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Live at the Federal Courthouse in fort pierce, florida, former President Donald Trump and his lawyers are fighting to get his documents classified documents case tossed out. And if trump speaks when he leaves, of course well bring you that live. On the right of your screen, a Georgia Courthouse at any moment we could get the judges decision on fani willis. Will she be disqualified . She is the infamous District Attorney in trumps Georgia Election case. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. We begin in florida. The judge there considering two motions to dismiss, one on what trumps team says is special counsel jack smiths vag ....
Side of the family or the other, i always wanted to be a soldier. Most of my family were not career soldiers, but they did serve. Je u t hahp hc my brother served eight years in the navy. My dad served in 53, and it was just something that, in our family, it was always an interest. It was always a topic of discussion with relatives, and so anyone that knew me as a child would not be surprised that i became a soldier. Where did you grow up . How many in your family . Where did you go to college . I grew up in dill city, kjc÷ ascertain, im the only federally elected congressman ever to come from there. Its a small suburb of Oklahoma City, and i have an older sister and then an older brother. Hes in the middle of the three of us. And i had a four year army scholarship. Rotc scholarship. Got some good marks in high school allowing me to be able to afford to go to college. I went to university and got a degree in public speaking, and ....
I love the arts. That is what i like to do outside of this job. Conga , congresswoman, thank you very much for being with us. Now our interview with brad ashford, for presenting nebraskas omaha district. This is one half an hour. You did some thing quite unusual in a 2014. You defeated a republican member of the house. How did you do that . Representative ashford thats an interesting question. I spent many years in the Nebraska Legislature were presenting primarily republican districts. I was a republican for 40 years. I had a natural constituency in the center. And we were able take that to the congressional race, to reach out to moderate republicans and democrats. It helped having representatives in those areas in the legislatures. Why did you switch parties so often . Representative ashford it wasnt really so often. [laughter] i started out yes. I started out as a repubclianublican for most of my life. We had term limits ....
People on the wrist and send them right back out the door. I i cannot tell you how often i get these boys that i consider sons because i have watched them grow up. People say oh, they are are terrible they are not doing anything at all, and give them such a bad rap. That frustrates me because i watch them, they are busting their butts but what you expect them to do when they keep arresting the same people and sending them in front of these judges for the judges to turn him right back out on the street. The boy that sold my daughter the heroine that killed her just recently went back in front of a judge for his fourth offense for trafficking heroine. Fourth time he has been arrested for this. He was given five months. How is that possible . That is so frustrating. It frustrates me of course but i cannot even imagine what our lawenforcement deals with in that situation. These are things that have to be dealt with. Lastly, what do i know . I know that when you find your 21yearold on the f ....