i d be coming. it s so good to be back in ireland. forgive my poor attempt at irish. i m at home. i m at home. after my aged, as you can see how old i am, i have a little wisdom i have more experience than any president in american history. doesn t make me better or worse, but it gives me few excuses. president joe biden bringing some jokes with him during a speech yesterday to the irish parliament the president wraps up his visit to ireland today, marking 25 years since the good friday agreement, which ended decades of violence. meanwhile, at home, the fbi arrested a 21-year-old air national guardsman who is suspected of leaking national documents. we ll sort through how that young man got his hands on the documents. plus, florida governor ron desantis took a break from his nationwide book tour to sign an extreme abortion ban into law late last night. we will dig into the legislation, and how it could impact his potential presidential campaign. also ahead this mornin
the deep red states, when abortion rights, when the basic constitutional right, in these cases the state constitutional right to abortion, is on the ballot, voters want it in their state constitution they want to protect that right. what desantis signed and, by the way, we did notice we saw, ron, that you signed this bill. this is as close to a complete abortion ban as you could really conceivably get, except for that 1849 law in wisconsin. i mean, the six weeks before, that s before a lot of women even know they re pregnant there are all these conditions, even on the rape and incest exceptions this is a radical, sort of hand
the midwest, that moves down from places that have a much more moderate view of the issue of abortion. they move forward anyway of course, as you noted, it s why he signed it at 11:00 at night. i suspect if this had come out right after the dobbs decision, before republicans understood the wicked backlash they re getting politically on these mere abortion bans, some of these more extreme bills, he may have signed it in the middle of the day, brought legislators around instead, signed it at 11:00 last night and tweeted out the picture. that is not a man who wants this to be front and center of the news today, but it is. eugene daniels i m sorry eugene robinson. i m in a different time zone here eugene robinson, you look at wisconsin. yeah. here s a state that i was calling, i think we were all
this ban, it restricts abortion after six weeks of pregnancy you know, a lot of people see that as pretty much a total ban because that s before many people know they re pregnant it goes into effect 30 days after the state supreme court issues a ruling that we re all waiting on, on the current 15-week ban. so we ll see we ll see what happens there you know, it s really impossible to overstate the impact that this particular piece of legislation is going to have, not just on florida, but really across the entire country. you know, florida is the third most populous state, and people have been traveling there since roe was overturned for abortions. this is really going to have very significant ripple effects everywhere and i think one of the other things that stood out to a lot of people of this story is the onerous ask of women, even in the case of rape or incest, to prove it, to provide a restraining order, police reports, written notes from doctors.
in political terms, but can you talk a little bit about what a six-week ban in the state of florida on abortion and a ban on this abortion pill would mean to women in this country? well, absolutely. you know, we already saw this when texas passed their six-week ban. in that case, a vigilante law. you know, we just filed a lawsuit in texas there s now a total ban in texas. we filed a lawsuit on behalf of five women who had wanted pregnancies that were in septic emergencies. one of them ended up in the icu for three days because they said, you ve got to go into, basically, sepsis, before we ll give you a needed abortion. this is also what plays out, is that women wanted pregnancies, are finding themselves being told, no, you can t get the medical care that is standard because we have a criminal law in our state. the doctors are weighing that