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good evening, everyone. great to have you with us. i m erica hill in tonight for alison camerata. welcome to cnn. tonight we have much more. on the biggest story of this night. the supreme court, of course, protecting access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower court rulings that restricted its usage. big victory for the biden administration. it is far from the end, though the ruling means the appeals process now will play out and it is almost guaranteed the case. will eventually land back before the justices. in the meantime, though, the fda approval of medford cristante stands as does current access plus turmoil in the nfl tonight, three players suspended indefinitely to others slapped with a six game ban. so what they do is the punishment fair. and it wouldn t be a friday night here without a news quiz. see, if you know more about what happened this week. they are distinguished panelists. here is my panel tonight. defense attorney mr maris. john avlon, ou ....
to the committee s probe and it s the first conviction of anyone for the defying the committee. they guilty verdicts are now putting the spotlight on others who have to find the committee subpoenas, including secret service agents who have lawyered up with private counsel. as the probe into the text messages. which are potential evidence turned into a criminal inquiry. all of that is making a blockbuster week for the january six committee. it used a second primetime hearing to show it excruciating detail that trump consistently and repeatedly resisted pleas to condemn that maga mob that was the filing the capitol. the mob was accomplishing president trump s purpose, so of course he did not intervene. here is what will be clear by the end of the hearing, president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. joining me, now charles clemente union at msnbc legal analyst and civil righ ....
one person who will not be in the room? yeah, that s committee chairman congressman bennie thompson. he s announced that he has covid. it s not clear if the chairman will appear virtually, but he says that his covid diagnosis will not disrupt the committee s plan. members say this eighth hearing will focus on the 187 minutes the former president trump failed to intervene as his supporters marched on the capitol, swarmed the halls of congress, and did this, took over the building there. also today, a jury has now been seated in the trial of trump s chief strategist, steve bannon. bannon is facing two criminal counts for failing to comply with subpoenas from the house january 6th committee. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us now from capitol hill. so, what is the committee hoping to learn from these witnesses, matthew pottinger and sara matthews? reporter: victor and alisyn, they re firsthand witnesses to what was happening inside the white house o ....
Something like gay marriage, when they decided the obergefell case. um, that was something that took a political hot button and it took it off the table. it said the supreme court made a ruling and no longer were republicans really getting asked the same kinds of questions as often about. well what do you define as marriage? etcetera in this case with the fall of roe versus wade, with its overturning the dobbs case, it put abortion back on the political agenda, and republicans, in my view have been pretty flatfooted in their messaging on this, every new headline about abortion is bringing or potential political peril to republicans. as long as they don t have their act together on this, so maybe out of the headlines for a little while, mr give us a sense. is there a timeline in terms of this appeals process? what are we looking at? so this particular cases expedited. we re going to hear those arguments on may 17th, so that s really quick. but that s just the beginning. there s other ca ....
First and foremost, no i don t trust the states to handle this. first just this year alone, in 2022, we ve seen more than 150 bills being introduced across the country that are targeting the lgbtq+ community. furthermore there is constitutional amendments and legal provisions just like in my home state of south carolina, that would if the obergefell case was overturned, same sex marriage would be outlawed and almost 50% of the country. so that s a very real reality. that s something very scary to many lgbtq people and as americans. a gala poll released a week ago found american support for gay marriage reached an all-time high of 71%. as wildly popular. but are the votes there in the senate? what do senators like marco rubio, ted cruz even gain from standing in the way? well, you know, it certainly appears that the votes are ....