i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. i want to take you back to june 2020. to the supreme court had just overturned roe v. wade, striking down the constitutional right to an abortion in this country. the decision immediately left millions of americans without access to reproductive rights or reproductive care. in states where that care was protected, millions more wondered if it was just a matter of time until a federal ban would go into effect. some republicans feared and electoral disaster in the coming months were quick to throw cold water on that theory, claiming the court s decision would simply send the issue back to the states. effectively these gop lawmakers had a national ban on abortion, that would never happen here. is republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina, just last month. i ve been consistent. i think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion. i have respect for south carolina. south carolina vote
failed. it felt because he sensed maga extremist groups to school boards all across the state of florida, to bring hate, to scream, to yell at our board members, to try to infiltrate and put these weird indoctrination, ideologies, into our school board system, because he is scared, he is scared of differences, of being inclusive, of being tolerant, of showing people empathy. and he is the wrong leader. he is not appropriate for the state, or for any place in, you know, in my mind, my opinion. and people have to be able to see that, these wargames, these mind games where that he is playing, where he s trying to, you know, psychologically create fear in communities, it s not okay. and that we are better than that, and that s why, you know, people have to be really informed about who they are voting for in november. we ll see how that plays out. karla hernandez, you lieutenant governor candidate for the great state of florida, thank you so much this evening. i greatly apprecia
Capitol. Kevin freed of delaware has been identified as this person, in the meantime, police have arrest aid man accused of striking a Capitol Police officer with a fire extinguisher during the january 6 riots. Politico identifies the man in this video as robert sanford. He is a retired chester firef firefighter, and in the video he is seen wearing a dark plaid shirt and a backpack. He picks up what appears to be a fire extinguisher on the ground. Moments later he throws it at a group of Police Officers nearby. It hit one officer square on the back of the helmet with such force that it bounced off the helmet and over the other officers. Now, the scenes around capitol hill are pretty eyepopping right now. There is huge fencing that is ringing the area, there are thousands of these National Guard troops that are on alert, and our pete muntean is there right now. Pete, tell us what youre seeing. Reporter brianna, its a little bit jarring, in fact. This is a spot along constitution avenue
Charges. If your goal is to keep yourself as much as humanly possible out of the crowbar hotel, out of federal prison, probably most lawyers would advise you that the best option you have for doing that is to plead guilty, and then you may or may not have the choice of additionally cooperating with prosecutors. Youll have the choice depending on whether they want you to cooperate, whether you want to cooperate with them, and frankly its very important, it will depend on whether youve actually got something valuable to offer them that they want to hear from you. If you do have something valuable to offer them and they do want to hear it, thats actually the best Case Scenario for you to try to avoid prison or limit your prison time as much as possible. If you can plead guilty, agree to cooperate, provide prosecutors with what they will describe in court as substantial assistan assistance, thats probably the best you can do in terms of trying to alleviate your own potential prison sentenc
Violence. Its a key piece having vast and Scientific Data helping us address this Public Health issue. And so i would hope that, you know, we as lawmakers can have opinions about policies, but we should all have good sets of facts. And its an easy fix. We just have to strike one sentence in the existing law to enable us to conduct the research that is needed. Thank you very much. Maybe well sum up pretty quickly. Do you want to go really quickly . I do. Only because congresswoman esty brought this up. This is a bracelet Marjory Stoneman douglas has been selling back home. I want to give it to you because i want this to be the last one of these that we ever have to have. Good, i like that. And if we can do if we can do universal background checks and ban bump stocks and increase the age to 21 and get rid of the dicky amendment and do it now and show the American People and my constituents, the people in parkland, the grieving families and the students that were actually ready to act, th