schumer is attempting to jump-start the democrats agenda, announcing this week that the senate will debate and vote on changes to the filibuster by january 17th if republicans continue to block a pair of voting rights bills that passed the house last year. let s bring in our panel, columnist bill mcgurn and kim strassel and editorial board member kyle peterson. kim, first of all, the way in which this was handlinged handled during the anniversary of memorial, whatever you want to call it, transforming a memorial of an awful event into really a partisan political pitch. there was something unseemly about it, wasn t there? oh, yeah. but, look, i think one of the things is this is all they ve got at the moment. and that was really exposed by that very aggressive speech by joe biden. they ve got raging inflation, raging omicron, the rest of their agenda has collapsed, build back better. this voting rights bill is
seems to suggest that they effectively changed out their prison gear changed out all of the things they were wearing to don in camouflage gear that david sweat, from that picture is clearly wearing. someone who knew him described him as gaunt. clearly, three weeks on the run, moving at a very fast tempo. you can see he s shot, he s bleeding. he s being handlinged by state troopers. new information, he was coming down the road and they saw him and shot him. the sergeant ordered mr. sweat to stop. the man who shot him is actually a firearms instructor. not clear how many shots were fired. they do believe that it was once possibly twice.