twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on democracy and architecture. but it s not just trump. we know that he is a symptom, not the disease itself. every time i get a subpoena, my polls go up. reports were grand jury. it s all bowl to. it s all stuff. you can see the crowd, there but more than 2000 people stood in the wind and rain to cheer that trump rant. to cheer the subpoenas. the grand juries, the man
of building. have a good weekend, my friend. see you next week. all right, we are now the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season, six months out from 2024, and in a confluence events this week, yesterday in fact, rex exactly two and a half years since the january 6th attack on the capital. it s humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on demo
don t even think i could. it s shock, complete shock. [sirens] i need medical unit. the longer time goes on without him, it s really hard. that s how it ended. this is how it started. he took a gun and took it to my head. it wasn t until i heard the click that i realized it wasn t loaded. i let him take martial. he had the boys running drills and shoot live ammunition over their heads. what were they turning into, living with him? monsters. he was talking about police officers, if any cop got on my face, i had killam. let s call it what it was, an execution. i think is one of the most dangerous people we ve ever dealt with. the threat of death was very real from him. what i end up leaving, i would ve been in a bag in the ocean. it was deep country, dark, just after two a.m.. as the small town montana deputy cruised home. and of a quiet shift. it was may 2017, outside his car, the air was fresh with a smell of new planting. he was happy,
democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
smuggling migrants at record numbers. lexis mcadams has the latest on the ground in eagle pass, texas. good afternoon alexis brick works we see this every single day the southern border. hundreds of walking across the border into the united states but many of them have no clue where they re going to go next they do not have a plan. once they are in the u.s. if they re willing to pay big money like thousands of dollars, there are new ways to smuggle them across the united states. just like this but what you re looking on your screen is a picture we just got an a little while ago from texas dps. this shows 19 migrants on this private plane in mcallen, texas for an investigator say three cars pulled up to the private airport and dropped off the migrants on friday. that is been a concerned citizen called 911 and the police showed up. the migrants were from central america. this is the second bus at a private airport in texas just in the past two weeks. humans are smuggled in, so