shuffles in the ground on politics which means delays before people feel the benefits. the self proclaims qanon shaman was just sentenced to 41 months for his role in the capitol riot. we ll have a live report for the kyle ritenhouse trial. we begin this hour with weekend today co-host kristen welker, and ashley parker. why is this vote so important? we ll see the house floor open up momentarily. we will probably not see the actual vote on this centure until later in the afternoon. they are with democrats on so many of these kinds of issues. we asked her why she felt it was so important to take this step today. it s an emergency, it s violence against women, it s workplace harassment. in terms of threatening a member of the united states and the president. we have to address it immediately and i m so pleased that our members understand that this central to our work in congress that we protect the integrity of the house, of the institution, but also the lives of our men an
paul gosar. republican leadership has not condemned gosar at all which depicted him in some sort of fantasy killing of democratic congresswoman. gosar took the video down and said it was not intended to be violence. i guess you can call him that version of apologizing. speaking to reporters later this hour and while he is not condemned gosar s behavior publicly he urged members of his caucus to stop attacking the 13 republicans. some received death threats for simply supporting what used to be a noncontroversial subject. stark and bleak of when there is apparently more anger with a republican who voted for roads and bridges and a republican who depicted the death of a democrat. this entire gosar video episode has inflamed already elevated concerns about basically allow violence to be main stream against members of congress. toxic political rhetoric on the right including the president s ongoing defense of the january 6th insurrection. for his part, gosar somehow is defending