>> at face value, typical southern illinois guy.ss family. >> his name was gaege bethune. his mom penny was also a nurse. >> gaege was a very laid back, good kid, a lot of dreams and hope. >> penny says gaege fell story for pravin walking by in the cold. >> he didn't have a coat, and asked him for a ride, and gaege says. yes penny says gaege had no idea that pravin was missing until he saw the story on tv. >> he immediately went to his father and then they took care of things. >> the following is a statement taken from gaege -- >> he told police that he was upset when he found that pravin was missing. he seemed eager to tell detectives everything he knew. >> and he came up to my window and said, hey, can you give me a ride. and so i did. it's cold outside, nobody needs to be walking in this cold. >> after he got in his truck, he said gaege didn't seem to have a clue where he was going. he said they didn't really talk that much and drove around in circles. >> he was on the phone the majority of the time. trying to get cocaine off of

brockmeyer. >> i am the ceo of transplant serving missouri, southern illinois and eastern arkansas. at our organization, we followed the ether's of every donor, every time. our team is committed to giving donors and their family they care they deserve while stewarding their gifts to patients desperately need. we depend on the broader national transplant system as administered by unos to accomplish this work and need to urgently address patient safety. each organ loss has a consequence to the thousands of patients waiting for a transplant. furthermore, a discarded organ fails to honor the heroic gift from a selfless donor and compounds the family sense of loss. unos lacks urgency and accountability around identifying and remediating the criminal loss of organs and are not required to publicly report adverse events when patients are harmed, organs are lost or the quality of patient care is deemed unsafe. unos does not require clinical training, licensure or certification standards for opo delivered critical patient care. in this environment, who is looking out for the patient? was bei

than 120 hospitals and transplant centers located through missouri, northeast arkansas, and southern illinois. mr. garry freeman is here, he is the executive director and florida, and is the position he has held since january 2020. he began a civilian career as an organ transplant as an icu staff nurse in st. louis, missouri, and 1885. he has over 35 -- 30 years of experience in the transplant community, including roles and positions, at centers around the country. he's also a distinguished that around. calvin henry is the region three representative of the patient affairs committee in 2012 and he received a double lung transplant houston medical hospital after being diagnosed with an untreatable lung disease consider to be a terminal illness and now a successful lung transplant recipient. he runs marathons. mr. henry has a professional background and health information, and he also volunteers as a patient mentor for his local transplant center on the waitlist for educational resources. and urging immediate reforms in the transplant system. he entered into the record before he began a stateme

i'm a farmer in southern illinois.ty of chicago. we are there every day walking you up and down the streets, if in and out of businesses. people know who we are. they're he fed up and they're ready for change and i think what's going to happen in illinois on november 8 will send shock waves from coast to coast and i think it's going to prepare our country for a revitalization in 2024. maria: we'll be watch, darren bailey, thanks very much for being heres this morning. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. god bless. thank you. maria: and to you. the next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. and good friday morning, everybody. tgif. i maria bartiromo. it is friday, september 23rd

i'm a farmer in southern illinois. my wife cindy and i have recently moved into the inner city of chicago. we are there every day walking you up and down the streets, if in and out of businesses. people know who we are. they're he fed up and they're ready for change and i think what's going to happen in illinois on november 8 will send shock waves from coast to coast and i think it's going to prepare our country for a revitalization in 2024. maria: we'll be watch, darren bailey, thanks very much for being heres this morning. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. god bless. thank you. maria: and to you. the next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. and good friday morning, everybody. tgif. i maria bartiromo. it is friday, september 23rd, it he is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. kevin mccarthy headed to pennsylvania this morning to unveil the gop's commitment to america plan. as republicans make had their push to take back the house this november. the plan includes dozens of policy recommendations including figh

southern illinois's as deep south as you can get, really. and they come over, we talk about it for come down to the bow. we talk for a while. maybe they have a beer or two more and then they go, all right, now what kind of weapons you guys carry? but we didn't know. we've been off three weeks now. everybody slept all their guns. and it's good to look at constant motion on this, these guys faces, you know, it even yells, come coming down this river and you don't have it. let you know. and the reason they thought we needed weapons was. the kids park in cincinnati and paducah and places like that. and the kids were going to come out of the inner cities and they said, did physical storming out of the ghettos kill you and burn your boat you need to be armed and nothing could be further the truth all the way down the road. but what we did was we, you know wonderful inner city kids who came on a boat. but then we got to baton rouge and this african-american kids from that part of town, they spent a lot of time on a river because they catch fish. an

caller: i went to school at southern illinois university and there was this great genius of a guy who designed the geodesic dome. it uses 1/6 of the building materials and one third of the energy to heat and cool. what a great time for this idea to come to fruition. how do you think this could best be presented? i am not the world's greatest public speaker myself, but this idea should be acted upon i think. steven: i was a teenage fan boy of bucky fuller. john: who is he? steven: i forget his biography, but he was an inventor, futurist. the dome, i made one in high school with my friends. it took all summer because there were no kits. we bought aluminum piping and we had to measure things out, then you had this thing, bold them together. we made one. [laughter] i am right with you about how they are neat in concept. but they are a dome. i have seen a few houses made in that form, but there are no design features. i do not want to say they are ugly, but i do not think people would find them rewarding if they were widespread. on the energy efficiency, i used to do some on policy. not as

caller: i went to school at southern illinois university and there was this great genius of a guy who designed the geodesic dome. it uses 1/6 of the building materials and one third of the energy to heat and cool. what a great time for this idea to come to fruition. how do you think this could best be presented? i am not the world's greatest public speaker myself, but this idea should be acted upon i think. steven: i was a teenage fan boy of bucky fuller. john: who is he? steven: i forget his biography, but he was an inventor, futurist. the dome, i made one in high school with my friends. it took all summer because there were no kits. we bought aluminum piping and we had to measure things out, then you had this thing, bold them together. we made one. [laughter] i am right with you about how they are neat in concept. but they are a dome. i have seen a few houses made in that form, but there are no design features. i do not want to say they are ugly, but i do not think people would find them rewarding if they were widespread. on the energy efficiency, i used to do some on policy. not as

that i needed to learn about what families and communities were facing and i went to paran, illinois, the southern part were my family has had the healthcare which is healthcare insertions serving most of downstate illinois rural small town america struggling with providing professional medical care about doing fine job there's something called congressionally directed to spending now, is to be known as earmarks and unapologetic about it and i believe that if you make this public disclosure of these earmarks, and justify them in the taxpayers understanding this is federal money bring brought home to washington to their states and communities where it is needed so i went to parent covalent i work we were able to announce newmark emily dollars providing for about half of the cost of the new physical rehab facility critically important and there are interesting people there in the middle and fellow, four years old, victim of cerebral palsy, his name is maverick in the big smile on his face and he was there the rehab center to introduce me to the nurse that been working with him, strong courageous lit

they would go from the upper south and into southern ohio and indiana and illinois. and from new england into new york. in places like ohio, illinois, michigan, and wisconsin. at the heart of all of these migrations sit cities like cincinnati they form the center of these growing trade and exchange networks. you also see growth happening on the east coast. these trade and transportation networks connecting east and west spurred the growth of some other cities like baltimore on the coast. it really comes into its own on the early national period. urban populations in the united states skyrocketed between 1820 and 1850. in 1820, there are just 12 cities with populations of more than 5000 people. by 1850, there are almost 150 cities with populations of that size. as western settlers are traveling, they're going with their families, they're bringing their belongings, they're taking things with them that you would expect, your typical household belongings. things like furniture and farming equipment. but also in many cases, they are traveling with enslaved men and women.

never fully retiring, went on to become the southern district's legislative representative for the associated firefighters of illinois. richard was dedicated to his family, his friends, his career of service, and our hometown and the community. our prayers are with his family, including daughter olivia and sons eli and zeke. during this difficult time. he was a close friend. he'll be missed tremendously. his ain't to teach others the art of fighting fire and doing it safely and the amount of lives that he saved and the property he save ld not be forgotten for his service. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by senate to inform the house that the senate has passed, s. 4673, an act to re-authorize the national computer institute of the united states secret service and for other purposes, in which concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentleman fro

illinois to get the healthcare they deserve, that they need. let me tell you what it means for your daughters who choose to go to school in one of the southern states? they are not going to have access to their own reproductive healthcare decision-making. it is those women as well i've never voted on abortion before. it's something i support and i am concerned about. i am voting on abortion this type of these are women on both sides of the aisle. it's often independent women open it very supportive of the right to choice but if never voted on. but me tell you, like in kansas they are voting on it now. i refuse that my constituents walk into their ob appointments and have to be haunted by the voice of marco rubio telling them what they can and cannot do with their bodies. i would hate to force any woman fearful lindsey graham effectively has more control over her medical decisions than she or her doctors. i'm going to promise you all here today, i'll say it until i can no longer have a voice, i'm going to keep doing everything in my power to prevent this nation ban on basic healthcare band exclusively goes against the vast majority of americans want

durbin of illinois sent a letter to attorney general merrick garland requesting documents related to accusations made by geoffrey berman in his new book. he was the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york for more than half of trump's presidency. the trump appointee claims he was fired by then attorney general bill barr because his work threatened trump's re-election campaign. earlier on "morning joe," berman told us of one example of how the trump justice department pressured prosecutors to go after the then-president's political opponents. >> so, was it ever verbal to you from bill barr or a deputy attorney general under him saying let's look at john kerry? >> oh, let me tell you what happened with john kerry. you know, president trump attacks john kerry in two tweets saying that kerry engaged in possible illegal conversations with iranian officials regarding the iran nuclear deal. the very next day, the trump justice department refers to the southern district of new york, the john kerry criminal case. two tweets from the president and the john kerry criminal case becomes a priority. so, we investigated. john kerry was entirely innocent. but yet the justice depar

southern states with this problem. >> harris: look, when you start to take the problem to the door steps of the people who push those policies, this is what it can look like. illinois mayor prytzger and chicago's mayor lori lightfoot both called out texas governor abbott and then called on the national guard for help. mayor lightfoot said this. >> it is a manufactured crisis by ambush. any dollar that goes to the state of texas, every single one of those dollars needs to be recommitted to cities like chicago, new york, and washington, d.c. >> harris: mayor eric adams said that new york city is nearing its breaking point with the arrival of thousands of illegal immigrants in the city. this from a man who wants to flow them into the city so that they can vote. remember, he said that as a candidate. so that illegal -- i would think that he would be really glad to see more of his so-called voters. >> that's why this is so ingenious. make them sound out. go ahead and put into your big boy words why this is a problem. you want money from texas to go to illinois. you are at your breaking point in new york. you describe that as a manufactured problem in illinois. now sound

durbin of illinois sent a letter to attorney general garland requesting documents related to accusations made by geoffrey berman in his new book. berman was the u.s. attorney in the southern half of trump's presidency. the trump appointee claims he was fired by then attorney general bill barr because his work threatened trump's reelection campaign. and former u.s. attorney geoffrey berman joins us live. his new book out today entitled "holding the line inside the nation's preeminent u.s. attorney's office and its battle with the trump justice department." good morning, it's great to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> senator durbin saying we're going to launch investigations based on the material in your book. >> i welcome the investigation, you know, the conduct that occurred was so outrageous and unprecedented a light needs to be shined on it. that's the purpose of my book is to allow people to understand the outrageous and improper political interference by trump's justice department in the southern district cases. >> a lot of what you write about in the book was suspected by many people, reported on in realtime. you get into such detail as the person who

illinois to get the health care that they deserve, that they need. let me tell you what it means to your daughters who choose to go to school in one of these southern states they're not going to have access to their own reproductive health care decision can making. and so it is those women as well who have said, you know what? i've never voted on abortion before. it's something i support and something i'm concern about, but i am voting on abortion this time x. if these are women on both sides of the aisle. in fact, it is often independent women who have been very supportive of the right to choice but have never voted on it. let me tell you, like in kansas, they're voting on it now. i refuse to let my constituents walk into their o.b. appointments and have to be haunted by the voice of marco rubio telling them what they can and cannot do with their bodies. i refuse to force any woman to have to live her life fearful that lindsey graham effectively has more control over her medical decisions than she or her doctors. so i'm going to promise you all here today, and i will say it until i no longer have a voice, i'm going to keep doing everything i can in my po

torque work in the -- that pass other chardz in southern illinois, in northwestern illinois.rection they need these workers and now. ag workers. it isn't just the midwest. it's across the nation and yet we don't have a system that allows for these people to come to this country and to legally work. it doesn't make any sense. now, of course, there are standards we ought to apply. they shouldn't be offered any job that hasn't been offered first to an american. that's our first obligation. i get it. and we ought to make sure that if they're going to be here, they're good people. i don't believe we should knowingly allow any dangerous person to come into this country or to stay. if they are guilty of crimes while they're here, they should be punished and deported, period. the standards we should establish should keep our country safe first and foremost. but secondly, we have seen over the past four years and the previous president a complete downturn in the immigrants coming into this country to work. and that's why there are so many shortages in our current workforce. we can do