the face, broke a world record he's a beast respect to joey chestnut, the lead with her, right now trump back on the hill for the first time since january 6, attack. >> the leader starts right now from nancy pelosi to taylor swift. donald trump was on a tear and private meetings with house and senate republicans begins his direct quotes from republicans in the room coming up plus his face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. they're very first since the 2020 election breaking now, on the lead, some brand new accusations against us supreme court justice clarence thomas coming from a top senate democrat, will bring you those details. but first, the major ruling today from the, us supreme court and the significant setback for the anti-abortion movement. but not so fast welcome to the lean on jake tapper, a huge day for the us supreme court today. and i don't just mean that bombshell unanimous ruling on abortion medication also, democrats are now leveling a brand new claim against justice clarence thomas. it's breaking right now, but let's start with what you need to know about the headline you've seen all de the justices unanimously ruling that yes. as of now? women can still use the abortion pill mifepristone, that is far from the end on attempts to limit abortion and abortion medication. in this post row era, of course, the justice's reasoning in this case is, is important the court found that the doctors in the anti-abortion groups who had challenged access to mifepristone did not have this standing to sue so this was not a decision on the merits of mifepristone and access to it. so that does leave the door open for other potential challenges to mifepristone in the future, justice kavanaugh wrote in the opinion for all nine justices, what we recognize the many citizens, including the plaintiff doctors here have sincere concerns about and objections to others using mifepristone and obtaining abortions. but citizens and doctors do not have standing to sue simply because others are allowed to engage in certain activities, at least not without the plaintiffs demonstrating how they would be injured by the government's alleged under-regulation of others in addition to that news breaking, right now, senator dick durbin of illinois, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, a democrat is now claiming the justice clarence thomas took several additional free trips on the private plane of gop megadonor, harlan crow. thomas traveled on chrome those private jets durban says during trips within the united states in 2017 and 2019 and 2021, as well as on a previously known 2019 trip to indonesia, were thomas and his wife ginni, stayed on crows mega yacht. senator durban says, thomas did not disclose these additional i'll trips on financial disclosure forms now this all comes after last week when we brought you the reporting that justice thomas is far and away. the justice who has received the most gifts while serving on the court. the liberal organization fix the court told us that thomas received 103 gifts worth more than 2.4 million dollar. we're gonna go deep on both of these stories today. but first let's get straight to cnn's paula reid, who has been poring through this opinion about mifepristone all day. paul, what does this opinion say? exactly? >> jake, look, this is one of the most closely watched cases of this term. and here are the judges, you nan, justices unanimously swerved around this question about mifepristone. it did so for good reason, they're saying, look, you don't have standing. they can't have everyone bringing every grievance or concern to the high court are trying to see you have to have what is called standing. you have to illustrate that you have had some injury or otherwise can establish standing before they will hear your case. now they understand kavanaugh wrote that they understand that people have some concerns and he said citizens and doctors who object to what the law allows with regard to mifepristone allows others to do may always take their concerns to the executive and legislative branches and seek greater regulatory or legislative restrictions on certain activities. so here are the justices. they have effectively preserve the status quo for access to mifepristone. and this case was being watched closely because it could have an enormous impact not only on women who use this drug, but also on the fda the entire regulatory process. a lot of pharmaceutical industry representatives were very concerned about what what this could do because that was the basis of the case, arguing that the fda had overstepped its authority in broadening this access also concerns jake about the impact this could have on the 2024 race. now, because this swerved around the issue they didn't actually decide it. it is likely that this issue could come back to the court in a few years. with someone or someones who actually have standing now, all eyes are on another abortion case before the high court, and that comes out of idaho and deals with what you do when you have restrictive state laws related to abortion. and they come up against more permissive federal laws. so definitely now, especially one to watch, alright, paula great, thanks so much. and here's who we have to talk about this. cnn's joan biskupic, who knows the court in detail. there are say she's the best supreme court reporter in the united states of america. we also have with us carry severino, who clerk with justice thomas. she's president of the judicial crisis network, also with us victoria nurse, chief counsel for joe biden when he was vice president. so you guys have brought up the average iq at this table considerably, considerably, please. please be kind to me. >> joan, a bombshell decision from the court on mifepristone. >> what's your reporting on what happened in the court room and how this decision came about. i mean, a unanimous decision on a controversial issue kind of rare very rare i can't remember the last i don't think we've ever had a unanimous decision on anything related to abortion. >> in fact, we haven't this case was just argued on march 26, jake and to have a decision this quickly really shows that this was not a case about abortion rights, per say, it was about how does somebody get into court and let me just bring you into the room as justice brett kavanaugh began to read and the courtrooms packed his wife, ashley kavanaugh, is there in special guest seats. he goes on for ten minutes explaining that there is a very important threshold question here before the justices could even assess where the da was right to find mifepristone safe and effective and to actually enhance access to it. that was key in terms of if they had reached the merits, there would be things about how easy would it be for women to obtain these drugs at, for example, ten months of pregnancy. pardon me, ten weeks of pregnancy rather than seven weeks. and whether so they could get it by mail. but just as kevin all laid out, exactly what the barrier is for people trying to bring cases and he went through the group of anti-abortion doctors who tried bring this, had said, for example, that they have conscience concerns that because of religious and moral reasons, they don't want to be backed into performing abortions, for example, under emergency situations, if the if mifepristone is improperly used. and he said there's no problem with that because there's already a conscience provision in federal law. so no physician is going to be forced to to perform an abortion and then he went through all the medication, right yes. or even to even to handle medical emergencies that might arise from a woman who's used mifepristone because that's what they were arguing is that they are the ones who in emergency situation might have to handle the fallout from women using this medication. and justice kevin are rejected that and you rejected their other claims about why they had some injury here. and that's the bottom line. these anti-abortion physicians said that they had been injured. justice kavanaugh with the backing of the full court, said, no, you haven't carrie, can you imagine somebody who might have standing to bring to bring this because i'm sure it's not going to stop the attempts to to stop this medication from being prescribed the way it is, who might have standard well, we know that even according to the fda's own information, one and 22 women who take this drug actually do you have to seek emergency room access? >> so it's not that these doctors weren't necessarily dealing with these cases. it's just that that isn't enough to bring them have standing. but however, women might, if a woman, a woman who experienced some of these adverse consequences, and we've had dozens of women who unfortunately died as a result of these these drugs. if they said, hey, because of and remember this isn't about is mifepristone on the market? period? this is about additional safeguards that were removed in 2016. so you don't have to see a doctor beforehand. you don't have to have a follow-up visit to make sure there isn't excessive bleeding. you don't have to test for ectopic pregnancy with the doctor. all of those things do decrease the safety. and so if a woman said, hey, if they had caught this ectopic pregnancy, i wouldn't have had this consequence. maybe they could bring a case like that. >> okay. and you victoria, you read an article two months ago were you said even if the justices were to say the plaintiffs don't have standing in the case mifepristone is far from protected, so you don't imagine that you agree on this, like it's not over this is not over it's going back to the fda. this is a procedural holding and it's a complicated standing question. but now lawyers are going to argue in the fda about whether the fda is acting law leslie and they're going to use a grant administration law called the cam stock chastity law and what dobbs did was it resurrected much of ancient law that existed in a world where we didn't think it applied because of row. so it did this in arizona and wisconsin and now there's a federal law right? >> those arizona had that 18, 40 something. all right. 18, 60 maybe. and then the legislature had to step in and so the feds have the same law, the comstock chastity law says you cannot. it was amended to get rid of the contraception piece, but you can't mail anything. it's a crime to mail anything that would accomplish an abortion. so that would cover abortion pills. and so the trump campaign has said that they will seek to enforce that but even without regard to the election mifepristone is going to have to continue to fight this at fda in my opinion. so let's talk about the politics of this. >> as you noted, here, is how vice president harris reacted to the decision today. i'd like to get your reaction to her this ruling is not going to change the fact that trump's allies have a plan that if all else fails to eliminate medication, abortion through executive action so we must remain clear clear-eyed about the threats to reproductive freedom in america. >> and we must remain vigilant. >> as i mentioned, your president of the conservative judicial crisis network. what's your response organization really deals with the legal side of it, so we don't have a position on whether this should be reviewed or to what extent trump's administration should look at it. >> but she's correct at the answer here. and this is what the court is saying, is this not the court's job necessarily to check all of these things and make sure they're correcting some cases. there might not be people who easily have standing to bring a case. and so that is why it's really important to them and look to the president and the agency's, it's also why it's a little concerning to see this case kinda shows us the overgrowth of the administrative state. you have this behemoth administrative state that doesn't answer to anyone. it's not members of congress debating how should we address this issue? is this what level of safety or we comfortable with on these pills to make? widely available? do we want to make sure women are more safe? how do we balance that? that's something that the american people should have some input into. and unfortunately, because this has been done all through the regulatory state rather than through congress, it's something that then the regulatory apparatus is the only place that can, that can then go back and fix that. >> there's another abortion case in front of the supreme court. this term i want you to tell me what it is and i want you to talk about it, idaho versus the united states. it's about federal law and whether hospital emergency rooms have to provide abortions. if a woman's life is in danger there is a federal law on the books that says that anyone who comes to an emergency room needs to be treated and then some cases, a woman with complications from a miscarriage or something may need abortion care what happens then in states like idaho that have virtually outlawed all abortions, idaho only has an exception for the death of a woman who might be near death and the key issue here was what if she's not close to death, but her something would be happening with their reproductive organs are health would be imperiled what happens there, and i can tell you that that decision which we'll probably get in the next two weeks will not be so easy to resolve. there's just much more attention there about the intersection of now new state bands in a post-dobbs world that have been enacted in some 15 or so states. and just where the federal emergency health care law would, would come into play. >> you'd think that they're going to have you think they're gonna rule well, i think it's up for grabs, but i think there are enough people who worry about the on that court were worried about the extension of federal power. they're going to show this over and over again in a series of cases. and these two weeks they it could come down and say no. look, they just in dogs, they said let the states do. i say it's due and they might say states. >> and they don't like federal preemption. justice thomas does not like federal preemption. there's a whole sort of background assumptions that the federal government should back back-off these things. so i wouldn't be surprised if they said, oh yeah, idaho keep shipping women to another state, which i find frankly very odd and that the state would want to do that, but that's what they're doing. and this is a states rights court. all right. stick around everyone because we do want to talk about that. clarence thomas morning, but not right. this very second, we're going to squeeze in a quick break coming up a moment years in the making with dramatic backstory. donald trump and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell face-to-face the incredible quotes from behind closed doors as well as former president 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