is the u. s supreme court about to impose a limited ban on medication abortion. the lead starts right now. the u. s. supreme court kicking the can down the road for now, pausing restrictions until friday on access to the abortion pill restrictions put in place by a texas judge. but what might happen after this two day stay and for the third time in a week. young people shot after making innocent mistakes. this time two cheerleaders after one of them mistook someone else s car. for hers. i m going to speak with her cheer programs owner plus one day after one of the biggest media defamation settlements in the history of the universe, the ceo of dominion will be here and we ll talk about whether his company took that historic $787.5 million check from fox at the expense of truth and democracy. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with breaking news in our health lead this afternoon, the u. s. supreme court handed down its decision in the blockbuster medication abor
be denied the speaker s gavel. plus a monster storm is pommeling california and it has turned deadly. more rain and flooding and ferocious winds are battering the state. and the man accused of killing four college students is set to appear in an idaho courtroom today. that is what we re watching at this hour. thanks for being here. i m kate bolduan. there are two big stories that we re following at though hour. first the house will convene once again in an hour to try to elect the next speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy has lost rounds of voting and making more concessions to lawmakers to try and turn the tide for him. in the meantime. the house is paralyzed. members could not sworn in, committees cannot be formed or do any business. and now the incoming chairs of the key national security committees foreign affairs armed services and intel, they say this delay is putting the safety and security of the united states at risk. as a republican stalemate grips congress, p
hoping new concessions offered to those 20 plus members voting against him will put him over the top. one aide told fox news mccarthy is now open to allowing just one member to introduce a motion to vacate the speaker s chair. they could get the conversation started on kicking him or anybody out of the seat with one person coming forward. also putting more house freedom caucus members on top committees. and he is promising to hold votes on the caucus s priorities like border legislation and term limits for members. patience among the rank and file is wearing thin with some suggesting that kevin mccarthy should step aside for a different candidate at this point. the leader s supporters are going after all the defectors saying enough is enough. people who are voting against kevin mccarthy in the republican conference are aiding joe biden, aiding hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer. they are the reason we re not doing the business we set out to do. these folks need to get seriou
it is the top of the hour. i m katy tur and we re starting again on capitol hill with the question: deadlock or a deal? what will happen today is anyone s guess. the house reconvenes in one hour. will the seventh vote be the charm for kevin mccarthy. he s made even more concessions. what they are and will they help? earlier they said they think negotiations could drag on until next week. i think we re making progress. i think people are talking and that s i think that very good. look, we re all working together. find a solution. do you have the votes today? we will see. also this hour, president biden will take on one of the issues that s motivating these republican holdouts. the southern border. he s announcing new border enforcement measures. we got a peek at the details. what they are in a moment. and after teasing a trip to the border yesterday, he s expected to make that visit official. we will go right to the white house for his live remarks when they b
in a letter to bannon former president trump writes, i watched how you and others have been treated spending vast amounts of money on legal fees. i will waive executive privilege for you. the committee says today it s open to bannon s testimony as long as it s under oath. bannon s potential testimony would come on the heels of testimony from another major witness. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone, part of his eight-hour closed door interview will be this week. context and nuance is important when it comes to steve bannon. the letter is essentially the equivalent of me telling you that i m waiving my executive privilege for you to talk to our bosses tomorrow in our morning meetings. what does what bannon and trump are doing here actually mean? well, look, if he actually testifies, let s say he actually goes in and does it for real that would be huge. we re so far away from that still. he basically gave bannon the cover so that he, bannon, could go to the commit