care if you get sick because yolo. an answer to everything. taking over america and meh, and history is mean. cancel it. to be clear, this is not a substantive party. take, for example, congressman matt gaetz, who is still under investigation for alleged sex trafficking of a teenaged girl, which he denies, and who has faced zero consequences from republican leadership for that embarrassing mess. here he is defending kyle rittenhouse. you know what? kyle rittenhouse would probably make a pretty good congressional intern. we may reach out to him and see if he would be interested in helping the country in additional ways. this is not a joke. kyle rittenhouse is on trial for murder. it s as serious for his family as it is for the families of his victims. it is not a joke. but it is to matt gaetz. and that, that is the kind of unserious thing that you only say if you re from a party that is so bereft of purpose that it dominated by internet trolls obsessed with dangerous viole
massive social spending bill through the house. the build back better bill is passed! passage without a single republican vote was a major victory for the speaker who was surrounded by cheering colleagues on the floor. it follows record breaking 8 1/2-hour floor speech from house republican leader mccarthy delaying but not denying the final vote. the bill goes to the senate faces a major hurdle west virginia democrat manchin whose support is not guaranteed. we are seeing live pictures of the president i believe going into walter reed or tape playback pictures. i just want to say that the president today is going in for his annual physical, a day ahead of the 79th birthday. congressional budget office shows instead of being fully paid for the bill would increase the deficit by hundreds of millions of dollars. the president is not reacting but turned over power to the vice president while he is being sedated for a colonoscopy. there s breaking news in the national covid vac
and in the nation s capital, president biden talking about this, and affirming the american jury system after this controversial acquittal. watch. i stand by what the jury has concluded. the jury system works. we re expecting to hear more from him later in the hour as he celebrates the house passing his social spending plan this morning, but his jnt isn t quite over the finish line yet. i m hallie jackson in washington. but we start with our team in and around kenosha, wisconsin. ellison barber, who is there. i m also joined by former u.s. attorney, rachel paulus, barbara mcquade, former prosecutor, paul henderson, and brittany pat nick cunningham. ellis, i have to start with you. you re on scene. we just heard from the defense attorney who i assume spoke not too far from where you are now. what do you expect in the next hour or so. have we heard from everybody that we expect to hear from at this point? given that we just got that statement from the prosecutor, i would
i ve seen other members of this party advance the argument including representative gosar himself, the illusion this is just a joke. that what we say and what we do does not matter so long as we claim a lack of meaning. i am here to rise to say that it does. our work here matters. our example matters. there is meaning in our service, and as leaders in this country when we incite violence with depictions against our colleagues that trickles down into violence in this country. congresswoman casio-cortez came before the house voted to sensor congressman gosar and strip him. liz cheney and adam kinzinger did not vote for it. expelling a member from congress, in fact, according to the new york times fewer than two dozen members have been sen censored since the early 19th century. after republican after republican took to the floor to justify it and to use their time instead of addressing the video at all, to scream about brown people at the border and afghanistan and inflati
point. all right. and you ran forward toward him. correct? when he turned and ran back, i went the following and decided that s the last thing i need to do, and i came back. and he ran around the corner. i lost sight of him, yes, ma am. at that point that he ran to your truck and ran away from your truck, had his hands at his side? he did, yeah, running. running? yes, ma am. didn t run to your truck and pull out a weapon. he ran to the truck, but didn t pull out anything, no, ma am. and so he runs up how close did he get to the truck the first time? probably from me to you at the furthest. i would say it was close, yes, ma am. and you got out of your truck? yes, ma am. you got out with a shotgun that time? i did not. so you got out i don t have your truck and yelled at him. as he s getting close to me, yes, i was yelling at him at that point to stop, yes, ma am. he turned around to run back? he did. didn t threaten you in any way? n