Humanitarian aid the United Nation calls the difference between life and death arrives in gaza overnight. Plus, im going to hug her and kiss her. Its gonna be the best day of my life. Heading home, an american teen and her mother held hostage by hamas or free this morning. What theyre learning about their sudden release and the latest in israel ahead, in the live report. Back to the drawing board, after three failed attempts, conservative firebrand, jim jordans House Speaker dreams are dashed. He cant get his own party to back him. Inside the search for the next Permanent Speaker, yet another Government Shutdown deadline tips closer. Singing for their dinner, two of trumps top attorneys and closest allies who push the biggest election i agreed to testify against him after striking plea deals in the last minute at the Georgia Election interference case. We go live and indepth for what this means for don trump. Thats live in the next. A good saturday morning to you all, i am katie phang
esubonteng, breanna campbell and ryan haygood, my hat off to you, ryan, for taking the time to vote to be able to make sure that this happens, congratulations to all of you again. thank you for having us. thank you. i wanted to bring into the conversation now, new york city council president, lamonica mciver. lamonica, dank you so much for being here. this past unanimously in the new york city council, were you even surprised that it was a unanimous vote to lower the voting age to 16 for school counsel excuse me, school board votes. yes, i was. sometimes, we re not always at 100% support with everything and the city council. sometimes, it s less when we try to get things passed. i am super excited for my colleagues who supported this piece of legislation, which is truly important. and thank you, katie, for having me on to talk about it. so, lamonica, i wanted to read a fast quote. one of the senators, a
lowered the voting age to 16 for school board elections was inmates testimony. nate testified that there are, in the city of newark in the law school board election, turn out, katie, was 3%. one to 3%. nate said, because turnout is so low, young people can t rely on other people to make decisions for them, that they are to be empowered to make decisions themselves, that s really what this move is about. there s lowering the age in newark to 16 empowers two breanna s-point, 7000 young people, 16 17-year-olds to vote in the elections that matter most of them. 90% of the black people of the young people are black and brown. we re excited about with the expansion for voting rights means for empowering young people to have access to the fundamental right that is postoperative, as the supreme court says, is fundamental to all other. rights discussion will go to breanna. breanna, i heard you talk about the issues that are important
happens in school. it gives us the empowerment that we have a say. ryan, i wanted to ask you, you have created what looks like to be a successful template to be able to do this at other states. i know that other states and other jurisdictions are asking you for help. talk about whether or not this can be replicated with success and other places? yeah, katie, first of all, thank you for having us on the show. we talked a lot about this. to your first point about this being the next frontier for the expansion of voting rights, that is, lowering the voting age to 16-year-olds and elections that matter most of them. so new jersey s constitution gives cities the express authority to lower the voting age, as newark as taking the lead in doing, but there are other states across the country that summer constitution s. i think at the top of my mind, our nation s capital, washington d.c. is similar to new jersey s constitution. i just want to say really quickly, one of the powerful things th
accusation. he also cannot make reference to a wide range of other presidential, irrelevant or otherwise inadmissible matters that have featured prominently in his recent public statements about the case. joining us now is faith guy, former federal prosecutor for the eastern district of new york. faith, it s good to see you. i know that you have been following these cases very closely, as we all are. i am interested in knowing what you think about what just happened. 11th hour on the eve of a holiday weekend, literally right before trial is supposed to start on tuesday morning, trump tries to use the mother-in-law funeral tactic, which he tried and the new york attorney general civil fraud case the delay as well. do you think that that is a sign that trump knows that his goose is cooked when it comes to this other defamation suit? thanks katie for having me. when that happened with the civil suit, of course, guilt is established. and the last trial, with