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welcome to the beat. i'm in for ari. coming up, i've got neil and melissa murray and donald trump's packed courtroom schedule including his next testimony date. trump can expect to get grilled while on the stand again. but we're going to start tonight's show in the middle east. a series of potentially pivotal developmented today. hamas releasing 11 more hostages. all women and children. in exchange, israel releasing 33 palestinian prisoners. this is the newest video of hostages being released by hamas into red cross custody. they're inside israeli territory right now. this all happen...

With almost a year left in president obama's presidency. because they can. we're not talking about law. we're not talking even about norms. we're just talking about power now. so the way the court did it on the shadow docket, as melissa said, without precedent, without briefing, without argument, how could they do that? how could they nullify a law in the second most populous state in the nation? because they can, because it's power. >> they can. melissa, let me ask you about the law. let's say someone sues someone because this law allows kind of anybody to sue anybody who was involved in help...

>> well, we were not guessing there, ali. we knew because he had a long, long record. he was very, very transparent that he was not a fan of roe v. wade, not a fan of casey and the cases that came after. as melissa says, what he is a fan of is the appearance that the court takes these things soberly and seriously. and so i think it is exactly right and i would just note a year ago when the case melissa is describing came down both she and i wrote he kind of changed the test. while he held out the idea that he was upholding precedent he was also slightly, subtly changing the test even there. so...

What john roberts doesn't like is sloppiness, the appearance that the court has gone rogue, and that is why he pushed back this week. absolutely nothing to do with his personal preferences about roe which have been amply clear for a very long time. >> while he articulated that in a dissent, all the dissenting judges wrote about this, sonia sotomayor, melissa, has said this. she wrote this. the court's order is stunning. presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly un-constitutional law, engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny...

Done that can limit the independent action of individuals. >> putting aside the issue of whether the department of justice can in fact limit the law one thing seems certain. the texas decision marks a significant loss for the chief justice. joining me to dig into this my guests. welcome to both of you and thank you for being with us. melissa, let me start with you about the court itself. what this says about the court, what it says about john roberts, and his influence over the court. and whether or not this is -- this case was thought about in the right way because there are criticisms even b...