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
are classified briefings on capitol hill, top republicans demanding answers from the pentagon and director of national intelligence to fill in the blanks on this timeline. senators want to know when the spycraft was picked up on radar. since the odyssey across the united states, are countries are reporting in india, philippine, taiwan and u.s. territory of guam. the one that crashed off hawaii a month ago, other recent sightings in the u.s., washington post says it is part of chinese espionage arsenal. chinese have taken old technology and married it with modern communication and observation capabilities to glean intelligence on other nation s militaries, it is a massive effort. americans want to know why the spycraft was not shot down sooner, especially if there are explosives onboard. president biden defended his actions. president biden: i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it, they said it was unsafe over land and they could learn a lot watch being it
i think you got to the bottom of it. in the meantime, agent garland pressing for concern parents at school board meetings. listen to this fiery exchange between garlin and senator john kennedy. you issue a directive to your criminal division into your counter intelligence or counterterrorism division to start investigating parents who are angry. nothing in my memorandum says to investigate parents who are angry. quite the opposite. it says the first amendment protects that kind of vigorous debate. todd: garland went on to say the fbi went to these meetings because of threats of violence. but you worked in the fbi and fbi handles big pictures of national things. why is that we are going to local school board meetings with a call of the threat of violence? something i thought was handled by local police departments. since i ran the criminal
prevent and opt out of divisive indoctrination and yes, it is upon haing. i have seen in my child s school and several instances. parents are branded with the terror tag by the fbi for daring to speak up in local school board meetings, that is amazing, she is unaware. todd: is the pushback on behalf of parents actually working? it does help. it does intimidate a lot of parents and it does prevent them from going to local school board meetings when they see all of this happening and all of the unimaginable happening just to prevent them from speaking up and voicing freely, it does stop the public conversation. todd: they are not the
100, 0, 10 local, you want to rebalance. gain at the local level where you can have influence. not only the levels where you can only have outrage and frustration. and as never before, we now see republicans leveraging, of all things, local school board meetings into national political attention. it as very, very important political level we ignore so often. ezra klein, i should say, the always angry ezra klein, pretending not to be. thank you very much for joining us tonight and performing the nonangry version so well. thank you. it s a zen aesthetic. thank you, ezra. coming up, it s not just republican senators from the dakotas. a significant number of republican voters have decided in the last few months to break up with their boy, donald trump. steve schmidt with join us. e scs