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And every texan, instead of a select few. The backlash growing over that Texas Law banning abortions, after only six weeks. The new plan by democrats to fight back. And doctors warn At The Labor Day holiday, plus the start of College Football Season could create the perfect storm for a covid spike. All while a new more frightening variant could be on the horizon, we will ask our expert whAt This means for all of us. Good morning, it is sunday, there if. If im lindsey reiser. Im cAndice gibson, live Hq Right here in new York City. Not sure if you saw some pictures yesterday, including from a Virginia Tech game. It looked as if we were in not a pAndemic anymore. ThousAnds And thousAnds of people up on top of each other. Weve got this beautiful shot from new York City this morning. Look At ThAt The mornings are getting darker. Yes they say that summer is ending without saying this summer is ending, that shot says it right there. Yes fall is upon us, theres a crisp in the air, at least you
InsurrectiOn Attempt, was a real plan, how do we even translate that, how do we sit around and wait a year for Inspector Generals report about the fight that Donald Trump was calling up people and saying flip this election for me . Exactly. I appreciate the balance that shes talking about that when youre talking about people having committed crimes in the political context, in this case overthrowing the government, and keeping somebody in power, we dont criminalized politics. You can commit a crime in a political context, but it has to be approached so much that if you get voted out of office you end up in jail, that has to only happen if you are definitely a crook committing crimes while you are a politician. And so there is a balance that has to be found, but Merrick Garland has a Justice Department where all of these former high ranking officials may have participated in very serious crimes, and the Justice Department has to Self Police its own officials in a way to fix that faster
Return to house investigators on the committee. The committee first made the request 849 days ago. The Bill Barr Justice department which operated as the Donald Trump Justice Department block his return from being released despite the fact that the law is absolutely clear that the Treasury Department shall turn over any Tax Documents requested by a Tax Writing Committee in the congress. Today Merrick Garlands Justice Department says the committees request to see the records is lawful, valid and should be fulfilled. Quote, applying the proper degree of Deference Due to the committee we agree that there is ample basis to conclude that its June 2021 requests for Trumps Tax Information was for the committees principal objective to assessing the irss president ial audit program, a legitimate area for inquiry and possible legislation. Ways and means chairman said this about the decision as ive maintained for years the, committees cases very strong and the law is on our side, im glad the depa
While all states are seeing upticks in new cases, the cdc says, just four states, california, texas, missouri and florida, now account for more than 40 of all cases this past week. One in five new cases in our country is occurring in the state of florida, alone. This is not where the biden administration expected to be after an intensive mass vaccine campaign. Right now, fewer than 50 of the total u. S. Population is fully vaccinated. And the numbers of people getting shots continues to fall. The White House is now focused on fighting misinformation about the vaccines. And they were calling out the tech companies, today. Today, President Biden had sharp words in fact, for facebook. Whats your message to platforms like facebook . Theyre killing people. I mean really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And theyre killing people. G as you might have heard earlier. Facebook responded in a statement which reads quote, more than two or Two Billion people have reviewed