Three Unique Angles About Politico's Supreme Court Scoop And The Abortion Debate

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Politico's executive editor Dafna Linzer discusses the decision to publish the Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Plus, interviews with Montse Alvarado, a host on the Catholic TV network EWTN, and Kate Smith, a former CBS reporter who now works at Planned Parenthood. Also: Some of the week's top media stories with Elahe Izadi, Brian Lowry, Eric Deggans, and David French.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Salter live in New York.
0:04.0	On a very poignant Mother's Day, this is reliable sources where we examine the story behind
0:08.9	the story and we find out what's reliable.
0:11.6	This hour a White House source telling me the President Biden is livid about these
0:15.3	intel leaks.
0:16.8	So where are the news outlets right or wrong to publish?
0:20.5	Plus books stacking up against Donald Trump.
0:23.2	His former defense secretary is the latest author.
0:26.0	We're going to tell you why Mark Esper had to sue his old department to get this book
0:30.1	published.
0:31.1	And later, the media frenzy around the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial, why these alerts
0:35.5	and memes and posts are unavoidable.
0:39.2	There's a lot to get to.
0:40.2	But first, one of the biggest scoops in American journalism history, and it was about one
0:45.5	of the most polarizing issues in history.
0:48.9	We knew the Supreme Court would be ruling on abortion this summer.
0:52.1	We knew the conservative majority could roll back Roe v. Wade.
0:55.1	We knew this would be a big story in late June, but through Politico's sensational scoop
1:00.6	it has landed early.
1:03.5	This report from Monday night about the draft majority opinion dated February is by far
1:09.2	the most viewed article in Politico's history.
1:12.5	It is still dominating news nearly a week later.
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