with john paul stevens changed his mind about brett kavanaugh said perhaps not confirm him. the american bar association was reconsidering recommendations for him. and the number, a great number of law school deans and professors wrote including the dean of yale law school. but it did not matter. it is similar to clarence thomas in 1991 when he referred to the high-tech lynching and the racecar in his confirmation hearing was when there are politics the republicans were not going to peel off as long as donald trump did not peel off. and donald did not. if the man was charged with sexual misconduct, birds of a feather flock together. donald trump was behind this. brett kavanaugh, now on the court we have had years to see what kind of justice he is, trump gets another appointment to the supreme court we had just come out of eight supreme court we are looking at when this fall in which they are going to be huge cases including involving abortion, involving gun rights. with a majority. what has that meant and what is it going to mean going forward? >> i think is still a work in

brett kavanaugh said roe could be egregiously wrong and significant real-world consequences.way or the other? >> i think it does put its finger on what the real issue is. it will not be about whether mississippi law which bans abortion after 15 weeks is consistent with the real framework. i don't think it is possible to harmonize the two. the only reason roe would survive to brett kavanaugh or the chief justices because they they want to respect and maintain former president even when they think it is wrong. now brett kavanaugh has published an opinion saying, welcome i will not overturn past opinions even if wrong and list those three factors are present. on the other hand, i have a hard time thinking brett kavanaugh is going to be the justice who wants to be the fifth vote to uphold roe and go down history is harry blackmun or the anthony kennedy or david souter conservative justice who kept his roe alive. >> shannon: it sounds like you are just going ahead and put the chief justice john roberts in the column to uphold roe. do you think that is because of his -- he's going

brett kavanaugh supposed moderate, republican. brett kavanaugh went for it today. brett kavanaugh is interested in overturning this president. despite everything he said to susan collins and others. >> yeah, but it was all lying for the lord. it's all real politic, right? it is a matter how many hundreds of thousands of bodies are piled up because of donald trump's mismanagement of covid and the superspreader event itself for the pro-life justice that came this close maybe to killing off chris christie. managed to make it to the icu, it got. >> i want to respond to what melissa said about the legitimate concern that you would think that republican appointed justices would have with respect to the midterms. they talked a lot about how roe should be left a democratic process. the reality is people who are going to be most affected are the most disenfranchised from the political process. they are the ones who are going to be -- women of color, immigrants, may not have the status to vote or who may be blocked from voting. that of course, is a project of this court as w

but they'll also put a brett kavanaugh on the court in order to do the judicial equivalent h of that because they can each becounted on foran that same reason, for that same purpose, and that's why they were given the jobs they were given. to those of us outside of the legal world andut those of us w sort of, i think, operate in a realpolitik environment, we already see it that way. but to hear all three liberal justices today tell the rest of the court, tell the other justices, sort of in the same language, in the same way, hey, if you do this, this will be the end of the court as we know it. this court, which doesn't have a police force, this court, which doesn't have a budget, this ic court, which doesn't have any hi way to enforce its rulings other than the fact that the american people believe that we interpret the law based on the t constitution and our rulings are binding, you will weaken that and the country will no longer believe that about us as a court if you do what you are setting out to do here. to hear all three liberal ea leaning justices make that argument today to t

that in fact was the one abortion case brett kavanaugh ever ruled on as a judge before trump nominated him to the united states supreme court, a case in which he bent over so far backwards to try to let the trump administration block a girl from getting an abortion that he ended up getting summarily reversed by his own court. well, what they tried to do to one immigrant alone, 17-year-old girl, they are now doing to the whole country. because if at first you don't succeed. after today's arguments in the mississippi abortion ban case that has been teed up to overturn roe v. wade, after hearing that antiabortion side argued once again by the same lawyer he tried to rescue once before on this issue, today justice brett kavanaugh is expected to be in the majority of the supreme court that really does appear poised to end roe for all intents and purposes, to end legal protections for women to get abortions in this country. here he was today, sort of characterizing that prospect in like as anodyne terms as possible, characterizing that prospect as the court simply becoming neutral on the iss

so the question is why brett kavanaugh and not someone else. he is a smart lawyer who achieved a lot and men toward. one of the things he did, he collected mentors. he had a supreme court justice anthony kennedy who pushed him and to donald trump in the oval office and the conservative appeals justices, kenneth starr and george bush and of course george bush did not recommend wasn't something that would recommend to donald trump so why did he get nominated to given that trump sort of disdained all things. i think you have to give credit to donald trump's white house counsel who is a very conservative and his project is doing away with the e administrative state, federal regulations and he really put a thumb on the scale to be the first choice to take the seat that should have been garlands, obama's nominee. on the dc court of appeals ruling against the federal regulators so was very appealing to don mcgann in fact he chose kavanaugh to swear him and when he became a commissioner so he had a lot to promoting him to donald trump and in the bush y

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let's play brett kavanaugh. this is him basically asking a leading question, leading the mississippi solicitor general along the lines he wanted them to, as if to say let's together concoct our excuse of getting rid of this right for women. >> the constitution is silent and neutral on the issue of abortion, in other words that the constitution is neither pro life or pro choice on the issue of the abortion but leaves the issue for the states or the people to resolve in the democratic process is that accurate? we are saying it is left to the people, your honor. >> so disingenuine. wheating a voting rights act because the states left to their own devices said black people couldn't vote if they couldn't tell you how many bubbles were in a bar of soap. it is disingenuous. what do you make of that and that really the only facts that have changed since roe is the makeup of the court. if they overturn roe it is just because they got enough right wingers on it, not because everything else is changed. your thoughts? >> as

but they will also put a brett kavanaugh on the [inaudible] . in order to do the judicial equivalent of that. because they will it be counted on for that same reason and that same person. and that is why they were giving the job they were given. to those outside of the legal world, and those of us who i think are operating in real politics environment we are already seeing it that way. but to hear all three legal justices today, tell the rest of the court, tell the other justices in the same language, in the same way, hey, if you do this this will be the end of the court as we know it. this court, which doesn't have a police force. this court which doesn't have a budget,. this court which doesn't have any way to enforce its ruling other than the fact that the american people believe that we interpret the law based on the constitution and our rulings are binding. you will weaken that and the country will no longer believe that about us as a court if you do what you are setting out to do here. to hear all three liberal justices make the argument t

and what they said on wednesday was very much about well, brett kavanaugh said "why should abortion bewhat you have — by all indications, the conservative majority will roll back roe v wade. we don't know how they will explain it, how far they will go but already, you have more than 20 us states that have abortion laws on their books that would get triggered should there be any rollback or change to roe v wade and in effect, you would have abortion outlawed or severely curtailed in more than half of the united states if the us go — if the supreme court goes ahead and does this. it - this - this is an earthquake. this is huge if they go ahead with it. this is the case they've been waiting for for years and there's huge pressure on those conservatives that have joined the court recently by, you know, organisations like the federalist society, to hold their ground because some of the decisions in the past couple of years on abortion cases didn't go their way so the all — all... stephanie... ..a huge focus on all how this goes down... crosstalk. we are gonna have to wait — we are gonna hav

justice brett kavanaugh came to today's hearing armed with a list of precedents that the supreme court has overturned in the past. kavanaugh sounded quite different in his confirmation hearing three years ago, of course. >> what would you say your position today is on a woman's right to choose. >> i would say -- >> as a judge. >> as a judge, it is an important precedent of the supreme court. by it i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey. been reaffirmed many times. casey is precedent on precedent, which itself is an important factor. >> hmm. his comments on roe v. wade led key republican senator susan collins to vote for kavanaugh's confirmation. here's collins in 2018 speaking about her sit-down with kavanaugh. >> we talked about whether he considered roe to be settled law. he said that he agreed with what justice roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was settled law. >> cnn's manu raju joins us live. there's no nice way to say this. kavanaugh sounded very different on the subject of precedent today than he did when he was trying to get susan c

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reporter: the court's two newest justices who were appointed by former president donald trump, brett kavanaughey barrett, are the keys to the six-member conservative majority. >> you could hear in realtime the conservative majority on this court discussing that historic step of overturning roe v. wade. but they weren't talking about whether they should do it, they were talking about how they should do it. it felt like you could sense the walls crumbling. it was one of those moments, rare moments, where you knew history was happening. >> reporter: the court hearing, oral arguments on a mississippi law that seeks to get rid of the federal precedent which allows legal abortions up to about six months of pregnancy. and instead asks to give states the power to decide the cut-off point for abortions. given what you heard today, are you bracing for the supreme court to let this mississippi law stand? >> yes, i'm bracing for the fact that it seemed as though there were six justices who were willing to consider letting this law stand and who were willing to entertain the idea that precedent does not al

that led justice brett kavanaugh at the end of the or large humans to raise the issue the liberal justices conveniently avoided. he said there is an interesting fetal life, that is at stake as well and biden absolutely general gave a nonanswer to brett kavanaugh because there is no answer. the fact is my the framers who wrote the original constitution and bill of rights know the drafters of the fourteenth amendment ever intended to create a constitutional right to abortion. they profound such a concept to be barbarous and evil. the black -- the left things to claire about democracy, let them decide the questions presented by abortion and if a court with a majority of 6 republican appointees fails to pedro to rest then it should expect a conservative led movement to shrink the court's power and would also mean goodbye to the federalist society and that's the angle. missouri senator josh halley of the judiciary committee. if conservatives are let down once again what do you think? >> this is the moment, we've waited 50 years for this, this is the case, that became clear today, can't wait any

not what he told congress. >> i don't think anyone believed brett kavanaugh. going to dan's point, this has been the fight on the right for decades. it's what energized white evangelicals to back donald trump in the numbers that they did in 2016. i think the consequences of this, when you think about a st state-by-state decision could control essentially family planning and a woman's womb, that's a slippery slope you enter if this becomes a reality, if roe v. wade is overturned. that is something to behold and think about in different states if that is a reality. >> if we get to that point on what the court decides, we'll get to the point of an election year. let's talk about that from a legal perspective. if, as justice kavanaugh suggests here, let's take the supreme court out of this. they overturn roe, they overturn casey, obviously, and they say this is a decision left to the states. what happens to the legal framework. every state has to make a decision, and then those decisions get challenged to the courts as well, right? >> from a legal perspective, yes

a position that brett kavanaugh, justice kavanaugh took in today's argument was if we are scrupulously neutral instead of resolving a conflict between important rights, the woman's right to liberty and bodily integrity and possible right on the part of the unborn to survive, we will be scrupulously neutral between those rights not by developing a constitutional line like viability, not by having a nationwide constitutional amendment the way we did in the 14th amendment to finally make former slaves full citizens of the country, but by letting each state vote by majority vote in that state about whether fetuses will be protected or women will be protected. there is a third i think is extremely important. you ended with the quotation from justice sotomayor asking whether the institution of the supreme court can preserve its legitimacy, continue its important role in our country. if the stench on that court is so vicible and evident as it will be when nothing but the composition of the court is changed. nothing else has changed in the 30 years since casey and really in the 50 years since

jeffrey, during his confirmation hearings, brett kavanaugh referred to not only roe v.o the new standard time line for abortion. as precedent on precedent, therefore, had greater weight. as you noted on twitter yesterday, senator susan collins during the confirmation hearing said that brett kavanaugh assured her he considered roe v. wade settled law. based on his questions yesterday, is kavanaugh going back on those commitments? >> he seemed to go almost out of his way to go back on his commitment because he went through a series of questions about the supreme court's ability to overturn its prior prec precedents, which it clearly has. but kavanaugh went on at some length about famous examples of the court overturning its precedents, the most famous being brown v. board of education, another one that separate but equal was constitutional. you know, i don't know if he was trying to troll senator collins and say, hey, i'm confirmed, i can do whatever i want, but the contradiction between his confirmation position and the position yesterday seemed especially stark. >> talk

rid of th we >> heard brett kavanaugh say today, if you did that, the supreme court would absolutelyphold it. he said that it is absolutely constitutional for the congress to pass such a law. for any of the states who already have their own laws, protecting abortion rights. so, what you're proposing is something that brett kavanaugh has said the supreme court would completely go along with. >> right. but it is the reminder, isn't it, of the price we're paying right now for this technical rule in the united states senate that keeps us from the evil to move forward. so, now we can just start down the list. we need to pass voting rights. we need more laws around gun safety. we need a law around immigration. and a path to citizenship for millions of people in this country. and we need a lot to protect the right of a woman to make her own decision about whether or not to continue the pregnancy. and the filibuster is blocking us, blocking us, blocking us. it's got to stop. >> senator elizabeth warren, thank you very much for joining us on this important night. >> thank you. >> thank you. c

is it brett kavanaugh, the chief justice john roberts? so we sort of know where the three most conservative justices are. we sort of know where the three most liberal justices are, but what about those justices potentially in the middle who could be a potential fifth vote, and what is their interest? so that's what we'll be listening for. >> barbara, we're going to talk more about the arguments in a second. i think what we're looking at at the moment is sort of setting the stakes for what we expect to come, right? the arguments happening today likely some kind of decision to come down when the court ends its term next year, and then depending on how this rules, there are these trigger laws that are in place all across the country in more conservative states, essentially ready to have those dominos fall if, in fact, the court does rule for mississippi in this instance. can you talk through the impact of that? >> in 12 states immediately upon a decision if this were to overrule roe versus wade, abortion would immediately become illegal in t

comments byjustice brett kavanaugh this week have backed up those who think the court will act.kely and that could pave the way for states to be able to choose their own approach to abortion. that would mean american women having different rights according to where they live, and there is concern the loss of the constitutional right to an abortion would force some women to take dangerous risks. i'm very frightened about what — and what — you know, i do believe that many of us will go back to coat hangers and back alleys. you know, women will find ways to terminate pregnancies. this issue of access to abortion care is identified by the world health organization as a global health matter. it says: . but faced with the criticism that these new laws risk women's safety, their supporters offer reassurances like these. in texas, we protect innocent human life and for years now — for years — we've been coming alongside the mothers, providing more funding, more help for expectant mothers. we don't just forget about them after the child comes along. we want to support those mothers while

. >> the two men, clarence thomas and brett kavanaugh, who were credibly accused of violating the sanctity of women, you know, both of them got away with it, of course and got on the court. but having them stand up and soberly argue whether or not women are owned by the state, it made me feel some dined of way. >> pete: when it comes to the science, far left justice sonia sotomayor the self-described wise latina she doesn't want to hear it. disgustingly comparing babies in the womb dead people. >> 40% of dead people who if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. there are spontaneous acts by dead brain people. so, i don't think that a response to -- by a fetus necessarily proves that there a sensation of pain or that there is consciousness. >> pete: you know, touching the feet of dead people, that's the same as a fetus. that's science to the wise latina. meanwhile their leader, the real speaker of the house comrade cortez topped all of this idiocy with a statement of her own saying on twitter, quote: reminded that brett kavanaugh still remains credibly remains accused of sexual assault

three liberals talked about the prec precedent but i thought that quote you read from -- from brett kavanaughe kavanaugh suggested that they just want to get rid of the whole thing. they think roe was wrongly decided and chief justice roberts actually was trying to look for a -- a way to uphold the law. but not to overrule roe altogether. and he didn't get any support from any of the five other conservative justice. >> well, jeff, can you just explain when justice kavanaugh was talking about a return to neutrality. i mean, it's -- some of the language was confusing to me. what does he mean? what is he talking about? >> what he means by neutrality. the mississippi solicitor general, um, i thought explained this very well. he basically said, look, abortion is complicated. abortion is controversial. the way we deal with problems is leave it up to the voters. leave -- let -- let the voters decide whether, um, we should ban abortion or allow abortion, so that the constitution would be neutral. that's what he meant by neutrality. the problem with that is, in our system, the constitution is not supp

amy: meanwhile, justice brett kavanaugh raised the issue of legal precedents, which he also addressedg his 2018 confirmation hearing when asked about his views on the supreme court's abortion rulings. this is kavanaugh in 2018. suggesting roe v. wade's subtle law and unlikely to be overturned. >> one of the important things to keep in mind about roe v. wade is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the past 45 years, as you know. most prominently, most importantly, reaffirmed and planned parenthood versus casey and 1992. amy: so that is judge kavanaugh in 2018 at his confirmation hearing referring to the supreme court's 1992 ruling in planned parenthood v. casey, which reaffirmed roe. his comments were cited by republican senator susan collins which you provided the pivotal vote to confirm kavanaugh to the high court, even though she is pro-choice. but during wednesday's oral arguments, justice kavanaugh made what seemed to be a much different argument about precedent. >> think about some of the most important cases, the most consequential cases in this court's history. there is

i will never sell short chief justice john roberts' ability to purr said but everything brett kavanaughm the bench. he knew it was all public and how he respond would be the opposite of how he testified. >> such a consequential day for huge, huge months ahead. >>> next up -- ex-trump staff mark meadows due to testify this week about trump's involvement in the election. how forthcoming will he be? me a, others joy. all are of... various: ahhh... listerine. feel the whoa! - in business, customer support is mission critical. with grammarly business, you can rn your frontline reps into bottom line serheros. take cl, for example. carl's got a superpower, ot on customer support. grammarly business helped hie increasing our customer satisfaction by 17%. - [children] hurray! - which leads to happier customers, and stronger relationships. learn more at grammarly.com/business. ♪ the only thing a disaster can't destroy is hope. ♪ donate now at redcross.org (man 1 vo) i'm living with cll and thanks to imbruvica (man 2 vo) i'm living longer. (vo) imbruvica is a prescription medicine for adults with

then-president donald trump nominated brett kavanaugh. ivate conversation she had with him where kavanaugh assured her that roe was, quote, settled law. listen to what she said at the time. >> his views on honoring precedent would preclude attempts to do by stealth that which one has committed not to do overtly. he said decisions become part of our legal framework with the passage of time and that honoring precedent is essential to maintaining public confidence. >> so collins cast a key vote at the time in favor of kavanaugh. and he was narrowly confirmed in large part due to her support. despite that vote she was elected to a fifth term, and she won't face voters again until 2026. this week justice kavanaugh heard arguments in the abortion case, and to the surprise of no one, really no one, kavanaugh sounded nothing like the justice senator collins described in 2018. he listed more than six major decisions in which the court had reversed previous positions including groundbreaking decisions about gay rights and school desegregation. how d

you have brett kavanaugh confirmed a site over again that roe was settled law, he was preceded, and thatthat it. then on wednesday, listing of all of the different precedents the supreme court had overturned and would you be a good thing if they did that again. so clearly the three conservative justices that were appointed by donald trump are getting ready to do exactly what they were put on the court to do, which is overturned roe v. wade and take away the nationwide right to legal abortion in this country. i want to say the biggest evidence, the biggest argument if anyone had any remaining doubt that that is what they intend to do, not what was going on inside the court but what is going on many miles away in texas where for three month people in the state of texas, one of the largest states, has been dealing with this slow rolling emergency where almost all abortions in the state are banned under a law that empowers anyone to become a bounty hunter and enforce an antiabortion law against friends, families, abortion providers asking when helping someone get an abortion. the supreme cou

for instance, justice brett kavanaugh in the past has looked at thin things incrementally.g in the courts, maybe it does belong in the states for the public sphere and went out of his way to say how many times the court has overturned precedent. take a listen to what he said. >> as a judge, it is an important precedent of the supreme court, by it, i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, reaffirmed many times, casey is precedent on precedent, which itself is an important factor. >> if we think that the prior precedents are seriously wrong, if that, why then doesn't the history of this court's practice with respect to those cases tell us that the right answer is actually a return to the position of neutrality? >> did he contradict himself there? >> there you have him during the confirmation hearings talking about the importance of precedent, which every single nominee does, right? but that often changes. and that was clear yesterday. suddenly he's saying there are some times where we overturned precedent. the takeaways yesterday, this mississippi law, it looks

trump appointee justice brett kavanaugh appears poised to gut abortion rights along with the conservativey on the court. this is justice kavanaugh during the oral arguments characterizing that prospect as the court simply becoming neutral on the issue of abortion. no longer playing a role in the issue, which makes it sound like there won't be a rule on abortion either way, what it actually means is all republican controlled states will now be free to make abortion a crime. and the lawyer who answers him here is julie rickelman from the center for reproductive rights. >> i think the other side would say that the core problem here is that the court has been forced by the position you're taking and by the cases to pick sides on the most contentious social debate in american life, and to do so in a situation where they say that the constitution is neutral on the question of abortion, the text and history, that the constitution's near pro-life nor pro-choice on the question of abortion, and they would say, therefore, it should be left to the people, to the states, or to congress. and i think t

justice brett kavanaugh, meanwhile, listing several cases in which the court had overturned long heldry of this court's practice with respect to those cases, tell us that the right answer. is actually the return to the position of neutrality and. not stick with those precedents in the same way that all those other cases didn't should roby overturned abortion would probably become illegal and at least 20 states, according to the guttmacher institute. the court's liberal justices, arguing such a decision could undermine the court's legitimacy . will this institution survived the stench? that this creates in the public perception. that the constitution and it's reading. are just political acts. i don't see how it is possible. the supreme court likely won't make a decision on the mississippi case until june, which could be a hotly contested issue ahead of the midterm elections. at the supreme court. mala rivera fox news. for more. we're joined by jessica levinson, professor at loyola law school. jessica. thanks so much for taking time out of your day here. we just want to dig a little dee

>> justice brett kavanaugh asked whether the court should step aside and let the states handle the issue of abortion. >> why should this court be the arbiter rather than congress, the state legislatures, state supreme courts, the people being able to resolve this? >>> a cbs news poll found more than 60% of americans want the 1973 roe v. wade ruling, which protects abortion rights, to remain in place. >>> actor alec baldwin is giving his first sit-down interview about the deadly shooting on the movie set of "rust." he told abc news that he did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed cinematographer halyna hutchins in october. he said someone put a live bullet in a gun but doesn't know how it ended up there. several lawsuits have been filed, but the incident remains under investigation. no one has been charged. >>> the house panel investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol voted to hold a former justice department official in contempt. jeffrey clark refused to answer questions during a recent deposition and failed to hand over documents.da light of a new lette s the commi

drawing the lines, that the issue should be up to the states, which struck a chord with justice brett kavanaugh. >> why should this court be the arbiter rather than congress, the state legislatures, state supreme courts, the people being able to resolve this? >> reporter: now, back in 1992, the court seemed then to be almost certain to overturn "roe v. wade," but former justice anthony kennedy changed his mind and provided that key vote to save it. so that's an important reminder that no matter how things may look today, a lot can change between now and june when we expect this decision. margaret. >> brennan: and jan crawford will be covering it all. thank you. the supreme court's ruling in the mississippi case could impact abortion laws across the country. cbs' janet shamlian reports tonight from texas, the state which now has the nation's most- restrictive law. >> reporter: with the future of abortion in america on the line, today, both sides of the emotional issue amplifying voices. >> end the scourge, the bludgeoning, the horror. questis the country tonight, "what >> reporter: questions acr

>> reporter: justice brett kavanaugh suggested the court should leave the abortion issue to elected politicians in state legislatures. >> why should this court be the arbiter rather than congress, the state legislatures, state supreme courts, the people being able to resolve this and there will be different answers in mississippi, in new york. >> reporter: making the case for the biden administration, solicitor general elizabeth prelogar said that would set women's rights in america back de decades. >> for a half century, this court has correctly recognized that the constitution protects a woman's fundamental right to decide whether to end a pregnancy before viability. >> reporter: justice sonia sotomayor with the two other liberals on the court warned of dire consequences if roe is overturned or gutted. >> will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts? i don't see how it is possible. >> reporter: a ruling in this case expected at the end of the court's term next summer, when most of the big case

that led justice brett kavanaugh at the end of the oral argument to raise the issue that the liberal justices conveniently avoided. he says there is also an interest in fetal life, that is at stake as well. his solicitor general gave an answer to cavanagh because there is no answer. in the framers who wrote the original constitution nor the drafters of the 14th amendment ever intended to create a constitutional right to abortion. indeed they would have found such a concept to be barbarous and evil. the left claims to care about democracy, so let's let the people decide the important questions presented by abortion and if a court with the majority of six republican appointees fails to put roe to rest, then it should expect a conservative led movement to shrink the court's power. it would also mean adios to "the federalist" society, and that is the angle. joining me now is a josh hawley of the judiciary committee. if conservatives are let down once again, what do you think? >> i think this is the moment, we have waited 50 years for this, this is the case. that became clear today, we ca

who will thinks a party that was clowned in putting brett kavanaugh and barrett on the courts that still acts that mcconnell is in charge of the filibuster, it's going to gather the guts somehow packed or altered in any way the supreme court. >> now that i hear this in urgency for senate democrats, they'll make their anger known and do absolutely nothing because there is nothing they can do. that sentence beginning of that washington post piece could have gone to anything. whether it's voting rights or police reform or gun safety reform. it's critical that the democrats now taking on the fights they can win. they have to stop saying we want to break the filibuster or change it this way because they're not doing it and they're just remining the public right now how dysfunctional things are. i want democrats to stay in control because they are governing and they believe in democracy. they have to stop wanting to face defeat and look for victories. >> don calloway, if the court overturns roe, the law of the land foreclose to half a century, in your view, what happens to america? >> middle c

appeals court file, consolidated with brett kavanaugh to consider. to respond on december 30th. some businesses say the vaccine mandate could put them out of business, not having workers and inflation is bad. covid is raging through the nation, it was tied up in the course. todd: an important plea from tom cotton. >> reporter: the senator says coronavirus is an opportunity to force change with china. >> we should do everything we can to take advantage of these trend classify reducing reliance on china for things with advanced technology, with medical equipment. >> he says we have to supply the supply chain, bring manufacturing back home and items like antibiotics and ppe, protective gear, they are available when we need them. a meeting with president biden and president xi discussed ways to coexist and avoid conflict. todd: we've got to disentangle if we want to not be in a situation going forward. kyle rittenhouse says his trial treated him unfairly, he spoke about the trial during turning point usa's america fest. >> do you think they were trying t

give your best judgment so if you sincerely think roe versus wade was wrongly decided and was as brett kavanaugh it in describing what kinds of long decisions deserve to be overruled, egregiously wrong, if you agree with that proposition you should in fact vote to over rule, but what is as you well know is guarding against that is the idea of the court's presidents have to be taken very seriously, a half-century of law and are we going to disrupt that? that is an enormous judgment call at least for three of the justices. this may be one of those 333 splits we sign justice barrett's first term. laura: that is where it goes i don't have any words. something i mentioned at the top earlier tonight. another federal judge blocked by the covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers across the country, louisiana decision. these losses over the mandates keep piling up. how does biden's legal team every think this is going to pass legal muster? >> hope springs eternal i guess because they are having to scramble for example in this case, the judge's 34 page opinion today was very strong unconstitutional po

for example, justice brett kavanaugh, trump appointee and guy at the bar who insists he's totally fine to drive. he emphasized the view that overturning the right to abortion actually would be the neutral position because it is neither prolife nor prochoice, but simply leaves the issue up to the states. and i have to admit, guys, that argument actually makes a lot of sense. like, why should there be one abortion law for the entire country? i mean, people in alabama and people in california have very different views on this, so maybe it should be different in different states. although, when you think about it, there are also differences in different parts of each state. so, really, the law should be by county. that would be better. they should say red counties in a blue state can ban abortions but blue counties in red states can allow abortion. that seems fair. it's up to the states but leave it up to the counties. maybe it should be at the level of the city or the town yeah-- no, wait, what if each house-- oh, yes, each house! each house could have its own rule. yeah, this makes sense

. >> good evening, brett kavanaugh is asking the biden administration to respond to a flood of appealsing in after six circuit ruling to allow osha to move forward with the president's controversial mandate with businesses of 100 or more employees to force vaccinations. the fifth circuit court of appeals initially halted the implementation of the mandate announced early this fall but because of the large number of cases against biden's mandate the sixth circuit to hear the consolidated appeals in favor of biden's mandate. the national federation of independent businesses calling this and with route regulatory power to get vaccinated and some governors against mandates are speaking out. >> i think massive expansion that goes beyond the constitution. we absolutely need to win that case at the supreme court. >> i don't think it will stand. i think the courts will stop it from happening. they are having the opposite effect and people were digging in their heels and saying you can't make me do it. >> jen psaki responding on monday. >> 60% of businesses if not higher at this point put in pla

fawned over as he went on anti-trump tirade after tirade and was caught working with an accuser of brett kavanaugh to put out false claims of sexual abuse at mack eventually prompting a criminal refusal. take the kyle rittenhouse trail where an innocent young man was smeared while his attackers, all of whom had criminal histories including a convicted -- it's dangerous, destructive, delusional, but it's not surprising, despite giving all of these grifters a platform and seeing their credibility crater further, the left wing media never want to admit what they have done. look at the cnn headline from last night -- jussie smollett guilty on some charges. in a bizarre attempt to downplay the news. 5 of 6 charges is much more than some, thank you. this one from msdnc, jussie smollett found guilty of hoax, will hurt lgbtq folks reporting hate crimes. so it's not that he concocted the hate crime hoax, that's not the problem. the problem is he was caught and found guilty, got it. this is how the left has always protected the horrible people leading their fight, telling victims to say and do nothing becau

>> stephen: it's a valid quetion, though that stench might just be brett kavanaugh's beer sweats, or boof burps. ( laughter ) if the justices do overturn roe, it will not be popular. last month, an abc news/ washington post/papa john's triple bacon pizza poll found that 60% support upholding roe, compared to only 27% who want to overturn it. that's more than 2 to 1. so if it's this unpopular, why is everyone saying it's going to happen? well, i don't want to get too technical, but we - what's the word - don't have a democracy. five of the nine justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote, the last three confirmed by a republican senate who now represent 41 million fewer americans than the democrats. in fact, republican senators haven't represented a majority of the us population since 1996. and a lot has changed since 1996. back then, the oscar for best supporting actor went to kevin spacey and the best director was mel gibson. ( laughter ) and the republicans have their nominees: gibson-spacey 2024, still better than ted cruz. ( cheers and applause ) there you go.

innocent until proven guilty, it was guilty upon accusation and it was convenient for him with brett kavanaugh inconvenient with anything and everything related to my father-in-law donald trump now the tables have been turned, what do you think. when he staged his shirtless naked picture behind his wife outside of his house. but if a guy is willing to do that in that vein and that much self-awareness it makes you think you need to believe most of the people accusing him at this point in spirit of hypocrisy these two brothers came from their dad or their upbringing and believing they were untouchable and they can bully or intimidate their way out of anything they got called upon and this is what you call justice, when you treat people badly there is enough of them they come you. >> that is right. i want to go back to leo do you believe that we will see court proceedings. could we possibly see the cuomo brothers in court at some point? what do you think. >> let me see, i think so, were gonna have a series of civil cases. now people are emboldened, they're not afraid of chris cuomo at cnn. what's

supreme court justice brett kavanaugh is putting the white house on notice 27 states and a slew groupss vaccine mandate on private businesses, giving the administration until december 30th to respond to the losses challenging the controversial policy. biden wants businesses with 100 or more people to mandate the covid 9 vaccine or force employees to test regularly. todd: going to be a busy week for this christmas lawyers. california education group slamming state educators for not following the signs, this comes as the new cdc report shows la county public schools lost 90,000 and person schooldays thanks to strict quarantine rules. joining me now is the founder of reopen at california schools, thanks for being here. that 90,000 number, you say that number could be higher. why do you say that? >> that 90,000 number is just a small fraction of today's loss. we had a report issued to the state legislature november 30th showing chronic absenteeism which is missing 10% of schooldays went from 11.5% in 2019 to 28.6% in 2020. when you calculate based on the 6 million schoolkids we have it is

. >> they trashed brett kavanaugh. and here he's trying to protect his brother.nn has no credibility. lara: joey, it's hundreds of thousands. i just think about the fall from grace. when you think about the sons of mario cuomo, the governor of new york, his son andrew would eventually become governor. for what happened to him to happen, i don't know if we have this sound bite from this accuser. this is the tail end of a months-long scandal that has been flowing out. it's incredible what has happened to the family. let's play the sounds bite really fast. >> when he would turn his head and get me on the lips, it startled me. it wasn't normal. then he got clears and tighter to the point where i knew i could feel him pushing my body against his. and definitely making sure he could feel my breasts up against his body. >> he stands next to me and touches my back in a not friendly way, in a sexual way. leo: they have no shame. lara: how many women did it take? how many women had to come forward for the people in the general assembly in-new york to take this seriously. a

overturn roe versus wade and none of the other five conservatives seemed remotely interested and brett kavanaugh and other conservatives say we overturn precedents sometimes. there is nothing unusual or wrong with that and roe v wade looks next. >> listen to what some of the conservative justices said. >> but if it really is an issue about choice, why is 15 weeks not enough time? >> the fetus has an interest in having a life and that doesn't change, does it, from the point before viability to the point after viability? >> the reason this issue is hard is that you can't accommodate both interests. you have to pick. that's the fundamental problem. >> i thought he said this was settled at his hearings. >> and susan collins based the vote for his confirmation on the idea it was settled. that was then. >> that was then. conservatives have been working for a long time to get a court like this. >> decades. decades. the supreme court has been the great conservative project and roe v wade is the great target of that project and they thought they came close in 1992 when the casey decision came out. they w

wade, at least in some circumstances, and the two people to keep an eye on today are brett kavanaughally talked about abortion since they have been appointed to the court and think they're the most important votes to watch today. >> and we will be watching, jeffrey toobin, appreciate it, thank you. >> okay. >>> coming up next, i'm going to speak to the nato secretary-general about growing concerns russia could mount another invasion, a full scale invasion of ukraine. his warning for vladimir putin. >>> and just moments away from the opening bell on wall street, as you can see there, three green arrows. nice to see. u.s. futures and global markets higher today following yesterday's losses. a volatile week as investors try to learn more about the new omicron variant. much like all of us. fed chief powell, treasury secretary yellen appearing before the house. the omicron variant poses a threat to the global economic recovery. we'll keep an eye on the markets for you. sales are down from last quarter, but we're hoping things will pick up by q3. yeah... uhhh... doug? [children laughing] s