also with us is former prosecutor and child advocate wendy murphy. oston. wendy, what does it say about the state of things and this texas abortion law that suits are being brought by a disbarred lawyer and a convicted felon who is serving out the remainder of his 15-year sentence on home confinement? >> let's just say i wouldn't have picked either of them to be our representative, but having said that, anybody could have filed suit, right? i think many of us around the country were just begging for someone to file suit. his doctor was clearly provoking people to file a lawsuit against him just to give the courts an opportunity to overturn this law. frankly, i don't care if the devil incarnate files a lawsuit just to get it resolved. i think everybody agrees, and the supreme court when they originally ruled on this issue, implied that they don't think this law is constitutional. i don't think anybody thinks it was. and, frankly, jeff, i think that's one of the reasons nobody from texas who claims to think this is a good law, like the governor, bothere

let's bring in anne thompson and former sex crimes prosecutor wendy murphy and at university of law in new england, and also msnbc correspondent. tell us about the trauma that is still haunting these women. >> what dick durbin called this a historic day in the senate is the fact when these four young women testified today, it was absolutely riveting. people did not move. people in the hallways did not move. people stood there and just listened to these four women who we are so used to seeing doing incredible things in a gymnasium, and to see them be so difficult to talk about, and to see simone biles breakdown and so difficult to talk about being abused by larry nasser, and mckayla maroney's anger at the fbi for first of all not believing her and then lying about what she said after a report was written a year later, and then aly raisman who has been the captain of the team, and she was called grandma in rio, and she talked about what a having to speak about this again and again does to them. she says they all sfrufr ptsd, and let's take a listen. >> for me, just to paint a picture. i

wendy: yes, this is our showroom. ryan: we do custom furniture. we specialize in murphy beds. e-year period, the business made almost $700,000. how much money is in the bank today? wendy: we have about $5,000. wendy: we need to get customers furniture. i've made so many excuses. lemonis: how late is this job? nathan: three months. lemonis: that's a real problem. that would piss me off if i was the customer. are you all by yourself? ryan: yeah, my son's with me. lemonis: i do worry that you're by yourself here a lot. and it feels like all the burden falls on you all the time. wendy, you have to step up, or you're going to burn them out and the company's gonna close. i'm marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. i love investing in american businesses. woman: i just don't want anything to really change. it's not always easy, but i do it to create jobs, and i do it to make money. do we have a deal? let's rock and roll. man: yeah! this is "the profit." ♪♪ wendy: my name is wendy jestin, and this is my furniture store. lemonis: for siblings wendy and ryan, the furn

as wendy gillette reports, it is creating a push for new legislation for cities to prepare for disasters. >> reporter: president biden met with new jersey governor phil murphy and other local leaders to discuss how the federal government can help the state bounce back from the destruction left by the remnants of hurricane ida. >> we are all in this together. we have to make sure that we don't leave any community behind. >> reporter: with so much damage, many believe it is time for congress to pass pending infrastructure legislation to help communities deal with disasters and severe weather. >> these storms are more frequent. they are more intense. we desperately need that climate infrastructure. >> reporter: hard hit manville, new jersey will be one of the president's stops today. the streets are still littered with debris as residents struggle to clean up and recover. >> the kids' toys is the most heartbreaking. they really don't understand the magnitude of what happened. >> reporter: anthony is trying to salvage precious belongings. his basement is still wet and muddy and just about everything is ruined. >> it has been a family nightmare. >> reporter: the

wendy: yes, this is our showroom. ryan: we do custom furniture. we specialize in murphy beds.