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Listen to 60 Minutes, ad free on Wundry Plus. Good morning and welcome to face the nation. I'm Margaret Brennan.

Last week we saw several seismic developments here in Washington that will impact

Americans and our democracy for years to come. We are living in the thick of

unprecedented upheaval around the country and the world and we are all feeling its impact.

Just this morning our CBS News poll puts the number of Americans feeling that our democracy is under threat at 72%. For the first time in nearly 50 years tens of

millions of American women begin the week without the protection of a

constitutional right to an abortion. It's a significant victory for the anti-abortion

rights movement. But Friday's Supreme Court decision to direct states to regulate

abortion on their own terms has resulted in chaos and confusion as to the ruling's practical impact

and not surprisingly enormous anger from abortion rights supporters and fear sparked by rhetoric from those who think laws should be more restrictive.

Just a day earlier, we saw dramatically different actions from the legislative and judicial

branches on guns,

as the Supreme Court cleared the way

for nearly all American adults

to carry concealed weapons in public.

Meanwhile, just a few hundred yards away,

Congress who'd been crippled by inaction on significant gun control legislation

for decades, responded to the recent massacres in Uvaldi and Buffalo by passing a bipartisan

law expanding background checks for gun buyers under 21, incentivizing

state red flag laws, and providing states with funding for mental health and school safety.

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