3 loads a day, my son nash likes to leave a lot of loads in his onesies, and my daughter has food all over -- >> i would do it for you any time. >> that's so sweet, i love that, except for the diaper part. >> blow-outs. >> ok. bye, "america reports" now. >> john: harris, thank you. not one but two high profile republican gatherings taking place as the party looks to take back the white house in 2024, and 2 of the three declared candidates are taking the stage to make their case to republican activists and donors. >> gillian: what do the two events tell us about the status and the future of the gop? shannon bream and karl rove are here to break it all down, coming up. >> i'm innocent. i would never hurt my wife

maggie and i would never hurt my son paw paw. >> murder of your wife maggie murdaugh, i sentence you to a term for the rest of the natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. >> john: convicted double murderer alec murdaugh set to spend the rest of his life and after life behind bars after a south carolina judge handed down two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. john roberts in washington. good friday to you. >> gillian: good friday, that's an awful long time, two life sentences. i'm gillian turner, i'm in for sandra, this is "america reports." so in this fairly dramatic sentencing hearing, judge clifton newman admonished him, called the defense not credible and assault on the integrity of

the judicial system. >> john: murdaugh repeatedly claimed he did not murder his wife and son. his conviction capped off a stunning fall from grace for his family which the judge described as controlling justice in their south carolina community more than a century. >> sandra: we have legal experts standing by. >> john: jonathan has been covering the trial since the beginning. what are the next steps? >> facing two consecutive life sentences, murdaugh plans to file appeal. his defense attorneys announced that minutes ago. they say it was unfair of the court to allow prosecutors to introduce testimony about murdaugh's alleged financial crimes to his murder trial. take a listen. >> that was being offered as motive for why he would go home and kill his wife and son, which we thought was illogical and ludicrous. >> murdaugh wore the county jail

jump suit. today the judge asked murdaugh about something he said on the witness stand during the trial when explaining why he lied to police about his whereabouts the night his wife and son were killed. murdaugh used the phrase what a tangled web we weave. >> what did you mean by that? >> i meant when i lied i continued to lie. >> and the question is when will it end? >> in another dramatic moment when murdaugh insisted he did not kill his wife and son, judge newman replied it might not have been you, it might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, opioid pills, john. >> john: jonathan, we'll see where it goes ten days or more from now. legal panel now, fox legal analyst, and loss lori murray,

lawyer lori on tiktok. and murdaugh's attorneys will announce a notice for appealing this case. they believe they have a good one, lori, because the judge, clifton newman, allowed all the evidence of financial crimes. do they in your estimation have a good case for appeal? >> well, this is -- really their biggest appellate issue they have. a lot of things were objectionable but the court of appeals would not turn the case this. is one they could have an argument about and the court of appeals will hear, and you know, it was a judgment called by judge newman. if you buy that financial crimes can actually make you go and kill your wife and child, the pressure from all that, just to have, you know, a few weeks reprieve can make you kill your wife and child you should have

let it in. but frankly, i don't buy that could be the motive. >> john: given the chance to make a statement as we saw at the top of this, mercedes, murdaugh claimed innocence to the end. >> i tell you again, i respect this court but i'm innocent. i would never under any circumstances all right my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paw paw. >> john: the judge took that into consideration and fired back with this. >> it might not have been you. it might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills. maybe you become another person. i've seen that before, the person standing before me is not

the person who committed the crime. >> john: it may be the person standing before him was not the person who committed the crime but committed nonetheless, and sentenced him to consecutive life sentence, and a life sentence is called pine box parole. in jail until he dies and then some. >> exactly, and it's interesting, the judge made no bones about the fact that he felt that alex murdaugh lied. he lied to law enforcement, lied on the stand saying well, i lied then but i'm not the killer, it seems this judge fully embraced the judgment and what the jurors ultimately decided which is that alex murdaugh killed his son and wife. hard stop. it's interesting because really, the biggest challenge to alex murdaugh's appeal is going to be the fact he took the stand. how do you keep these -- the

results of the jury locked in by the prosecution, well, certainly if your defense attorney puts the individual accused of the crime on the stand and the jurors make a decision based on that individual's credibility, it's extremely hard for that -- for the appellate division to turn around and say no, the jury got it wrong. because the judges will not put themselves in as the jurors, they are not going to substitute the judgment for the jurors. they were not sitting there for the six weeks of the trial assessing the credibility of the witnesses and ultimately the jurors spoke and they did not believe alex murdaugh. >> john: when it comes before the appellate court, it won't be before a jury, but i thought the jury had an interesting read, the fellow interviewed on "good morning america" said they didn't buy a thing alec murdaugh was trying to sell and the juror had absolute disdain for the defendant. was that surprising to you? >> not so because -- >> john: to lori, i'm sorry.

>> oh, sorry. >> i can't see, so i didn't know if you were talking to me or not. no, it's not surprising to me they had disdain for him. you either buy what he said or you don't. there's no in between there. the problem is -- what dick did very well, in the argument to prohibit the bad act of the financial crimes made sure to put in there that definitely affected alex murdaugh's decision whether to testify. without that coming in there would have been no need to testify as to why the big lie from the kennel and his alibi, but that played a huge role and dick put that in there, that's preserved for appeal. >> john: breaking news, but lori, mercedes, appreciate your thoughts. gillian. >> gillian: republican presidential candidate nikki haley is now speaking at cpac in national harbor, maryland. listen in.

>> the only competition democrats want to the one on who's most triggered. we need families who are thriving and confident. liberals have given them the highest inflation in 40 years and the lowest confidence in history. and we need our military to be stronger than ever. but what does joe biden have our troops doing? taking gender pronoun classes. i'm the wife of a combat veteran and that disgusts me. our troops already know the difference between men and women. they also know that we need a different commander in chief. [applause] it's not just our military. on biden and harris's watch, this woke self-loathing has swept our country. it's in the classroom, the board room and the back rooms of government. we are told our country is flawed, rotten and full of hate. joe and kamala even say america

is racist. wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic hands down. i have traveled the world and back and i've seen what's out there. america isn't perfect, but the principles at the heart of america are perfect. and take it from me, the first minority female governor in history, america is not a racist country. [cheering] i will get the self-loathing out of our schools. get the self-destruction out of our culture and once we make america proud, we will make america strong. and this starts by bringing back law and order. in my administration, police and border patrol will know we have their backs and criminals and illegal immigrants will know we have their number. [applause]

and i'll restore faith in our elections, too. as governor, i signed voter i.d. in 2011. the media went crazy and i was vilified for it. they said i was trying to disen franchise voters. i called their bluff. anyone unable to get an i.d., we will pick them up, take them to the dmv, give them a free i.d. and return them home safely. out of 5 million people in south carolina, you know who -- how many people asked for a ride? 25. now south carolina has more people voting than ever before and it's racist to think that minorities are incapable of getting an i.d. for themselves. i'll make america strong at home. we'll have safe streets, secure

elections and a strong economy that lifts up everyone, not just a select few. ment and i'll restore our strength in the world. i'll make our armed forces of the united states more powerful and capable than ever before. never forget, a strong military does not start wars, a strong military prevents wars. i'll bring the same strength to the white house that i brought to the united nations. as ambassador, i said we would have the backs of our allies. but i also told them that anyone that didn't have our backs, we would be taking names. remember what happened when we moved the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem? 128 countries condemned us. so i took names. i went to my office and i had my staff put a list together. they listed all 193 countries.

the second column i wanted them to say the percentage of times they voted with the united states and against the united states. and then i wanted the last column to show how much foreign aid we gave them. guess what. we give billions of dollars every year to countries that undermine america every day. they stab us in the back and then they turn around and have their hand out wanting money. some of them even support terrorists that try and kill our troops. to this day we are giving foreign aid to pakistan, iraq, the palestinians, cuba, china, we are paying off our enemies. when i'm president, we will stop giving money to countries that hate america. [cheering]

our enemies think they can walk all over us. did you ever think that americans would look to the sky and see a chinese spy balloon looking back down at us? it was a national embarrassment. make no mistake, communist china is the strongest, most disciplined enemy we have ever faced. we need to hold china accountable and we need to start with covid. [applause] and before we even talk about the cartels, we need to confront the fact that china is the one sending the fentanyl across the border. i can't believe that biden is letting china get away with so much. the chinese companies now own more than 380,000 acres of american soil. some of it right next to our

military bases. what are we doing? we should never let enemies own land in our country. and we should tell every single university you can either have chinese money or you can have american money but you don't get both. [cheering] china thinks the american era has passed, so do our enemies, but they're wrong. america is not past our prime, it's just that our politicians are past theirs. it is time that we have term limits once and for all in washington, d.c. americans deserve better than the way we are living today and i'm confident we can take our country to her best days. the plan i'm calling for will do just that. it's fundamentally conservative

and profoundly american. and i know we can unite our people. but real unity doesn't come from faint hearts or watered down compromises. real national unity comes from boldly proclaiming our national purpose. it comes from standing on principle and persuading opponents to stand with us. like i did when i was governor and when i was ambassador. i'll take this message far and wide in the days ahead. but i have a particular message for you, my fellow conservatives. we've lost the popular vote in the last seven out of eight presidential elections. our cause is right, but we have failed to win the confidence of a majority of americans. that ends now. if you are tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation and if you want to win, not just as a party, but as a country, then stand with me.

i'm here to ask for your vote but i want something else even more. i want us to inspire our country again. >> gillian: you've been listening to republican presidential candidate, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley giving her speech at cpac this afternoon, focusing on her what has become really her area of expertise, foreign diplomacy, foreign relations. also said a moment ago in response to criticism she received recently, john, it is not that america is past its prime, it's that our politicians are past theirs. >> john: why she wants a mental competency test for everybody over the age of 75. >> sandra: who runs for office -- for the presidency, anyway. >> john: pointing out she can't make good on, to make sure we don't give foreign aid to countries that don't have our best interest at heart. >> gillian: it's not the

president, they influence them, but not up to them. >> john: that's nikki haley, and vivek at 3:45 this afternoon, former president trump tonight and the duelling gop event as well, the club for growth retreat in palm beach we'll be talking about more. >> gillian: take a look at this, also some new draft legislation out west in california that could allow fentanyl dealers to face murder charges if their customers die. our next guest's daughter passed away from fentanyl poisoning back in 2019. this new draft law is known as alexandra's law. it was written in her memory. the that's a photo of her there on the screen. her father, matt, joins us now. thank you so much for taking time with us. we know it's difficult, to put it mildly. we also. >> thank you for having me. >> gillian: of course. i understand that earlier this week i think on monday the man who sold her that fentanyl dose,

which proved to be fatal, was sentenced to prison time. how do you feel about his -- the verdict and sentencing? >> well, i am grateful and disappointed. judge bernal, the federal judge who sentenced the man responsible for killing my daughter had a chance to send a strong message that we are not going to tolerate these death dealers selling this poison in our communities. he could have sentenced this man up to 20 years in federal prison. instead he sentenced him to almost half of what the federal sentencing guidelines suggested and sentenced him to nine years. but i want to tell you, that's nine years more than the vast majority of victims get, and most victims aren't as lucky as we were to have our case taken up by federal prosecutors. most victims don't get any justice, and that's why we need

better state laws like the law we are presenting, alexandra's law so these death dealers can be held accountable. >> john: matt, this current generation is facing dangers that other generations didn't. previous generations, drugs around, experimentation, but the chance of dying from something you took was very slim unless you were to abuse it, like a drug like heroin or something. but these days, a young person's first experimentation could end in death with a single pill. >> yeah, it's terrible. and what's equally as terrible is we are letting drug dealers, we are turning drug dealers into death dealers and letting them get away with it. and i want to touch on our legislation and let you know just how simple, yet how effective it will be. our bill is simple. if someone is convicted of manufacturing or selling illicit

drugs, they will receive a warning letting them know they don't stop and someone dies as a result of their action they can be charged with murder. this will be kept on record and it will serve as evidence of malice, which is what prosecutors in california need in order to hold somebody accountable, a drug dealer accountable for murder. but i want to make it very clear. this legislation isn't about charging somebody with murder, it's about dissuading a drug dealer from becoming a death dealer. the same type of legislation has worked, it's how we handle driving under the influence in california. we have seen it dramatically reduce the number of dui fatalities by having a similar admonishment and this will do the same. >> gillian: we spoke about the culpability of street dealers, move afoot to start holding the

manufacturers of synthetic fentanyl or most of the, what most teens in america have access to today, to hold the chinese government accountable for the actual manufacture of these drugs. how do you feel about that? >> you know -- well, you know, this is a multi-facetted problem, and everybody in the supply chain is guilty, from china to the cartels south of our border, but right down to those who are peddling the poison in our own country. me as a dad, a small business owner in the town of temecula, there is not much i can do about china, not much i can do about the cartels south of our border. but i can put pressure on our legislators here in my state to go after, you know, the other, you know, another part of that chain which is the drug dealers right here. >> john: ever since matt, this

country started dealing with drugs, an argument, what do you go after? the supply or curb the demand? we put that question to congressman dan crenshaw, he has legislation he's working on with democrats which would provide authorization for the use of military force against these cartels. what he said about supply versus demand. >> the supply creates the demand. that -- that dealer gets into a high school and gets kids addicted and they overdose 20 years later. we have seen it happen because they are addicted for life when they get it young. so that supply absolutely needs to be dealt with, and that's also a concrete thing we can deal with. you tell me how to change and fix human nature where they don't want to self-destruct and take drugs, i'm all ears. >> john: my understanding the situation with your daughter was she was suffering from some sort of depression, she was looking for a pill to help her with that, what do you say to congressman crenshaw and the best way to attack it is go

after the supply rather than the demand. >> well, i agree we need to go after the supply. i can tell you there's not a supply for death, my daughter was seeking relief. she was not seeking death. and you know, when we are young, you know, our country as a whole -- there's very few people that at some point in their life, you know, most likely when they were young, they didn't experiment with some type of drug. if they didn't themselves, certainly had friends or family members that did but they didn't die. it was a phase in their life that they could look back on, they perhaps learned from, but i want to touch on that and emphasize there is not a demand for death. >> john: yeah, and that was the point i was making earlier, the previous generations, risk of dying from a drug overdose or risk of dying from experimentation, rather, was pretty slim, and now it could be your first pill could be your very last. matt, we are so sorry for your

loss. >> thank you. and one last message that i'll try to hit on. i try to emphasize this whenever i speak, to all the parents out there, if you cannot guarantee that your child won't try one drug, one time, you can't guarantee they won't be a victim of fentanyl. >> gillian: matt, thank you for all the work you are doing on behalf of teens, and thank you for sharing your story, we appreciate it. >> john: our prayers are with you and your family. >> thank you. >> john: moving on now, republicans gearing up for 2024 as candidates attend two separate events held at the same time. what does it say for the party as it builds up to the race for the white house? fox news sunday anchor shannon bream will join us on that just ahead. >> gillian: california cities have battled homelessness crisis for years. one city is managing to defy the

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>> gillian: the future of the republican party is in focus as conservatives now are gathering for duelling events featuring top gop contenders for 2024. former president trump is the headliner for the cpac conference just outside d.c. some notable names are absent, missing from the roster this year, includes florida's governor, ron desantis. fox news team coverage begins now. shannon bream joins us in just a moment. first with mark meredith, he's at cpac in national harbor, maryland. hey, mark. >> gillian, good afternoon to you. just a few moments ago we saw the former u.n. ambassador nikki haley receive a pretty warm welcome from the cpac crowd, a standing ovation as she came on the stage, i did not hear any boos, they were receptive to her remarks. interesting to see if it lasts as we get later on into the primary season. haley kept her speech focused on this type of crowd she's geared towards conservatives, and similar to the speech in the

campaign launch a few weeks ago. she's been making stops at battleground stops, and grassroots conservatives, people can make all the difference generating buzz in the battleground states. most of the people we have spotted are die hard trump supporters, telling us they are still out here for him on a daily basis. and caught up with some vendors and what's selling, idea of where the 2024 race stands today. >> it's -- i have desantis next most popular but 50-1 trump merchandise over desantis. and those you have to realize, those are people that are hard cores. >> as gillian was hinting, ron desantis is among those not at cpac, even though he's a likely 2024 candidate. and the other two men on the screen, they chose not to be at

cpac, some are in florida. we heard from ron desantis last night, speaking to some of the donors, said some of the republicans sit back like potted plants, need to have more to do with the fight. the cpac event goes on, we'll hear from former president trump, see if it has an impact on the race for the following after the event wraps up. >> gillian: have fun at national harbor. see you next week. thanks so much. >> john: he gets to ride the ferris wheel there. and shannon bream, you have a great line-up this weekend, duelling events. cpac, thinks of itself as grassroots conservativism, and then a split some are going to both, and then you have youngkin, desantis, at the club for growth. illumination where the gop is

headed in the next 14, 15 months? >> yeah, doesn't this feel like the internal conversation the gop has been having the last couple of years really since trump lost the presidency and they now have the conversation, is it a post trump party. you know, it's interesting. i saw one strategist talking about this who said it's not whether you are anti-trump or for trump, it's the post-trump issue. he did great things, we love what he did or move on to the next generation. primary voters are ready to stick with him and go for another term. you have this internal party, the conversation is very public with the split between the different events, and are you still in the trump era, or post-trump era. >> i was doing some digging, i did not know the origin story about when and why these two groups split, the club for growth and cpac, and turns out that it was when they split and

backed different candidates in the ohio and pennsylvania primaries last cycle and i guess the rift is not going to heal, looks like. could you see a way forward where they could come back together? >> i think they will eventually, they'll have to figure it outgoing into 2024. but it's interesting, mark's interview with the vendor, 50-1 with the trump merchandise there, but this is a super, super pro trump crowd. he's going to wow them, and decimate the straw poll on saturday night, i don't think it's a surprise. so the question is, the people who showed up as we saw ambassador nikki haley there, if you are not fervently pro trump, it is a bit of a gamble to go to cpac, so the fact she was well received politely there, is one thing but if you are going to get booed on the stage you decided not to go to the event. >> gillian: high risk. >> john: with ron desantis, cpac seems a natural audience. so why is he not going? not going because he doesn't want to confront trump, even if

they are there on separate days does he not want to use the straw poll, a controversy keeping others away? >> i think it's a head to head thing. ardent supporters say even if desantis is the nominee, they are not going to support him. so a faction at cpac do not love desantis. >> john: you would think the same thing of nikki haley, and yet she received a standing ovation. >> the former president is more head to head and combative with desantis, and calling him names, theirs is a more heated face-to-face battle, and nikki haley, saying i loved his policies, he was great, but i offer something slightly different. >> gillian: also taking some pains to say this is not about trump, i'm not running against him, as i'm running against biden. >> hard to explain and

articulate where she does break with trump on policy and why she's a better choice, but if they are on the stage together -- >> john: desantis is not even running. >> the infrastructure is there for him to run, and visits to iowa and pennsylvania -- he's not declared but i think we know he's sort of running. >> gillian: who do you have on tap for sunday? >> mike pompeo, spoke at cpac and figure out if he's going to run in 2024, and senator mark warner, a lot of fun policy stuff to discuss. we'll do that on sunday and see if we have any presidential announcements. stand by, not me, i'm not running. >> gillian: that would be the best thing for everybody, actually. >> no, no, no. >> gillian: we would not wish that on you. >> no, thanks, guys. >> gillian: 60 years since this gentleman was first recommended for the medal of honor. retired green beret colonel

harris davis gets his long overdue honor today. he will share incredible stories of his valor and the battles he's fought for decades. >> john: the pentagon told troops china is the top priority. is the united states ready for the challenge? one of the top commanders in the region says the threat from beijing is probably one of the most dangerous that he has seen in 30 years. what does former pence national security adviser keith kellogg think about all this? he'll join us coming up live. >> i don't think you can -- that you can discount the fact that one of the lessons they may learn from what's happening in ukraine is what not to do, and to do it better than vladimir putin has.

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>> write the history of the nation and celebrate the 75th anniversary of our first fully integrated armed forces and the name paris davis will stand along the nation's pioneering heroes. [applause] >> john: it was a long time coming for one of the first african american officers in the elite u.s. army green beret as he finally received the medal of honor. retired colonel paris davis, awarded the highest military decoration by the president today. jennifer griffin has more. well-deserved honor, jen, not years but decades in the making. >> that's right, john. nearly 60 years after first being recommended for the medal of honor for heroism in vietnam, retired green beret colonel

paris davis, one of the first block officers to lead a special forces team in combat finally received the highest military award for valor. >> captain davis realized he was the last american standing. without hesitation, he yelled i'm coming for you. i'm coming for you. >> in an interview with fox news, colonel davis, 83, described why he and his men were not scared on june 18, 1965, as he led a detachment from the fifth special forces group. >> they knew that i was not going to do anything that would have put them in harm's way. >> and what he was thinking during the 19-hour battle as he braved enemy fire to save three soldiers after being shot himself. >> finish the mission, complete the mission, try to do it as quickly and as daringly as you can and get back as saving as

you can. >> soon after davis was nominated for the medal of honor but the paperwork disappeared. a few years later, he was -- it was resubmitted and then lost again. ron dees, had this to say. >> i don't think it was by accident. i think that because he was a black leader of our team, i think those recommendations were thrown away. >> colonel davis's daughter explains the lessons her father, an all american college football player in louisiana, the son of a midwestern foundry worker recently inducted not army ranger hall of fame told her when she was young. >> he always talked about it's about we, not i, so whenever i

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>> gillian: california cities have been struggling with a real homelessness crisis for years now. golden state accounts for 30% of the entire country's homeless population. one california city, though, appears to be defying that trend. the mayor of coronado near san diego says his city has virtually eliminated the homeless population by getting the help people need and bringing an end to tent encampments. mayor bailey joins us now. thank you for joining us. talk about your approach, strategy and how you are

implementing it. >> there are several factors that have contributed to coronado's success at reducing our home less population, and some are the geographic location and the approach to homelessness overall. before getting into that, set the stage for the viewers. this issue is bigger than just one city. it obviously affects the entire southern california region and entire state. from 2010 to 2022, we saw the homeless population nationwide fall by 40,000 individuals. however, over that same time period we saw the homeless population here in the state of california increase by over 40%. so that of course begs the question, what policies is the state of california implementing that is enabling the homeless population to continue to grow and attracting more homeless population to the state of california and so this is really

a broader question of what is the right policy approach to address this matter because if we are honest with ourselves, the current policies from the state of california are failing not just the communities impacted with people blocking the public right-of-way with tent encampments or findings needles in parks or human waste on the street, it's enabling the personally destructive behavior without consequences for the individual but a lot of consequences for the surrounding communities. >> gillian: so tell me a little about the help, the services you are providing to the homeless population and also about the accountability you are trying to bring about. >> absolutely. so, as a policy maker, i think we all have an obligation to make sure that there are resources that are available for those that want to actually get help and back on their feet. so the city of coronado, we do

contract with a third party homeless service provider. anyone that ends up homeless in coronado, we have resources available, a roof over their head and plugged into whatever resources they need to get back on their feet. however, in addition to the responsibility we have to make sure people that want help have access to it, we have a broader responsibility to the general community that wants access to our public spaces and wants those public spaces to be safe and clean and i think this approach where you offer help and you also have accountability on the other side of the equation is probably the best approach going forward for our entire region and for the state of california because although there are a myriad of reasons that people end up homeless, at the end of the day they fall into 1 of 2 categories. either those that want help or those that do not want help and i have tremendous compassion as a human for anyone who ends homeless regardless of the

reason, but we have a responsibility to the entire community. so, let's provide help to those that generally want it but don't let others violation basic code violations which have an impact on the surrounding communities. >> quick follow-up for you as evidenced by the photos we have been rolling over the course of the segment, your city is especially beautiful. that cannot be replicated across the country, but can the policies be met with similar success in other parts of the country? >> i remember our approach is an approach that should be followed in other cities throughout our region and the state of california. if you don't have both sides of that equation where you are offering shelter space and offering help to those that legitimately want it, you are unable to enforce basic code violations, so it all starts from a place of compassion, a place of trying to get the help that want it, but couple it with enforcement, basic code

violations applied to anyone regardless of their housing status. >> gillian: mr. mayor, thank you for laying that out for us. appreciate it. very eye opening. >> thank you. >> gillian: john. >> john: new at 2:00, the white house says there is no effort to ban your gas stove. but if that's true, why are democratic lawmakers meeting with the head of a clean energy group that is pushing those very restrictions? are their plans to ban gas stoves on the burner? and karl rove, general keith kellogg, and brian kilmeade acts to women's history celebrations that have gone wrong. all that and more as "america reports" rolls on. the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy.

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