Welcome to the 11th annual san antonio book festival. And i feel really good being one of the original gangsters of this thing. Havent been around for all 11 years. So thank you all for turning out. My my name is im the editor in chief of monthly and im proud to be the first of those in the magazines 50 years to live in san antonio. Thank you. Yeah, and its my honor today to moderate a discussion with with Mary Beth Rogers who is famous for a number of things she is a several time author. She has written a book called cold anger about texas politics. Shes written an acclaimed biography of black pioneering congresswoman barbara jordan, and she also wrote a book in the fantasy genre called turning texas blue. Yes, its exactly correct on that she is probably best known as the manager of the last winning Democratic Campaign for governor. When ann richards was one of now for the younger among you here, this was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Its before some of you were born. But ther
smollett who folded debbie s international media, but could not fill us. it turned out smollett was a. late one night in subzero temperatures, he decided to venture out for a sandwich in downtown chicago when he was as people are accosted by two two from africa who somehow recognized him for his part in series called empire. because i that s a currently huge with muscle heads from nigeria. by the way, these two african right-wing maniacs also guess that he had vote for hillary clinton and they hated that so as trump voters did that, they started pummeling him about the face and screaming this is maga country pair because they re angry, and they re always angry these racist poured bleach on him, threw a noose around his neck, and then ran off into the night howling with demented gle for that is how smollett described it. he said this maga country an he punched me right in the face. i was just jumped. we are going to be honest with you, we had some questions about the story
policing is a big family of people who know at some point they may be asked to make a sacrifice. but you never wish or hope that it actually happens. and tonight, this tragedy, there are some broken hearts that will take a long time to grieve. todd: hundreds of police officers gathering on the sheet to carry the body of their colleague. the department calling it a tremendous loss. we will try to get through this, it is a difficult time for chicago police department. we are heartbroken, this young officer we had five years on this department had a bright future ahead of him. and this is something that no family should have to face. todd: investigators reviewing body cam footage of the the suspect is shut in critical condition. ashley: the officer s death comes as chicago police chief david brown announced her resignation after lori lightfoot s laws. the head of the u.s. attorney s office in chicago john also resigning. lightfoot failed to secure enough votes for the
hush money scheme. it may very well also be a court appearance that proceeds an indictment of a former president of these united states michael cohen, donald trump s former attorney and fixer went before a grand jury in manhattan today in what may be alvin bragg s end game a years-long investigation based on hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels payments made nearly seven years ago. here s what cohen had to say earlier today before he went in for his grand jury testimony this is not revenge, right? what is this is about accountability i don t want to see anyone, including donald trump, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, simply because i fundamentally disagree with them this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. new york times reports this, quote, the manhattan d.a. s office has already questioned at least seven other people before the grand jury, hearing evidence about the hush money deal that s accor
they are official, certified, and voted for joe biden. georgia republicans, they met at exactly the same time right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met, they chose donald trump, they say to keep his lawsuit alive. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capitol, georgia republicans were convening their own meeting to select their own electors who voted for donald trump. the 16 fake trump electors from georgia meeting in the state capital, fraudulently. that scheme, in addition to catching the attention of the department of justice, it also caught the attention of one prosecutor in georgia, her name is fani willis. she is the fulton county district attorney in atlanta. miss willis was one month into the job when she announced that she was opening an investigation into the multipronge