about jenner s message and whether she is so far winning over republican voters. if john: but we begin with police in utah investigating potential criminal charges after school board meeting erupted in protest over mask mandates for students. hello and welcome to the friday edition of america reports. i m john roberts. only two more working days until monday. john: i got a face full of backlash. backlash. for some of us anyways. great to be with you. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith today. if so earlier this week, school officials pleading for their kids to be allowed in schools without masks. fox news has got new video showing that contentious exchange that has now gone viral. john: state law requires students in utah to continue wearing masks until june 15th because that s the day that school gets out but according to scientists, the science does not support the public health mandate. if you let a senator come up here and speak in the name of my children
including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica
Night. and this thing was unfolding in the most dramatic way. alaska s 41-year-old democratic senator held a mock meeting of his sub committee meeting osbuilding and groundings and began reading aloud the 7,000 page pentagon secret report in public. the papers proved that for 20 years we have been victims of our southeast asia policy. i was frightened to death over releasing the pentagon papers, all i could think of is my country is killing people, maiming americans, and this is terrible. so i was overcome with emotion, not patriotism, just emotion of something you love dearly that had gone astray. he continued until emotion overcame him after 1:00 this morning. keep in mind i m the only one in the committee. i asked to put all of these