citizen s arrest, that s been going on a month at this point, from early december to early january. at this point, it s january 4th, somebody knocked on ms. freeman s door, understandably, she would not open the door. she called a neighbor and asked the neighbor to talk to whoever was on her porch so the neighbor came over from next door and talked to this woman standing by her door and this woman told freeman s neighbor that she was there because ruby freeman is in danger and said she has been sent to provide assistance. ms. freeman is so freaked out after the past month, at that point she calls 911 again and asks them to send a police officer over to her house just so she can step outside her front door and stock to this stranger. the stranger says she s there to help that freeman is in danger and has been sent to get her protected from some imminent threat. she wants to hear about that but asks for a police officer to be there. she calls the police department and tells the woman, i
called 911 around that time. she had in fact been begging the police for protection repeatedly because she was getting a deluge of threats and harassment. really specific threats over the phone, text, email, over social media, but on the night of december 6, last year, 10:00 at night, december 6, these people who were threatening her turned up at her front door. i ve been having harassing phone calls and emails and they came out and made a police report yesterday. and last night, about 10 minutes after 9:00, somebody was bamming on the door and now somebody s bamming on the door. oh, they screaming. they still bamming on the door. okay. they still bamming on the door. lord jesus, where s the police? they re on the way, ma am.
so it s about a month after that 911 call we played at the top of the show. at this point ruby freeman and her daughter and family including her mother, they ve all been under siege for a month with just an avalanche of death threats, harassing calls, e-mails, people showing up at their houses and banging on the door and demanding to be let in saying they re there to make a citizens arrest. at this point it s january 4th. somebody knocked on ms. freeman s door. ruby freeman understandably would not open the door. she called a neighbor. she asked the neighbor to come over and talk to whoever was on her porch and find out whu what they wanted. the neighbor came over from next door and talked to this woman. this woman told ms. freeman s neighbor she was there because ruby freeman was in danger, and she has been sent to provide assistance. ms. freeman is so freaked out after the past month at that point she calls 911 again, and she asks them to send a police
democrats in the senate hostage with the filibuster, and we get a week of political coverage of the nation in crisis heading toward this stupid self-inflicted wound. we re going to rip a huge hole in our economy for no reason. this time this week senate democrats decided they were not going to allow the country to be brought to that brink again. they created a special process to, in fact, lift the debt ceiling this week. and they suspended the filibuster to do it. they what? yes. here s the part where i want you to pay attention to the wisdom of senator ted cruz of texas. he tells nbc news this week that suspending the filibuster in this manner creates a, quote, disturbing precedent, as it, quote, opens the door for democrats to try to do that in the future on progressive priorities. ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. correct, sir. there are all sorts of exceptions to the filibuster rule. it s already carved out and can t be used for budget bills,