hot texas sun. and now word of children among the victims. plus, shocking new video of a powerful blast in the war that russia started, as the u.s. and allies rush to prevent any chance of a similar fate in two other countries. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and the paulout from the damning, stunning january 6th hearing yesterday. it is becoming more and more clear just how distressed trump and his allies seem to be in the wake of the testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. based on how relentlessly they re attacking her. nonetheless, the former top aide to the chief of staff, mark meadows, is standing by her comments. cassidy hutchinson s lawyers telling us in a statement, you re hearing about first on cnn, quote, ms. hutchinson stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday. under oath, to the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. unquote. now, one mig
Basis in 2017 and 2018 starting a few months before manaforts indictment on multiple felony tax and bank fraud and conspiracy charges. Pretty much right up to the moment mr. Manafort went to jail. The judge in manaforts case was examining these Text Messages to determine if manafort and his lawyer may have violated the gag order on the case by talking to a tv host, and now the messages have been made public. The texts are largely messages of support from hannity. Quote, i know is this is very hard. Stand tall and strong. We are all on the same team, says hannity. Manafort responds, and we will prevail. Exactly, says hannity. Hannity also spends a lot of time asking if manafort is watching his show and they discuss hannitys theories of the deep state and Hillary Clintons crimes and how manafort is being railroaded, sometimes hannity appears to text manafort during his broadcast, quote, you watching . Manafort responds, yes. I love you. Manafort, i hope potus, meaning President Trump, un
Opinion: It’s not unthinkable that, if given access to residents’ health care data, Missouri authorities would monitor residents who travel to access abortion, IVF or other health care.
a more secure alternative and response is to pass this constitutional amendment in november in michigan. there are also questions about the security of apps that track menstrual cycles, period tracking apps. we saw in 2019 the director of the missouri state health department admitted to having a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual periods of planned parenthood patients, this had to do with an investigation, i believe, in an abortion that failed. i believe that s what it was. the reason i raise it is because he was the health director was looking into the menstrual cycles of planned parenthood patients. are you concerned about these apps and the government tracking women s menstrual cycles to keep an eye on whether or not they re pregnant, et cetera? absolutely. and let s just tie that back to the first topic you mentioned, why would a hospital system in missouri be nervous about