building get defaced over a lie. and it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest, knowing what i ve been hearing down the hall in the conversations that were happening, saying that we come up, and knowing what was happening on the hill, and it s something that i still struggle to work through. the emotions of that. joining us now is olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. she attended the hearing today. she is a former colleague of cassidy hutchinson. olivia, i just want to read for the audience the tweet that she was just talking about. it was donald trump tree tweeting at 20 4 pm on the capitol, and that was being televised, he was watching it. he tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth! and
this is the most significant second amendment ruling in more than a decade. in a 6-3 decision, the court struck down new york s law that places restrictions on concealed handguns . that law was enacted more than a century ago. the majority of the court ruling, the constitution protects a person s right to carry a gun outside the home. jessica schneider is live in washington with these breaking details. jessica, what more was in this decision? erica, the supreme court here significantly expanding gun rights and expanding the scope of the second amendment for the first time since 2008. so this is a 6-3 decision written by the senior most justice, clarence thomas. what it has done is it has struck down a new york gun law that you restricted who could carry concealed handguns outside the home. it s a law that stood for more than a century. but the court has now said that that law cannot stand and that crucially here the constitution guarantees the right to carry a gun outside t
to carry a gun. the justices this morning throwing out a new york law that required residents to prove they had a reason to carry a gun outside the home. the ruling was 6-3 with justice clarence thomas writing for the conservative majority. he said the special cause to carry a concealed handgun was a violation of the second amendment right to bear arms. we have more details on this dramatic decision. reporter: the immediate affect is to strike down this gun law in new york. it required people to show proper cause to get a license to carry a concealed handgun in public. it s now struck down similar laws in six other states will also be struck. more consequentially, this decision will also prompt challenges to all kinds of gun laws across the country. and that s because this decision is really changing the framework on how judges will evaluate gun laws moving forward, and this conservative court is saying for the first time that the constitution guarantees the right to carry
you see over there, a low traffic area, on a stun bench, there is the famous colonists and pundit mark shields, and he is sitting beside a guy in a t-shirt and jeans, who is actually me, and i am counting $10,000 in cash. what do you think, and who do you reported to? i think while they have drug dealers in the east coast here to, mom. that s probably why i think. it was it was a strange moment. it s all going to be explained at the end of the show why mark shields was with me when i was counting $10,000 in cash and congressional office building. can i ask you in advance how big $10,000 in cash is? it was hundreds, so i have never seen it before. it was quite a stack. you have to count them, you know, i just picked them up, here s a hint. i picked them up in the garage downstairs. you ve got me, lawrence. you hooked me. that was where i was handed them. you got your hooks in me. mark shields took it instead completely in stride. it was another day in office.
my interview with ukraine s former president about what is going to take to end russia s brutal invasion of his country. why is florida governor ron desantis undermining covid ccination efforts again and endangering the lives of young children in the process? also, isn t it time for universal health care? good evening, i m mehdi hassan, what did the president know and what did he know that was the seminal question that drove the watergate hearings, amazingly current events make this weekend s anniversary since five burglars were caught trying to break into the headquarters at the watergate complex here in washington, d. c.. it makes that question as fresh and relevant as ever and if the arms of the senator beg the question about what nixon knew, was well nixon knew everything today he was implicated in it all, drawing parallels between the hearings and the january six public hearings that are now unfolding half a century over so far this select committees presenting compell