targeting the lgbtq community. since the start of the year, but that s not just that s, not all there. is the last month, alone there s been 777 increase in conversations about drag rain story out on the right wing internet. drag queen story hour is drag queens, who are sometimes in libraries, in stores, places like that teaching age-appropriate books to children. regular books that your kids would want to read, curious george style staff. and that s what you would see in those faces, far-right wants this ban now. and you see militia as, like the proud was going to drag queen story out to try to shut them down. others are getting targeting threats. you know, people even joking around that it should be taught the children, let that state senator i talked to in california. he couldn t return to his home without a bomb sniffing dog house first. so, that s a level with that we re at right. now this is the no hate object for the far-right. used to be things like crt, under the guise of
well he kept needling did so d you deservees the laugh in the whole some clean humor. that s good. you re a clean guy. my just stories about society coddling kids too much right .s true .. look, i felt like an old dude when i was seventeenn i think in a barbershop quartet you were dating a six year old woman. well, that the world isld reverso. i mean wese got you know, i cant blame young people becausets old people are acting like. adolescents. we got people in their fifties and sixtiesei dancing on tick-tock and then kindergartners are going to drag queen story out. it s fluff that has flipped it ads. am so you can t blame young people. everyone is having an extended adolescence. people are ridiculous. it s time wete. wake up. yeah, to be adults shake the fist.
because air fare for example has gone up 19% month over month, we re talking about prices, staying home and eating less? no one is. we re doing more of everything and that s why prices are continuing to go up. other problem right now is that businesses know that consumers expect prices to go up so they re taking sort of advantage of the situation a little bit, and they are actually raising prices in the interim, knowing the demand is still there. and certainly as we have talked about with ken thomas in the last segment, inflation poses such political peril for the party in power and we re hearing a lot more from the president about it in recent days and we re hearing about of course, the leaked draft opinion on roe v. wade and abortion and just the economic impacts of abortion, and treasury secretary yellen, i know axios has some new reporting. this morning, we have a story out, looking at where the economic growth could be at risk. so if you look at the work force right now, a maj
the story out, and investigated. the death penalty was still on the table. so, steve was terrified. we were terrified. i can certainly appreciate when you re terrified, maybe you do some stupid things. well, it s when you start making mistakes, and that was a doozy of a mistake. uh-huh. reporter: and uncovering that fraud led investigators to what they thought was another, even bigger one. remember carol s life insurance money? $750,000 worth. steve s defense attorney talked about it during his opening statement. he disclaimed, he signed over any interest to the girls and the money was paid out to the girls. that s what happened in this case. reporter: that statement caught investigator mike sechez by surprise. we had made contact with the life insurance company several times throughout the investigation and we had been informed that the life insurance had not been paid out to anyone. reporter: so, had the insurance paid out or hadn t it?
lie. not even sean hannity expected the party to adhere to that big lie. but a year later, they re more wedded to it than ever and they are using it to usher in these laws attacking the democratic infrastructure of the country. and in that sense it s such a terrible but factual statement that our democracy is on weaker ground now than it was a year ago. let me ask you about vice president mike pence. there s been a lot of reporting about there s a new york times story out, pence and january 6 committee engage in high-stakes dance over testimony. i ll read you a portion of this. mr. pence, these are sources around the ex-vice president has grown annoyed the committee is publicly signaling it has secured a greater degree of cooperation from his top aides than it has. something he sees as a pattern of democrats trying to turn his team against mr. trump. is that what you are engaged in? no. we d just like him to come in and share what he knows and i hope that he will. i m sure he i