primary contest. how people are reacting. plus, the city of new york ramping up security for the big party in sometimes square. how tensions over fighting in the middle east are playing a major factors. russia launching its largest aerial assault on ukraine since the start of the war. the images coming in as ukraine pleads for more military aid. we re beginning the hour with the new legal showdown over donald trump s eligibility to even be on the ballot. maine s secretary of state issuing a decision last night that the former president can t be a candidate in the primary, because he violated the constitution s insurrection clause. the weight of the evidence, all of the evidence made clear that mr. trump was aware of the by a multi-pronged effort to delegitimize a democratic election, the election of 2020, and then chose to light a match on january 6th. we should note on the same night we got that news from maine, the state of california made the op sid decision sayi
there is no one quite like republican candidate for governor of pennsylvania mr. doug mastriano. he insists the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump, which, of course, it was not. he supports a draconian ban on abortion. peddles vaccine disinformation. we could go on and on and on. but right now, the contest between mastriano and democratic candidate josh shapiro is being defined by hate and anti-semitism in its final days and weeks. new york times is out with a piece of reporting that says this, quote, mr. mastriano, who promotes christian power and disdains the separation of church and state, has repeatedly lashed mr. shapiro for attending and sending his children to what mastriano calls a privileged, exclusive, elite school, suggesting to one audience that it e vinced mr. shapiro s distan for people like us. it is a jewish day school where students are given both secular and religious instruction, but mastriano s language in portraying it as an elitist reserve seem
special coverage of the supreme court s decision to overturn roe versus wade. the reverse nearly 50 years of abortion rights in this country. this will likely be a weekend, or possibly longer, of protests in the streets. which we have already seen coast to coast. complete and overjoyed that it was finally overturned. it feels like a betrayal. it feels like my country doesn t love me and appreciate my body as a woman. i can t even chance because i can t say anything. it just it hurts. i ve had people in my family have abortions and they have felt the regret years and years down the line. and they re still dealing with it and facing the trauma today. going back to needles and the whole thing, i m stunned. i don t understand. we cannot organize over it. we have to get organized. and just throw these people out. eventually we are going to die. women are going to die between now and when we can get legislation passed. this ruling automatically clears the way for abor
closing up shop here for the night. but as for the first couple of hours, we saw that initial protest from those who are opposed to abortion rights, who were elated, and celebrating, and happy. and after a few hours, they left. the streets were filled with hundreds and thousands of people who were the ones that were hoping that maybe we would see a compromise. they were maybe hoping that it away, we re expecting to see this decision come down, it s not what they got today. we saw tears of joy and despair. we had very emotional heavy conversations. and we will hear some of those conversations, stephanie. a lot of things have been going through my mind, anger, deep sadness, and a desire to turn this around the. this is going through my mind. it s a rollercoaster emotion! it s completely utter joy that roe is overturned. women are going to die between now and when we get legislation passed, which is untenable. we heard a lot of concern around that last statement you hear
minority, majority rule stuff. that is baked into the way government works, means that just showing up and voting isn t enough. and i think one of the lessons that people need to understand when they think about, you know, 70 80% of americans hate this outcome. 70 to 80% of americans hates the outcome of a gun case yesterday. it is not a 1 to 1 correlation between getting out and voting. this requires massive, massive democracy reform. and it requires, kind of, staring at a supreme court that, in shelby county, in brnabic, in all the gerrymandering cases, vote suppression cases. and increasingly made it hard for every vote to be equal. so i always say, this is not a guns problem or abortion problem, it is a democracy problem. a structural problem. and i think until we really really start to think about,