ted badgered and badgered her. he needed her there because the rumors going around was that ted was cheating with mary jo kopechne. even in death, this woman's reputation is being shredded. and so joan, being theutiful wife, goes to the funeral with ted, who was wearing a neck brace he does not need, and shortly thereafter loses this baby. jackie;s most consequential -- jackie's most consequential -- it was a stillbirth. she had two miscarriages before this. it was a much wanted baby. jack is off sailing on a mediterranean yacht with his cronies and a bunch of women. she goes into premature labor, the doctors knock around, she awakes to bobby kennedy at her bedside, not her husband, john. bobby is the one who tells her her daughter, arabella, was born stillborn. she wants jack. where is jack? bobby says he is in the med and he is unreachable but of course he was because bobby spoke to him and jack costa response was what does it matter? the baby is dead. she was left alone to grieve a daughter she never saw or held

manyny of kennedy men had their own issues, ted, especially.te ted and joan have a son patrick, who wrote a memoir, he wrote about his issues with alcoholism. andbo he was sort of off the out of ostracized from family for a while it was how dare you expose the kennedy family. joe sr., made his fortune in bootlegging. how dare you say the story irishy catholic family has a problem with alcohol, there is a thread throughout for sure. >> patrickpe has appeared on this program talking about his latest book, profiles in mental health courage, maureen callahan the author of this book, ask not, the kennedys and women they destroyed. >> thank you for spending time on q&a. >> thank you so much for having me. ♪ ♪ >> democracy is is worth dying for. >> we're here in the sanctuary of democracy. >> great responsibilities fall to the great democracies, bigger than freedom and democracy must be guarded and protected. >> we're still at our core, a democracy. >> this is a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. >> weekends on c-span 2.

ted cruz, the great ted cruz, the conservative ted cruz, the brilliant ted cruz, argued with me to wantsbills, can't get it done in one bill and it's not important and we'll get to the taxes when we can get to them and i don't agree with all respect for ted cruz, a genuine conservative. i don't understand it, steve moore. >> well i want to tell your viewers a quick story about what happened in 2017. you hint at this on this earlier in the show, but do you remember december 2022, 2017, larry when you and i got an emergency call from mitch mcconnell saying we don't have enough votes for our tax bill and we had to go pounding on the doors of five or six republican senators trying to get and persuade them this was an important thing to do and so my point is, we came within an eye lash of not getting that historic tax bill done. i don't want to live through that again. i want to get this done. i think did jason say he thought we could do it by memorial day? i'll take it. memorial day, we're going to have this tax bill signed because one other quick thing. larry: the whole thing. the big bill.

even ted cruz wouldn't commit to voting for him. though he will.aughter ] the list of bootlickers is long. and the maga minions, like troy nehls of texas, are lined up to suckle trump's celebrity teats. >> there's no question he's the leader of our party. he's got a mission statement. his mission and his goals and objectives, whatever that is, we need to embrace it. all of us. every single word. it's his mission statement we need to embrace. if donald trump says jump three feet high and scratch your head, we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads. that's it. >> jimmy: troy, you're embarrassing himself. he's not going to sleep with you, okay? [ laughter ] is that what we get from texas now? there are many theories as to why trump is naming a battalion of bozos to do these very important jobs. some believe he's testing the republican congress, to see how far he can push them. some say he's doing this strategically to weaken certain sections of the government. or, and this is the theory that i believe, he's dumb. [ laughter ] [ cheers and appl

in a moment we hear from senator ted cruz. then house ways and means chair jason smith but first one big beautiful bill, the subject of the riff. a big moment today, perhap two. first certainly, congress certified president-elect trump's eel open victory,ta. mr. trump create could a working class coalition, hispanic-americans could black americans, asian-americans, muslim mu-americans, young people, union members women. that could well change face of american politics for at least a generation, mr. trump turned the g.o.p. into the party of working folks, he will promote america first policies be they lower taxes, reciprocal fair trade tariffs, border closing, unleashing energy, minimizing red tape business regulations and he brought in the doge brothers, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. who will weaken the over extended power of the unelected federal bureaucracy. as well as chopping down the tom tomorrow -- federal budget, and america first overseas to restore american authority, respect with peace through strength, and a clear

let's bring in ted williams, fox news contributor and polities. ted from new louisiana.clusions? >> you know, first i would like to offer my condolences to the good people of new orleans, louisiana. we are beginning to get a picture here. we know that this truck was rented in texas and that it was driven to louisiana by a person who has what i would define as a middle eastern name, and that is shamsud din jabbar. and we know that the person was dressed according to many in black, military black. what authorities are trying to do at this stage is to try to determine, are we dealing with a lone wolf? or are we dealing with a sleeper cell? i would have to believe that this press conference that is coming up here in a few minutes will give us a great deal of information, perhaps. >> jonathan: yeah, and ted, i wonder what you make of the presence of what the fbi is describing as potential ieds, both in the vehicle, and according to the fbi statement, there were other potential ieds, improvised explosive devices, another word for bombs, in other words, were also located in the

ted, i'm curious your thoughts on that. i mean, do you think there isn't room for some young people in the two parties that there are right now. and is it a problem, you know, thinking about this election when there are two candidates? it's a hugely consequential election, but there are folks, neither of them. i totally agree with with an issue like israel's war with hamas. is that a problem? and do you think is some truth to their not being room for those folks in the two parties. here's how i would answer it. the question is for us is democracy the way to resolve our differences. and if the answer is yes, then we can figure out how do we reform our democracy so that it more representative of the values views expressed in the country, so that our elected representatives not only carry those views forward, but are penalized when they don't. and so and so back to the question about sort of gen-z young people, a lot of the polls show there's a there's a lagging faith in democracy among young folks. and so so the question for

fox news contributor ted williams ted, thank you. >> my pleasure.rmer president jimmy carter being remembered today with a procession making several stops in his home state of georgia. jonathon is live in atlanta. jonathon. >> hi anita georgia i cans are showing outside the carter center to honor native son they sent to the white house nearly a half a century ago. i'll have details coming up. the freestyle libre 3 plus sensor tracks your glucose in real time, and over time it can help lower your a1c. ♪ this is progress. learn more and try for free at freestylelibre.us ♪ anita: state funeral ?oans for america 39th president are now underway jimmy carter procession left his hometown of plains, georgia, this morning. it will soon arrive at the state capitol in atlanta. he'll then lie in repose at the carter presidential center for mourners to pay their respects. senior correspondent jonathon surrey is live in atlanta with more on all of this. hi, jonathon. reporter: good afternoon. anita today is the first of six days of formal funeral ceremonies comme

ted kaufman. gracie mccarthy excepting on behalf of -- mccarthy. excepting on behalf of of lewis ready. collin sykes junior excepting on behalf of collins sykes. eleanor smeal. bennie g thompson. wayne sis any. thomas j -- francis visco. paula wallace. and evan wilson. ♪ distinguished guests, the president of the united states. ♪ [applause] pres. biden: hello, hello. please have a seat. happy new year. welcome to your house, the white house, the people's house. as i've said before, the most important title in america is not president but citizen. it is we the people, these are the words on which the entire nation has been built, not hyperbole. we gather here in the east room next to the portrait of teddy roosevelt. reformer, soldier, governor, president. he promoted the cause of active citizenship. despite his rugged individualism, he believed in forging common ground. he once said, grave perils are yet to be encountered in the stormy course of the republic but there is no reason we should fear them or doubt the capacity to overcome them. we should

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joe biden and ted kennedy.arter during that huge division inside the democratic party. so that hurt him. a lot of the wounds were self-inflicted. carter was high handed. he was -- he was very abrupt with members of congress. he didn't really like politicians very much. i looked at some of the logs of his calls trying to get votes on various issues, 30 seconds the call would last. no pleasantries. he invited a couple powerful senators to play tennis on the white house court and then he said goodbye have a drink. >> he saw his constituency as the people who voted for him. that's what he had to do. deal with the issues of the people who voted for him. he didn't see the need to work with washington to play the games of washington to get it done. >> they got a lot more done. many bills were passed and signed. >> is a chance to write the record at least. this opportunity just over lining here. president jimmy carter, 100 years old. the beginnings of his state funeral in washington, d.c. is what you been watching. tha

ted williams, thank you. we will check in with you later in the show. >> lawrence: yeah, i don't understand the -- i get what the leaders are trying to do. they don't want panic to happen. you can't say that you have a manhunt now for other people involved with this tragedy and then at the same time say the people are safe. those two things can't be true at the same time i'm sure the idea nor law enforcement on the scene. the part i worry about, yes, inside you have the stadium, superdome, there is going to be magna tom terse. bomb squad do sweeps make sure there is no explosives inside. as people gather outside, to make their way there, that's where the enemy is going to tried attack. i don't think you can say that's safe. >> shannon: they are going to be gathering before and along after the game. so all of that is obviously going to be key. the attorney general of the state joined us at the top of the 6:00 hour this morning. and i don't know, we seem to all sort of pick up on, perhaps, there is some differe

ted, always good to see you and hear your thoughts, ted roll syndicated, political cartoonist, many thanks. thank you. half a dozen you nations are calling for a stricter price caps to be imposed on russian oil in another attempt to hit small schools revenues 3 years ago. the g 7 impose the $60.00 per bar limit pricing, which has been ignored by russia and this economic partners trade has since continued. market prices now sweeping denmark, finland last field, issue in the, in the stone. you are asking for the cap to be the word we believe now is the time to further increase the impact of our sanctions by lowering the g 7 oil price gap. measures the targeted revenues from the export of oil or crucial since they reduced versus the single most important income source. why is it the every time that you tries to put the screws to russia, they just end up stripping the threads off their own economy. just what europeans need, the baltics in north x demanding i turn at the driver's seat to take the clamor bill 1st, then they're like, hey, move over fellow both those time for us to take the wheel.

and i know alan had earlier referenced our good friend ted olson. and i also want to mention that because back when i worked on the hill, ted and barbara olson were two of my mentors. and so that is a great loss. and two people have really had such a great respect for the rule of law and for those who never had the privilege of seeing ted olson argue a case in the supreme court or had the privilege of him prepare for an argument in front of the supreme court, i'd recommend going and getting any of the cases that you can hear or at least listen to in any of those budding lawyers out there. always talk. right. you want to listen to that? it is just such a it was like watching somebody play tennis at wimbledon. but with nine players coming at you and ted always could get them all. it was just so awesome. so i did have the privilege of working with somebody like that at the justice department, working on capitol hill. so that is not what you're dealing with in congress right now. but fortunately, since i did have that privilege of working with him and o

today, we have the sad news of ted olson's passing. on behalf of the society of the rule of law, i would like to take a brief moment of silence to acknowledge the loss of ted olson, who many of us that the privilege to know and work closely with. d civil liberties oversight board with with ted, and that was a great honor. he was certainly a towering figure in the supreme court bar and a really brilliant star in the conservative legal firmament. so just a moment to acknowledge the loss of ted olson, a friend and great lawyer. thank you so. as many of you know, the society of the rule of law was founded in 2018 as checks and balances and then re founded relaunched, if you will, in 2023. is the society for the rule of law. we are a group of conservative then center right lawyers, legal scholars and students and others dedicated to defend democracy and the constitution. and regardless of party affiliation and who is in power. we were wondering whether and 2024 at this juncture, we would still have enough to talk about. i don't know. what d

ted williams, paul mauro, gentlemen, thank you very much.e meantime the breaking news coverage of the terrorist attack in new orleans continues after the break. ♪ ♪ >> i believe the terrorist threat level we are contending i with right now is thats a whole 'nother level from an already heightened terrorist threa ttiv level we were seeing even before october 7th. we are very concerned about thea risk oref inspired attacks, lone actors here, inspired by some of the same calls for violence over in the middle east. so this is a time not for a panic but for heightened vig vigilance, given the risk. >> trace: let's bring in federal law enforcement experts former fbi agent bobby chacon and jonathan gilman. former deputy director of euros terrorist explosive device analytical center, scott sweetow. thank you for coming on and very much appreciate this. to you, jonathan, you heard the fbi director christopher wray talking how many times he hanys said we are on heightened alertb heree too he said it is no time for panic that maybe ifor t is e for pani

kennedy to run for president and of course, ted kennedy did not challenge carter. watch the service today and to see the incredible outpouring of tributes for this one term president, i think the point has been driven home many times now about his character and his decency. more important to jimmy carter and his feelings about his legacy was the second look he's getting at his presidency. stu eisen who delivered one of the eulogies the domestic policy chief in the white house, when he left the white house january 1981, he had a hundred legal pads with notes on both sides of the paper and it took him a number of years but his book that was published several years ago now was the beginning of a very determined and strategic effort to get jimmy carter a second look for what he had accomplished as president. a very much-deserved second look, i may add. there were a lot of cultural differences between this southern president, a one term governor, a peanut farmer. how did he ever get to be president? and he capsulized that and got the biggest laugh today in the service s

this was a fact that jimmy carter asked ted mondell was his vice president of course.ord had campaigned against him. but they became very close. the closest friends among the former presidents for jimmy carter who wasn't that close with some of his successors. but he had asked for them to write eulogies that would be delivered for him and those will be delivered on thursday by steve ford, one of gerald ford's sons and by you, ted, on behalf of your father. >> yes, they had a very long and fruitful relationship. they grew up in small towns. they were both, had very strong faith. and they really worked out, nice haircut. they really worked out a relationship where they could work together and trust each other and understand each other. and i think that the working relationship as vice president helps us support the initiatives that the carter administration put through. my father was able to put through things the other vice president hadn't and they remained friends. they remained friends throughout their lives. carter was up here for my dad's 90th birthday. and, it rea

ted, over to you. >> griff: ted, what does the superintendent kirkpatrick have to say there? >> i'm here in new orleans in french quarters here with chief of police for new orleans police department ann kirkpatrick. chief kirkpatrick, where are you in the investigation? >> this is an fbi investigation. so they are the lead agency. they are making a lot of progress in the last 24 hours. i will be meeting with emthis soon for an update on the investigation. >> i watched you yesterday at the press conference and you talked about accomplices, where are you in that part of the investigation? can you give us information the public can use? >> as i said, fbi has taken the lead, i would not use word accomplice, there are people of interest, whether or not they are associated. this is not an accomplice situation, as of yet. we are about to have another briefing, they are looking at anyone and everyone who could have been affiliated and it may be they are not and it may be this is a lone wolf, we do not have final confirmation, we are going to as a you community of law enforcement will

ted, thank you very much. let's bring in tom homan now, the incoming trump administration border czar. tom, great to have you here. i want to get to new orleans again in just a second, but we just got this fresh information out of las vegas, and the police chief they are giving us a lot of new details. i want to get your reaction to. he characterized what they're learning on the ground in las vegas as a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately thereafter. they are not aware of any other subjects involved in that case. while they are aware of the similarities to the person who carried out the attack in new orleans, they are not able to directly tie these two events together. they have no evidence they are tied together, but they do not believe any further threat from that particular incident is out there at this time. what was your reaction to what you heard? >> well, i think, the further the investigation goes, i think they're going to find a connection between the two incidents, but look, they are bot

ashley: well, ted williams in new orleans this morning, ted, thank you very much for sharing your withertise. >>> meantime, president biden appeared to struggle with his remarks after the attack on bourbon street. listen. >> the situation is very fluid. and the investigation is at the preliminary stage. and the fact is that right now -- excuse me. will you go. i've directed my attorney general, the fbi director, secretary of homeland security, the head of national counterterrorism center and the intelligence community to work on this intensively until we have a full and complete information. and once we have that information, i will share that information as soon as i -- we can confirm it. ashley: liz peek swoins me now. liz, you know, once again the optics look terrible. he does not project strength and reassurance. in fact, it's quite the opposite, would you agree? >> i would agree. neither his delivery nor, frankly, the contents of his remarks, ashley, are reassuring. after all, this is the president who told us in no uncertain terms that white supremacy was the big threat to americ

on the ground perspective let's bring in former washington, d.c., detective and fox news contributor ted williams he was in new orleans, along with "new york post" reporter jenny taylor in houston, texas, welcome both of you, thank you jenny you got an inside look at shamsud din jabbar's trailer home tell us what you saw. >> right so his trailer home is not an active crime scene at this moment, the fbi rated it last night but at this moment is just abandoned and you can see from our footage that they are still is so many of his belongings there, there is chemicals everywhere, there is a search warrant on the kitchen counter, right next to his kitchen was a list that the fbi had documented upon searching the home, those items include chemicals to make a pipe bomb that's according to our sources, and aside from that he has several workstations were you could see he was working with chemicals, that was all left behind after the search warm was executed and it's interesting to think about what they did take and what they had left there, and neighbors were telling us that they spoke to shamsu

ashley: you know, he had ieds with him, ted. we've seen him planting them. lucky or fortunate given what he was trying to do that these devices were not trig triggered. >> we're very fortunate these ieds were not triggered. lives could have been lost under the circumstances, but the fact about it is i'm on the ground here in new orleans, and i can tell you the people of new orleans are resilient, they're alive and they're saying something in america here. we are not going to let the terrorists scare us from going about our business and our lives. that is certainly something that is clear here on the ground, ashley. ashley: it's probably one of the city in the country i would believe now. >> you are absolutely right. you had this sugar bowl here last night, and you had law enforcement all over the place. in about another month here, you'll have the super bowl and you'll have another law enforcement all over the place. ashley: good to hear. ted williams, thank you so much as always for keeping us up to speed from the ground in outrebounded orleanss, thank you,

his work included the ted kaczynski case also known as the univar. for being here i wanted to get your thoughts because of your professional experience as a profiler and what we know so far about the new orleans attacker. what do you make about how he became readily caused? >> it's a sad case win anyone who is a public servant of some sort this case the military, a veteran, chooses to go on the dark side peer for whatever reason we don't exactly know. there's a dotted line connection to asis is it a direct line connection devices? these are thanks we just don't know yet. i know the fbi is saying he is inspired by but i think they're only 36 hours of investigation we still have a lot of time to go to make the formal determinations. during the univar in case the bomber referenced true believer and there are people out there who reread it ever since and there are people out there who get hung up on belief systems and what any religious or political ideology and it becomes an obsession peer you can be a true believer in both ways are keep it modified for

he's a ted lasso. be based on him. but it's both ted lasso and this coach that i a story about who's named who's hitting is a dutch coach who sort of at the last minute was recruited to coach the south korean national soccer team in 2002, when south was also hosting the world cup. and they're their team had been bombing out of like small local tournaments in asia, was playing very poorly. and so as a desperate measure, they said, okay, let's let's bring this dutch guy who has a reputation of sort of a miracle worker, a whisperer who can bring out the talent and team, even though he's never been to korea before. he doesn't speak korean. he doesn't know who the star korean players are. and it sounds a bit ted lasso. right. and it turned out that he was exactly what they needed. the the south korean team had been playing in a sort of hierarchical way where they were, you know, there were these star veterans and the ball would always be passed to the star veteran because there was a sense like they should be the one to tak

first ted williams is live in new orleans with the latest. ted, thank you so much for being here with us and thank you for being on the ground there. what are you learning from being where you are and seeing this investigation firsthand? >> hi molly and rich. i can tell you the things that we're learning right now is i had an interview with the chief of police this morning. i don't know -- i don't think they're sure whether this person acted as a lone wolf or he had accomplices. they did, in fact, have individuals that they believe was in their sight, meaning law enforcement. they interviewed those individuals and have let those individuals go. so the search is still on as to whether there is an actual manhunt going on here in the new orleans area at this time. >> molly: ted, when you talk about individuals let go, they also talked about a range of suspects in the course of this investigation. do you feel like they are leaning one way or the other? the range of suspects, could it mean people that may have offered something to the subject in t

>> all right, let's bring in ted williams, former dc homicide detective. >>> it was interesting to me watching that news conference with federal and local officials and hearing a number of them refer to several suspects in their words or in the words of althea duncan, fbi special agent in charge. they're on the hunt for others who took part in some way in the planning or perpetration of this attack. >> you know, jonathan, you're absolutely right. when i listened to that press conference, i came away with the fact that we have a city on edg edge, meaning new orleans, louisiana right now is very much on edge because you heard the superintendent of police there using the words "these people". you heard senator kennedy, the senator from louisiana used the word other bad guys. you heard the governor landry says we're hunting bad people. so, that told me right then and there that we're not dealing with a lone wolf. we're dealing with other individuals that the authorities are trying to hunt down. there is a manhunt. i can understand why they would take the super bowl off the chart for tonig

i yield to vice chair ted lieu. mr. lieu: my prayers are with those affected by the fires. the northern part of my district was evacuated but the two districts are brad sherman and judy chu. why did these fires explode and why are they so hard to contain. second, what the response has been and third, some items to think about. in terms of what caused these fires to spread so quickly, we had a number of factors, drought-like conditions, very low humidity and santa ana winds, high winds hit us. we had santa ana winds but not to this scale at 100 miles an hour. think about a hurricane with fire in it. and these winds can blow these embers for miles and miles and miles and set structures on fire. there are a lot of wildfires. the palisades fire and eaton in judy chu's districts. washington, d.c., is about 43 akers. over 1500 fire engines and 80 aircraft and fema is providing assistance to those who need disaster aid. climate change is causing more extreme weather events. california had the atmospheric rivers and now these wildfires. and second, i just want to say it is outrageo

see what you are down there, ted. tell us about these things, how important they are and if they would have prevented this. >> trace, they are very important. we will never know if the barricades would have prevented this, but it is no time now for us to be critical of the new orleans police department. but i would have to say, those bollards should have been up. if they didn't have the bollards up, they needed better barricades. from what i understand, they had police cars in place of the bollards, but the problem was that the terrorists went up on the sidewalk, so that should have been covered. police cars alone were not enough to cover where those should have been. so there's time for that to take place, a postmortem, and i think the governor of louisiana has said that they need to have done something definitely with these bollards, and the bollards should have been in place. and if they were not in place, they should have had more protective procedures in place, trace. >> trace: i think that's exactly right. ted w

and you talk about losing his base to ted kennedy in that primary in in 1980. i wonder from from your conversations with him how he reconciled or reckoned with those elements that influenced his defeat for reelection? >> it was what i call the three i's. it was interparty warfare. it was inflation, which he ended up curing by having paul volcker appointed, even though it was politically difficult and inflation dropped like a rock. but only after he left office. and then third was iran. with respect to interparty warfare, he was very upset for his entire presidency and thereafter with ted kennedy for running against him and for dividing the party and not reconciling. and yet, after he lost the election, ted kennedy called me and said, i would like stephen breyer, my top aide, to be appointed by president carter to the first circuit court of appeals. and carter agreed because he knew that breyer was a terrific person. with inflation, yes. but he appointed paul volcker, who helped end it over time. and with iran, this was really the most excruciating thing. 444 da

he saw ted cruz walking down the ramp to get on the boat. heed said i don't -- he said i don't think we can do this. i said, give it a shot. ted got on the vote and before you know it, they were talking, i don't know what they were talking about, it probably wasn't politics, but the next day they started working on some amendments together and doing legislation. and that's just the power of sitting down and listening and getting to know each other and we don't do that much here. it's hard for us to get together. we know that. we need more of that in washington. i hope you all make an effort to visit with each other, spend a little bit of time. i'm not going anywhere, gang. the boat's still going to be there, call me whenever you want to come down, we'll get together, whatever you want. many of our differences pale in comparisons to the founding fathers, but they understood what was at stake and put their differences aside to put together something extraordinary. with we need to capture that spirit today. to my colleagues, ask yourself, what

selfishly, i think his most impressive credential on his resume is that he was once a staffer for senator ted kennedy. steve, over to you. >> take you very much, adam. senators, welcome to boston. welcome to the ema institute. do you feel at home? >> when i walked in earlier, before we all got here, i had a chance to look around. it is stunningly like the senate. and i went over and stood behind my desk in the middle of the second row, where i was sitting by lindsey graham on one side, and senator corn on the other. every senator moves -- most senators move every two years and everything is done by seniority. if you are the 100 senator, you get to sit in the desk that is left, while everybody else has a desk. it is a great accomplishment, and a great way to have a sense of what the senate is like, and what happens there. >> senator hetkamp ? >> the interesting thing is, i was the 100 senator. whatever was left, which is way back in that corner over there. 99th, at the time i think was daisy, we were elected at the same time, and we became fast friends, and she was my ohana, which means family

but ted, thank you for joining us on the ground there in new orleans. all right. joining us now from the west coast christina coleman is here with the latest puzzling new details out of las vegas. christina. >> hi, jason. authorities identified the suspect in this case as 37 year old matthew berger of colorado springs. they say he was a highly decorated army soldier, most recently a green beret who was on leave from germany. they believe he was the lone driver of the tesla cybertruck that you see here, exploding wednesday morning outside of the trump international hotel in las vegas. authorities believe berger shot himself in the head while in the vehicle before the explosion. investigators say they found a lot of evidence in the cybertruck, including a military id, a passport, multiple guns and materials they believe were intended to fuel a larger explosion. seven people suffered minor injuries from the incident. authorities say it could have been worse if the steel sided vehicle didn't absorb a lot of the force from the blast. also, there are some similarities b

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ted cruz talked about this a little bit. listen. >> what are the policies that have exacerbated it?uld put them into three different categories. number one, the mo management of pubpublic lands and forest management. number two water policies and california's insane policies on handling water that sadly are making the crisis much, much worse. and number three, policies directly impacting firefighters and in particular the city of la's decision to slash the firefighter budget. rachel: so much, michael, to go over but i'm fascinated by all that ted cruz said but also by the fact that gavin newsom and karen bass get money from the environmental radical -- radical environmentalists who fund those groups, also fund their campaigns. >> that's absolutely the case. i think that's maybe the biggest factor. i'll tell you one big thing that should have occurred that they didn't do is you need a desalination plants, also water recycling plants, but desalination plants like israel has with separate lines to be able to pump the water into the reservoirs, refill the reservoirs so they would have n