the 100 the protesters are gathered outside the supreme court today as arguments about the legality of abortion and present day america were heard. and we're going to share with you some of the top moments from this debate, which stands all from a mississippi law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks, as well as when we might actually expect a final decision by the court. or the new alma con, variance causing fear across the globe, present biden, et cetera. announce his most district restrictions yet for those coming into the country. and guess what? your citizenship or your vaccination status will not matter. and we will bring you all the details about gas prices are, thankfully, not rising. any more, it seems. america is still dealing with an energy crisis. however, in texas, living next to oil drilling sites could be dangerous the communities health. we will read the details as to why low income communities feel they are paying the price for energy independent. i'm huge and this stories and more on stage needs to

be used right here on our tea america. ah, thanks for demeanour. today the united states supreme court heard arguments and the most important case on abortion, the high court has even considered for decades during this morning hearings, some justices seem to prepared to uphold a mississippi mississippi ban on abortions past 15 weeks. our secretary we are and legal draws. my parents joins us now with more on this case and why it is actually so significant to abortion rights. molly, thanks for joining me on this. i got a yes. what a controversial story this has been today? absolutely. i don't think people were really expecting, and even though there was quite a showing out in for the supreme court, in fact, i heard everywhere from several 100 to several thousands. so what exactly were the arguments this morning? and more importantly, how did the justices respond?

well, it seems to be that, that, you know, and of course, this is a majority. conservative supreme court make up at that point. but it seems that the majority of the conservative justices are leaning towards up holding this law. that mississippi passed in 2018, which essentially violates the woman's constitutional rights abortion as outlined and provided by the roe vs wade decision. the mississippi is also asking the high court to over rule roe vs wade in order for this law to go forward. and based on comments and questions that most of the conservative justices asked during the hearing this morning. it appears that they are leaning towards that. so to explain a little bit more about exactly how this law would violate, rather the way that ruling gave women the right to an abortion to a board, a fetus before the viability, which is basically about 6 months into the pregnancy wouldn't. and could potentially live on its own outside of the womb, so that would allow that they implement if they did go ahead and over rule roe vs

wade at one option. but they also, it looks like they're not entirely sure how they're going to, if they're going to fully restrict a woman's right to abortion, or if they're just looking at different ways to uphold the law and not exactly throw out rover the way that the mississippi law does have exception scotty for abortions, for medical emergency your abnormalities, the fetus. but it does not make exceptions for rape or and then on the opposing side, you have the jack, women, health organization, which is challenging the law. they're arguing against the number of issues besides the fact that it's violating a woman's constitutional right as provided by road versus wage. but there's $150.00 to basically control her future when it comes to how many children she has when she her ability to decide if, when and how many kids have. so there is a lot of date with the vision that was just a summary of what went down the argument morning. there is a lot of stick. now you mentioned something i had not heard yet. the roe vs wade

only talked up to 6 months. that abortion was going to be considered legal, but we hear all the time now of a late term abortions happening. so how are those legal way up to 6 months? right. it, well basically it's by ability if you can live outside of the womb, then it's that by ability issue. and that was discuss a lot in the supreme work. but when it comes to late term abortions, there's usually exceptions for that. and i am not is well versed on what exactly those exceptions are. but late camera portions are more of the exception as opposed to the rule when it comes to how the law wide. well, and that's what i think a lot of the conversation is, here is the talk that this is a rule that came a law that came about even a rule that came about based on the supreme court hearing, not necessarily one that's actually run its way up through all 3 branches, it wasn't signed into i think that's where the discrepancy has been, despite how long ago was roe vs wade. put through 973. okay. so they've had, they've had a few years right now to make a law. and that's a question i'm

a 3rd or panel out of his if this was so important, why did they not go and have all 3 branches? why is one branch creating a wall? something that we haven't really necessarily seen with other social issues that we've seen on this, but i think that's why we're having this conversation today. so let's talk about now that the arguments have been heard. what happens next? are we expecting an answer within the next few hours, or i've been told this could take a couple of weeks. well, it's probably going to be more like several minds. usually it's several months before they issue a decision on a major case. but in this case, the decision isn't expected until late june or early july. however, the process usually works. they'll go behind closed doors, they'll have a tentative vote if you will, they'll catch their decisions. the majority of the decision, someone will be assigned the task probably chief justice robert of writing that majority opinion. and then they'll go back and forth with different, you know, basically dissenting or agreeing between them. and you'll see the final decision when it's issued to the pub, but again, probably in the summer, well, versus the conversation. a lot of states are passing the heartbeat rules,

harpy laws right now. so this is going to set a president, whether those and those actual cut laws actually went through the state legislatures, not as supreme court body or the supreme court body, the state law riding on this. like you said, my thanks for joining me. yeah, thanks for joining me to continue this discussion for don john, former georgia state law maker and steve group or host of the state group or show list. and i understand abortion. polar i, there's no topic probably in america that poor i, there's more people like abortion, people usually don't change their opinion of what they, what they 1st come on. they don't actually switch over. so this can be very controversial. and most campaign of most politicians run on the issue and then they do nothing about it when they get to office to actually support their position usually. so i want to start with what would, let's start with you on steve about this question. justice thomas in his, in his commentary, asked the question on what right is abortion constitutionally based?

do you think that's a legit question coming from the judicial branch? i think that you're going to have nobody pleased when this decision comes out. i think you're exactly right about that, scotty. the fact of the matter is in america is the most polarizing issue. but america is an outlier when we allow abortion to the extent that we do how late that we allow it. but just in company with iran, north korea and china, for example, most of europe limits of forces to about 12 weeks, sometimes 15, but that's about where it ends. and my guess is a discord is going to come down somewhere. if they uphold the mississippi law, it would put it at 15 weeks. but the real question for me is this, what happens? do they throw it back to the states? because if they do look at texas, it's a heartbeat law that's about 6 weeks. mississippi has 15 weeks, i heard you mentioned a moment ago, late term abortions in virginia and new york abortions are allowed almost up until the moment of birth under certain exceptions. so we've got abortion laws that are all over the place. it's not the court place to legislate,

but it is the courts place to make a decision here. now i also want to take issue with this whole idea that it's a $63.00 court. i don't see it that way. i think the supreme court has 3 conservatives. 3 down the middle and 3 to the laugh. that's the way it seems to me . so i don't think this is a slam dunk at all. chief justice roberts, always a wildcard. amy connie barrett bred cavanaugh their decisions can still be swayed. i believe. i don't think there's a slam dunk for those. things are going to win an anti abortion ruling here. and if they do get the ruling, does it set roby to way aside altogether? does a throw back to the states, treat more controversy? it's going to be a mass scotty and it comes out just in time for the 2022 election to really he things up. isn't that special? the timing? once again, politics does play a role. that's how you know, that's le don. you know, i agree with you, i don't think anybody can be happy with it. maybe that means it's actor. the law will actually prevail in this. i do see the idea that this mr. belie,

i think will stand, but it looks like roe vs wade will also still standard abortion will not be made universally illegal. i don't think you're going to see these, these supreme court justice take that step. but at this stage, ladon isn't this what the 10th amendment was for taking those issues that are not specifically lined out in the constitution saying, guess what we want the community and this chance it's a community as a state to decide for their state. what do you see? that is correct, that is what the 10th amendment was made for. however, we have confidence in this country that says south hans, the state it wrong adjacent a lot that prevented a black from my from being married the law. thank you to separate but equal. they returned at some point some times the states cannot handle things and we've already had a president when things are entered, a international commerce, they commerce is important,

that there is consistency. so while the 10th amendment is important, while states rights is important, there also has to be uniformity. do we really want people trying to make a decision about where they're going to prostate last mississippi to new york to other places for something than as serious as abortion? either it is perfectly appropriate for someone to have an abortion or it is not. and having these different role amongst different stages cause confusion and it doesn't address the underlying issue or we're going to continue this conversation. like i said, this is going to be months of the decision. and goodness, gracious if there's controversy, i'll just wait to, we're expecting the decision to come down, but i want my pin. i'll stay with me because i went to this new amr, con variant of the coven, 1000 virus. that is making the headlines, especially today. the u. s. is actually looking to toughen rules for international travelers. and people arriving to the united states for abroad may soon actually face new testing requirements as well. and that's regardless of their vaccination status or theirs. todd citizenship status. art is alex, a hell of it has the story just days ago,

it looked like life was getting back to normal for many in the us. what with a new corona virus, very creative panic around the globe. governments are moving to stop the spread of armor chron, including the by new administration. well, it kind of depends on, is going week to week. you determine what we need and what the state of affairs we're going to learn a lot more in the next couple of weeks ago. mythology of those flowers about how much it spreads about whether we have to control it and depend on those those issues already. washington has imposed travel restrictions on 8 countries in southern africa as a result of a new covariance. now the u. s. government is looking at taking some further steps, driven by the centers for disease control and prevention. options being looked at include mandatory post arrival, testing requirements, and sub quarantines. although not mandatory and completely unable and terry basis.

currently, the cdc recommends post a rival test 3 to 5 days after landing in the u. s. from overseas, and sub quarantine for unvaccinated travelers. however, there is some debate over how strict regulations need to be in reaction to alma kron. according to our orders report from 3 days ago, a south african doctor who was one of the 1st to detect the buyers said, we have seen a lot of delta patients during the 3rd wave. and this doesn't fit the clinical picture. most of them alluding to those infected with the on the crown variance are seeing very, very mild symptoms. and none of them so far have admitted patients to surgeries. we have been able to treat these patients conservatively at home. doctor anthony fell chief chief medical advisor to the president of the united states has responded to the findings. and what about the severity? again, these are estimates and with the small number of cases it is very difficult to know whether or not this particular variant is going to result in severe disease. well,

those some preliminary information from south africa suggest no unusual symptoms associated with variant. we do not know, and it is too early to tell, even though there are reports that the mom of cranberry and causes mild symptoms amongst both the back seated aid, unvaccinated. the world has been put on edge. the variant which has been identified in more than 20 countries, but not yet in the u. s. has some concern that it may be more continuously carry more health risks while being able to circle vaccines. as for travelers flying to the u. s. the precise protocols are still being finalized. president biden is expected to speak on the issue on thursday for news views hughes. i'm alex mileage . ok to discuss if we're going to back in our paranoia. don jones for georgia state lawmaker and steve brewer host, the steve group or show this and this is not about the current. i think we all at this point stage know that exists no denial whatsoever. it's not even about the vaccine, whether it should be force, what i'm more concerned about, especially considering what we're hearing,

possibly president bide canals tomorrow. it comes down to there's been no confirmed death hospital in hospitals in south africa. they're not overrun one case in the u . s, so far as they'd confirmed and he was vaccinated minor symptoms, yet this affects potentially on a business and travel and tourism will be vast. and in fact very, very harsh, sort of like what we saw the very beginning. so is this over reaction from the white house? do you feel the don? you know, i have to admit that because of what we've seen during cove, it with the entire ship down the foreign team here we are out of warranty. people are kind of losing why things never change and the numbers spike and here we are still going day to day like this very. and that was found a south africa was found because there was a smart doctor in south africa and was able to identify it does not mean that it is not in other countries. it does not mean that it has not spread or the places. and

so i do think that it is odd that president by the will put a child band so quickly, particularly considering that the symptoms as they are not so extreme, we're not finding that is causing major deaths. and so, you know, i think that we now, after 2 years, almost in this process has to be more cautious. because if they continue to ring the bell every single time, there is a minor change. people are going to turn them out and they're not going to take any real serious any barriers that may come along. and so, you know, i understand and i appreciate your president for the sake of being cool and making sure that he's in front of it instead of just pretending like it doesn't exist. but at the same time, we have to look at a little different after 2 years on i think that's actually really good advice on that one because we are and i know it's referring to because there's no numbers coming out of norway. there's numbers coming out of europe, and you're right. it was just a doctor who decided to test for something different cuz he felt like the symptoms were a little odd from what he was saying and he actually did it. and he just has to be

from south africa. so guess what? they put this in south africa. i think you're right. do we need to be a little careful? but once again, this creates negative stereotypes on certain groups around the world. and that's only hurtful when we are trying to all work together to get rid of this virus once a month for all. but what scares me is this idea of the self quarantine for both vaccine and non vaccine citizens, non citizens here in the united states. if that is, what does announce tomorrow, steve, who's going to be in charge of enforcing this self quarantine? if that is what biting puts in. well, it would be reckless in my estimation, agree with, with both of you on a couple of things here. here's what you should be looking at. this could be good news. i'm a crime could be very good. there's not a lot of people talking about this, but the doctor in south africa has been pointing to this. not a single hospitalization of any of the patients that are presented in south africa or anywhere else. as you pointed out, know destro mama crowd this point. if i'm a crime spreads rapidly, it is easily transmissible,

but it's week that's how the spanish flu came to a close in 1920. that would be very good news for all of us. it could be the final chapter is a multiple mutated virus strain. that people pick up, it's more like a cold, not something severe was severe outcomes. you might have some people that succumb to it that have preexisting conditions. but you have to look at this as a possibly based on what we've been hearing so far. now that could certainly change, but if you go to what we learned in south africa already, it's already in the netherlands. it's in israel, it's in a variety of places. 21 countries that last count and it's spread fast because just like the original variant, it was already all over the world at the time we realized, i think it's probably true that it's probably dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of cases in the us because of our you know, open the travel procedures and so forth. i think we have a possibility here. well, on is the answer to what we've been hoping for. and i got an optimistic look and i've actually seen several credible sources say that same thing. this is actually a positive showing,

let's hope so. we need some positive news in regards to corners, but don, steve, always great to chat with you. now when we come back, low energy prices come at a cost $1.00 that one community says that they are paying the most for we will give you the details after the break. the. the postal service delivers a $155000000000.00 pieces of mail every year. only 40 percent of the world mail. right now the us postal service is in the fight of its life database. bad financial shave, now facing default. the postal service is a cash cow, and there was a way to pull money out of the postal service to put into the federal budget. there was a mandate that you're bringing a $100000.00, new revenue every month. and the nature of privatization in the us postal service is very much hidden from public view. it's privatization from the inside out. that's

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a little bit ago with georgia. and let me look at it okay. much for to do stuff is no longer gonna cause to make video games a high paying job. you have to be gifted and quick with it. hang on to a spike. so typical submitting paperless to listen. you brought them in, miss thompson, with webpage, but we up in the booth park even started yet. glove boy, when you mo, storm you to me now, is it niels provide me with a cold with the justice easy to do? i have to use the the sprint energy giant and total energy is taking to expand its operation in

texas, where the addition of a 3 new well for natural gas in arlington, texas, where there are 2 already in use. the company is requesting to drill right next to mothers heart learning center, which provides daycare for mainly black latino children. and as of this newscast, the city council is actually set to vote on total energy request. and doesn't the scientific studies have found that proximity to gas extraction or fracking sites, post public health risks, especially for children, including a higher risk of cancers, respiratory disease and development disorders proposed to for i can say new supplies of natural gas is lessening america's reliability on coal and the burning of natural gas produces fewer harmful particles and brings thousands of jobs and economic growth for the american economy as well as the areas that it's in. so talk about the controversy over the plan. well, we turned to david calvin, a ceo of mic, albany financial group. david, thank you so much for joining me on this. thank you. you know, it's

a hard issue per se, because you're balancing a heart of an economy that we're dealing with with obviously help. now there is no price to pay, how should be the priority? but if somebody will say, listen, if you don't want to live next to a natural gas extraction site, why don't you just move farther away when the drilling start is as easy as that. no, i don't think it's that easy, but i think you're right to look at it from multiple angles. there isn't real choice, you can move away. what you typically see if you look at the taxes are all along the gulf coast, where you have a tremendous amount of energy processing and distribution sites. is that people move closer to these places for job. they're very high paying jobs, oil and gas projects, dr. migration towards the employment opportunity. any right, if people want to move where they can, where i have sympathy is it not everyone has the resources to do that. so there are communities where you may be stuck and i can certainly speak for myself being here

in colorado. there is a sense of sort of not in my backyard, you know, he maybe this effect somebody someplace else, but it doesn't matter to me, but not in my backyard. well, and that's we can all feel at the end. i understand. i think we all should have that empathy, but in, in, in colorado where you are, new will have to be at least 2000 and fi from homes and schools. california, 3200 feet vermont. new york have banned fracking altogether. but arlene, to the only putting 600 feet between children drilling and companies, and they've ox. so can to obtain a waiver of 300 feet daycare homes in schools. why is there such a discrepancy? why don't we have any sort of hard science that says, this is good, this is bad because obviously it's becoming political pretty quickly. yeah, i think that's a great point. i think the other cases you mention, including colorado, these were determined by local representative governments. and this is a really important thing to spend some time on the arlington city council will either approve this drilling project or it won't. these are elected officials, they're elected to represent and do the will of the people. this is not about

totals drilling agenda on foreign soil. it's not about clean energy initiatives, renewables. i mean a lot of things that you could draw out as, as sort of red herrings. in this discussion, this is about a community making a decision about what it wants and how it sets its priorities. the elected officials in arlington should in no way deflect this issue or shift blame. they have a responsibility to do the will of the community and i think this is really important in terms of voice and community voice. this is an issue of st free speech and clear communication from individuals to their elected officials. i think political a candidate thing political accountability begins when people take the responsibility to speak up and say, this is what we want. this is what we don't want and we will hold you to being our representatives are not opposed to fracking and not pose to, to energy expansion. but i think this is where the community gets to decide if the

economics of drilling there makes sense. and if people are going to be happy with it well, and i think it if you've been to arlington, texas, it's definitely a very thriving community. it's not like it's a very poor community in this case. so they're picking more of the poor section of town. it will be interesting to see, like you pointed out, it's about economic development. people move there because there's money in the areas. if you take this away, will you also take the money in the area away as well? and those folks are going to have to move either way. we interesting to see the city council like always thanks for joining us. think he's getting now space 600 on mosque as sound in the alarm bells or the lack of progress space x has made in developing the rafter engine to the power. the starship rocket now must because even warranties boys, the company faces bankruptcy for cancer, things around quickly are john, heidi has more or less space x. his mission to mars may be a mission to nowhere. if the company can keep up its space flights and ramp up

production of the new raptor engines in a post thanksgiving e mail to employees reportedly obtained by cnbc space that founder isla must warns the company faces bankruptcy if it can't send a starship to space at least once every 2 weeks in 2022. the space ex starship is the next generation rocket space x is developing to send cargo an astronaut to space and particularly for the space x moon and mars missions. but the starship will reportedly need as many as $39.00 raptor engines, each requiring a huge jump and production that apparently is not happening right now. must told his employees, he was cutting short a long thanksgiving holiday to personally work on figuring out the company's production line problems with the raptor engines. it's unclear if it has anything to do with the ongoing global supply chain crisis, but musk is definitely sounding the alarm and call, you know, quote,

disaster and all hands on deck situation. space. sex has a $2900000000.00 contract with nasa to develop the starship for taking astronauts to the moon surface. but musk according to cnbc also said the company is quote, not assuming any international collaboration or external funding for the rocket program. adding that it's at least 90 percent internally funded thus far. so while space ex evaluation recently hit $100000000000.00 and some financial analyst surmise that a lot must may even become the world's 1st trillion there. and they all go bust if space x doesn't get it's wrapped, are production and starship launches in order. first. for the news on our t. john honey bell, we've had an interesting shared a lots of topics to cover. but guess that there's more going on the world today. we want to continue this conversation. most importantly, it's what is on your mind and what you wanted to discuss. so for me on twitter,

that would be at godaddy and you use the hash tag team and vh. we do read, we do respond. and for this show and more and all the great programming that we have here at our t, america down on the portable that yeah, for apple or android device. thanks for watching with me. but the fund i make no, certainly no borders line to nationalities and you as a merge we don't have authority. we don't to look vaccine. the whole world leads to take action and be ready. people are judgment. 2 common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we

also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together with ah, is it on you being a no, no, no, no. what they did in a valuable mm hm. that's been happening my middle now i own my heat up my lap and i had a knuckle alamba getting thought now along up at a bit a well, i mean a relationship with sonia.

it's not in the and the 15 year old suspected of gunning down for people at michigan school pleads not guilty after being charged as an adult with terrorism and murder. the urges members to consider mandatory vaccinations. as the new coven strain appears to have been on the continent much earlier than thought of our ologist from the russian developer of the sputnik ve jab tells our team what we might expect from the new various nifty doesn't to put them in the cases we're seeing now everyone has a mild form. on the other hand, there's no data on how it can affect elderly people. want to wait another month or so to be sure. is another dia, gas canister, they odd somewhat to see the effect of yes they, they do irritate the eyes in the throat, but oh, no.