which is more cruel and unusual? one of the most influential appellate courts erupted in public disagreement over one of the most difficult issues of our time, homelessness. having recently decided matters of affirmative action, student loans and adoption, on top of last year s rulings concerning abortion, guns, religion and climate change, scotus might soon have the final word here, too. at issue, ordinances in grants pass, oregon, which would impose fines on homeless people for encampment on public property. a trial court was faced with this issue, whether cities can impose criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. it held the ordinances were unconstitutional and constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. the matter came before the powerful ninth circuit court, which has jurisdiction for much of the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit
this. evan gershkovitch and paul whalen are americans. a chance they could come home. putin hopes to find a solution to release them from jail. they have been in moscow for some time. what it all means is not clear. gershkovitch is the reporter for the wall street journal detained since last may. whalen has been behind bars for five years, december of 2018. so we re watching that story. we ll bring you updates if they become available. meanwhile we are off to the races, america. a federal prosecutor accused of running interference for joe biden will testify this morning all part of the official house impeachment investigation which became official as of 5:29 yesterday eastern time. good morning, everybody. it s thursday. you almost made it. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the news broke during the five yesterday. we got all our opinions out there and more news today. they aren t wasting any time. today s witness is lesley wolf. a
convicted of 34 felony counts in his new york hush money case, eight republican senators vowed to oppose all biden nominees and all democratic legislation as retribution. today six republican senators led by trump vice presidential short lister jd vance put oppose all nominees into writing. anyone who endorsed trump s guilt, anyone who supported organizations that celebrated the indictment of donald trump, and anyone who supported manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg orn supported law fare or censorship in other ways, which is just vague enough to include basically anyone president biden s nominated. now, these republican senators say their blockade will last until election day, and in practical terms that means the u.s. government will not be able to appoint representatives to thingsep like the u.n. general assembly or the world health organization or even to the not particularly seeming places like the international civil aviation organization and the public buildings
he seems to be settled at 70% odds or 68% odds this morning. news iinteresting because newsom is not even a declared candidate, but he s running around the country giving speeches on biden s behalf. he says he s not a presidential candidate, but of course he is a presidential candidate. you have kennedy, who i think has some room to grow. he s at 13% odds. and it s interesting to see where his support is coming from, but kennedy could be the wild card here on issues such as vax and other issues where the other two above him aren t cutting the mustard. the democratic and the republican races are wide open still. but there s a clear front runner on the republican and democratic side, but their loss is the gain of those below them. finally then, two quick slides. when you look at the election winner by personality, biden 43,
right now. among moderate to conservative democrats, biden 43, a giant lead there for the former vice president. across the wide swath of the democratic party, the national poll shows the party is more moderate, centrist, pragmatic than maybe the coastal democratic parties. right. so the question there is as the field winnows, whose supporters go to whom. other polls have shown that buttigieg, harris supporters go to warren. oddly enough a lot of sanders supporters would go to biden. part of that is because it s the white working class. they tend to have that overlap there. another key piece of the poll that i thought was interesting is about 50-53% of democrats say they could change their mind. that s what people like warren and sanders are holding onto as we get to iowa or other early sta