MTP NOW June 27 — Rep. Nikema Williams, Leon Panetta, Pete Williams
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Monday backlash over the Supreme Court's abortion decision, thousands of protesters |
| 0:07.1 | take to the streets in dozens of cities nationwide, demanding action now from lawmakers and |
| 0:13.0 | from the present, the latest on the ruling and the future of abortion rights in just a moment. |
| 0:18.9 | Plus another surprise shake-up from the January 6th committee. Lawmakers |
| 0:22.5 | move the next hearing up to tomorrow what we know and still don't know about the evidence yet to come. |
| 0:29.9 | And later Russia advances in Ukraine, missiles, Pummel Keev, and now President Zelenskyy says more |
| 0:35.9 | Russian rockets just hit a shopping mall. All this is |
| 0:39.7 | President. Biden meets with the G7 other world leaders in nearby Germany. |
| 0:57.9 | Welcome to beat the Press Now. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Peter Alexander, in for Chuck. |
| 1:02.2 | And we begin today with the top story in American politics, |
| 1:07.6 | the escalating fallout from the bombshell Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:11.9 | Across the country, demonstrators took to the streets over the weekend as a number of states immediately began rolling back access to abortions in the wake of that ruling. Today, |
| 1:18.3 | Mississippi's Attorney General formally certified that state's trigger law, banning the procedure |
| 1:23.4 | beginning in 10 days. That leaves the state's 15-week ban in effect for that limited period of time. |
| 1:30.4 | Right now, new bans or restrictions on abortion are in effect in roughly a dozen states. |
| 1:38.4 | Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers have begun ramping up pressure on President Biden. |
| 1:42.6 | They're urging him to take every action that he can to blunt the impact of the ruling, |
| 1:47.2 | even as the White House's options are limited. |
| 1:49.8 | More than 30 Senate Democrats have now signed onto a letter demanding the White House take, |
| 1:54.6 | quote, bold action that is roughly two-thirds of the party's caucus. |
| 1:59.5 | In this letter, they write, quote, |
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