but when you think of d.c., you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right? like washington, jefferson, lincoln. well, guess what. latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latin-tinged music] in fact, latinx heroes have fought in every war for the united states for centuries. this goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. american forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by a young venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. and then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. almost half of them were mexican-american, and that was only 13 years after the mexican-american war. now where s the monument for that? huh? huh? huh? now, today, nearly 20% of the u.s. population is latin, and our numbers are growing. our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2% of our elected officials, but the good news is
tuesday. i m bill hemmer. welcome to the program. big two hours. it could be a tweet bird. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the big interview aired last night. before he bought twitter the company gave unfettered action cess to u.s. and foreign intelligence agencies and a way to encrypt messages to insure user privacy. bill: how he managed to slash staffing at twitter in effort to turn a profit which hasn t been easy. what he told tucker on that. how do you run the company with 20% of the staff? turns out you don t need all that many people to run twitter. 80% is a lot. yes. i mean if you are trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization, then you don t care about censorship you can let go a lot of people. the fact that the federal government and other governments had access to twitter user s private messages, their dms came as a shock to those who use the platform but also to elon musk himself. the degree to which various g
january 6 riot and later in the day followed that up with the speech vilifying the gop on the money issues. speaker of the house went to wall street last week. used cuts in important programs, he and his maga republican colleague, they would rather see kids and seniors struggle to eat what they need. people on medicaid lose their healthcare. veterans lose access to doctors visits and cut subsidies to big oil that made $200 billion, and big pharma and the wealthiest corporations. did you hear anything about an idea that he might take to the table on the debt limit or budget and counter balance what republicans are asking for, no. just pounced on them and pounded. even members of his own political party now are not eager for another four years of biden. poll after poll showing more than half of people who say they vote democrat seem to be what i call abb, anybody but biden. the white house quite defensive about those polls, and don t dare touch the glaring fact he s the old
infamous snapchat video taken by paul murdaugh that puts alec at the scene of the crime that night. despite his denial that he had been there. four minutes later the state would have you believe that alec murdaugh up and blew his son s brains out of his head and murders his wife, after having that conversation about bubba having a chicken. there s nothing on that tape that indicates there s any strife, any conflict, any anger, any planning, anybody being afraid, anybody running, anybody scurrying. nothing. maggie, paul, and alec down at the kennel. that s it. and john stood up after the defense to offer the rebuttal, meadors was brought on my the south carolina attorney general s office. maybe he got angry at paul. maybe he got angry, he started all of this. and maybe he just lost it. maybe he just lost it. maybe it looked like a suicide, and then maggie came and he had to shoot her. maybe he just lost it. the jury set to begin deliberations any moment. as judge clifton
around cleveland, texas, but yesterday law enforcement officials started saying that they had lost track. there had been dogs that were following the scent of this suspect, 32-year-old francisco, but the last we heard from law enforcement on saturday evening is that they had lost that trail, that the trail had gone cold and the sheriff now saying he could be anywhere. now, this suspect is described as a mexican national. he lived in this home here just on the outskirts of cleveland, texas. this is the area where the neighbors were saying that he was in his yard on friday night late firing off various firearms. the five people killed were in this home literally right next door separated by this long, chain link fence. this is a residential neighborhood but the lot sizes are rather large, like an acre. there is a lot of space around these homes but they live relatively close together. investigators say inside there were ten people inside. five of the victims, we re told they ar