speech. and it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die-hard fans, people who would follow him to the end of the earth, and that was crucial at that moment in his political life because just a few weeks earlier the wall street journal had been first to report that that same vice president he was under federal criminal investigation on potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a whole bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news for obvious reasons to the vice president, and he was completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and these women were hard core activists, as a group generally speaking they were quite right-wing, and a group generally speaking they were quote devoted to superhero agnew. this has been forgotten in history but agnew was seen as being much
thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with officials in new york city announcing plans to address the influx of asylum seekers arriving from texas. new york expects at least 1,000 children will enter the city s school system this year. they are among the thousands sent there by bus from the lone star state at the direction of governor greg abbott. but this week the governor doubled down on his decision. before we begin busing illegal immigrants up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. cnn s jean casarez is following this for us from new york. jean, how is new york responding and what is the plan? reporter: well, there is a plan and it s called open arms. it really facilitates what new yorkers feel about having them come from texas. here s what happens. the bus, as you see r
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