office, and it just took us long to get there. i remember saying on our air, in 2018, when justice kennedy retired, that one of the consequences of that would be that abortion would be illegal in half the country within two years. and i was wrong, it was four years. but the fact that this is foretold doesn t make it any less shocking. i m gonna go watch your show now. thanks, chris. good to see you, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for being with us this hour. it s a big day. when the supreme court first handed to overturn the decision in roe, just shy of 50 years ago, it s not that it was not controversial when it happened. there were definitely people who are opposed to the roe v. wade decision in 1973, in particular the catholic church, would always been staunchly anti abortion. but it wasn t as controversial in 1973 yesterday s politics about what it might make you think. for example, it was not a particularly controversial decision among american eva
gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, of course, by the last president, who got about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. in american democracy, it is truly rare to see rights taken away in this fashion. the proverbial moral arc of the universe, justice, striving for a more perfect union, to watch these things born backwards towards a reactionary pass, as starkly as this, and one moment to the next, it makes you feel physically nauseous. speaking only for myself, as a person who can become pregnant, a man, it s not even a tiny sliver
very, very, very dark day, in many ways, i am at least glad to say that my colleague rachel maddow begins her show right now, good evening rachel. good evening, chris. it has been, i mean, this week has been pretty amazing, in terms of just the intensity of the news. you and i have just been communicating off line about what s been happening, but today, i mean, fantastic our. there s only so much of the can be said, you know. i just had a weird experience where i was reading the intro, where i hurt myself from like a dystopian movie. saying, you know, like you would play in a film real, right? roe is overturned, and if there is something that is still chilling lisa real about it. i remember in 2016 after those a shocking result of the 2016 election, people projecting into a dystopian future, with what would headlines look like, given that the election went that way. and this is one of them, and it didn t happen while president trump was in office, but it happened because he was i
many ways, i am at least glad to say that my colleague rachel maddow begins her show right now, good evening rachel. good evening, chris. it has been, i mean, this week has been pretty amazing, in terms of just the intensity of the news. you and i have just been communicating off line about what s been happening, but today, i mean, fantastic our. there s only so much of the can be said, you know. i just had a weird experience where i was reading the intro, where i hurt myself from like a dystopian movie. saying, you know, like you would play in a film real, right? roe is overturned, and if there is something that is still chilling lisa real about it. i remember in 2016 after those a shocking result of the 2016 election, people projecting into a dystopian future, with what would headlines look like, given that the election went that way. and this is one of them, and it didn t happen while president trump was in office, but it happened because he was in