[ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart this had ceremony inspired by the create can jous actions of colonel davis, help us to follow his selfless example as we serve our nation s people. hay our participation in today s ceremony couple with the strength and shaping of your spirit to compel us to live lives of integrity and valor for the good of the nation, for the gad of our families and the good of human kind around the world. bless and protected our armed forces as they preserve our freedoms. keep the lamp of liberty burning bright on the united states of america and our allies around the world. and grant us all your grace to meet the challenges ahead, the strength to overcome every obstacle and um part the wisdom and will to do justly and walk humbly before you all the days of our lives. it is in your most holy and precious name i pray, amen. you re watching a simply remarkable moment there at the
the national news. as luck would have it, we brought you the story for the first time a week ago at this time. it s a story out of new mexico. just tonight as we are getting on the air, there is a major development in that story tonight and it is a shocking one. i imagine given these new developments in the story, this will not be the only place you will be hearing about this over the next several days. all right, what we were able to tell you last week is news of a spate of recent shootings that had targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen elected officials in new mexico, all of them members of the democratic party. no one was injured in these shootings. these shootings hit buildings, not people. but they apparently had all been targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. so just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to some county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s
targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l
and it was certainly. nearly 30 million more cases, nearly half a million lost lives and millions of lost jobs. now with federal relief choengs the way, three vaccines on the market, but deaths still averaging about 1400 a day. president biden addressed the nation. good evening, my fellow americans. tonight i d like to talk to you about where we are as you mark one year since everything stopped because of this pandemic. a year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for day, week, then months. that led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness. photos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era, the last vacation, the last birthday with friends, the last holiday with extended family. while it was different for everyone, we all lost something. a collective suffering. a collective sacrifice. a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. but in the loss, we saw h
trace: florida governor desantis taking a swipe at former president trump over his refusal to fire dr. anthony fauci, and he is shaking off rumors his campaign is in trouble. complete coverage coming up with the panel, but first live to rich edson in washington. desantis is making covid the centerpiece of his campaign. he really is, trace. governor ron desantis is leaning into his covid record, quickly reopened classrooms and businesses. covid is among the first issue he leveraged to criticize former president trump accusing his administration of favoring lockdowns. now the florida governor tells bret baier that trump s covid record shows he let others in his administration take the lead. even january of 2021, right before he left office, his task force was telling us in florida to close and so he didn t have control over his own government.