that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t
i don t know what the polling numbers show but it s over 75% supported. common sense. ronald reagan, president reagan, the pillar of conservative republicism signed into law the assault rifle weapons ban. we can do this. background checks right now, the polls were 90% to 97%. assault style weapons bans anywhere from 67 there s one that had it around 50 but there was an outlier. 67% to 75%. it s a majority issue for americans. the numbers are going to just grow as these events keep happening. governors john hickenlooper and kate brown, thank you so much. thank you so much. still ahead this morning, a second grand jury brings charges against paul manafort and rick gates in the mueller investigation. what officials say manafort was doing while managing the trump campaign. we ll be right back. when you have a cold,
because, ben, that seems to me i keep thinking about what i think about ben howe. i keep thinking about which like conservative principles and the idea of like self-mastery and self-control being sort of in line with them and the idea of sort of like unruly, licentiousness being opposed to them. it was remarkable to me to last night watch a lot of conservatives say this is absolutely unacceptable, black and white issue here. but then a lot rise to the defense of a candidate who body slammed a reporter. yeah, that s the battle that s been going on for a while now, which is the battle between conservatism, and republicanism, and a lot of people have chosen republicism which is the win at any cost. trump has really stretched that definition to lengths i never thought i would say, and it s made it so they re so used to defending things that trump has done, this is almost light. no offense to ben jacobs but this is almost light compared to some of the things they ve had
are we going to have a repeat of what happened during the bush years. big government republicism. to end this segment on a really somber note throw this into the equation. with medical advances the way they are, new medical advances nearly every day, every week, people are going to live long are. so go out 10 or 15 years with an ageing population growing even older and existing basically on what? medicare, social security. all of your entitlement programs. that is combustible. if you haven t heard it a billion times, in the 1950s there were 15 people working for every one person on social security. today there are three people working for every one on medication. these programs are not sustainable as is.
debate of republicism but put it on the back burner. just a year olds and this little prince has had more publicity this-r that people will have in their lifetime. max foster, cnn, london. back to business. we ll have more on the malaysian airline disaster after this break. the man scheduled to fly both malaysian doomed flights. but incredible he switched his ticket.