blockbuster testimony. an independence ad war. california s governor is taking out air time on fox news telling florida residents their governor, ron desantis, has america all wrong. up firstly a fourth of july inflection point for president joe biden. the president will celebrate american independence today at the white house, hosting military families before a marathon fireworks show. those fireworks, though, and virtually everything else will cost much more this year than last. it s part of the summer squeeze that has cratered biden s rating and has democrats on track to lose big at the ballot box in november. mj lee is with us. how are they spending the forage. reporter: we re going to see the president any moment now return to the white house from camp david where he and his family spent the holiday weekend. and this morning we saw him tweet out a holiday message to the american people. he wrote, the fourth of july is a sacred day in our country, time to celebrate
and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. really happy to have you here. so, his son was 18. his daughter was 16. and on christmas eve 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the 2020 election was called for joe biden, on christmas eve 2020, this 18 year old son went online to the fbi website, to tips.fbi.gov, and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do something violent, that is, that was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials. the son told the fbi, when he submitted that online tip, that he believed his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself. he told the fbi, his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020, when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didn t hear back, initially, took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building. then, the fbi decided that the th
his family says he s now paralyzed from the waist down. an eight-year-old boy, his brother, mom, all with the kind of wounds that men and women came home from afghanistan or iraq, signed up knowing it might happen, cooper, luke and keeley, they just went to a parade. friends of the family have set up a gofundme page to help cover ethical expenses and therapy. in the meantime the gunman s father is speaking out telling abc news, he has no regrets about helping his son in 2019 obtain the documentation needed to buy the weapons he did, despite his son suicide attempt , threats to kill his family and police confiscating 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from an earlier that year. filled out the consent form to allow my son to go through the process. whatever that entails. the killer s father told abc news he had no inkling his son would do this and said his threats against the family were taken out of context and that he can t understand why his son did what he did. could the g
so help me god. so help me god. now all of the members of the court, i m pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. [ applause ] an historic transition coming at the end of the most activist and frankly destructive supreme court term in more than a century. also tonight, more criminal exposure for trump and his january 6th enablers, including a potential criminal referral for witness tampering. we begin tonight with a look back at what has been one of the most consequential and life changing supreme court terms since they overturned segregation and expanded women s rights. only this court has done all of it in reverse. today was the last time we heard from them and thank god. they have successfully weakened miranda rights. kneecaped state laws. began to dismantle the separation of church and states and one in the court s final rulings this term the 6-3 majority effectively gutted the epa s authority to work on climate change. with the u
we ll get the details from carole lending one of the reporters who broke that story an expert legal guidance on what it all means. but first, let s remember how we got here. today washington for only the second time a federal judge sentence a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see. why in screenshots take it from officers body cams in january six, the sky is seen swinging a pull out of police officers so hard it snaps into on the officers riot shield. so the new guy finds another pull and start swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first poll, the one he hit so hard that it stepped into, that was capitol police sergeant alkaline o connell. he gave emotional testimony about the horror that day before the january six investigation. today he sent his at that rioters hearing, saying he suffered mental and physical inju