meanwhile the doj investigation is heating up tonight. the lawyer who told then president trump that mike pence could single handedly block certification of the election, spoiler alert, he could not, that lawyer john east man says the fbi seized his phone and got access to his e-mail account. here s the video. and it happened the same day the feds raided the home of jeffrey clark the former doj official who pushed trump s false election fraud claim. more to come on all of that. plus chaos and confusion across the country in the wake of the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. more and more states rushing to ban abortion. the latest, south carolina. a federal judge today allowing the state to ban abortions beginning around six weeks. that makes at least ten states with bans or severe restrictions. another 14 where bans and severe restrictions are certain or likely. so in nearly half the country, nearly half the country, a right that americans have had for 50 years is vanis
back with more on the cnn exclusive interview with the vice president and what america s new reality will look like with abortion bans going into effect in states all across the country. here to discuss cnn chief legal analyst, mr. jeffrey toobin. what can democrats do. what do they have when it comes to scotus overall on abortion specifically. a lot of options throwing out that the white house doesn t support like expanding the court or opening clinics on federal land. one of the things politicians never like to admit is they are powerless. and democrats are pretty powerless when it comes to the supreme court and even the whole federal system. now i m not 100% powerless. but this is really now a state matter. and there are going to be fights
female senators, senate colleagues are asking the administration to do. will the administration actively challenge state laws that make it a crime for someone to help a woman travel to another state for abortion? so the president rightly last week when the decision came down indicated that we will do everything within our power as an administration through the executive branch to ensure women have access to the medication they need. and which has been by the way fda approved. and they will have freedom of travel and that travel should be unrestricted. you ll do that through the court if need be. i m sure that our department of justice is going to do that based on every statement that the attorney general has made. can the administration expand abortion access or abortion services on federal land? meaning, provide the access on
to reproductive health and to abortion if she is the victim of rape or incest. so let me tell you something, as a former prosecutor who specialized in crimes of violence against women and girls in particular child sexual assault and rape, the idea that after a woman has endured such violence to her body, she would not have the freedom and authority to decide whether she wanted to continue with the pregnancy that is a result of an act of violence is absolutely unthinkable. so, because you are now the vice president of the united states, part of an administration that is pledging to fight back to find ways to protect women s rights to abortion. i want to ask you some of the things that are kind of out there that some of the former
there might be five votes for overruling it. and thomas said he s already one of them. if you look at the three trump appointees and look at alito. you can get to five quickly on that. why doesn t he feel the same about interracial marriage? well, let s not be coy about that. everybody knows he s married to a white woman. and so some people think he s not talking about loving vs. virginia. the interracial case. in his defense, that case was also about privacy. like the abortion cases. but it also had a racial dimension which makes it a somewhat different due process case. still didn t mention it. i know. i m trying to be fair here. loving was a couple years before roe. it was a conspicuous absence. you can articulate a reason why it s different. let s talk about a new cbs news poll finds that 59% of