Hello, i am jason chaffetz, nicole saphier, jimmy jones and sara carter. The Big Weekend Show is happening right now. Tonight we are watching capitol hill where the senate will vote on a shortterm Spending Bill to keep the government open. If something happens, we will bring it to you. Earlier a wild moment during the chaos among congress. Progressive squad member congressman Jamaal Bowman pulled the fire alarm. About this obstruction . Thats coming up but first, The Big Story is the high power of psychedelics. Research not mastered Magic Mushrooms and other drugs like mdma is a reliable treatment for ptsd and depression. Now congress is given the goahead for the Defense Department to do psychedelic medical Clinical Trials to treat active duty military and veterans. I can personally attest to the benefits and treating Posttraumatic Stress through the use of psychedelic substances. As a stigma within the body and i believe stems from lack of education experience clinical use of psychede
i m ari melber live in washington where congress held this historic vote to expel indicted republican congressman george santos. on this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays are 114. two-thirds voting in the affirmative, the resolution is adopted. the chair announces to the house that in light of the expulsion of the gentleman from new york, mr. santos, the whole number of the house is now 434. that is exactly how it just went down. george santos, the now-former congressman, could be seen walking off the house floor for the last time during this session of congress. there he is with a handshake. this is a major shift, because republicans had previously, until today, stood by santos through the earlier scandals, the bad press, and even his initial indictment. this change came fast, santos going from that floor to exiting capitol hill as staff literally changed the locks to the offices, you see there, that he is no longer holding. this dam politically and legislatively broke wi
hospital in gaza right now, day three of searching for hamas and evidence of what the idf says is its secret headquarters. the new video from the hospitals that they just released, and the new message from a doctor trapped inside that hospital right now. plus, a win for former president trump s legal team, at least for now. why a judge just said the gag order in his civil fraud trial goes too far and what trump posted online in just a matter of hours. also, the ethics committee chairman just dropping that resolution to expel congressman george santos. after all those new and shocking details in the committee s report, will his republican colleagues let santos finish his term? so a lot to get to on this friday, but let s begin at the main hospital in gaza where for the first time israeli soldiers are releasing footage of what they claim is a hamas tunnel shaft inside the al-shifa medical complex. nbc news has not been able to independently verify the claims by the idf, a
asking questions. this is significant because he had to make the decision. merrick garland had to say okay. yeah. and i think they went into i m guessing here, speculating. i think they went into office, the biden administration, people in the justice department not wanting to do this, not wanting to go here hoping that this would just go away and not feel the pressure to do this. right. but liz cheney and chairman thompson and the january 6th committee laid 90% of this out. right. and pushed the legal theories that are actually fairly obvious. you know, if you defraud the government and steal $1 billion from the treasury, you go to jail. that s a really important point to make, and it is the use of the word defraud and what exactly we re talking about here. you can talk about lying or making election claims, and that s all protected. but the crime of conspiracy lying to government officials. to impede a government
desire and his intent to block the government proceeding, to obstruct a government proceeding. while in the end, they recommended to the department of justice that there was significant evidence to suggest that he had an intent and a plan, and was running a hydra headed conspiracy to exactly do that, obstruct the proceeding. i want to show you some of the evidence jamie teased out and developed. everyone close to trial is asked to testify before the committee. on these questions about violence, and on organizing the events, they took the fifth, which was their right. nobody defended him. nobody said he privately discouraged the insurrectionist. no one said to you on a taped disposition in public hearing or otherwise after the