washington, and welcome to a special saturday addition of andrea mitchell reports. we begin with breaking news. you are looking live at the supreme court, protesters have been gathering, there for the second day while row opponents are separating. public outrage is growing over the court s decision to repeal roe v. wade, which over a half century, guaranteed the right to an abortion. as of today, abortion is banned in at least nine states, with trigger bans in many more sets to take effect soon. last hour, i spoke with democratic congresswoman jackie speier about the impact this could have on americas women. the constitution, when i went to law school, is a living, breathing document. now, they want to take us back. it is the greatest step back in women s rights in this country in our history, and we can t allow this to be retained. there s many steps we have to take. and also today, president biden signing that landmark gun bill into law. the first major legislation ad
Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. One important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding muellers prosecutors to the line, limiting their questions and how they present key evidence to manafort to the jury. A former prosecutor who tried these kinds of cases and inside that courtroom today joins me to explain if what the judge is up to could hurt muellers case. There are reports tonight about the russian woman charged with trying to carry out the government influence campaign through the nra in the u. S. And
secretary, was briefing reporters on air force one. this was transmitted for the traveling reporters, that the president, she says, it s against court packing. it is something that some democratic advocates say he should have been against. you still against increasing number of justices. there are so many youthful justices who are going to spend decades more among these conservative supermajority justices. the president had a commission to look at this issue. he had not made a firm statement as a president. he was not in favor of it. it is not surprised that he was beyond going nine members of the court. he now has his one placement with a new term that will come this fall with ketanji brown jackson who will now be ascending to the court as she has been confirmed.
doj there was a process going of career lawyers recommending jeff sessions recuse himself from the probe, he had an obligation on that. this was a key inflection point. jeff sessions could have taken the doj guidance to recuse and could have also ignored it, a decision to make and donald trump at that moment could have stayed out of it or at least in the public realm. here s what happened. the next day, march 2nd, trump had this very big grand appearance arriving via helicopter on the uss gerald ford, the navy s very new and expensive warship. trump spoke to sailors there. the traveling press corps for this big fancy appearance were with trump. watch this key moment. this was one of those unpredictable, you could seen say random times you see this normally routine even frustrating job of the traveling
stepping back into the press section of air force one today and taking a few questions from the traveling reporters. what could possibly go wrong? reports indicate that president trump has been feeling very, very confident lately. the more white house advisers he loses, the more confident he feels. he felt confident in west virginia where he went to speak about the tax cuts but then forgot to speak about the tax cuts because he literally threw away his remarks. this was going to be my remarks. it would have been taken about two minutes. but that would have been a little boring. a little boring. now i m reading off the first paragraph, i said, this is boring. wow, that s confidence. real presidential confidence. that was the same confidence that led him back to the press section of air force one today.