that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o
that is the blunt and ambiguous message conservatives have conveyed to the american people as they close ranks around the man who is alleged life choices so fundamentally contradicting the values that they report to stand for. it actually boggles the mind. the most recent development, the new york times, reporting that the same woman who alleged, herschel walker paid for her abortion in 2009 also alleged that walker urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years ago. or two years later, excuse. me herschel walker has denied those allegations. saying, he has never paid for or pressured a woman to have an abortion. this october, as a, surprise which at one point would ve ended other candidates chances just studded seem to not matter to the right-wing. we are full speed ahead in georgia, so the president of mitch mcconnell center leadership fund super pac. we have seen this movie before said christian coalition, leader ralph reid. this goes beyond hypocrisy. it wouldn t be
confronted and killed the gunman. as for how she viewed herb responsibilities that day, how she saw her duty to protect the children inside, listen to this moment from shimon s report, as captured on video of her outside the school that morning. reporter: an officer asked her children attend robb elementary. elizondo s response my son is in day care. he is not old enough. yeah, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. my son had been there, she said, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. we spoke about her employment by the school district by the guardian of a 10-year-old who was in the school and murdered that day. someone who has been holding a vigil outside uvalde school district offices, demanding answers. i ve been out here for 192 hours, eight days. and my ask is simple. it s to suspend any officers that were there until an investigation is completed. and i ve just gotten nothing but the runaround. so
and my son isn t daycare, he is not old enough. yeah, no. no, if my son had been in there i would not have been outside i promise you that. if my son had been in there, she said, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. we spoke about employment by the school district last night with the guardian of a ten -year-old. he was in the school and he was murdered that day. someone has been holding a vigil outside the novelty school district office demanding answers. i ve been out here for 192 hours. my ask a simple, it is to suspend any officers that were there until an investigation is completed. and i have just gotten nothing but they run around. so, i mean i told him that i was not leaving and i m not going to. they haven t given you any answers? no sir, i had a meeting today which they offered to tell the officers off campus. but if you can do that, why can t you suspend them until the investigation is done? just 24 hours later, the officer is gone and we a
amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t