disturbing new details about the mass killer in allen, texas. officials are probing possible ties to right wing extremist groups. also in texas, we are told that charges could be imminent after an suv slams into a group of people outside of a migrant shelter and several people were killed. w we are live outside of the scene. and images of death and destruction are all coming in live to cnn news central. we want to begin this hour in brownsville, texas, where the police are expected to give an update in the deadly crash involving several migrants. at least eight people are dead and several others are injured right now. a ton of questions right now this morning of why this happened. hopefully some answers will come in the next hour. this is what people, police say that we know so far. an suv plowed into a group of people outside of the homeless shelter and the horrifying moment was caught on surveillance camera, and the video is going to pause just before the moment of
insignia r-w-d-s which is known to stand for right wing death squad which is known to be p popular with right wing and neo-nazi groups. former governor ron desantis may soon be squaring off against former president donald trump in the race of 2024, but a few years back, desantis was worried about angering trump and the base which is according to video obtained by nbc news according to the detate and the governor and trying to frame the answers in a way that would not quote piss off trump voters. steve is with us and what more do you know? well, abc says that this footage which is two hours was obtained and it shows desantis prep debate for the race.
leak, i mean, there is precedent for this. well, it s important to understand sort of pence s history with these different investigations. when he was in the white house, and he was the vice president, he had to deal with trump on a daily basis. he had a lawyer named richard cullen, represent the vice president, who went in and quietly met with mueller s team. and told mueller s team what pence would testify about and he said that pence didn t think that trump obstructed justice. you have to remember, pence was in a very tenuous position at this point. trump was, obviously turns on everyone that s around him and pence was trying to maintain his position, you know, to not, you know, piss off trump. and what happens is that this lawyer, richard cullen, goes in and he moments with mueller s team and despite the fact that pence had been in the room for all these different incidents of obstruction that were investigated, mueller s team never questioned pence directly. they were able to ge
overly psychological explanation for the facts that we have, but that these kind of these peer effects matter, the people you talk to matter. when you go and consult them, their integrity and their just sort of sense of the rule of law end up being very important, which is that dan quayle and michael ludding say are you out of your mind? you can t do that. right, and there were many trump appointed federal judges who said the same thing, and state judges, republican judges. but you know, when you replace brad raffensperger with jody hies, then what? are we going to accept the results of an election when the person running the election is someone who embraces the big lie that the election was stolen? i mean, what s this going to do to legitimacy if trump actually wins the election if he runs again? this is that last question is a really underconsidered one, too, because it s a two-way
told him i can t do it. pence also had pressure from trump s allies in the coup attempt like rudy giuliani and coup architect john eastman, and from the president s chief of staff, mark meadows, who would forward coup plans to pence s office. as well as from unlikely sources like the president s economic adviser, peter navarro, who we know now was directed by trump, at least by navarro, personally to brief republicans in congress on the plan. he even came up with a cute name for the coup plot, the green bay sweep. on the day of the insurrection, trump called out pence multiple times in his speech at the ellipse saying if he does not act, quote t will be a sad day for the country. and then after pence doesn t do it. after he doesn t do it, mob entering the capitol, he goes on to tweet that pence did not have the courage to protect the country and the constitution. i mean, it s hard to pin down if the crowd was chanting hang mike