tonight at eight. on cnn. biden s ready. the president s reelection announcement could be just days away. what s his pitch to retake the white house and man versus mouse? they may have run florida for 50 years before i got on the scene, but they don t run florida anymore. desantis is upping the stakes in his battle against disney. but is it a war he can actually win? plus mccarthy s mountain. house speaker must get his debt ceiling plan through the house caucus. give him the votes he needs. right now. i m leaning now supporting this package support the framework, but i haven t looked at. i got to go look at the text. the devil s in the details. hello and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. and so the countdown begins in just a matter of days. president biden is expected to take the plunge and formally announced his bid to retake the white house. it is a move that the president has held off making for months now. but it is also a move that however he that he s
considered. the supreme court decision temporarily blocks a lower courts ruling in texas that restricted the use of the drug. the drug, mifepristone is used in more than half of all abortions in the us. a decision as a victory for the biden administration. as it defends broad access to this pill. with me now is our correspondent jess parker who has been closely monitoring this decision. we now heard from the court. ~ ., ., , , decision. we now heard from the court. ., , ., court. what does this mean? i ve not court. what does this mean? i ve got a court. what does this mean? i ve got a ruling court. what does this mean? i ve got a ruling here. - court. what does this mean? i ve got a ruling here. it s - i ve got a ruling here. it s pretty short. most of it is made up from dissenting words from two justices, thomas and alito. but the supreme court has broadly decided to do is to freeze those restrictions decided by lower courts. nothing changes on access to mifepristone fo
the reasons that so many democrats, i mean, they don t want trump to be president. but they think that the odds are slightly more in their favor. if he is, we ve all been talking a lot about abortion so far, just in the segment. president biden did issue a statement after the supreme court made its ruling on friday, he said, i will continue to fight politically driven attacks on women s health. but let s be clear the american people must continue to use their voice their vote as their voice and elect a congress who will pass a law restoring the protections of roe versus wade and someone you know mentioned. i mean, this is a irish catholic president. he has not always wanted to talk about abortion. in fact, the vice president has really been the one to take the lead on this, but will he have to in this environment? i think we re going to see you know, with every passing day we get more and more evidence of how unpopular the supreme courts overturning of roe v. wade was and what a powerf
proposals that have been put forward by certain republicans in congress mainly cuts potential cuts to medicare or social security. also they were saw what happened during the midterms saw how the road decision factored into the midterms and how abortion and really the fight to protect reproductive rights has continued to be a theme. just look at the court case this week. as well with the availability of abortion pills. that s something the white house has been out and talking about. so drawing a contrast between the white house s stances on an issue like that, and republicans are will also be a theme going forward. this is so interesting also, i mean, president biden is a little superstitious. he loves he loves rhyming. he loves the poetry of it all. just take a listen to kind of his love for this sort of the balance in all of this. we have a shot. to make hope and history rhyme. join us join us in making hope and history rhyme. we have a chance.
he was a congressman, that kind of shrugged it wasn t really nice. so here s him. this is actually really ira raising quote from congressman david trott in politico. says to santa showed up. right at the gavel time. this is he s relaying a story here and didn t say hello or introduce himself. and then the next hearing the same thing happened. i think the third time it happened. i thought oh, this guy is never going to say hello to me. i think he s an. i don t think he cares about people. this is not unusual from what you hear from other republicans who served with him who have interacted with him in the in the intervening period. it is not going away these kinds of stories and you also saw people , uh, members of congress this week releasing statements, noting that the former president was reaching out to them directly to and kind of recognizing that affirmation that they were getting from the former president. so in the meantime, you have these statements kind of criticizing desantis.