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president biden is making the case for congress to pass the debt ceiling accord. no either side liking the bill, there is thunderous bipartisan criticism about the bill, that is why law lawmakers from both sides are nervous. one g.o.p. member told fox, a vote against the bill would be a vote to under cut mccarthy. there is a 72 hour clock for members to reveal the bill. trey. trey: if i could ask you one question, some of the names of the folks that have been most critical over the last 12 to 24 hours are some of the same names that didn t vote for kevin mccarthy the first time for speaker, or else were slow to do so, is there any danger or threat this will lead to a motion to v vacate the chair. reporter: kevin mccarthy was asked that and said there is no fear there, keep in mind it only takes one member to do that a lot of people i talked to said they don t believe there will be anything like that. speaker will lose 25 members on his side, you need democrats to make ....
vested denver following several major stories this afternoon two big rulings on a key abortion pill praising the legal stakes to protec abortion rights for millions o women. reaction is coming in, fast an furious. new developments in the ouster of two - lawmakers in the tennessee legislature as the vic president lends her voice to the fight. they understood the importance, these three, o standing to say that peopl will not be silenced we are also keeping a close eye on israel after severa attacks this easter weekend. a new move from the white hous on trans athletes that has all sides of the debate upset. all of that, plus the news thi week that the former vic president will testify against donald trump, what he migh say. once he is under oath. we re gonna look at that comin up as well we begin though with the breaking news on abortio rights a federal judge in texas has essentially blocked the fda approval of mifepristone potentially undoing two decade of legal an ....
junk science that was pu forward by antiabortio opponents that contradicts the 20 plus years of safe access t mifepristone that women have relied on two and pregnancie safely it just is really a crisis o democracy and it s a crisis of health care. right after the, texa ruling a judge in washington state ordered the fda not to rollback approval of the drug. however, that ruling only flie to the 17 states in washington d.c. where democratic s tierne general made the challenge meanwhile, national outlet - after two black lawmakers rose expelled from the tennesse house after protesting gun violence in the chamber. their white colleague wa spared, msnbc s simone sanders sat down with the legislator in an interview later today. this whole process has been a farce of our due process it s been a farce of our constitutional system of government and so everything about this, even the trial tha they had, it was when the verdict was decided before we even started talking. w ....
circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. let s bring in wall street journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel do you think merrick garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come? well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. i mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of kevin mccarthy house speakership roll forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the united states after one has already been appointed a special council ....