joining me now is ben wilson, reporter for the washington beacon. now, ben, since your story came out, fema telling the ingram angle that these specific trainings are not mandatory for the entire agency. but look, this is obviously is obviously a priority for them. otherwise they wouldn t offer it at all. what can you tell us? right. they re saying now that o it s not a required thing for everyone. they are requiring thousands oef employees to take these courses on diversity, equitythey and, inclusion. and they re also playing word games by saying these specific coursesayings we re going to, q, are not required. but that s because they havene o two other courses they could take. so it is required to take one of them. bu themaid,t you said, laura, the devastation is historic. it s ongoing. we have 1200 people that could still be missing. they re putting out lists of names, but there s so many more people they haven t identified, asking family members to send in dna as they re going th
like she d just been usin it correct, right. i wanted to look at the cel phone right away because i would tell us who she may have been in contact with last. there was a text messag from clay thursday morning telling chanin he had ca trouble, asking chanin to take the kids to school. and late exchanges about who would take them up. not terribl interesting stuff, except that wasn t all they found on chani starbuck s phone. and the what else that was there was very interesting. she d had communication with at least two other me that appeared that she was planning on meeting with one o two of them. now that got the detective attention and fairly jumped at them a particular text, a very specific, very explicit one. there was a text messag that was to chanin asking he to pose a specific way the hair rose on ricket s neck. that was almost exactl the way the killer posed chanin s body. a coincidence
you thank you for that great reporting. pro that propublica kind o stuff. thank you for joining us tonight, alex s office evening she will be back nex week we re gonna start the evenin with breaking news out of texa were trump appointed federal judge has issued a ruling th lava act on the lives of nearl every person in the country. why do we say every person because it s about every perso who can become pregnant, everyone who cares about someone knocking apartment, an everyone who cares access to regulated drugs. pretty much everyone has a stake in the case. it revolves around the first o two pills better use i medication abortion. mifepristone, first approved b the fda in the year 2000 it s been used overseas fo that gates before that but tonight, the approval is o pause. because of a case brought by a group of conservative christia lawyers, with a history of failed lawsuits talkin transgender student athletes months, ago one month ago, the
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