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Of the house foreign affairs committee talks about his recent meeting with president zelenskyy. overnight, comedian dave chappelle was attacked on stage while performing at a comedy festival in los angeles. well bring you the very latest. and we begin this morning with a continuing firestorm over the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in which a majority of justices on the u.s. supreme court appear ready to overturn the right to an abortion, granted by the roe v. wade decision, nearly 50 ...

But weve had really important supreme court decisions over time when you dont get five people who agree on one thing. casey, the decision that affirmed roe, was a plurality opinion, meaning less than nine. right. three justices including my mentor justice oconnor wrote the controlling opinion. the narrowest view would be the controlling view. so there is a possibility that theres concurrence out there. again, i think the best speculations that would be by chief justice roberts. and maybe he woul...

Really important because i think sometimes people think of the supreme court as almost an active debating club between the justices. thats not quite right. the circulation of opinions are really the way principally they talk with each other. so this case was heard in december. after oral argument, during that week, the court would have gotten together in private, just the nine of them, to have a conference. and to give their preliminary views about the case. and a majority would form. and the se...

Is really important, the language of an opinion, some of its details might change. there might be, for example, a justice like chief justice roberts who said, i can go along with some of this. but youve got to put a rape and incest exception into this draft. and those negotiations would ensue. so, one theory is that, and i think a very strong theory, is that the leak happened at that moment, when those discussions, through the writing among the justices begin. >> so, just -- and im trying to, yo...