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friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i'm willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we'll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack ...

millions of american women, no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion that has been their right for decades now and nearly half of all states women will soon find themselves without any access to an abortion, a 6-3 decision handed down in dobbs versus jackson women's health upholds mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in a 5-4 majority went further completely striking down roe versus wade, written by justice samuel alito, it is similar to the draft opinion that leaked back in may. it reads in part, roe was egregiously wrong from the start and the d...

Which so many believe is the fundamental, sacred right and could cost democrats the midterm next year? >> history is important here. voting rights, civil rights was never the priority of a white house. we had to make it a priority. i think what we're going to see is that we are going to make this a front burner issue. one of the reasons martin luther king iii and i have called this march on august 28th, right past the white house. we're going to start at black lives matter plaza, march past the white house and do the rally at the national mall where the capital will be in the background. it's ...

>> if people only knew how brilliant you are. i came to this conclusion after talking to -- anna has this story down, what she's reporting is spot on and the rev is right about the size and scope and duration of the sort of struggle. the only thing i bring to the table is my intimate knowledge of the depths of the republicans' commitment to rolling back voting rights in all 48 states where they've introduced bills. and i'm scared of the speed and efficiency with which they're passing and i guess my question is always to the rev. is it enough? do you have enough time to make this a front burner...

Randi weingarten. she is the president of the american federation of teachers which represents more than 1.7 million educators nationwide. the american federation of teachers is partnering with several other education organizations to host this forum. you and i have had a lot of chats over the last couple of years with teachers, many cases teachers who have been striking because of pay. i just want to show our viewers the average salary of a teacher according to the national education association is $60,477. but the average -- sorry, what i've got there is wrong. the average starting salary is...