i need you. i need you to get vaccinated when it s your turn and when you can find an opportunity. and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors gets vaccinated as well. here s the point. if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, there s a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesn t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special, where we mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark or independence from this virus. president biden announcing last night his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days will be met and beaten. when i came into office, you may recall i set a goal that many of you set was kind of way over the top. i said i intended
Furthered the big lie, people like Maria Bartiromo there and Tucker Carlson and sean hannity, they also built up january 6th as if it was some day of reckoning. Exactly, and they constantly told their viewers to come out and fight on january 6th. You know, is it a surprise that some people took those words literally . Mean, just a few days ago you had James Murdoch who is part of the family that owns fox news saying that it was imperative for media Property Owners to show some responsibility and to stop putting on those kinds of lies. Now, i dont know if his brother lachlan and his brother rupert who own fox news, if they will listen to that, but if they dont there are other options including the fact that cable prosecutors like comcast and charter which send fox out to hundreds of millions of people, they can demand some accountability in the way that facebook and twitter have done, and theres also i think the possibility of reviving the fairness doctrine which the fcc enforced until
Warns that other parts of the state could also see Power Outages and flooding due to heavy rainfall thats expected in the coming days. Boxes phil keating is in florida. Now were hundreds of thousands of people are under mandatory evacuation orders. This storm is not to be taken lightly. Final preparations underway in florida as Hurricane Ian charges toward the gulf coast, the storm making landfall in cuba Tuesday Morning as a category three with winds up to 125 miles an hour. Floridians are racing against the clock boarding up windows, stocking up on the essentials and picking up sandbags to protect their homes. Little nervous, no nervous about, but well come back to on friday after we evacuate today, Florida Governor Rhonda Sanders declaring a state of emergency ahead of the storm. Hurricane ian is expected to bring historic water levels to the tampa bay area. Pushing a massive wall of water inland with predicted storm surges up to 10 to 15 ft. And thats all on top of inches of rain.
[gavel bangs] the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the United States capital will be in order. Without objection, the chairs off the wire authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. Pursuant to House Deposition Authority regulation 10, the chair announces the committees approval to release the deposition material presented during tonights hearing. Thanks to everyone watching tonight for sharing parts of your evening to learn the thoughts and causes of the events leading up to and including the violent attack on january 6, 2021. Our democracy, electoral system, and country. I am bennie thompson, chairman of the january 6, 20 committee. I was born, raised and still live in bolton, mississippi. A town with a population of 521, which is midway between jackson and vicksburg, mississippi, and the mississippi river. Im from a part of the country where people justified the actions of slavery, the coop the ku klux klan and lynching. Im reminded of that da
Vote scheduled early and to try to accommodate the members the story of a young lady a hero to me and many from the Chicago Police department. The embodiment of selflessness she loved people, she loved her family, she loved animals particularly stray dogs. She was known for picking them up and her squad car and getting them off to safety. With the communities that they served. Last year sadly she made the ultimate sacrifice in her line of duty. She was shot and killed while making a traffic stop with her partners. She was 29yearsold. The gun that was used to kill her and seriously injure was purchased and indiana. I would like to share a brief video to help tell her story and the threats that Law Enforcement officers save. Let me show the video. The night of july 1st there was a mass shooting on a day that had already seen a child shot on the south side. This one left a one monthold in critical condition. The officer played a key role in saving the childs life rushing the bd to the hos