his first speech now feels like a lifetime ago but it will always be remembered for this moment. i have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i alone can fix it. i alone can fix it. that instantly became the thing everyone took away from that speech. it really nailed exactly how trump managed to turn the republican party into a cult of personality focused on just one man. donald trump himself. but in the eight years since then, the cult of maga has become something of an established religion in american politics. trump spent that time fashioning himself as a quasi messianic figure to his followers. then a bullet narrowly missed his head in pennsylvania. that gave his followers all the confirmation they needed to deify him. to thrust upon him the mandate of heaven itself and trump used his speech last night to take his martyrdom to the next level.
[screaming] the shooting of former president trump. a 20-year-old young man from pennsylvania identified as thomas matthew crooks. at this hour, authorities have not yet said why he opened fire and what led him to do this and how he was able to try and kill former president. mr. trump confirming he was shot in the right here but he s okay. he was treated at a local hospital with new jersey, you see him here. video we have obtained from his campaign descending from the 757 airport and newark international airport. officials confirming one member of the crowd tragically was killed in the shooting. at least two others critically injured. this is continuing coverage of the shooting of the former president of the rally in pennsylvania yesterday. i am eric shawn. i am arthel neville. we know the shooter is also dead, 20-year-old matthew crooks of bethel park, pennsylvania. the secret service says he fired multiple shots from an elevated position outside of the rally from the ro
splintering. and a member of the capitol riot committee tells us where this investigation goes next. up first for us this hour, a seismic shift in the american workplace toward requiring covid vaccines. facebook, google, netflix, all announcing that all employees returning to the office must be fax vaccinated. morgan stanley and black rock doing the same. the growing change reaches into every sector of the economy. the washington post, essential and history saying you want to come back to work, you have to get a vaccine. later today the president will put all federal workers and contractor or thes on notice, get a vaccine or face strict protocols, including regular testing and masking. we are starting off from the white house. a big shift from the president. there s no doubt. a dramatic shift in tone from president biden later today when we do hear him addressing vaccinations and covid-19. we re told by administration officials he feels like he s up against a brick wall.
this country as kids as unlawful. his ruling doesn t immediately affect the more than 700,000 dreamers in the country but puts an immediate halt to accept new applicants to the program or grant the protections to the people that are applying for the program. but don t worry. the democrats have a solution. they could pass immigration reform through budget reconciliation that needs a 51-vote majority and they even seem to have the support of joe manchin. oh, wait, there s someone else i need to introduce you to. meet elizabeth mcdonagh, a former immigration lawyer who for the last nine years, has served as a little known but at times hugely power official in the united states senate because the only way a permanent fix to the dreamers problem is going to happen by skirting the filibuster, by reconciliation, is if the senate parliamentarian elizabeth mcdonagh allows it to happen. if she says it can go into the budget reconciliation package, then it can happen. it s her call. no
to use. it would stretch from coast to coast. was it some sort of anti-government militia group? i no idea what we are dealing. with before leading investigators back home. my thoughts where, it s someone we know. was he living a double life? i think he. was here making him sound like kind of elector. it was just, wow. the courthouse the moral center of every. american city in town. the place we go to settle differences. resolve disputes, find justice. what it s the place where the story usually ends, but not this time. we re not in kaufman texas, where life is legally and no one s a stranger. oh my gosh, someone just saw shot someone. it was just bam, bam, bam. this time, it s where the story begins. someone was trying to send a message. it s just so bold. a story that quickly got too big for this texas town. and like a prairie fire, spread across the nation. we have some new information this morning involved in the brazen murder of a. the i