yeah, happy earth day thank you for your time today. it's a lot of fun at first, an then you obviously start t realize the dangers as you progress through your career so, yeah a bit exhilarating but also, a very important position >> what do you want to do here we understand that wildfires are getting more intense they are bigger, they ar faster growing what does success look like fo this xprize? what will the winning team b able to do that will make ou world a little safer >> yeah, there is two tracks within the competition one is about satellite detection, really improving th resolution and the accuracy an

communication to the groun firefighters the second track, but winnin team, it's going to be a littl bit more fun this one is an autonomou response, and suppression of a fire that is in the incipien stage. >> one of the things is xprize gets involved in this province that haven't been solved either by government or th market why hasn't this one been solved? it's a big deal, right we lose homes and farms an lives every year to wildfires. what is standing in the way if they're being better solutions to suppress them >> that's a great question you, know i think you touche on it in the beginning there there's just so much going o with climate change right now. there's so many differen disasters, and these emergin disasters are getting worse an worse. , really, from different perspectives, government private industry, the focu right now is on suppression an evacuation and life safety.

there hasn't been a window o opportunity to really introduc these new technologies that ar exponentially growing. you know, as we speak. fire management, unfortunately we have embraced some of these technologies, but the focu right now is about life safety and really avoiding any of tha loss that we can so, the environment that xpriz creates is an environment with no agendas, and an environment that's really we, are al working towards a common cause in that is next fighting piece of what we do. >> let's talk about the rest o us who don't fight fires and don't live in a place where we expect there to be fire, wildfires. why is solving this proble important for everybody else >> well, i think we were up to dinner after the launch last night, and just talking to folks like you are referring to. it's sort of amazing, th connections to wildfire that

most of us have. those that don't even live i fire prone areas have a friend or a relative or somebody they knew in their family tha experience and evacuation or even a loss off their home o worse. so, we are more connected than we think on the subject. additionally, as you mentioned in that lead in, the smoke impacts are more than most now globally, it's a terribl problem for both animals and humans, and it will continue t get worse and contribute t this climate change. that is the interesting part on one hand, climate change is worsening these conditions on the other hand, wildfire an wildfire smoke is making i more difficult to battle these fires, because it's increasing even those extreme conditions. >> what's your sense o optimism around coming up with better solutions and the actua impact that they will have >> i'm so excited. i have to admit to you, this i an amazing efforts and our

launch event and the partner in the room, the governmen agencies, the privat corporations, i haven't seen this around this conversatio in a very, very long time. and i think we are going t have success in fact, i know we will. we may not get to the en result that we are all seeking but we're going to get rea close, and we are going to pus this hard to get thi technology in firefighters hands. >> that's technically what happens, right you improve the technology and it starts to be deployed, that it gets better and better with each iteration and in five years or ten years, you and are visiting back and saying hey, guess what we've done we've reduced the amount o acreage that is burned or, we get to fires faster i hope this works, and you and i will stay in close touch o this, jay. thank you. >> definitely. thank you. >> jay stalnacker is a fir management officer and a technical lead for xpriz wildfire the supreme court allowed th abortion drug, mifepristone, t stay on the market, at least

for that what we should expect in the coming days, weeks, and months another hour of velshi start right now. and abortion pill that has bee on the market for more than tw days decades will remain legal and available as a lawsuit tha threatens to further restric abortion access nationwide continues to make its wa through the courts last night the supreme court temporarily blocked and lowe courts ruling that would hav restricted the availability of mid e pretty stone, one of two drugs used to indicate induce medication abortion which is the most common method o abortion in the united states. that means that at least for the time being, met the pr stone will remain legal an will be made available according to current fda regulations where abortion i still legal. what can be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations can be used up t the tenth week of pregnancy.

this is the first time that th supreme court hasn't ruled i all of the issue of abortion since the conservative majorit decided to overturn roe v. wad less than a year ago as typical, when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the more g i majority did not provide a opinion to explain that ruling nor do we know exactly how eac justice voted except for justices samuel alito an clarence thomas both of whom voted in the order that they dissented with the majority. but, this situation is far fro resolved the case will now go back to the fifth circuit court of appeals which is considered to be the most conservative court in that country where it wil be argued in front of a thre judge panel beginning on may 17th meanwhile, there are at leas two other cases regarding th legality of messy purse stone. in a separate case out o washington state, a judg recently ruled that the fd must preserve access to th pill although the ruling in tha case only pertains to the 17 states and the district of columbia that signed on as plaintiffs and just three days ago, genbiopro, the manufacture