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freeze a lower court s ruling that placed restrictions on the drug mifepristone pill is the predominant method for ending pregnancies in the u. s. but now that decision sets up the most consequential abortion related disputes since the overturning of roe v. wade another appeals court is scheduled to take up the case. it is made. cnn s jessica schneider has more. the supreme court, stepping in to protect full access to the abortion pill mifepristone while this appeals process plays out, that means it will be status quo for the administration of this drug woman can continue to take it up to 10 weeks pregnant, they can continue to receive it by mail and via telehealth visits with their health care providers, and the generic version will remain widely available. this is exactly what the biden administration and the fda what they were asking for. they warned that if there were restrictions imposed on this drug at any point, there would be confusion and chaos. now this chaos has re
judge. a south florida airports still closed by floodwaters after the rainiest day in fort lauderdale history. and new restrictions on abortion pills kick in just hours from now will the u. s supreme court step in. good friday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans today in air national guard i t specialist will make his first court appearance after his arrest in connection with a major leak of top secret defense documents. the exact timing for jack to share his arraignment in a boston courtroom has not yet been announced. cnn s oren lieberman has more on the investigation. rest from the pentagon. 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard is in custody arrested in connection to the massive leak of classified documents online, the fbi swooping in on titan, massachusetts, a tactical team moving in to arrest jack to shera after surveilling him for a couple of days. a u. s official said the plan was to arre
but we might get that rematch. alright kevin liptak. thank you very much. let s discuss a possible biden 2024 run likely it sounds like at this point with cnn contributor evan osnos . he s the author of joe biden. the life to run and what matters now, evan, a bunch of new polls out over the last few days indicate americans may not be happy with a biden trump rematch , but democrats seem to want joe biden to be there on the ticket if it s going to be going up against donald trump because he s beat him before and having you know this all too well better than anybody. joe biden has been down in the polls before he s had shaky poll numbers to deal with in the past, so i suppose. i mean it s not too different for him this time around. yeah you know, i suppose any of us jim have the run the risk of sort of over reading our own lessons in life. but for joe biden, it is a strong one. i mean, his self narrative is self identity is really baked in pretty deeply the idea that he has been the unde
that s really also an indicator of his own self perception. i mean, there is a degree to which in his own mind, he is built a team around him that can support him. he knows he s not the same person that he was 40 years ago . none of us are at the age of 80, but he also has people around him. he has the office of the presidency, which is in its own way, an apparatus of support. he gets to go on his own schedule. go to places he wants to go. doesn t have to go places he doesn t but i think the most important piece of this ultimately when it comes from a pure political perspective is if, in fact he runs. he s going to be running most likely against a republican who is 76 years old, already been the oldest president in office. and so in some ways, it diffuses the age issue in a one on one contest because the republicans are going to have a particularly strong leg to stand on if they ve got donald trump as their nominee. and the president is reportedly set to announce this on tuesday. appar