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Were about roe versus wade as precedent. >> it would be interesting to have the opportunity to ask samuel alito how the circumstances have changed since he was going through his confirmation hearing. what he seemed to be saying there is that you would need extraordinary circumstances to overturn the precedent. what's changed since his senate confirmation hearing? the only thing that has changed is that the court itself has changed. that you now have a decisively more conservative supreme court with more conservative supreme court justices who can overturn it. the circumstances in the country h...

Oxford high school in michigan just about 24 hours ago. we will have more coverage of that later today here on msnbc. and on "nbc nightly news." for now, "deadline: white house" will begin in just a moment. will begin in just a moment. ♪♪ hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. today the u.s. supreme court seems poised to make history based on today's oral arguments in the mississippi abortion law case in terms of overturning the protections of roe versus weighed which nearly 50 years ago established a institutional right to abortion. the court's super majority of conservatives indica...

Seen instances where they ask tone deaf questions and what they are trying to tease out an answer -- they can't make their point of view, and they ask questions where they know the answer is going to be and they are trying to get the answer on the record. i don't know if that's the case in this ep stance but i have seen that many times on the supreme court. >> the justices are looking for is there an intermediatia standard because mississippi is now in a full-on way saying it is time to reverse roe versus wade. >> right. >> one possible interpretation of the question is they are searching for ...

We won't find out until the court render its opinion. >> in your personal view, what is the best case scenario right now? >> if you believe that women should be full participants in our society and have the right to make decisions about their own bodies, and i certainly ascribe to both of those views, then this was not a good argument. i mean, it's a little bit dangerous to predict the outcome of a case based on argument. typically you will hear people like me decline to do that because we believe the justices will try issues and arguments on for size. and sometimes the opinion they issue does...

Branded the first amendment as an act of -- as enemies of the people she and he who exercised it, unless they were on fox news. the second amendment, a tragic school shooting and only a handful of people talking about doing anything about gun safety reform because those rights are so firmly entrenched. why not this one? >> i mean, look, the history on this. this is now a 50 -- 50-year conservative project to overturn roe v wade. it has been the center of our judicial politics since 197. i think, you know, i saw just looking at the polling here, gallop has been asking of approval of the supreme...