before that catastrophic implosion. a light fast repair just days after a fiery collapse. the major highway that millions rely on back open for business in philadelphia. and attorney general merrick garland commenting just a short time ago on those charges against president biden s son hunter. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc news s ryan reilly on what we just heard from attorney general merrick garland. unexpected for the attorney general to talk about it. he doesn t answer a lot of questions. but what did he have to say this time? i think based on the allegations that had come out through the whistleblower, he felt responsibility to lay it out here. essentially what he said is he has not taken any action in regards to this hunter biden investigation. take a listen. mr. weiss, was appointed by president trump as the u.s. attorney in delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration would be permit
republican state senator ed seltzer who sponsored georgia s abortion ban about that, and here s what he said. the life act balances the difficulty circumstances. i think the idea that there s geographic barriers for certain women in certain communities misses point that there s a living beating heart in a child that s worthy of protection. so if you talk to folks who are from that background, they believe that s why they re up three points on a generic ballot. they believe that this can be a winning issue in many congressional districts, consistency of message, so is it a bridge too far to look at a dccc polling and look at it as a wake up call or do you think that totally has nothing to do with the abortion issue? yeah, i think the dccc polling should tell,
detailed questions about what happened in the past. she didn t feel able to come out and give a complete explanation of what had happened. so it s difficult for her. it s painful for her. there are signs that the public went a little bit off gm immediately after the hearings. but i think by and large, given the difficulty circumstances she was presented with, i think mary barra has done a reasonable job. what we have to bear in mind here is the way to fix this, to stop this problem from happening is get a time machine, go back and make the prebankruptcy gm not such a bad company. this was a bad company that almost by its own admission was making terrible cars at the time. it turns out there were faults in some of those cars that people didn t spot, they don t seem to have treated them as a safety issue at the time. they seemed to have treated them as a quality issue they could sort out, maybe couldn t. and this has all come back to haunt the present day company. i think it is a differe