tv Ayman Mohyeldin Reports MSNBC May 26, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT
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i'm a mother of four-- always busy. i was starting to feel a little foggy. just didn't feel like things were as sharp as i knew they once were. i heard about prevagen and then i started taking it about two years now. started noticing things a little sharper, a little clearer. i feel like it's kept me on my game. i'm able to remember things. i'd say give it a try. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. good afternoon. i'm ayman mohyeldin. and we begin with breaking news in california south of san francisco, where authorities in san jose say at least eight were killed when an employee opened fire at about 6:30 a.m. local time at a light rail yard. investigators say the employee a samuel cassidy. but identity of the victims have
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not confirmed. and family members are being advised to go to a county building. and speaking to the press, the mayor addressed the country's latest incident of mass gun violence. >> this is a very dark moment for our city and for our community. but we have already seen people pulling together in this very tough time. >> joining us now, lindsey riser who is san jose. and also said cedric. and so lindsay, what have we learned this morning? >> and we're getting a trickling of information with each of the hourly briefings here. so the call came in at 6:34 this morning and the sheriff confirmed that the suspect,
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samuel cassidy, is deceased. and i want to give you a geographic lay of the land. and this is the valley transportation authority, a major transportation hub for the san jose area about an hour outside of san francisco. and this is where the light rail trains, the buses, the shuttles are stored and dispatched out of every morning. a large number of employees work here, there is also a control center. and the parking lot is shared by the sheriff's office. their headquarters are next door and the scene still active. and what we're learning is that there are multiple victims and there are eight victims who have died, nine if you include the shooter.
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we don't have an exact number of those sxwrured. but we did see employees walking from across the street here to the county administrative building right in front of me where they have set up the reunification area. and we have seen numerous of many of them, i can tell you, and i asked how they were doing, one woman immediately became emotional, started crying. and there were other gentlemen who i saw walk in and they didn't know if their family members were affected. they were trying to get answers. and so as far as the employees, i asked them how they are doing and a few of them told us that they were told not to talk to the media but could you tell that they were distraught, of course what they have been through, we can only imagine.
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they did not want to say anything to us. >> cedric, walk us through the big picture. what goes into an investigation like this? >> well, this investigation and will cover a great deal of territory. it appears to be a huge site. and so it will take the effort of both local, state and federal support and they will all support each other to try to piece it all together as to when it happened, how it happened, et cetera. and so it will certainly take some time in terms of being able to identify those who have lost a life. those have been injured reunifying family members to
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each other at this critical time. and so i think as the time goes by, we'll gather more information. but this is a tragic scene and it appears to be a very large crime scene as well too. but all those agencies working together will find out and be able to hopefully share with that community and with all of us as to what occurred. >> yeah, no doubt everyone wants to understand what motivation might have been in the shooter's mind. and there are reports of a fire earlier at a nearby house thate shooting. officials earlier wouldn't comment. but can you tell us if it is an area of interest and why it might be an area of interest? >> this only complicates things. and we know that the sheriff's
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official confirmed to us that they had bomb-sniffing dogs that picked up on several hits and so they are searching every crack and crevice of that building. and there is another area of investigation at a home that is belonging to a suspect. and we have our correspondent jake ward out at the scene and he has been reporting about a huge law enforcement presence. atf, fbi, local, more official officials and of course bomb sniffing dogs as well. and he actually talked to a neighbor that confirmed that the man that he knew was a nice guy, had been in that huse since the '90s. and this will be crucial for the investigation. and we have two active crime scenes that appear to be related to one the another. >> and cedric, a month ago eight were killed at a shooting at a
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facility in indianapolis. and as we start seeing more people go back into the offices, after a very difficult year and a half for many americans, how concerned are you about an increase in mass shootings, what should local communities and law enforcement officials be on the lockout for places where we're seeing these things happen? >> well, i think if we look at the numbers statistically, we will easily determine that this level of threat taking place even prior to covid-19. so this is a larger bigger systemic issue that we have in this country around violence that is really going to have to be addressed. so as the country continues to open back up, we're going to continue to see what we have seen in the past. and it suggests to me and i think to all of us that we are not addressing these issues the way that we should be.
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and in conversations that need to take place in congress, conversations that need to take place in states and local communities around gun violence and gun control and all these efforts that have been made and what more can we do. because quite frankly and unfortunately and sadly to say this is not going to stop until we do something very different in this country. so what we're seeing now is quite frankly no different than what we had already observed and experienced and suffered within this country prior to covid. and we have to come do something very differently. >> all right. thank you both and we'll continue to follow this story.
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now let's go to washington, d.c. the senate is expected to vote tomorrow on the january 6 xhigz commission bill. a handful of complains say that they could support it. is it possible to get the ten republicans needed to overcome the filibuster? >> yeah, it doesn't appear likely that they will be able to find enough republicans to support this bill. you know, there have only been those handful that have actually supported it. i think that the fact that mitch mcconnell has come up so strong ly against it has sunk any kind of proposition for his members to support it. and so 3w45 is next. i think that it depends on whether the house speaker depends to appoint a select committee. or do negotiations continue. is there a pathway forward at some point.
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the 9/11 commission didn't start right away. i think that people forget that. it was over almost a year later when that got started. and it is the preference to be bipartisan and for it to be taken out of the political heat of the moment. which if it goes to a select committee, certainly it is destined to be the fate of it. >>ther big news has to deal with former president trump in response to the grand jury is now investigating the trump organization and this could being a sellingle rate his time line for deciding on a 2024 bid. are republicans ready for his legal problems to become the party's political problem? >> that is a good question and it is not clear whether or not republicans are really ready for all the legal prisons that former president trump could face. and they have gotten used to the idea that trump associates being
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arrested and jailed and we saw so many of them have to do time when president trump was in office, but i think that grand jury actually filing charges against the former president is a completely different set of issues and challenges that republicans are really going to have 20 contend with because especially because former president trump has so much influence. of course it is pretty predictable that he said say this is a political witch hunt. but the idea that he might run for office again, we know of course that polls show that he is still very much popular with the republican party, but also 2024 is a long way away. and so this is a gamble to say that this is politically motivated here in 2021. >> and the other issue tha republicans are depending is
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marjorie taylor greene after her comments were condemned comparing covid regulations in this country to the holocaust. and she said thats are taking the bait in attacking her. what are you hearing from your sources? are taking the bait in attacking her. what are you hearing from your sources? >> i think that there is exhaustion dealing with the continued antics and abhorrid comments by marjorie taylor greene. and leadership is even condemning her about her comments. and the house is not in session right now and so this is kind of happening in a vacuum. but if she continues to press the point here, there will be pressure for kevin mccarthy to
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do something. democrats have already talked about potentially doing a censure of her. and i think if that made to the floor, you'd see a few house republicans support it. i think that there is a lot of frustration here. >> and so at the white house today you had the deputy white house secretary the first black to lead the briefing. what does this tell us? >> it was a history-making moment. kareem jean pierre the first openly gay woman to take the podium of the white house. and what she said about this moment is that this really shows that this is an administration that is embracing diversity, that really wants to put yiltity and justity at the center of it, but send that this is about the agenda and moving forward.
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and as i was in there, it felt different. when we think about what we've seen the last four years, the language that has come out with former white houses, just the tenor of it all, she pledged to be truthful and of course that is a marked difference from former president trump. so this is a moment of course where she took tough questions and she answered most of them. but it tells you that this administration wants even the face of the president to be diverse, to be a woman. and that says a lot about why joe biden is as a president. >> all right. appreciate both of you and your insights. and coming up, belarus' president is depending its fake bomb threat to force down a plane. plus secretary of state antony blinken wraps up his trip across
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talks between the palestinians and the israelis. but even as blinken wrapped up the trip intended to pave the way for peace, people are still rife with conflict. and palestinians are threatened with losing their homes. and joining me now from jerusalem is andrea mitchell. great to have you with us. so do the people there and certainly those that you have been speaking to, do they seem that they are confident, are they optimistic about the ceasefire holding and are there any signs of diplomacy on the horizon? >> reporter: they are not confident. they are hopeful. especially talks to the palestinians here, they are scared. they are threatened with eviction.
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700 palestinians will to lose their homes awaiting the decision from the conflict. but at this stage they are only hopeful because yesterday here secretary of state antony blinken said publicly and in several places both in ramallah and the west bank and israel that the evictions should stop. that israel should stop the policy of evicting people from homes that they have been in for decades to make room for jewish settlers. and at the same time he said that palestinians should stop paying terrorists in jail and inciting violence. so calling on both sides to make conversions. and so in east jerusalem today, they were big protests and
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people were all excited. blinken said, you know, that the evictions should stop and others saying what did he say now, is he coming here. and i had to tell people that he was already in cairo 572 miles away because he is trying to get the whole region involved. he was in egypt and then on to jordan tonight. but they were under the misimpression that he was still there, that he would pressure the israeli government. and what he is trying to do as you know is to get the other arab leaders to the get involved in pressing israel to stop the evictions. but tonight hamas in gaza, the hamas leader predicts if the evictions don't stop, that there will be a regional war. and so i don't see any sign that this is driving back soon. >> and so what are the next
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steps if diplomacy? i know from my own reporting that they did not necessarily want to have to deal with the middle east this early on in the administration. do we get a sense that the secretary of state and others may continue trip onward elsewhere? >> reporter: he won't continue his strip. but what he did say in junior dan is that he will consult persian ghufl leaders. gulf leaders. and we know that many on the palestinian side feel only raised he thinks tensions and bottled up the anger and resentment because the trump administration broke with decades of bipartisan u.s. foreign policy in recognizing a two state solution, recognizing that the palestinians needed to be the table. the trump people didn't talk to palestinians at all. i was on trips here and vice president pence and secretary pompeo saying that we don't need to be involved.
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but they got several arab states to recognize israel. but including the palestinians, they just made it worse because this conflict has been maybe the worse that i've seen because it also led to internal divisions among arab jews, arab israelis, and division that led to flare-ups. and that has made it more difficult given the political vacuum. and in israel that has gone on for several years as netanyahu is playing out his strength unable to form a government. and so maybe the opposition leader will be able to form a government in the next seven days. but they haven't had a government. it is a lame duck government and that is contributing to the concern that there could be a spark, it could come right from the neighborhood where i was today. a spark that reignites this
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conflict. >> so many andrea, thank you. and spacex launched the latest fleet of broadband satellites into space with the goal of providing internet to years worldwide. this is the 29th launch of its kind. and spacex aims to send out thousands more of rockets with five launches already planned for june. and belarus' president is making his first comments as a plane made an emergency landing to arrest a dissident. and now there are concerns that other leaders could use such tactics. ics.
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stunning operation by belarus to capture a disso he dissident. the pay lots were told that they were carrying a bomb and sending a fighter jet to land them in minsk. they found no bomb but succeeded in arrested a journalist aboard that plane. his father says that he appeared to be to are chured. luke chen company said that this is modern hybrid warfare and that it risks becoming a real war. kati gomd is joining me. and what are some of the key factors in months and years that may have led loouk chen come
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company? >> and it was revealed last year during the presidential election basically for the past 15 years society had this so-called social contract when they received more or less not interested in the politics. and now people want to reform, they want to be active in policy making and this is what lukashenko disagrees with and this is what he is trying to return to. and of course the telegram channels play a particular role in informing people in tell willing them the truth and the
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views about are there opposition people who exist. >> and i know that lukashenko seemed to invoke a defense of russia saying that we are training range a testing site for them ahead of the march to the east after testing on us, they will go there. implying that they would ultimately set their sites on moscow. what do you make of those words and how are they likely to play out with bebelarus' patron in moscow? >> llukashenko's patron will support him. and these statements are more direct because the kremlin is really his only support. the only people who support luke luke shen luke shen came. and so today it is belarus and
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tomorrow it will be russia and that they will say you have to come and rescue me. and so the security services would not like to see public outcry and democratic forces come into pourer in pourer in belarus. >> and so let immediate share with you something written in the atlantic. it says that authoritarian states in pursuit of their enemies no longer feel the need to respect passports or borders and they are prepared to arrest or murder political dissidents anywhere no matter their citizenship or laws. and so i'm curious to get your thoughts, do you think that we
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could see automatic kratic leaders? >> yes, we have seen authoritarian across the world. belarus is just an example of how they feel that they can attract the norms. and so in the west in general, they have been really tough to stop this precedent and the reaction of the world expected economic sanctions are a bit more than what the community had been expecting. >> all right, thank you so much for your time. appreciate your analysis. and still ahead, president biden is giving the intelligence
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after a u.s. intelligence report says that three lab workers in wuhan were hospitalized before the first indicates were reported. and there is a request that the olympics be can element issed because of safety. and this is as japan deals with another wave of infections. and belgium is suspending the use of the johnson & johnson because of possible links to dangerous blood clots. and tonight the state of ohio will reveal the first winners of its million dollar vaccine lottery, an incentive promise rolled out to encourage residents to get their shots.
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it is the latest creative way for a state and its leaders to try to incentivize vaccinations. and joining me now from columbus, morgan. and how is it going? >> reporter: tonight is the night, one lucky ohioan could be a million their or receive free tuition. and this is just one of several states to roll out the create creative measures to get people to get a vaccine. good news and hope. covid-19 infections down and half of all adults now fully vaccinated. as states push to get shots in arms for the rest, for more than
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2.7 million ohio residents, their covid-19 vaccinations aren't just their ticket to immunity, but maybe a million dollars. what do you think when the vax-a-million latry here in ohio? >> i mean, it is a pretty cool thing. >> reporter: the state holding its first of five $1 million drawings tonight. for people who have gotten at least their first dose. for those under 18, they could win a full scholarship to any ohio state college or university. did the ohio lottery play a role in your decision? >> i wouldn't say overall, but it is extra motivation. >> reporter: and despite criticism from state lawmakers saying that it is a waste of tax player money, the governor says that it is working. >> we've increased the number of people getting vaccinated by 45%. and we're seeing the most increase in vaccinations is those 16 and 17-year-olds, 94% increase. and so that is very exciting. >> reporter: ohio is one of many states and companies offering
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incentives to boost vaccinations. delaware becoming the latest state to announce a vaccine lottery. and in west virginia, people 16 to 35 can get $100 savings bonds. united airlines is offering its loyalty program members a chance to win free flights. and it appears to be paying off. as the u.s. hits that 50% vaccinated milestone for adults. moderna also announcing its vaccine is 100% effective in kids ages 12 to 17. if authorized for use, it would be the second vaccine available to younger americans. another step towards getting the country back on its feet. so that winner is announced tonight at 7:29 p.m. eastern. and this is just the first of five weekly drawings. and it is important to note that even though the governor is really excited about this incentive program, some state lawmakers on both sides of the
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aisle aren't so excited. in fact one state representative has decided to draft legislation to try to stop the lottery because she believes that this is not the way to spend funds. >> all right. thank you, mmorgan. and so let's go to the doctor and what do you make of state leaders like governor governor could that money be used in better information campaigns or to try to get more access to more people in the state of ohio? >> thank you so much for that question. actually i applaud the creativity of state leaders in offering incentives.
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we would hope that incentives wouldn't be needed to become vaccinated, but once we got past the older adults and the first round of enthusiastic people, we've hit a slowing in the rate of new vaccinations and there is a threat to our public health. and recent data suggests that the rail while falling overall, up vaccinated individuals are seeing the same r5i9s that they were seeing in january. and so we really have a tale of two americans right now. and we have too consider the threat that unvaccinated individuals pose to members such as those young children who are unable to become unvaccinated. so i think that any incentives
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is money well spent. >> and so with the restrictions being lifted across the country, and that is a good thing, but "washington post" says that when it you adjust the rate of infections solely for unvaccinated people, the rate of infections is 69% higher than the standard figures. and so can we afford to leave such a big part of our society unvaccinated? >> that is actually the report that i was referring to that was describing the messaging around the progress and the gains that we're making. the progress and gains are among vaccinated individuals and that has led to roll backs in restrictions.
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and many of those restrictions such as going without masks require us to count on people to be honest when their vax nation vaccination status and i think that we can expect some to not be honest and that threatens the progress that we've been making. and this poses our threat to getting back to normal. >> and on the olympic beolympic? what do you think should happen there? some are calling for the games to be canceled. your thoughts. >> that is a tough one. and sports are my favorite tonightic. there is a lot that has gone into planning for the olympic games. but i think that it does require us to think carefully. and if officials say that it is not safe and that their health
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care infrastructure cannot handling it. one thing that we have seen is that things change rapidly. and so if it were to happen today, i think a it that it is unsafe. but i think that there is still time to put into place measures that people have thought about that may make the game as safe are. but it is something that we have to be aware of and ready not to burden an entire country by bringing people in from all over the world who are possibly at risk. >> doctor, thank you so much for your insight. and still ahead, republicans in nevada -- excuse me, have canceled a meeting under threats from extremists tied to the proud boys and the state senate is investigating whether they will censure an election official. it is a bizarre staer. official it is a bizarre staer. of course you've seen underwear
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some are protesting their pretrial conditions. but some are saying that the rhetoric from president trump. and one is accused of assaulting a police officer and is seen as throwing a desk drawer and flag pole at authorities. and he was told to say in jail because the political dynamics have not faded and added that continuing doubts about the legitimacy of the length could give rise to another protest. and joining me now, scott mcfarland. give us the latest updates. and are we seeing the kind of
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restlessness among other defendants? >> reporter: yeah, a lot are getting very uncomfortable. 9 d.c. jail is under a 22 hour a day lockdown because of covid. and so throwing the desk drawer and flag pole at police and asked for release and he was rejected by the judge who says the violent acts. the judge expressed bemusement at the desk drawer and said the political dynamics that -- the denial of the legitimacy of the election and the case of riley williams. pennsylvania, accused of directing the mob inside the capitol that day. of stealing a computer from nancy pelosi's office suite. she wants release from home detention. home confinement. she says she can't find a job and has to pay the car bill and one would think it's one of the
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hurdles for williams to find a new job. >> in the case of ms. kauffman there's an update. >> reporter: he accused of 11 molotov cocktails in the truck on capitol hill january 6. one of two defendants accused of having a gun on their person in the mob. his request for pretrial release was rejected. there's new revelations that the fed say they found more explosives in his home and democrats and media members and had a reason sans tour in december trying to stop at ted cruz's house, too. he is locked up indefinitely. >> what about the state legislature, former. what can you tell us about his case? >> reporter: the highest profile or highest ranking of the defendants because he was a fortunatelier state legislator and resigned and indicated not
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guilty and will be a negotiation. he allegedly posted on facebook from the capitol that day, quote, derrick evans is in the capitol. >> okay. looking ahead at the week ahead what developments are on the radar? >> reporter: multiple proud boys this week. one from upstate new york accused of breaking open a first window with a stolen riot shield. being on the front lines. affiliate theed with the proud boys the feds say. a hate group. the proud boys face the most serious charges including conspiracy. >> all right. with that wrap-up thank you. in nevada's clark county the republican party central committee canceled a meeting scheduled for yesterday because of what they describe as threats from proud boy just last month the state republican party
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central committee voted to censure the secretary of state for repudiating the failure to implement reasonable election security measures, failure to investigate all potential fraudulent votes and irresponsible public statements regarding the fairness of the 2020 election. last -- few days ago the l will have review journal with a report uncovering claims that the state republican party chairman invited members of far-right group to provide the deciding vote in the censure. the chairman denies the claim and the report prompted the republican caucus in the state senate to launch an investigation into the vote and led to local gop officials in clark county canceling the central committee meeting for fear of demonstrations from the proud boys. joining me now from las vegas is
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john ralston. great to have you back on the program why what is going on here. i can't wrap my head around this? it seems the individuals tied to the proud boys trying to take over the clark county republican party. >> i think your intro confused even me. this is a very bizarre story as you pointed it. it's back to the censure of the secretary of state and by the way stood up to pressure from republicans, elected and in the party, by saying the election was run fairly which it was and rebutting and refuting the so-called big lies. this is partly internal party politics. the clark county republican party, that's las vegas, the biggest republican county party, has been feuding with the state
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party and doesn't like the chairman michael macdonald who's being accused of using the proud boys to maintain his power and to help censure. there's a lot of circumstantial evidence here. a lot of smoke but there's not any real fire. the secretary of state censured by 14 votes and only identify 3 or 4 of these proud boys and all they did was boast about being deciding votes at that election. nobody knows if that really occurred. but it's clear that this is fueled both the folks in the party who want the party to be a functioning operation and fueled those who believe that macdonald the chairman of the state party is consorting with the folks to try to help keep his power base which by the way is mostly based on the support and friendship with the former president.
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>> so speaking of barbara, are there people in the power structure of the nevada gop willing to stand with her and say that 2020 vote was free and fair? or is she out on her own there? >> that's a great question. it's been very frustrating to try to get any of these elected officials on the republican side to say that there have been a handful. there's been a state senator and assembly woman in the republican party to say that barbara has been a great secretary of state. and stood up during the so-called big lie. but most of them have either been part of the so-called stop the steal movement or mum on this. that again is emblematic of what's going on around the country as the republican officials and activists cowed by
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the power of donald trump to cause problems for them so this is a microcosm of what's going on with the so-called proud boy story and seen played out in washington, d.c. as always. thank you. that wraps up the hour. i'll be back here at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. "deadline: white house" starts after this quick break. t letsmag to find your cfp® professional. ♪♪ (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to be set free. to make the world more responsible, and even more incredible. ideas start the future, just like that.
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hi there, everyone. it is 4:00 in the east. we are continuing to monitor the breaking news out of san jose where at least eight people were killed today when a public transit employee opened fire on co-workers at a downtown rail yard before taking his own life. we are expecting an update later in this hour on the investigation into this horrific massacre and will bring you details as they come in. we turn to the top story in the world of politics as former president trump continues to grapple with last night's bombshell
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