House and the senate. We know that the leaders in the house, speaker paul ryan, the leader were on the train. They are okay. But the tragic news today that theres one american confirmed dead. Somebody who was traveling on the truck that the train hit. And we also know that there was one person who was critically injured and taken to an area hospital who was also traveling in the truck. We also know now that congressman jason lewis of minnesota was transported to a hospital. We have a photo of him with his neck in a brace being treated by medical percesonnel. We dont know at this point the extent of his injuries. We heard from an aid previously there was one member of congress who was hurt who was standing up when this accident occurred. Everybody who was on the train felt a jolt, especially those traveling near the front of the train. There were laptops, cell phones went fly iing. As you point out, many members had their spouses, children,
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Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. And then there is the new hope of the resistance. Like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name
president. On saturday, President Trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. I went from a very successful businessman to top tv st
Nine months away. There is a lot to talk about. Lets begin at the white house. Kelly odonnell, we are learning that rob porter, the Staff Secretary, accused of Domestic Violence by his exwives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct . Reporter thats our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and Sarah Huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. That has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. The statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and Emotional Abuse and porter has said that these are smears. He has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. We saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior Team Including chiefofstaff john kelly were very supportive of porter and he
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we want to work with them in a bipartisan way to get things done. we just talked about, leading into your question, we just talked about the list of things that i discussed, that we discuss, that we really need to work on for the american family. whether it s gun violence prevention, where able to do, last year the year before in 2022 we were able to come in a bipartisan way to put out a significant bipartisan legislation to deal with gun violence. the first time in 30 years. we need to do that. we need to continue to work together on border security. the president the first day and administration in a couple of weeks we re gonna hit three years since the president had been in the administration. the first thing that he put forward was a comprehensive immigration law. that what he put forward to congress and that s because he believed that our system was broken. and that it had been broken for decades and wanted to take that seriously. but we need republicans in congress to work with u
the violent nature of false death. what is happening to the shoot at that point? he s gonna hit with large amounts of rain, material blood, skin, hair, bone fragments, and i believe very likely some of the and what would be the force of that hitting the shooter? substantial. would you expect to see any type of injuries to the shooter? that is quite possible. i mean for sure. so what about the shooter s clothing? how much biological material and blood is going to be on the shooter s clothing, and the person? a lot. a lot. on the upper body. more keep in mind, investigators first on the scene who testified for the state said, they did not see any blood on alex murdaugh that night. the state has suggested he washed up and changed clothes after allegedly killing his wife and son.