string of legislative success for the biden white house. so will it push midterm voters to the polls? and are celebrity candidates including mehmet oz threatening mitch mcconnell s hopes to retake the senate. the january 6th committee confirming it is requesting a trove of alex jones text messages sent at trial. and what actress anne heche said on her podcast before crashing her car into a home, causing it to burst into flames. all right. i m just going to keep going here. democrats in array, a string of legislative success, much of it bipartisan has the white house hoping it is gaining momentum heading into the midterms. the inflation reduction act, it passed the senate and now heads to the house for a vote as early as friday. this represents the largest investment to combat the climate crisis in u.s. history, $369 billion. major health care provisions include allowing medicare to negotiate the prices of some drugs, something that will take a few years to kick in,
to say, this neighborhood used to be safe and it became scary. and it became scary, and then they started talking about ahmaud arbery. that really is a conversation about race, but it s their effort, particularly travis, because travis mcmichael is the one who pulls the trigger three times. he s trying to say, i really did have reason to believe and fear, and i m going to go back to a prior incident where we think we saw him and we think we saw him do something bad. the thing that we saw when this prosecutor so effectively did her rebuttal today was to go back to the person who is arguably the weakest link, but he s still a link. he says, all i did was film, i was just there filming. and she says, that s what he s telling you now, but he told police that he took his truck, he blocked ahmaud arbery his run so that he was trapped. greg mcmichael said to a police
right now let s go to the state of georgia where a jury is deliberating on three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. we have closing arguments from three lawyers, one for each of the defendants. in response to the defense s claims of self-defense to a citizen s arrest gone wrong. they do not get to claim self-defense. and, of course, provocation. you can t force someone to defend themselves against you, so you get to claim self-defense. he is just as big of a murderer as travis mcmichael is because he was an accomplice. who gets to say, i m not
pulled the trigger. he is the one who fataled shot arbery. greg mcmichael was driving a pickup truck, bryan was driving a pickup truck. they argue they hemmed him in with their pickup trucks. do you think we ll see a verdict on this, first, and if we do, how will it play out? there is always the possibility of a split verdict. remember, we have malice murder, we have felony murder. the felony murder is the key, because if they find there was a felony committed, then it s felony murder, then they re all three in it. i think that s why i want to go back to kristen s important point here. when travis mcmichael took the stand, his entire strategy was
and they said, what is your state of emergency, and the caller said, there is a black man running down the street. those are two things that i thought the subject of race was brought to the jury s attention in two very different ways. katy, i think it s important that we are talking about these two points. i think the reason the defense attorney brought in the dirty toenails, as very rude and inappropriate as it was, because the prosecutor, if you ll remember throughout the trial in various judicial rulings, were not prepared to talk about how mr. arbery was actually an avid jogger. that was something that was important for the prosecution s theme to show that he wasn t there to just try to burglarize or enter into a home. he was a jogger. he always jogged and it was just on this day that when he was jogging, he also stopped by the house. but on that day that he was