this is american voices. as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, they re attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over government spending this fall. the new york times writes quote, mccarthy s to the right is a gambl
at nato and beyond, that if putin wins, he will not stop. he will go to other countries think he has a free reign to stop and then if nato is invaded, then all of us are going to have troops on the ground in ukraine defendant against this invasion of their country. that is what we have agreed, not ukraine, but if it is an nato country i have meant, but we have agreed we will fight for any nato country thatis will fight for any nato country that is invaded. and if president putin thinks he can go forward and defeat ukraine, he will be emboldened, there s no doubt about it. the he will be emboldened, there s no doubt about it. no doubt about it. the two candidates no doubt about it. the two candidates who no doubt about it. the two candidates who appear - no doubt about it. the two candidates who appear to l no doubt about it. the two l candidates who appear to be running for second place, i want to go through what they ve said recently on ukraine in the last debate before
er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again
so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and friend
latest. marianne. marianne: all three of the kansas city police officers who were shot are expected to make a full recovery. the officers were executing a search warrant and were met with gunfire. the independence police department in missouri is taking over the standoff, since kansas city police officers were affected. the police chief gave update on the condition of the officers saying three officers were struck and did return fire. they self-transported to a hospital and all three are in nonlife-threatening condition. chief graves said she was able to speak to all three officers, where a large police presence was posted outside. kansas city mayor lucas says we ve been reminded too much in kansas city how dangerous police work can be. i m praying for the officers and everyone on duty gets home to their families safely. missouri highway patrol will help handle the shooting investigation, again, it was kansas city officers involved. back to you. ashley: thank you. shockin