named jon emerson in missouri. but then during the time that emmerson was holding this man as a slave, he moved several times, including moving out of missouri. he moved to the wisconsin territory. he moved to the state of illinois. both of territories. they're slave states. both of which were free. so that created an unusual situation. a white man and an african american man he was enslaved. they start in missouri. they travel to and live in free territory for a time, and then ultimately they move back to slave state missouri. all right. when the white man died, the african american man who had been enslaved to him, he tried to buy his own freedom from the dead man's family, from the dead man's widow. and the family refused to allow him to buy his freedom. the enslaved man then decided they would sue for his freedom, he would turn to the courts.

and the basis for him suing for his freedom was that time in the free territory of wisconsin and the free state of illinois. if an enslaved person was moved into free territory, into a free state, they're freed from unslavement. and that is something that can't be reversed. eve if you go back to missouri, once free, always free. so, he sued on that basis in 1846. and it took forever. but finally, 13 years later, in 1859, the case was the subject of a ruling in the united states supreme court. it was a decision that hands down no argument is considered to this day to be the worst united states supreme court decision of all time. and part of that was its form. it was sloppy and flagrantly wrong on the facts and history and the law. it was poorly reasoned.

its logic was just a broken pretzel. but the chief justice who wrote that supreme court opinion and apparently wanted the outcome that he wanted and he got it. and that supreme court justice is remembered today for basically nothing else other than that terrible decision. the worst decision, ever handed down by the united states supreme court. because the enslaved man who sued for his freedom in a case that led to that terrible ruling was a man named scott, dred scott. and in his ruling in the dred scott case, it was chief justice roger taney wrote the rule. he wrote not only was mr. scott not entitled to be free, he wrote that mr. scott did not have standing to even sue for his freedom. as an african american, he was not a citizen of the united states.

he couldn't be. because no african american in this ruling according to judge roger taney in the ruling, no african american was ever a citizen of united states, or ever could be a citizen of the united states because of their race. so none of their protections in the united states constitution extend to black people nor would they ever zoned black people. the constitution afforded to right it's and no protections. for good measure, judge taney said that compromise was unconstitutional, too. from the united states supreme court. that slavery could persist anywhere in the united states, and congress could have nothing to say about that. and americans of african decent were not citizens of united states, and never could be in the constitution. didn't apply to them, dred

scott. it's the worst thing the united states supreme court has ever done. the worst ruling, both in substance and in form, and in fact, in effect. when it leads to the civil war just a couple years after it was handed down. worst supreme court decision ever. ruling in the supreme court, again that was chief justice roger taney. and this is chief justice roger taney. this exist bust of him sits today in the united states capitol. from 1810 to 1860, the united states supreme court held its sessions in the capitol. they didn't have heir own building like they have now. the architect of the capitol saints he moved out of there in

1860, that big room would be used as a library, for a storage, before they restored it so it looks essentially in the 1800s when the supreme court sat there. to get in the chamber, you go through the robing room. that's a funny thing even in courts today. judges got to put on their robes somewhere. in this one particular robing room, in the united states capitol which marks the entrance to this very specific former chamber of the united states supreme court in the u.s. capitol, in that robing room there is a bust, a marble bust, of just one person. roger taney, the man who wrote the dred scott decision that black americans were not citizens and had no rights. just him. it's not that robing room is a

hall of chief justices or justices. it's just him, roger taney alone, looming over that entrance at the u.s. capitol, as of right now. or how about not -- how about we change that to the house of representatives voted to not do that anymore. to swap him out. to take down from that place of honor in the u.s. capitol the justice who wrote the worst supreme court ruling of all time and instead replace him with a different supreme court justice who didn't do that. how about justice thurgood marshall, for example, might he work in that spot instead? you know, the house actually passed a bill to take down the roger taney bust last summer. it passed in the democratic-controlled house last july, but it never went anywhere. republican senate leader mitch mcconnell blocked. so taney still sits there

outside of the old supreme court chamber in the u.s. capitol. now that democrats are in control of the senate, it's not mitch mcconnell there anymore, it's chuck schumer who is the majority leader in the senate, now that it's democrats controlling the house and senate, maybe old roger taney is finally going to get some downtime. maybe we will stop that ongoing honor for him in the united states capitol to get that honor. the vote today in the house -- second time in two years they've taken this vote, the vote tonight in the u.s. house was 285 to 129. 120 members -- republican members of the house voting no, to keep him up there, a dred scott guy. and the -- speaking of the idea of the confederate flag inside the u.s. capitol, tonight, we

learned that republicans in the house are whipping the vote. telling their members of the house to vote know on the creation of a select committee to investigate the attack january 6th. the attack where supporters of president trump violently attacked the capitol. and yes, that attack did include parading the confederate flag through the halls of congress. republicans initially negotiated a plan for a really bipartisan -- basically a nonpartisan to investigate the commission and what led to it. republican leaders in the senate turned against that negotiated proposal, even though their own side had negotiated with democrats. they delegated with republicans to come up with a plan. they did that, it was successful

and republican leadership said don't vote on it anyway. republicans voted no on a nonpartisan commission, even though they helped come up with a an idea to filibuster. now democrats have come up with a select committee, members of both parties, with a staff and subpoena power to compel the production of evidence and witnesses. tonight, though, we learned republican leadership is whipping the vote to get all of their members to vote against that, too. it's literally their own workplace attacked by a mob, at the time was shouting at the time that they wanted to hunt down and hang the vice president of their own party. the republicans do not want to look into it, either a nonpartisan or bipartisan party, they do not want to hear it. i love that beltway press still maintains that republicans are going to come along and vote in

significant numbers for joe biden's infrastructure bill. or, know, for bipartisan policing reform efforts, or literally anything that biden and democrats want to do. republicans will not vote to investigate a crime against themselves. not that democrats want it. republicans are not interested in doing stuff with the democrats. big stuff, small stuff, they don't want it. president biden was in la crosse, wisconsin, talking about his infrastructure plans. talking about how his plans would be the biggest investment in the infrastructure since the new deal, the fdr era which is true. it's true whether democrats have to pass that alone or with any republican support that will be true. but this is just one of those days when the past -- the past just looms, right? even as everybody is trying to move forward in their own way, the past sticks to us. and sometimes as a benchmark,

you know, biggest investment we've made since fdr, since the new deal. sometimes, the past comes with us in days like this with no bullying or poetic ways, right? the moment when roger taney's bust is carefully taken down from that robing room at the u.s. capitol, to be replaced even more carefully with a new bust, right? the attorney who argued the unanimous supreme court case that struck down separate but equally segregated schools, when his bust goes up. thurgood marshall will be the twitch. when that switch happens, no matter how many dozens of house republicans are able to hold it off and vote against, no matter how long senate republicans will be able to hold it off that will be something when that happens.

but the past is with us in today's news in pettier and more distracting ways. do you remember mark sanford, he's a politician with his own inflated history, right? you might recall sanford serving as governor of south carolina when he went missing. and his office initially tried to cover up the fact and didn't know where he was. he tried to get away with a story of got out and hiking the appalachian trail. he was not hiking the appalachian trail, he was with his mistress in argentina. after that bizarre scandal following him every last day until he was in office, nevertheless, the good people of south carolina sought to to elect him to congress after he finished as governor.

they elected him to congress in 2019, he served multiple terms. all is forgiven, or all was forgiven, until he fell off with president trump. in 2018, mark sanford is running for re-election to that seat in congress. but he had then made an enemy in it then president trump, and trump jumped in that race and endorsed the woman running against mark sanford in the republican primary. at the time, this is what trump said, quote, mark sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign to maga, to make america great again. he is m.i.a., suddenly referencing his previous scandal. he is m.i.a., nothing but trump. i fully endorse katie arrington

in congress in south carolina, vote katie. as a matter of fact, on katie's own criticism that mark sanford was pro-trump enough, ousted mark sanford by beating him in that republican primary. the headlines were brutal. sanford loses, a stunner, mark stanford survived the appalachian trail, he couldn't withstand trump. until the general election was held. that he was just the primary, right, they still had to do the general election in november, even though this was a seat in south carolina, trump's endorsed candidate lost. katie arrington had beaten mark sanford, but a democrat actually won in november, so mark sanford was ousted from congress, but the republicans lost the seat.

and what became of katie arrington? interesting. the post and courier in south carolina later reported that after that election in november, where the republicans lost the seat, right, the democrat who won the election won that seat in congress. he left south carolina to travel to washington to go start his new job on the same day that katie arrington did, too. wait, she had just lost the election. why is she going to washington? she wouldn't tell the post and courier why, she, too, was going to washington, she told the post and courier she was going to see some groups of people but would not elaborate. by the end of that year, she found herself serving in the trump administration in a high-ranking job at the pentagon. she got the trump nod to oust mark sanford from congress.

apparently, she got the next nod to become a senior cyber security executive at the pentagon from donald trump. right away, right after the election. that's how things went. and we know very little about her tenure at the pentagon since that time. but today, bloomberg was first to report this still quite cryptic news. you see the headline, top pentagon cyberofficial probed over disclosure concerns. this official has been placed on leave in connection with an unexpected unauthorized disclosure of classified information from a military intelligence agency. according to an official document, katie arrington, chief information security officer for the pentagon's acquisition and sustainment office, was informed last month that her security experience tour access to classified information is being suspended, quote, as a result of a reported unauthorized disclosure of classified

information and subsequent removal of access by the national security agency, according to a memo made available to bloomberg news. now, we don't really know what this is about. she has herself a high-end whistle-blower lawyer who will she's being deprived of a process and that the national security agency has yet to explain their terms, her being put on leave. but, you know, tell me more. this could very well have nothing to do with the very weird politics of how katie arrington got to washington in the first place. and how she got into a high-ranking pentagon position in the middle of the trump administration after her sort of odd political back story there. we don't know. the weird political way she got that high-ranking pentagon job

may have nothing to do with the fact that her security clearance has been suspended and she's now been put on leave amid allegations she disclosed classified information. but the fact that the trump administration did actually stack up so many positions in government in such weird political ways looms, like every day. it's an underappreciated part of the challenge and standing up and continuing the work of those important agencies in the post-trump era now that joe biden is president. i mean, just take the justice department. we've reported extensively on the proverbial hazmat suits that justice departments need to put on before they walk into main headquarters in washington. they're trying to do the forward looking work of the justice department under new leadership, right? but they have to do it amid the toxic mess left behind from the previous administration, including some stuff that feels like it potentially should be examined in potentially serious

ways. i mean, there was lots of attention in the news yesterday to an interview that the former attorney general bill barr did with abc's jonathan karl from the atlantic magazine. the book is based apparently on extensive interviews with bill barr. in the excerpt published yesterday, barr basically explains his decision to publicly admit after the election that it didn't look like there was enough fraud in the presidential election to change the outcome. barr had said that to an ap reporter after the election. in the jon karl reporting we get more reports about how trump was that barr had done that. we get more detail how that ultimately led to barr's resignation, sort of, maybe, later on, before the inauguration. lots of news there, lots of consternation about that. but less attention to the fact

that in this excerpt from jonathan karl's book, he also documents, that in fact, after the election when he was attorney general, bill barr did contact at least one u.s. attorney in michigan, in pursuit of one of trump's made-up conspiracy theories about how the election was conducted. one of those conspiracy theories that there are mysterious vote dumps in michigan that weren't real votes that explains why it looks like trump won but biden did. he eye plod the resources of the justice department. he contacted a u.s. attorney in michigan with that trash. as attorney general, he did that. barr's successor as attorney general, after he left, jeffrey rosen. and rosen's deputy, richard donahue, we also know they contacted u.s. attorneys in michigan and in pennsylvania and in georgia with more of that

trash from the trump white house. the justice department didn't just get pressured and berated by trump, trying to get them to support his bogus fraud claims to get them to help him overturn the election. we now know that two successive trump attorneys general actually did shovel that stuff out to attorneys to get the u.s. attorneys to deal with it. s that that's wrong. they're not supposed to do that. if you're at the justice department now, obviously, you want to move forward on merrick garland's agenda and the joe biden agenda. you cannot just assume it will never happen again, if it happened once, never got investigated, never got chased down, never got any consequences that needs to be fixed. and that's true all over the government right now. after what we just went through with the previous administration. i mean, even at a much lower profile agency. take the u.s. department of it

agriculture. the past looms today. there is stuff that may need cleaning up. in some estimations this may end up being cleaned up potentially with the help of the fbi. this is a rocket in "the washington post" from a reporter named desmond butler who we'll speak to in just a moment. it was a curious time for sonny perdue to close a real estate deal. in february 2017, weeks after president donald trump selected him to be a agriculture secretary, perdue's company bought him a small gran plant in south carolina. had anyone noticed it would have been prompted questions. an examination of the public records by "the washington post" has found that the agency culture company in question sold that land to perdue at a small fraction of its estimated value just as the company stood to

benefit from a friendly secretary of agriculture. during trump's campaign, sonny perdue was an adviser to trump. after trump won, there was talk about what job perdue would get. he was in the miss of agriculture himself. secretary of agriculture seems like a good bet. perdue spoke to the press in early december how he was talking to trump about his skills and where he might be a good fit. it wasn't exactly a mystery that's where he was going to end up. a couple years before this, before he was in line for the agriculture position, archer/daniels/midland had talked to him about buying his parshall of land. they bought it for $5.5 million. and then asked perdue if they

wanted to by it for $4 million. that was 2015. after trump won, ever perdue becomes secretary of agriculture, they decided to sell it for not the $4 million, she decided to sell it for $250,000. which desmond butler points out it was 5% of not what they asked for, it was initially 1/16 of what perdue's firm asked to pay for it. perdue was about to become the most powerful man in u.s. agriculture raises legal terms from the narrow question of whether the secretary followed federal financial disclosure requirements to whether the transaction could have been an attempt of influence.

it deserves a prosecutor's attention, only a prosecutor with the powers of the grand jury can find out in fact whether there was a quid pro quo that existed at the time of the deal. the former head of ethics tells "the washington post," this may be a matter for the fbi to investigate frankly. sonny perdue ultimately sold off the company that got that sweet deal on the property. it's unclear how much he and his family made off of the sale, after getting such a spectacular deal on it after he was joining the cabinet. of course, sonny perdue did make a number of decisions that were favorable to the interests of the company that gave him that sweet deal, very favorable to archer, daniels, midland everything from a tax credit that appears to have put hundreds of millions of dollars

in archer, daniels, midland's pockets. i mean, he might absolutely have done those things anyway without those private business dealings with archer, daniels, midland. saying they got no special deal on the sale at all. even though they previously asked him for $4 million for the parshall and sold it for a quarter of $1 million. but the past looms here. and if you are the new administration coming in after something like this, stuff like this, in all of the agencies, you can't just let it lie as history, right? i mean, you do have to clean this up, you at least have to investigate it, don't you? joining us now is desmond butler investigative reporter at the "washington post" who broke this remarkable story, mr. butler, thank you for being here. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks so much for having me. >> let me ask you if i

mischaracterized any of your report there, or key to the plot here? >> no, you got it exactly right, rachel. >> did sonny perdue have any response to these, i mean, very serious allegations, serious implications here at least? did he or any of his representatives give you anything in response to this reporting? >> you know, i tried to reach him every which way, i called his businesses. i sent a letter to his home. i tried former spokesman, and never got any response from him. whatsoever. i did get a former unnamed spokesperson to talk about part of this. but he was pretty elusive. >> now archer daniels midland says this wasn't a sweet deal. this wasn't a special deal for perdue on his way to becoming a trump cabinet secretary who was in a position 0 do nice things

for that company. they said first of all, they didn't get any favors from him. second of all, this wasn't that great of a deal. explaining it as an underperforming asset. one of the things i found very interesting you did quite a bit of leg work to figure out what this sale might -- might have been priced at in fair market value. >> right. >> you spoke with both the county tax assessors office. they did an investigation of that property but you got an independent assessor to look at it, is that right? >> that's right. we had a professional appraiser look at it. and his estimation came out at about $5.7 million. we then got a second appraiser to review that. and he concurred. >> so, if it was a property that is independently appraised at $5.7 million, and perdue somehow landed it for $250,000, i

understand there's complicated issues and disclosure here, him on his way to being an official, once he was an official. but the prospect that this might have been a big company who stood to benefit from his favor doing him a big financial favor. who would investigate something like that? i mean, on its surface, there's a lot that looks questionable here. what's the proper venue for this to be investigated? >> well, there's a lot of possibilities. it could be congress. it could be the inspector general at the usda, or it could be the justice department. >> desmond butler, investigative reporter at the "washington post." mr. butler, this piece is a remarkable window into what happened here it raises all sorts of interesting questions, but i want to thank you in particular for laying it out so clearly and doing so much work with that team at the post to

put this together visually and to make what otherwise is very complicated and deliberately obfuscated a troubling story about potentially troubling misconduct. thank you and thank you for the work. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> all right. we've got more news to get to tonight. stay with us. i would've called yesterday.

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saving the world is our family business. of ser[ snoring ]ffects. i feel like i'm surrounded by interns. in 2003, a republican from iowa named steve king started serving in congress. he was never in leadership. he never did much in congress, but he became very famous in congress for not good reasons. steve king became a famous member of the congress because of how frequently he earned negative headlines for his increasingly blatant flirtations with really out there stuff on race. and white nationalism. and i mean that specifically. steve king would opine about birth rates and certain populations not having enough

babies. and birth control turning america into a, vote, dying civilization, because, according to steve king, white people have contributed more to civilization than anybody else. where do these contributions groups and categories of people you are talking, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization? okay. and something like transition to democratic demographic transformation must end. how did that become offensive, yes, how did white supremacy

become offensive? yeah, when did that happen? seriously are the republican party in the house under the leadership of kevin mccarthy, decided they were going to strip steve king of his committee assignment, sort of exile in the party. where steve king could sit around and twiddle his thumbs and take votes on stuff until it actually got to the floor but couldn't be a house of congress. in that exile, that move by the republican party to seal off steve king in kind of a quarantine of crazy, that made steve king ineffective enough and unpowerful enough to his constituents in iowa that he lost his seat. he lost his seat in the republican primary last year after spending almost 18 years in congress. you know, time has borne out the wisdom of what republicans decided to do with steve king. since he lost his seat in congress, he sort of regularly pops up at overt white

nationalist events like this one earlier this year. hosted by a guy advocate for a white whole land. exclusively for white people. but the problem here for republicans is that while now former congressman steve king is there at the white nationalist conference, as a living embodiment of the party sort of you know, showing its ability to confront and excise their own members who have this particular problem. look, at that same event, that same nationalist let's have a white homeland event, steve king was there right along somebody who is now a serving member of congress. steve king spoke at that event, yes but so did paul gosar of

arizona. he gave the keynote. now that appears it wasn't a fluke. congressman paul gosar is doing some kind of fund-raiser on friday with the turn america into a white homeland guy. the event claims to be authorized by paul gosar's campaign. it's got a link to donate to his campaign, even though the link does have a typo, so paul gosar will not actually get any money if you go to that link, oops. also, congress appeared to defend the fund-raiser event via tweet. i'm not sure why anybody's freaking out. when asked, congressman gosar told reporters, i have no idea what's going on, there's no fund-raiser scheduled for friday. it's kind of a weird response when you're asked whether you're holding a fund-raiser for a white nationalist, not i'm not a white nationalist, why are you associating me -- no, he said, i don't have anything like that on my calendar. does that mean it's not on his

calendar for friday? does that mean it's scheduled for a different day? paul gosar is not being coy about where his sympathies are with this stuff. so what's happening with him with the republican party. we know from the steve king stuff of a couple years ago, this republican party, kevin mccarthy is still leader in the house, they can kick out people. in the case of paul gosar, they appears to have lost the will. we'll have more on that in just a moment. stay with us. ment stay with us

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roberts latest column is titled paul gosar is going full-on white nationalist and the gop's silence is not surprising. lori roberts joining us. i appreciate you being here. >> hi, good to see you. >> i feel like a lot of us looking in from the outside at this phenomenon, with what's going on with republicans in arizona right now are seeing two things. one is the audit. the so-called audit of the presidential election result which seems to be having -- it's having certainly, making national waves. there's some interesting polling out today which suggests that voters in arizona may themselves be quite turned off by that. but 31 there's this emerging story about congressman gosar. we do have a direct parallel, former congressman steve king who was effectively drummed out of the party for stuff like this. yet, congressman gosar hasn't seemed to face any consequences for this stuff at all.

from your perspective in arizona, do you have an explanation for those of us in a national audience as to how these things fit together and how they're going to work out? >> other than to say this is arizona, it's very difficult to say. congressman gosar is from our most conservative district in the state. but he flies under the radar a lot. because he's from a rural area and he really doesn't have a whole lot of power in congress, so, i think they've been able to sort of ignore him for a while. but i think it's becoming increasingly difficult. first, he appears, as you said, as the keynote speaker, the only sitting member of congress to do so. then he tries to form an american -- america first caucus with representative marjorie taylor greene, which he backed off of, once we found out that was going to be about saving america, one anglo-saxon at a time. now, we have the fund-raiser which she's saying isn't true, isn't happening.

but nick fuentes certainly thinks that it is, he was on his podcast or live stream, whatever it is last night, saying is it will be on friday as part of his white boy summer tour. and it missed, as you mentioned how to donate to representative gosar's campaign. as my mom once told me, you're known by the company that you keep. >> arizona audit that a lot of people have been covering from a national perspective, interesting to see this new polling released yesterday written up at politico.com. showing among arizona voters broadly. a politician supporting that audit actually loses their chance of being elected or re-elected. by i think it was an 11-point margin arizona voters would be less likely to vote in support of that audit than they would be for somebody not in support of that audit. i have to wonder if that is

going to have a sobering effect at all? >> no. >> if that is going to be -- no? >> no. because if you're a republican running for office in this state, you must support the audit. you must support donald trump, and if you don't, you're not going to get out of a republican primary. the fact that you're not going to win a general doesn't seem to matter to these people, whether they're in denial. or it just doesn't matter. the money keeps coming in. the red meat keeps going out. they're all becoming more well-known, kelly ward, our state republican chairwoman is now getting something out of it. there's going to be a huge reckoning in 2022. >> lori roberts, columnist, thank you for being here tonight. we all feel like we're very

close to you and other observers of this phenomenon. i'm grateful for your time. >> thank you. >> i'll be right back. stay with us. ht back. stay with us rt bed.

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& free premium delivery when you add a base. ends monday. just a matter of weeks, almost all u.s. forces and nato forces are going to be out of afghanistan. president biden announced earlier this year in april that all u.s. troops will be gone out of afghanistan by september 11th. but now, it's looking like u.s. troops are going to be out even sooner than that. potentially by early next month. and as you'd expect, there's been lots of debate about the wisdom of that decision, right? just today, the top commander of the u.s.-led forces in the region said that after the pus withdrawal, some kind of civil war is basically inevitable. lots of people are sounding alarms about how much strength the taliban is showing as the u.s. forces prepare to leave. as things stand, lots of americans will find things to disagree about, about this decision. about why we went to afghanistan

in the first place. how long we were there. how the mission evolved while we were there. whether it's a good idea to leave now in the current circumstances. and how. those are all legitimate questions, all of that is up for legitimate debate. and good people on both sides of that question will continue to debate those things. but one thing that really is not up for serious debate is the question of whether or not america should keep its promises to the people who helped u.s. service members there at great risk to themselves. the question of whether we should make sure that afghans who helped us there, in all of our years in war there, are not going to be abandoned and left to be massacred by the taliban when u.s. troops depart. when u.s. troops leave the country, afghan interpreters and drivers and clerks and security guards and lots of other people who have worked for and have helped the u.s. military in afghanistan for all of these years, they are legitimately

afraid they will be killed by the taliban, once u.s. forces are gone. there are thousands of afghan special immigrant visa applications that are back logged. they need to fix that process in congress, though is something that both sides of the aisle seem to be agreeing on mostly. there's a little worry on this front when last week senator rand paul argued that the u.s. should not speed up the visa process for afghanistans who are now facing this imminent danger because of our departure. he said that the afghans should stay behind, you can say that the afghans helped us but you could also say they helped liberate us as well. and also senator paul may still try to get in the way of the process moving forward. but today, the house voted overwhelmingly to expedite the

visa process for afghans by waiving the medical process. the house voted yes by a very large majority, 356 to 46, so that passed the house today. the biden administration say they have a plan to get potentially thousands of afghans out and to safety as u.s. forces start to leave. the house today voted to facilitate that. we shall see if senator rand paul blocks that in the senate. we'll see if he wants all of that blood on his conscience and america's moral conscience it got through.

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all right. that is going to do it for us tonight. but before i go it has come to my attention that i said the dred scott case, the supreme court -- the worst supreme court case of all time, dred scott case was 1859. it was not. it was 1857. i actually thought i said '57. we had 1857 up on the screen.

apparently when i squeezed the words out of my big dumb face, i said 1859, not 1857, which i don't even know how that happened. i apologize for the inexplicable error. "way too early with kasie hunt" is up next. ♪♪ nearly a week after the condo collapse in south florida, the search for survive evers continues. though it shifts to accountability the question is could criminal charges be file accountability the question is could criminal charges be file . plus, a stunning error shows the new york city's mayor's race into even more confusion. the question is does anyone have any idea where this race currently stands? and the scorching heat as the city of spokane goes through the hottest day on record. the question is is there any relief in sight? it's "way too early" for this.