campaign as vice president and attorney general garland play their roles in directing the administration s response to it. because whether the assistance comes from the white house, the people s house, or both, the only response that has ever worked to protect minority rights from abuse has been a federal one. teaching us by history, history teaches that left to their own devices, our states can rarely be trusted to do so. but the answer apparently won t come from our u.s. congress where the gop doesn t want to see a problem and legislatures have such and the state-level republicans are literally just making problems up. and with the current convulsion in texas where gop state lawmakers refuse to be denied their voting restriction legislation, they re convening a special session this week largely to continue looking the part for donald trump and ultimately his voters. but i warned those lawmakers pushing this suppression, allowing it to happen, please don t expect some kind
floor, despite new cdc guidance. republican critics say democrats are engaging in political theater. well, former white house chief of staff mark meadows joins us on that straight ahead. this hour, media and politics columnist joe concha, brian mast, and legal analyst mercedes colvin. john: we begin with horrific attack caught on camera in los angeles. pro-palestinian group assaulting two jewish men outside of a restaurant. the city s mayor calling it an organized anti-semitic attack. welcome to the first hour of america reports. i m john roberts. good to be back. thanks for having me on this beautiful afternoon. i m jillian. shouting anti-semitic slurs at the diners before they attacked. take a listen. so far, no one was seriously hurt. the police department is investigating it as possible hate crime. john: fighting continues for 11th day, pressure on president biden to deescalate the violence. senator tom cotton will weigh in on that in just moments. first, tr
that just done it for me, i can t even think about how scared she was. it a mother s worst mother s worst nightmare nightmare. you ll there are no signs to get there just follow the rough sandy trail down from the subdivisions above, turned a corner, and there it is, the creek. i twisties slow-moving body of water in north carolina it s nothing less than a undiscovered garden of eden for teenagers plane hockey from high school. it s like going to the beach for us, it s just a vacation when caroline nose was a high school freshman, and terrified of math class when the weather was good, go right to the creek and bypass cool altogether. tell me about a day of the creek after rio about swimming was hit by the, fire and then hurry up and get back to the school take the bus home. so the creek was the place for the local kids could high out from the grown-ups, and play all day like frisky otters, in till one day in a secret teenage world collide with tragedy. i just knew i
thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it she is specifically unquestionably good at the math part she can count votes like nobody s business. if a piece of legislation needed to get passed, nancy pelosi knows whether and how she can get the votes for it and she never brings a bill to the floor unless she knows she can pass it. and i mean, i ve said it before. i ll say it again. whether you are aligned with her politically, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn t matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what she s doing she s very technically skilled at the job she holds and if you need proof of that, if you need evidence, you can do a little controlled experiment in recent history. look at what happened in the house in between her two stints as speaker because it was the first midterm elections of the barack o
failed the house vote in years failed again. look it is a surprise again, to they killed obama care, this is something they had been talking about, and promising for years. we have to go to the white house personally but his tail between his legs to tell president trump that he was unable to put together the votes, they weren t, there when they expected them to be. there they got to the floor, they dropped it, and they couldn t get it. with this kind of stuff does not happen under house speaker nancy pelosi. since pelosi re-took the gavel in 2013, whatever else is going on in congress, whatever is going on in speaker pelosi, when she brings it a bill to the, floor that s because she has the votes to pass the bill. and she intends to pass it, and then she passes it. that is what explains the drama that began to unfold on capitol hill today. it also explains something that i told you on friday night show about what was going to happen today. it proved to be wrong. frida