trump s intent. the new york times reports that prosecutors have questioned multiple witnesses over the past few weeks, including jared kushner, and questioned them about whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had actually lost. the line of questioning suggests that prosecutors are trying to establish whether trump was acting with corrupt intent. remember, kushner also spoke to the january 6th committee last year. jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? i kind of like i said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done, and i know that, you know, he was always him and the team were always saying, oh, we re going to resign. we re not going to be here if this happens, as that happens. so i took it up to just be whining, to be honest with you. we also just learned moments ago special counsel jack smith requested a reply memo by trump and nauta to delay the documen
struggle. but now a different supreme court has issued a different ruling. one that threatens to drag america backwards. last month, the conservative supermajority ruled that the first amendment protects a web designer s refusal to work on same-sex marriages. in michigan, a hair salon owner is facing an investigation by city officials after she announced she would refuse service to transgender customers and in indiana, a school ruled they can fire a guidance counselor because of her same-sex marriage and as justification for her refusal to perform same-sex ceremonies. they warned this would happen. more over, they warned it would open discrimination with other group of americans. i don t know that we can say
discriminate. in michigan, a hair salon owner announced she ll refuse service. in texas, a judge doesn t want to perform same sex marriage ceremonies north carolina, lawyers for a catholic school says the ruling bolsters their reasons to fire a teacher because he married another man. that harkens back to jim crow and during oral arguments, justices sotomayor and jackson warned about what would happen. i don t know that we can say just because we have a religious objection to same sex marriage in the situation that wouldn t necessarily implicate religious objections to other kinds of situations. where s the line? i choose to serve whom i want if
there is leeway for municipalities to make some of their own rules. that s why we re here in portola valley. this is san matteo county, so now, with the indoor mask mandate coming off for people who are vaccinated in california, as of last wednesday, you can go into that supermarket behind me without a mask, no problem. but if you re essentially across the street, that s santa clara county. they still have a mask mandate because they want to wait for the case rates to come down some more. this also extends to individual businesses, so for example, a hair salon owner over in fremont in alameda county, no countywide mask mandate there anymore but she notes that some of her staff are still with clients for two and a half hours at a stretch, so she s keeping a mask requirement for now. i feel like i m still lots going on with the virus and i feel like more safe, again, for my coworkers and my guests to