rights expert, nancy erika smith, thank you for being here. happy to be here, thank you, ari. first big picture, a ruling like this is how unusual? this is i have never seen anything like that. the justices released a man accused by 60 women of sexual assaults. 19 of them were willing to testify to the same memo, he drugs women and he rapes them. the youngest was 17. he s released based on a press release by a political da, he ended up representing trump in his hearing. a press relief turned into blanket immunity and binding on prosecutors. go ahead.
background checks act. a press relief from gun violence, chairman mike thompson says both these bipartisan bills were passed by the house in february of this year. it has been blocked for a vote by mcconnell for more than 160 days. we want to go to dayton, ohio, the mayor is speaking at the press at dayton s city mayor. i was here on sunday and much of the afternoon with the mayor and the police chief and we saw some of the first responders that saves lives. we met all police officers who saves the lives of dozens of people. both of us spoke with the president right when he got off air force one. both the mayor and i ask the president to call on senator mcconnell to bring the senate back in session this week to tell the senate that he wants to
needed. calee is there. reporter: that announcement went out from the city of beaumont that they were opening up this water distribution site. already, there are cars lined up down st. helena road here. i want to bring in the officer from the beaumont police helping to organize this effort. officer, first of all, if you could explain to people exactly where we are when they are in need of resources. right now, we are at i-10 in st. helena. this is the city of beaumont. if you go to the beaumont police facebook page, we have a press relief. it is flowing efficient. i didn t coordinate this effort. there are so many different people. the city of beaumont parks and rec and the fire department. this is the first official water distribution site they have.
. breaking news, senator republican leaders have delayed a vote on their healthcare bill due to a cut. one of the stumbling blocks due to medicaid is two treatments explained their conditions in a press relief. saying quote, i continue to have real concerns about healthcare qualities in this bill. and west virginia s senator said, as drafted this bill will not ensure access to affordable healthcare in west virginia. does not do enough to combat the open yesterday epidemic that s in my state. gary tuchman is in main
release about it, but this version is not the version the company wanted to send. the e-mails published today include the back and forth on the press release and what was supposed to be the final draft of that press relief with lines about the governor and first lady joining with doctors to learn more about the state of the research into this product, quote, johnny williams, star scientific ceo, expresses his appreciation for governor and first lady s mcdonnell s interest in the company s work. all of us are very grateful for the governor and mrs. mcdonnell for their interest in product and research development. staff members for the governor and first lady saw that draft press release on the eve of the big event, the staff members, in technical terms, flipped out. quoting directly, all caps, no way this can go as written, says the first lady s chief of staff. governor spokesperson, quote, are we sure we can do something like this? minutes later, the lawyer who