i m jim sciutto in again for anderson tonight. that s how much a texas jury awarded punitive damages to the parents of a child killed during one of america s deadliest mass shootings. it comes a day after the same jury awarded $4.1 million in compensatory damages. shortly after, one of the parents, spoke to reporters about her son and spoke about the need for those lessons at this moment in time. care and concern is so important and we saw what happens when there is a lot of that. i hope that everyone who is reading these articles and choose love with your kids because you can, that means being present in the moment with them. looking into their eyes, giving them a hug and just moving from there. just every moment realize that you have a choice and your choice is love. that s good advice and they are brave words from a mother who lost who was most precious to her. now we should point out that the judge in this trial could reduce today s figure due to a texas law that will
gun reform bills. containing most of what president biden called for in his primetime address. among them a resurrected assault weapon ban. one of the many measures presumed to be for republicans in the senate. where are much narrower package is being negotiated, cast by some as less ambitious but possibly best chance to advance any kind of gun reform. even amid more than more than 20 mass shootings in the last month. still, you must win elections to pass legislation. after the recent shootings in buffalo, eovaldi and elsewhere. this is one of the political realities that democrats must reckon with before the midterm election. along with abortion rights right. the rise in inflation. and the likelihood of even more seismic developments. coming out of the house select committee from january 6th to white house aides of donald trump now having been indicted for defying subpoenas related to the investigation. by the end of the week, we will have seen the first witnesses in the
relief has touched down and it s on the way for the millions of parents struggling to feed their children. just under two hours, ago the first shipment of baby formula arriving in indianapolis from europe. 78,000 pounds of baby formula being taken off that u.s. military plane and put on two fedex trucks for distribution across the country amid a shortage. agriculture secretary tom vilsack shaking the hands of the u.s. military members who helped transport that much needed formula. the first of several deliveries to come, in fact. the secretary told reporters just how quickly parents could start to see formula back on the shelves. i ve been told by the fda commissioner that in a matter of a week or so, we should begin to see some supply. but of the course of the next several weeks, we should see an ever increasing supply. so i would say certainly with the next 30 days we re going to begin seeing the situation. we re going to go right to nbc s meghan officials at that air
i think what s so frustrating as how they are, they say one thing to their television audience, and when they re in the courtroom they say something different. and their audience seems to continue to consume the lies. it s an amazing trick they pull off. good marks for a good con, i would say. thank you, mehdi. thanks, lawrence. thank you. the rest of the world cannot understand what s happening in this country, now. would the supreme court is doing could not happen in a democracy. in a democracy, the membership of the supreme court would reflect the democratically expressed will of the people. that means, the supreme court would reflect the democratically expressed will of the majority of the people, because the supreme court justices would be appointed by presidents elected by a majority of voters. but that is not the way we elect presidents in this country. we are the only country in the world where the person who comes and second with the votes can end up in t
wealthy businessman who made his fortune largely, this is true, from selling bull s semen. someone has to do it, i guess. rachel discussed last night, charles has been accused of groping by eight women, eight, including a conservative republican state senator who says he reached up her address at a republican event in 2019. some might consider those disqualifying, but not of course donald j. trump. declaing herbster innocent of any wrong doing. those attentions have gotten a great deal of attention and rightly so. what you don t know about charles herbster is his events on january 6th. the day of the attack on the capitol, charles herbster was in washington, d.c. with president trump s inner circle. he was in the vip section at trump s rally where the president urged everyone to march on the capitol. herbster sent to campaign staffers back home in nebraska, including this photo. he was very excited to be seated up in the second row at the rally right behind election conspirac