began. and where the conservative majority, super majority, frankly, on this court, is taking us. we all know our country has three branches of government. each branch is supposed to restrain the others from exercising too much power their checks and balances. that is actually how all this is supposed to work, but the supreme court is acting as if it has no restraints and as if it is the sole decider with its decision in west virginia versus , which on thursday, limited the epa s ability of regulating emissions that cause climate change. as justice elena kagan s dissent, the court does not know how to address climate change, but the quarter points itself, instead of congress or the expert agency, as a decision-maker on climate policy. i cannot think of many things more frightening. unquote. also can t think of anything more frightening than a rogue supreme court whose ruling has run roughshod over the role of congress, the executive branch, prior to court precedents. and, o
the house gets a chance to send the bill to the president s desk, first time congress passed a piece of legislation since 1993. carley: leaders have spoken up strongly calling it an effort to chip away at law-abiding citizen second amendment rights. griff jenkins has the latest developments from washington. good morning. griff: good morning, that vote remarkable, democrats needed 10 republicans and they got 15 on an issue, the gop long resisted, guns. chuck schumer praising the bipartisan effort. the gun safety bill can be described with three adjectives, bipartisan, common sense, life-saving. griff: gop included minority leader mcconnell after negotiations were led by senator john cornyn. i knew this effort was about the art of the possible, looking at areas where we could agree and setting aside areas where we could not. griff: not everyone does agree, senator ted cruz blasting in a statement saying approach of democrats is to take away democrats from law-abiding
chief of staff who did not request a part in. talking about mick mulvaney one of the veterans with the new evidence does change things because it links trump to the armed violence in advance. he very simply and plainly lays out how and first i want to show it in two parts how in many other debates over donald trump, his old boss including debates over trump s at times violent speeches has previously defended his former boss. i have seen him accused of violence with no violence at all so i have been defending him. i have been defending him. his mind has changed and now he says in public because of the new evidence that trump new they were armed and trumped push them on anyway. after yesterday when she testified that he knew there were guns on property and he still encouraged people to go to the capital, that changes my mind. that changes his mind. he is not the ultimate arbiter that it striking because he held the same post as mark meadows who is now under investigatio
has retained on much of the republican base. more republicans will be asking themselves if this is the person they want as their nominee in 2024. taken as a whole, it was devastating in the extreme and for the congressional committee tasked with investigating the most devastating attack on the u.s. capitol in centuries, hutchinson s testimony puts their probe at a crossroads with important new questions to answer, especially about the role of white house counsel pat cipollone and what he told the ex-presind top trump officials on january 6th and in the days before and after. vice chair liz cheney reiterating the panel s call for cipollone to testify. white house counsel pat cipollone had significant concerns. it s time for sip loan toe testify on the record. any concerns he has about the institutional interest of his prior offers are outweighed by the need for his testimony. punch bowl news is reporting this, quote, the january 6th select committee is likely to subpoena pat c
possible floor vote on final passage by the end of the week. we ll tell you exactly what is in it. plus the war of words escalating tonight between president biden and the oil industry as the president seemingly mocks the ceo of chevron as sensitive as the blame game for record high gas prices continues. first, it s primary night in some states across the country. our election coverage begins with alexandria hoff live on the ground with a crucial g.o.p. senate runoff in alabama. alex, good evening. everyone is watching this one. good evening. we re here at katie s quarters clearly about to close up for the night but this was a really, really exciting evening. there was a lot of talk about how the last-minute endorsement by former president trump might have helped katie get to this moment it can t be forgotten how well she performed in the primary last month that ended up going into a runoff. she still came up 16 percentage points over her opponent. when she took the stage,