all this as outraged parents sound off over agendas in their children s class rams. john: merrick garland says it is about keeping school board members safe. you wrote the memo because of the later. the letter is disavowed now. you will keep your memo going anyway, right? it did not adopt every concern they had in the letter. did you consider the chilling impact your memorandum would have on parents exercising their constitutional rights? only thing this is about is violence and threats of violence. judge, this is shameful, your testimony, your performance is shameful. thank god you are not on the supreme court. you should resign in disgrace. sandra: that happening moments ago. more with andy in a moment, we begin with ayesha hasnie. we plan to see more from the senators in a moment, ayesha: right ag garland is trying to smooth over the memo. it is not working. republicans are drilling down on a couple points, the first is vagueness of the demo. it reads the d
enforcement are on the scene, a man hunt is underway. casey stegall is joining us by phone, he rushed to the site of this shooting reunification site in arlington, texas. casey, give us some sense of what it has been like for parents as they reunite with their children who were in the school at the time of the shooting. casey: you can imagine. i just spoke with a guy literally a few minutes ago, he said his daughter is a sophomore. he was parking in the parking lot because the traffic is so bad. he was going to hoof it to the performing arts center. not far, just a stones throw away from the high school itself. that has been identified as the official reunification center and that is where once the official all-clear is given and the students are able to board the buses and leave the property, they will be brought to this location so they can be reuniified with their parents. they want to put the right kids with the right people after a security incident like this. they wou
infringe on lgbtq rights in this country. there is the hamas attacks on october 7th and israel s indiscriminate retaliation, which have, quote, put loyalty and humanity to a test. and we have seen a republican primary field that is providing moments of absurdity. and let s face it, a lot of levity. let s get started. we begin tonight with a rare warning about our democracy. it is in dire straits, and that is not according to just one or two, but rather, 13 presidential libraries dating back to herbert hoover, all of which on thursday released a joint statement calling for every commitment to the country s bedrock principles, including the rule of law, and respecting a diversity of beliefs. i can t say this enough. this is an unprecedented move, never before had the presidential libraries engaged so directly in political affairs. while their joint message stopped short of calling out individuals by name, the subject of the warning was clear, the declaration read i
Protected by the first amendment? it is. okay. 15 of the 20, on the face are not violent, not threats of violence, they are parents who are unhappy. yes, when you write a memo, opening line of your memo in recent months there has been a disturbing spike in harass ment and intimidation and threats of violence. did you look up the 20 instances? as i testified, the decision to make, send the memo is for did you look up the 20 instans? i did not there is a reason, you started your career as law clerk to justice brennan, had many law clerks during the year, during your time as a judge. i was a clerk to chief justice
There complications one way or the other? well, it is dependent upon where the suspect is located. if they are in a vehicle, many instans that would work for law enforcement. when a person is on foot, they move slower, but move intoing what we re dealing with. this case two different sections. one, police are focusing on the next stage of the investigation when this goes to court. this person, when they are taken into custody, we want to gain a conviction. preservation of evidence is optimum importance. capturing the victim, police are doing a lot, vigorous search. the average person photograph or videotape 100 to 200 times per day, a lot of school systems have camera systems that link