approached butler with a pitch. imagine, half a million veterans marching on washington a move financed by some of the most powerful corporations in america. the purpose to stop president franklin d. roosevelt s new deal opposed by wealthy business leaders as a socialist doctrine. this army of veterans would pressure the president to hand over executive powers of government and if the president refused, he would be forced to resign. the bond salesman after, you know, casually pitching the violent over throw of the u.s. government asked butler if he would be interested in heading this march to which general butler replied my one hobby is maintaining a democracy. if you get these 5,000 soldiers smelling of anything of fascism, i will get 5,000 more and lick the hell out of you and have a real war. the general reported this exchange to the government and here he is revealing the so-called business plot before a panel of the special house committee on unamerican activities. bef
that s not the creepy part. the person knocking at the door is a volunteer for a group known as the utah voter verification project and the latest front in the so-called stop the steal election fraud conspiracy movement. we know this thanks to an investigative story by the salt lake tribune. kudos to local journalism. this is what they found. the questioners are part of a private statewide effort to root out supposed voter fraud, sound familiar? like the thing they tried in arizona examining ballots for cheeto dust to conclude president biden won the state by a greater margin unlike arizona trump won at utah but that isn t stopping utah door knockers from sniffing out fake fraud with clipboards. the tribune got its hands on the training material. the questioners are trained to keep these fake. they don t wear name tags and don t identify the organizations they re with. people of utah who care about our country and the integrity of our elections appear to have the personal vot
among the unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia though they changed their name after one of their members murdered heather heyer with his car. of course, their extremist views and ridiculous plastic shields earn them lots and lots of mockery this weekend when several were awkwardly left stranded at the arlington memorial bridge because their u haul wasn t large enough to carry them all home. they look really stupid and it easy to laugh at them, but to do so is to under estimate them and millions like them whose radical ideas are on the asent in this country. let not forget, the many that laughed at donald trump back in 2016 and even after he was elected, thanks to four years of trump, this is a backsliding democracy thanks to an international think tank. that s no joke. the truth is this country doesn t have a great track record of recognizing authoritarians for what they are, at least not until its too late. a darling of the american press and american papers cr
against the new coronavirus variant. the omicron. it is surging across the globe and that is not the greatest thing. it is also surging across america. you remember when it was a couple states then five or six. now 18 states. you can see the spread. more than 50 countries have recorded cases around the world. with everything that has been learned and applied there has been a quicker deployment than the initial reaction to covid to get international safety travel protocols into effect. the variant is believed already to be more transmissible than other variants so that s something that authorities are trying to deal with in real time. where s the good news? well, since last week, when the first case hit the united states, there are signs based on what they re learning that the worst possible thing that can happen in any illness may to the be happening much at all yet here and dr. fauci laying out a cautious optimism mixed with that evidence based good news. it is too early t
we have breaking news tonight. it s happened again. a deadly shooting at a high school in michigan. three students shot to death, a 15-year-old in custody tonight. also, a mayor dev major development in the january 6th commission, providing records and agreeing to sit for a deposition and a bitter public feud. the qanon congresswoman marjorie taylor greene calling fellow republican trash after mace condemned anti muslim bigotry from boebert to ilhan omar. a deadly shooting at a michigan high school. three students killed. i want to turn to aadrian. thanks for joining us. many injured and a 15-year-old sophomore in custody. a lot of information. give us the latest, please. don, a lot of new information including the names of the three deceased i d like to share with the viewers tonight. 16-year-old male died today. his name was tate myer. he died in the patrol car while deputies were transporting him to the hospital. the other two victims were females. a 14-year-old hanna s