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be former senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, despite the fact that the two men have not necessarily spoken in more than three years. that's right. woven today. there is no longer any doubt the gop is donald trump's party donald trump is the gop is iron grip solidified his dominance largely unquestioned. the majority of republican voters and six super tuesday states say he is fit for the presidency even if he is convicted of a crime, it marks one of the most stunning comebacks in american politics. cnn's kylie atwood is at haley's campaign headquarters in charleston, south carolina. kiley, on this very busy morning, you were there for her speech a short time ago. what can you tell us what stood out to you? >> well, as the nikki haley said, she has no regrets. she said she is filled with gratitude. she also said that even though she is suspending her presidential campaign today after running for president for more than a year, she's going to continue to use her voice for the issues that she cares

about and when it comes to former president trump, the person that she has been challenging, really sharpening her attacks on him over the course of the last few months, she congratulated him, but she also said that he is going to have to work to earn the support of the folks that have supported her throughout the course of this listen to what she said on that >> it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him. and i hope he does that now, nikki haley playing a pr leverage here because she knows that there is a >> faction of the party that voted for her. a significant amount of voters in some of these states, even though she was only able to win two states, vermont and dc as part of this republican primary process, there was a faction of the party that was with her and she believes they are still with her. but she did also have

a forgiving tone when it came to trump here, the race between the two of them has become quite personal over the course of the last few months and weeks here. but she said that she does hope that he is this able to win over the support of those who have voted for her will have to watch and see how that conversation plays out. wolf. >> kylie standby, we're gonna get back to you. want to go to capitol hill right now where the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell has just announced he's endorsing trump for president our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju is with us. mondo did this come as a surprise, given shall we say politely, they're complicated relationship? >> well, we'll mcconnell has indicated for some time that he would endorse the eventual nominee, but he is barely uttered. donald trump's name in the aftermath of january 6, and he pointed lead, blamed donald trump in that scathing floor speech in the aftermath of john and january 6, calling it

morally and practically it's possible for the events of that day and then would not endorse him as the candidates that he wait to see what would happen in this race. but ultimately, putting out a statement gets said that he is the nominee and obviously he's going to support them in his statement. he goes on and talk about some of the legislative achievements from donald trump's time in office. confirming three supreme court nominees and said that he's ready to get behind trump. now, this is not just mcconnell, this is a republican establishment falling in line behind him despite the past concerns about trump, things that he is said and his viability as a candidate, particularly when it comes to suburban voters, will be critical in november, i just caught up with a number two senate republican who wants to succeed mitch mcconnell as republican leader. and i asked him about his past concerns about donald trump are you still concerned about trump's trump's viability in the suburbs and the impact down ticket as your candidate. >> i think we got going to have a united ticket going into the

fall and we'll go out and all help aggressively. when those people and suburban areas, independent voters it's now it's a, it's a straight-up won one. and what you've been concerned about his his message, his ability to communicate with suburban voters. in particular, you have repeatedly voiced that concern. do you still have that concern? >> well, i think that he will so and our ticket will and all of us are gonna be working together, obviously, not only on the presidential race, but on senate races around the country, will work to unify people behind the things that we're going to be offering in terms of solutions for the future of this country. and i think that that will appeal to the middle of the electorate to independence bourbon voters >> now through and ultimately did endorse donald trump, even though he had reservations about him, even though he himself had a bit of a rocky relationship here. but wolf, you're seeing the party fall in line. donald trump and mr. mcconnell in particular have

had a very frosty relations. trump has been attacking you mcconnell, for some time pretty regularly on the campaign trail and on social media attacking his wife, elaine chao and alive. but mitch mcconnell falling in line, saying it's time for the party to unite. and now that trump is the nominee, he'll get behind them well, we will see how all that unfolds up on capitol hill. manu raja, thanks very, very much. >> yeah. and cnn's kristen holmes is live for us in west palm beach, florida, right down near mar-a-lago. kristen what is the trump campaign's plan to pivot to the general election? and is it in sync? with the candidates comments this morning >> don from skin painted already pivoted to the general election. they were talking about how the next couple of weeks we're really going to look like expanding their ground game, how they were going to build out in states like wisconsin michigan, arizona, those battleground key states, pennsylvania being one of them as well. but i do want to note one thing that happened because you heard monitor, they're talking about these lawmakers the republican party, really falling in love in between behind the former

president. we also heard from the republican national committee, they issued a statement saying, essentially congratulations to donald trump. but the real key part of this is that they acknowledge him as the present i'm dave, republican nominee for president. the reason why that is so key is because once someone is the presumptive nominee, the rnc no longer is a neutral with a candidate and they get all resources, meaning donald trump gets all the resources that the rnc has. that means access to funds, fund raising donor lists infrastructure in various states. donald trump's campaign needs this as we have reported, time and time again, they have kept a very lean staff, a very small staff, and they need more money. they were waiting for this moment to become the presumptive nominee. it's also part of why they were so annoyed that nikki haley's stayed in the race because they wanted access to all of these its resources. the other thing to note, it's really the republican party becoming the party of donald trump. i know we've said this for years, but it couldn't be more clear and what is happening right now. keep in mind the chairwoman ronna mcdaniel, has said that she's going to step down after donald trump becomes the

presumptive nominee. that is because donald trump had grown frustrated with mcdaniel. now, he has dominated the head of the north carolina and the republican party, michael whatley, who focuses on elections, to be the chairman. he also nominated his daughter-in-law, lara trump, to be the co-chair on top of that, his campaign manager at co-campaign manager, chris lacivita, is expected to go into the role of chief operating officer. i'm also told that various other campaign staffers have been approached about various positions within the rnc. you are seeing a full alignment of the republican party and donald trump really coming together right now, even faster than you would ever seen before >> all right. kristen holmes. thank you very much. really appreciate that update. >> it's interesting. the biden campaign at the same time is also weighing in on nikki haley's exit from this presidential race and making a direct appeal to her son reporters in the process, let's go to our white house correspondent, arlette arlette, what exactly is president biden

is right now? >> well, wolf president biden wasted no time and trying to reach out to nikki haley supporter is saying that there's a place for them in his campaign. it comes as biden campaign officials really believe that this race has now crystallized after super tuesday between joe biden and donald trump. and one of the main challenges and tasks ahead for them is trying to pull in more moderate voters and potentially haley supporters who are turned off by donald trump into the biden fold. now, in a statement released moments ago, the president praised he haley for her role in this campaign. sais typically quote, it takes a lot of courage to run for president. that's especially true in today's republican party were so few dare to speak the truth about donald trump. nikki haley was willing to speak the truth about trump, about the chaos that always follows him, about his inability to see right from wrong about it. this cowering before vladimir putin biden goes on to say, donald trump made it clear he doesn't want nikki haley's supporters. i

want to be clear. there is a place for them in my campaign. the president was even more explicit in a social media post after that statement, he said quote, you don't have to agree with me on everything to know maga extremism is a threat to this country. we need everyone on board join our campaign. and if you take a look at the bottom there, the president specifically highlighted a previoevious social media posts from donald trump, where he called nikki haley by name and said that those contributing to her campaign would not be part of the maga movement going forward. and really biden campaign officials are viewing this as an opportunity to try to siphon off some of these republican supporters, moderate supporters, who were backing nikki haley. they believe that they can make some inroads when it comes to suburban voters, moderate voters we simply do not want trump to have a second term in office. of course, there are many challenges facing biden himself within his own coalition, but that will be one of the plays that they tried to make in the coming months as they're trying to secure that second term. and the white house lots of

politics going on right now and it's only going to intensify in the coming days and weeks and months ahead, arlette saenz, that the white house thank you very much. and here with us >> now to discuss cnn political director david chalian, cnn political commentators maria cardona and alice stewart. maria democratic strategist, and alice is a republican strategist. david to you first a lot happening this morning. where do i mean the general election campaign is on and we're seeing and trump and biden trying to get those nikki haley's borders. it's going to be a tough sell probably from both sides of this >> yeah. and with our polling director, jen adjusted have been looking at some numbers this morning to try to understand these conversation about nikki haley voters, who are they and what did her composition of voters look like? across the six states that we have exit polls for in this contest 48% of haley voters were republicans, 41% of haley voters were independents, and 11% of haley voters were democrats. so we're calling

haley voters are actually going to be independents, never trumper republicans and some democrats. so what we're looking at is pieces of the biden 2020 coalition. i mean, in our in our january poll, we found 19% of haley supporters said they voted for joe biden in 2020. so there is overlap there. that's why you see the biden statement as what it is because they understand this may not be a very hard sell. these are people with some affinity for joe biden. perhaps they voted for him in 2020 as an anti-trump measure. and so trying to keep them in the fold obviously, the trump campaign, as nikki haley alluded to in her remarks, will need to court some of this support as well. remember donald trump lost to joe biden in 2020 because he lost independent voters by 13 percentage points to them well, where independent voters in the context of this republican primary there with nikki haley, donald trump's going to need some of those independents back

into his fold if he is going to succeed in getting back to the oval office? >> yeah. and two very different reactions from biden and trump. biden trying to extend the olive branch, make that outreach to those nikki haley's supporters, donald trump saying he trounced nikki haley's sort of tap dancing on her political grave. and let's talk about the mitch mcconnell factor here as well. alice, it wasn't that long ago when mcconnell was going after trump for his actions on january 6, look at this right now >> there's no question. none. that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day oh, question about it. >> i mean alice, i mean, this is quite a pivot. >> yeah, there's there's going to be quite a laundry list of people with similar statements that mcconnell had that are now on board with donald trump and look, you've look further in donald trump's statement this morning, he is appealing to haley voters. he is saying, i'm welcoming you to our

campaign, our enemy now is joe biden and his policies have hurt this country and it's time to join, as he says, the greatest movement in political history take out joe biden, and it's really important to note that he is going to work on addition rather than division. and that's the only way to move forward and look, you can't understate the significance of what the fact that he will be the presumptive nominee means moving forward as kristen said his team now, the campaign team has now merged with the rnc and he's able to use their joint fundraising agreement there. election integrity department, their communications department that has really helped shape joe biden as one of the most unpopular presidents in history. and the fact that they are able to join forces and move forward and take on joe biden that that's going to be significant to him moving forward. and look, you can underestimate donald trump if you do so, you don't understand republican voters. they're not concerned with the january 6 his legal woes and the chaos and confusion. they're looking at policies like immigration, the economy, and national

security that donald trump espouses. and they say will take our country in the right direction. objections. >> i mean, it sounds like trump is trying to keep that base revved up. biden making a play for those haley voters, those folks in the middle, maybe that david chalian is right there. they perhaps it's not the right thing to call them nikki haley's supporters. now, we're moving. >> general election killed today up until today. now they're sort of up for grabs. independent never trump folks that might vote for the democrat, might vote for joe biden and biden said this at a statement. donald trump made it clear he doesn't want nikki haley's supporters. i want to be clear. there is a place for them in my case campaign. >> yeah, that's exactly right. and clearly, i think that the donald trump campaign understood that those words that donald trump was saying in terms of saying, you know, nikki haley supporters are not gonna be welcomed into the maga movement. we're going to purify the maga movement. know romney yes. right. and that kind of language the, the campaign donald trump's campaign understands that that is not how you do addition. and i

guarantee you the person who wrote the statement this morning for donald trump, which is opposite of what he has saying, was not him. and so i think moving forward, it i think it's going to be hard for him to maintain that stance because for him, it is all about just the maga movement. and interestingly, and nikki haley's statement, she kinda went after the maga movement. she talked about how dysfunctional congress was. will. congress is dysfunctional because of the maga movement. they haven't been able to do anything. she went after people who were not supporting money for ukraine, money if for israel. who is that? that's the maga movement. and so i think it's interesting, she also is trying to continue to have her lane and the way that she did this was also out of a position of strength, of dignity and not from a position of weakness which is normally how somebody leaving a campaign does it. >> let me get alice into this conversation, judging from cnn's exit poll results that we were showing all of our viewers last night. and david did a great job on that. is it is it

likely that haley supporters out there could eventually wind up voting for biden? >> absolutely. and look, she has appealed to it's more moderate republicans and certainly the independent voters look, i happen to pull my up haley flyer that i got in my door the other day, she specifically put up note on here open primary. she was appealing to the independent voters and democrats who might vote for joe biden. she appealed to them. so the fact that those are the voters that may have come out for her, they could potentially go to biden, but i tell you what fact-check what joe biden just said that donald trump is not appealing to try and win over haley voters. he specifically said that in his statement this morning i welcome haley voters to come to my campaign because right now our enemy is joe biden, so he can say that biden's not welcoming them. that is simply not true right after a trash nikki haley. >> just want to >> make sure my trousers her bow, her voters onto the trump train. man. he also did it after several times when he

said anyone who supports nikki haley is not welcome in the maga movement. so again, he's lying, right? surprise. but that's going to be i think part of the case for the democrats and for joe biden moving but we should just make clear, guys, this is bigger than just haley voters. joe biden, donald trump has a very enthusiastic basis, support joe biden is showing some demunition of support in his core constituencies, whether it is voters of color, especially young male voters of color, whether it is progress passives over the israel gaza issue. he has worked to do with some core components of his base apart from the need to get some of these, nikki haley voters, the nikki haley voters piece is a slice of this but this is also going to be with these two disliked candidates, a real contest of revving up each side's base i think one of the most important cross tabs we're seeing out of polling lately was the new york times sienna poll over the weekend where

they asked voters whose policies >> help you personally and whose policies hurt you personally. and the majority of those polled say that donald trump's policies helped them personally more than joe biden's. and that fact right there and that appeal to voters on what affects them personally is going to be a big factor in helping donald trump to win more voters into his camp. but just very quickly on the enthusiasm for joe biden clearly, the democratic coalition has not come home yet. they will. but if you look at what happened last night in the primaries, joe biden was taking his supporters 80%, 90%. it was donald trump, the one that was losing and has been losing 20%, 30%, 40% big numbers. so exactly. so that core for president biden is there. he understand and he's got to grow this the democratic coalition is in a position right in route. now, we're, they might tell a pollster out of frustration. yeah. i don't like joe biden. i'm dissatisfied with what he has done because they know that that answer right then and there is not consequential when

it comes down to voting. and that's why you see special elections where democrats have been overperforming. that's why you've seen the president biden completely trouncing in fundraising record amount of money for a president going into a reelection campaign, $132 million, cash on hand. that's going to be really tried. >> he really doesn't have any opposition all right, guys, is basically all by himself, american samoa was the i'll just say maria that you just laid out the bet that the biden campaign is making, you said they will come on. that's his challenge over the next eight months. we don't know that that will leave that to happen. >> that's the bet that they're maria yeah, alice, guys. thanks. >> thanks very, very much. don't go too far away. lots of news unfolding, right now. we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back >> this, source, with. kaitlan collins tonight at nine is two being a young man cowboy blow

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already facing a mountain of legal issues. what is the significant significance of these charges, these new charges sound very serious? >> well i think he's >> facing more charges because he's appears to have the attitude he had as a result of winning last time he was charged criminally. he was able to actually prevail in that case. it's the government. however, has obviously a lot of evidence. they hadn't rolled well, it all out in the first cases, they have they're rolling it out right now and he's in a whole heap of trouble, jim. >> it's interesting. john, this is wolf blitzer, trump is the presumptive gop nominee, right now. it's a two-man race shaping up faced. he's facing a lot of criminal charges, 91 to be these specific, what does this say about this moment right now, historic moment in american politics what it says there has been a dramatic change in the republican party

to make him the nominee with 91 felony counts against him in four different cases, in four different jurisdictions. so it's quite shocking to me. i don't know any republicans anymore that embrace trump where it can embrace the party. they all become independents. i think a lot of people don't understand what's going on. i know that the type of personality that is attracted to donald trump isn't troubled by this. they're authoritarian personalities and they think this is their strong man and they want to have him prevail. so it tells us where we're going i suspect we're in the general election mode right now. while haley was mentioning his criminal problems, not very much. i think that's going to change and i think that they're going to become much more front and center as the white house goes after him. >> yeah. i mean, john, and

wolf. i mean, one of the things that we didn't talk about very much this morning is all of the legal hot water that donald trump has. and it will stay in for the duration of this campaign. it looks like and i do want to ask you about a new cnn exit poll last night that indicates the majority of republican voters in six super tuesday states say trump. is fit for the president. presidency, even if he's convicted of a crime john, what does that say about the state of your former party? i can't imagine when you were around during the watergate days that you would have seen similar numbers? in the case of richard dickson >> no, not at all. and nixon had a very good political antenna to the contrary, the party elders told him it was time to go. they didn't want him to go through with even an impeachment and he of course, was pardoned by gerald ford and that costs forward a chance to get elected on his own after

becoming the appointed vice president. so times have changed dramatically i it is stunning it, as i say, the fact that it's become much more her campaign issue because of the republicans just weren't talking about if they didn't want to talk about it, they don't want to talk about it but we're going to have to talk about it because it's got to be resolved at also with haley out. trump is much more free now to get about the business of defending himself. he can't use does that excuse and he's got to be campaigning. he's got the nomination for all practical purposes. so he's got to get he's going to be focusing more on his criminal defense. and that will draw media attention. of course, to those criminal defenses, which are pretty threat threadbare, excuse me. >> yeah. but at the same time, he's looking ahead to a general election against biden in november. so that's going to be at the top of his mind as well before you go, john, i have to ask you a big question

this morning. will haley supporters come home to the gop in november well, i think she'll give us a signal one way or the other, ultimately i would be surprised given what she did have to say as the campaign progressed, where she was pretty harsh on trump and his problems and the chaos. he clearly creates where he goes. i just i don't think they will come home. those that i know personally they were haley supporters. they're not going to become trump's supporters. they're going to become more likely either third party or biden voters. so it's up for grabs right now. yeah. times it really changed during watergate. it was republican leaders who went to richard dickson has said, it's time to go in the year 2024, republicans have made donald trump. there. they're basically their presumptive nominee. we're not officially there yet to married close.

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and we are fell following some more breaking news out of ukraine. president zelenskyy says a russian missile hit near where he and the greek prime minister were meeting in odessa on the black sea's zelenskyy says, people were killed and injured in that attack. and cnn's fred pleitgen joins me now. fred, what more can you tell us? >> hi there jim well, it certainly looks like it might've been a close call there for the ukrainian president and actually also the greek prime minister. it's not clear whether or not the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, who is actually the target of what apparently took place there, which seems to have been a missile strike by the russians near the port or inside the port of odessa was quite interesting. to hear the ukrainian president say that they not only heard an explosion, but he says that they also saw the missile as it was coming down, which of course seems to indicate that both him and the prime minister of greece were quite close to that explosion that took place. i want to listen in to what

volodymyr zelenskyy had to say later at a press conference as listen-in my bachelor's i'd say, well, you know we saw this strike today. well much just giving you can see who we are dealing with so they don't care where they strike lashes. i know that there were victims today. i don't know all the details yet but i know that there are dead and wounded concrete knowledge we need to defend ourselves first and foremost, the best way to do that is with an air defense system. number one and jim, the ukrainian president, there saying that there were dead and wounded, the ukrainian authorities, ukraine navy now coming out and >> saying that there were five people who were killed and further people who were wounded in that strike. and some new information that we literally just got a couple of minutes ago actually coming from the russians. they claim that near that port facility that they struck what they he said was a warehouse containing unmanned sea drones from the ukrainians. again, impossible to confirm whether or not that was really the case, but definitely appears as though could've

been a close call there for the ukrainian president jim absolutely. >> i mean, that would have been extraordinary had things turned out differently. here, are glad that the president is okay. fred pleitgen. thank you very much joining me now to discuss in a national security analyst and former deputy director of national intelligence, beth sanner and cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton. beth, let me start start with you first. i mean, this as fred was saying, just a few moments ago, this was an extremely close call. and according to the ukrainians, this russian strike not only potentially could have taken out the russian president, but the greek prime minister. i mean, can you imagine if something like that had occurred, just extraordinary? >> yeah. >> it is absolutely extraordinary in it and it's interesting what this might mean in terms of really galvanizing even more the european support for this war effort you. know this attack, i mean, obviously the russians knew he was there they knew

zelenskyy was there, and they did it on purpose and i don't want to still cedric's thunder here, but what fred just said about attacking the warehouse with the unmanned sea drones, it does seem to me that this is in retaliation perhaps for the sinking of that russian warship yesterday, that patrol ship that was only a year-and-a-half old and has cruise missiles. and as part of what is the force in the black sea that is continuing this raining down these missiles on odessa and across ukraine >> yeah, colonel leighton, what do you think? i mean, the other question that i had in the back of my mind as i was digesting this news this morning, is whether or not the russians had the ability to track zelenskyy's movements with this kind of precision because it sounds like this was fairly close i think so, jim, man, we certainly have to think of the possibility that the russians

are tracking zelenskyy is movements this, according to some reports, at least as beth indicated, was about 150 meters or so away from zelenskyy is convoy that's pretty been close. and if they were also looking at going after the sea drones, as beth mentioned, that of course is a military target and clearly within some of the parameters that the russians have set for themselves and would be of military interest to them. but they also of course course have always wanted to do something that would decapitate in essence, the ukrainian regime. this would be one way in which they could do that. of course, that they also had the greek prime minister mitsotakis visiting at the same time that, that may, might have complicated things if something bad had happened in addition to what already occurred. but this is clearly the russian efforts to go after the leadership at very distinct

possibility of that. there's also the chance of course that they were going after a military target in this particular case. >> and beth it's impossible to not put this in the political context of this morning. i mean, here this morning we had nikki haley dropping out of the presidential race of at the same time saying that aid to ukraine is essential and that that's what her supporters want to see happen. obviously, a donald trump feels differently about a lot of he has other plans for ukraine and russia. how big, how big of an issue is this issue now of congress passing aid for ukraine with donald trump, all but guaranteed to be the republican nominee come november yeah, i think that this is it is getting to the point where >> we are on the verge here of ukraine really potentially having the tables turned completely on them. and it is

just in constable to me that the us congress is not doing what they're supposed to do. i mean, put it on the floor and debated and vote on it. >> right. isn't that what democracy is all about? just vote on it. and let's see where the votes come down. but i mean, we're at the point now where ukrainian cannot defend itself and they're almost out of air defense missiles in many cases. and certainly there are rationing their, their ammunition. and it's why they're losing territory. so i think i also just want to take a second and remind people that it's not 60 billion for ukraine, that package only 14 billion of it is actually four ukrainian arms another 20 billion is just going straight to us manufacturers. along with that 14 billion. but at 20 billion is just going to go back into the us stockpile. so these votes also aren't just

about ukraine. it's also about america than about america's safety and about american jobs. and i think that that is really what republicans should focus on, as well as doing the right thing for ukraine and for the us reputation in the world, which haley really doubled down on today. >> yeah we have to go i apologize currently, no, i do want to get your take on all of that. we'll do it next time. we'll have you back. we're going to talk about this ukrainian issue tomorrow. beth sanner, colonel leighton, thanks to both you. a lot of breaking news this morning. really appreciate both of you taking time for us. in the meantime happening now in georgia, the main attorney trying to remove the fulton county district attorney fani willis, from donald trump's election subversion trial is testifying at the state capital right now that effort continues. we'll explain why that's next. you're live in the cnn newsroom >> hi, i keep my home fresh with fabrice fade to fight flux and i use this for breece has a microchip to digitally control how much scent is released. so

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argument as to why fani willis should be disqualified from this case without being challenged. the questions were intended to focus on whether or not willis had a conflict of interest or misused public funds, but they also dealt into political propaganda with a suggestion that willis was colluding with the biden white house when she visited the white house in 2023, of course, you know from our reporting that those were routine visits from the da's office with the white house. but it really underscores just how much he's able to say things without being pushed back on. >> this it's committee has no power or authority whatsoever to remove fani willis, but they can continue to make her life very difficult and use their subpoena power, ashleigh merchant, the first witness here. and what is expected to be a very long process for this committee investigating fani willis, jim, >> all right. nick valencia. thank you very much for that update coming up, alabama lawmakers set to pass a measure to protect ivf clinics and patients after state's supreme court's controversial ruling on that matter, that's next

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three clinics that pause ivf treatments in the wake of the state supreme court ruling. and she tells me that her clinic is ready to roll out iv you have treatments, restart those as early as tomorrow should this be signed into law? she tells me that in the 13 days sensor clinics pause these treatments. there have been at least 35 frozen embryo transfers that work canceled. meanwhile, the university of alabama at birmingham, another such clinic that pause ivf treatments said that and it will continue to follow the ruling of the state supreme court unless it reconsiders, which is something that typically isn't done or unless a bill is signed into law. again, the ruling did not dictate that clinics shut down or pause ivf treatments. but universe clinics like uab have said that they worried about legal repercussions now that frozen the embryos are seen as children, you i did not give me any sort of indication as to the timing of how immediately ivf treatments will come back >> or isabel rosales. thank you very much. we'll be following

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