the country, specifically, gender roles. today in tennessee the republican governor billy see signed two controversial new laws. one bans gender affirming care for minors and the other restricts drag shows in the state. let s bring in former democratic congressman ron derrick jones and patrick is here and doug high. guys, let s start with the decision to ban any sort of doctors medical care for anyone under 18 who is looking who believes they are trans and is looking for any sort of medical treatment be it pharmaceutical, consultation or anything like that. doug, i believe you are comfortable with this new law in tennessee. yeah, i think one we have to treat people with dignity and respect and certainly what we ve learned over not just the past three or four years but 20 years, people that feel this way, are this way and have gone through this process quite often go through a very painful life and process. we don t want that. but there are differences between people who a
for their own lives. guess you heard this morning i tested positive for covid. but i ve been double vaccinated, double boosted, symptoms are mild. it is friday, july 22, 9:00 a.m. in the morning here in london, 4:00 a.m. this washington where the january 6 committee has just provided its most revealing look yet into the trump white house as the capitol riot took place. former aides testified that trump watched the riot on tv but ignored all pleas from his family and top advisers to intervene. and while vice president mike pence was whisked to a secure location inside the capitol, the committee presented chilling testimony that pence s security detail feared they might not make it out alive. members were starting to fear for their own lives. there were a lot of there was a lot of yelling, a lot of a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like talking about it. but there were calls to say good-bye to family members. for whatever the reas
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yes. i like shakes spear. so when i ve seen 12th night . gentyes. there is always at the end the male judges that ruled against us are actually our wives, right? if you go back 400 years, they were men playing women who were playing men who were playing women. it gets very confusing. gender bending you might say. given that, why do you think republicans have a bee in their bonnet about drag shows? i think it goes back to children, you know, which is part of the previous conversation that we had. i have a niece and nephew that grew up in england with the pan tum mine shows. i didn t go to one. i m glad i didn t why are you glad you didn t? it s not my thing but if that s what you like, go do it. is that appropriate for a third grade mat ch class or english class? maybe not. if that s what adults want to do, go for it. i have lots of kids.
pleas from everyone to call off the rioters. over to hours when there were subsequent statements made, tweets put forth, that in your view were insufficient, did you continue throughout the period of time unun up until hk 174:17 push for a stronger statement? yes. were you joined in that effort by ivanka trump. gentyes. mr. mark meadows. yes. and they knew the rioters would only listen to trump. when he did finally tell them to go home, the news spread instantly among the insurrectionists. i m hear delivering the president s message. donald trump wants everybody to go home.