eric williams and latavia mcgee. the four crossed the border for mcgee to get cosmetic surgery. officials believed they got lost. the cartel gunman opened fire and this video shows them throwing mcgee in a back of a pickup truck and dragging the two men, two of them likely dead to the same truck. the president takes this seriously. the fbi and other agencies have been on top of this from day one. some critics of the biden administration have said the president must now send a message to the cartels, possibly through military action. others argue financial pressure would be a more effective tool. we need to bankrupt them and put them out of business and the people responsible for these murders need to be brought to justice. whatever happens next is clear than ever that the cartels control much of mexico s border. it has the potential to turn into this kind of violent tragedy. jonathan, thank you. standby if you will, i want to bring in marianne ratliff. the biden a
obvious fears given the well-known brutality of the cartel in there well demonstrated lack of respect fo life. the video that appears to show the aftermath of the attack is disturbing showing a woman bein roughly pushed into the back of a truck, and then three other people dragged and simply throw onto the back of that truck see only badly wounded or possibly worse. get these sorts of texas are individual. we stand ready to provide all appropriate assistance. it seems that for americans who we re driving a minivan wit north carolina plates across th border at brownsville, texas headed into matamoros, texas. apparently for one of them to undergo a medical procedure, or as the mexican president put it today, to buy medicine. they somehow got caught up in some kind of confrontation and the area which is well known fo drug cartel violence and have seen a spike into doubts recently with various faction o the gulf cartels fighting each other. the area in the state and which is lo
lead lawyer of one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. still a part of preparing the case? yes, sir. still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together for trial? in a criminal case, we didn t do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? yes, sir. presenting evidence in court? yes, sir. giving jury arguments? i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, either pled out or were dismissed for some reason? you know, i m sure that at some point over between 1998 and 2021 that i took some plea, but as we sit here today i can t specifically remember that, and i don t ever remember working a case up for trial that didn t go to trial, but i m sure at some point in time i was involved in some level of a guilty plea or guilty pleas. you would agree with me that t
so this afternoon, i am offering this resolution that the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from donald john trump. if trump lost, he would declare victory anyway. and do literally anything to stay in power. while trump ultimately failed, the threat is ongoing. republicans who stoked the insurrection are running for re-election. while a new crop of far right candidates will gladly overturn the next one if they don t like the results. and we begin tonight with the house january 6th committee closing out what s likely to be its final investigative hearing, public hearing, at least, with a remarkable step. one of three major developments as it seeks to wrap up its work. the first, voting unanimously to subpoena the former president and making it very clear why. he s required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy. he s required to answer to those m