jury acquitting pro-life activist mark houck. he throws all sorts of insults and vulgarity of me and my son really overstepped his bounds. behind the wheel of a flashy electric car reminding of tax credit. posing in a ev hummer truck which costs more than $86,000. throw my hands up playing my song butterfly got away nodding my head like yeah moving my hips like yeah hands up playing my song. ainsley: good morning, washington, d.c. dark out there, still. brian: in the morning before the sun comes up. steve: sing it miley in the u.s.a. ainsley: how are you feeling? your team won. steve: i m feeling great. i said this in a text message string we had yesterday. i just hope that the super bowl is as thrilling as that game was on sunday night. it was fantastic. ainsley: it was. steve: kansas city came out on top. ainsley: did you watch until the end 20-20 you had to watch. steve: drove me crazy and i took the next day off. slept it off. then
his family and for the pro-life movement because as mark s lawyers were explaining to me earlier this year, this was an effort to silence and intimidate pro-life activist by the biden doj as a response to the overturn of roe v. wade. now we are seeing that no, this case was not sufficient to put mark in jail and pro-lifers around the nation can breathe a sigh of relief and know they can practice first amendment rights to go and pray in front of an abortion clinic for woman going in there to abort their unborn babies. steve: mary margaret, it appears the authorities weren t even going to pursue local charges but then the department of justice got involved. when you are look at everything, it clearly looks like the doj overcharged him. and that s ultimately what the jury decided yesterday. yeah, so we know that the biden administration and the doj have made no bones about the fact that they are pro-abortion and the biden doj said after roe was overturned that they were going to prose
civil rights division. that s the department that enforces the face act the freedom of ach access goorgs clc act. it can be used not just abortion clinics but reproductive health facilities which include pro-life pregnancy centers. only last week did the doj charge two criminals through the face act for attacking these florida pro-life centers but that s the first we have seen and it s been months of attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. steve: well, i know a member of his family they are so relieved that he was found not guilty by a jury of his peers yesterday in pennsylvania. mary margaret, thank you very much for joining us today to explain the case. of course. thanks for having me. steve: you bet. 18 minutes before the the top of the hour, ashley joins us with some news. ash ashley: ash alec baldwin to be officially charged with two counts of unvoluntary
steve: breaking news out of pennsylvania. a jury there has found mark houck not guilty. the pro-life activist faced 11 years in prison for allegedly pushing an abortion clinic volunteer. houck and his lawyer described the charges which led to the fbi going to his house last night on hannity. 20 or so-called agents. full swat gear, heavily armored vests, ballistic shields, helmets, battering ram banged on my door. the face act the federal act they charged here is about access to the clinics. not about dealing about issues down the sidewalk. so right here today what we did was win a big victory for the pro-life movement against the biden administration. took about an hour to find mark not guilty on all charges. steve: the senior reporter for the daily signal mary margaret o hanlon joins us right now from the d.c. area. mary margaret, good morning to you. good morning. steve: why is this a big win for the pro-life movement. it s a huge win for mark, for