dishonesty. and key exception. to ascend to the halls of congress. in essence doj alleges officially now what many have been alleging for months now george santos is a complete fraud. prosecutors claim that santos cheated his own supporters from that indictment, quote, in and about and between september and october 2022, the defendant george anthony santos devised and executed a scheme to defraud supporters of his candidacy for the house and that the false pretenses that the money would be used to for his candidacy. and doj also accuses santos of applying for and receiving unemployment benefits and ten different people who had lost their jobs during the pandemic, all while keeping a job. prosecutors also say santos lied on the financial disclosure forms required of every house candidate. despite these damning allegations that relate directly to how santos ended up in congress in the first place, house gop leadership is as of this house refusing to call for his resignation. ke
time magazine for their article on pediatricians who serve trans youth facing increasing harassment. in the daily beast article, alabama trying to raise the legal driving age for trans people to 19. president and ceo glad sarah kate ellis took some time to address the increase in laws against the community. watch this. there is one thing that extremist politicians and activists can never ban, and that is our joy. we are not going to let them anyone tell our stories or villainize who we are. when the truth is, everyone deserves to live a life happily ever after. yes, so raise your voices [applause] so raise your voices, take action with glaad, get loud, and stay proud. and we are loud and proud to have the glaad awards take us off the air tonight. on that note, i wish a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, state thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow thanks for being with us tonight, it s go
in the head with the bat, the intern hit b as well, although each of them was hospitalized after the attack tonight, today they ve both been released from the hospital. north of them has injuries believed to be life threatening. thank god. police have the alleged assailant in custody. he s a 49-year-old man reportedly from the congressman s district in northern virginia. police say he s being charged with felony aggravated malicious wounding but not saying anything about his potential motives at this time or anything about even the a extent to which he d had them. the man is i should tell you on record as having last year filed a lawsuit against the cia alleging the cia was somehow torturing him from the fourth dimension. the new york times reports there was a hand written lawsuit and the man was representing himself as his own lawyer in this case, so read into that what you will. there s that. republican house speaker kevin mccarthy said he reached out to congressman conol
last hour as we got positive news about the two congressional staffers who were attacked in virginia today. members of congress of course have their main offices in the capitol in washington, d.c., but of course they also have offices in their districts back home. this attack today happened at the district office for democratic congressman from virginia gerry connolly who you see here. this is his district office in fairfax, virginia, northern virginia just outside d.c. the congressman, himself, was not in the office. he was out apparently at a ribbon cutting for a local food bank. a man showed up at the office wielding a metal bat. he asked to see the congressman who wasn t there. then he reportedly just started swinging. congressman connolly s chief of staff tells nbc news tonight that the man smashed computers in the office and smashed glass with the bat. he then attacked two staffers. one senior staffer to the congressman, the man reportedly hit in the head with this meta
said what he said about e. jean in 2019 he was not acting as president. we are quite confident that will be affirmed and then we ll be able to move forward with damages in that case. we don t even need a finding of liability because we already have it. we ll be able to find damages and there the definition of damages are much higher. that was the first statement he made and that s what really destroyed her reputation as an advice columnist to all of her readers who trusted her and looked up to her. in terms of the timing after those statements still at issue in the live case as you mentioned you were let go from elle in terms of your john. that s right. you think that was related to his defamation i know it was related. let me ask you, e. jean, in terms of what you went through, there weren t cameras in the courtroom but the whole country was following this word by word. we have the transcript and we know how your cross examination in particularly went. i think anybody with