shepard act passed, extending u.s. federal hate crime laws to sexual orientation for the first time. don t ask, don t tell wasn t lifted until 2010. but we did make that progress. and yet, today, in 2022, when gay rights are established in law, and the overwhelming support of the public, you have a republican party that is bringing back those anti gay tropes and smears in plain sight. you have republican governors and lawmakers and hosts and guests on fox, trying to demonize gay people again. especially gay teachers. shamelessly, falsely, depicting them as rumors, as pedophiles, child predators. look at what s happening in florida. when opposition was building to governor ron desantis, and the states gop don t say gay bill, which quote, prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, from great three. the governor s press secretary tweeted that anyone who opposed it is probably a groomer, or at
or, there was one person who was fearful inside the white house, that the secret service was trying to arrange to take pence to alaska. now, i want to be careful here, mehdi, and say, we don t know what the white house and the secret service absolutely were doing. we know that they talked about moving him away from the capital, but why? why did they want to move him away from the capital? well, a, people were threatening to hang him, so it was a pretty dangerous place. but also, there was great concern from within what i would call pence s close intimate circle, that the goal of moving him was to prevent the certification of joe biden as president. remember, pence had famously led donald trump down, by following the law, following the constitution, and telling the president, i m going to certify this election, because that is what the constitution requires me to do. wow! so let me ask you this, carol. do you have any reporting on if
and as gay marriage was legalized we stopped believing in spreading crude and hateful homophobic tropes. and today, just as many muslims are struggling and are trying to find ways to result their faith with their belief in the equality of all people, so are many christians in america, too. even on the right. and look, it s easy to forget how much progress we have made in this country on gay rights, in a very short and very recent period of time. the supreme court, legalizing gay marriage, it was less than a decade ago, 2015. barack obama ran for president in thousand eight saying marriages only between a man and a woman. and it was only the following year, 2009 that the matthew shepard act passed, extending u.s. federal hate crime laws to sexual orientation for the first time. don t ask, don t tell wasn t lifted until 2010. but we did make that progress. and yet, today, in 2022, when gay rights are established in law, and the overwhelming support of the public, you have a republican pa
could visit a church and have that photo op moment. while the secret service played a role there too, here you can see the agencies civil disturbance unit clouded in all black, demonstrators claim those agents charge of the crowd and sprayed them with tear grass and pepper spray. a charge of the secret service at first denied, then walked back a few days later many. former secret surgeons were horrified at that days of and one told the washington post quote, we protect the president, we don t report to the president, it feels at that line is now been blurred. how blurred you may ask? well meet the man who helped coordinate that visit to the church anthony ornato. if that means found similar that s because this week a new filing from the january sixth committee revealed that according to former a trump era anthony ornato or the chief of staff, mark meadows, about possible violence ahead of the capitol riot. before that in the early days
mitigation has been successful in saving off this virus. we also know that children under the age of five don t have the vaccine yet. and then, there are many more of our neighbors, family members, who are immunocompromised. i can, i commend the biden administration for appealing their will on mask mandates on public transportation. it really encourages folks to continue masking, while we understand the impact of this new variant. our greatest wealth, as a nation, is the health of our people. and in the interest of the public health, we just have to continue proceeding in this way. and follow the science and the data. i wonder if the white house is still pushing this whole not public, it s all up to the individual, even which i find bizarre. but let s move on. let s talk about. let s talk student loans. this week, we saw the biden administration cancel seven billion dollars in federal student loan debt for some