class= nosel > oftentimes, that you have an illness. so people, they turn inward. that is the instinct. that is what brian and i are b trying to encourage people to fight against because when they do come forward, their voices are so powerful and having been in government and advocacy for so long prior to our diagnosis, i mean, our whole job for so e many years was to elevate people who were affected by policy. when that happened to us, we knew that even if we were just one voice, even if you are just one voice, being public, if you have one of these illnesses, ve can have such an impact. that is all the time we have for today. thank you for joining us the r saturday morning. we re back tomorrow at six:00 a.m. with two more hours of t morni joe weekend. we will see you then. u then good morning. it is saturday, june 8. i am alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. right now, president joe biden is in paris in a crucial fight for democracy both a
nauta, carlos de oliveira and former president trump in efforts to delete security camera footage. attorney stanley woodward declined to comment to nbc news. also in the filing prosecutors inform judge aileen cannon who previously questioned why they were still using a d.c. grand jury to collect evidence, was told the d.c. grand jury officially wrapped up its work on august 17th. all right, still ahead 2024 white house hopeful vivek ramaswamy is facing scrutiny over comments he made on the september 11th terrorist attacks. he said he was misquoted, but now the audio has actually been release. and some are falsely claiming president biden fell asleep during a memorial for wildfire victims in maui. those stories and a check on sports and weather when we come
republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is doubling down on claims that his comments about the september 11th attacks were taken out of context despite evidence they were not. the controversy started on monday after the atlantic published a profile on rom swaemy. during an interview for that piece he was asked about the capitol attack because ramaswamy has told crowds on the campaign trail that americans don t know the truth about january 6th. ramaswamy suggested that there were government agents in the crowd outside the capitol and then compared the insurrection to the 9/11 attacks. saying in part, quote, i think it s legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents were on the planes that hit the twin towers. maybe the answer is swreeree. it probably is zero for all ikn. i have no reason to think it was
includes saudi arabia s efforts to sports wash its reputation. after years of very serious accusations of human rights abuses as well as the government s involvement in the september 11th terrorist attacks. the jam-packed hearing room today included in the front row family members of 9/11 victims wearing 9/11 justice hats. senator blumenthal made an impassioned plea to the pga tour officials to decline the deal. its ceo basically called the merger a peace deal to, quote, protect an american institution. liv golf was not represented at the hearing today. the spokesman says he was unavailable because of scheduling conflicts. on the eve of today s hearing liv golf announced that of all the golf courses in the world, its $15 million season champion