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Indigenous, including queer actor devery jacobs, who is reaching a new generation with her work and shes about to reach an even greater audience as a superhero in the marvel universe. >> devery jacobs, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much for having me. >> im pointing out to everybody that you are wearing the jacket with our duty on it and that is for reservation dogs, which is the series that you are a part of. it is a barrier breaking series because, correct me if im wrong, e...

A door mat 1931 law is already in place but that law is held up in courts keeping abortion legal, for now. if that law does go into effect, it will criminalize all abortions as a felony. what did they tell you? >> reporter: when you look to washington, this issue is paint and as red or blue, black or white but when you sit down and start to have these conversations with people, it becomes a lot more purple. a lot more gray. these are four women who all grew up with republican backgrounds who all...

Was released and when they voted to bring to it the next step. it got a good padding of gop support beyond the ten republicans who we already knew supported the framework of this legislation including senate minority immediater mitch mcconnell. jose, it is important to underscore how big a deal this is, it shows it is guaranteed to pass when the senate takes this up. we are thinking thursday or friday, before they leave on a two-week recess for the fourth of july. then kicking it to the house fo...

Effect, but if that falls, as we expect in the coming days, that could spell some jeopardy. the pov north is fighting against that 1931 law. her legislature is fighting to defend that lu. i spoke with her after this roundtable, which included women from across the political spectrum with different backgrounds. you had pro choice republicans in the room, faith leaders in the room, each extremely personal stories about abortion sharing stories of ep topic prbss, their own parents stories when it c...

The texas state gop convention is a reminder why we dont have 30 republicans stepping forward to join us in this important piece of legislation. so, thank you for keeping the focus on the urgency of now and the importance of acting after the horrific shootings in buffalo and uvalde and reminding all of your viewers that each and every day dozens of americans of all ages and backgrounds die in gun violence. the provisions in this bill will help make our country safer. >> well, let his hope someth...

To the white house. i was on the lawn when former president trump had these michigan officials in the white house and trying to pressure them to change the results of that election even as votes were being counted. its really important when im talking to my sources that lawmakers want to get at the idea that this was not just a couple of states but every state that former president trump thought he could twist arms for in order to try to wrestle back the election even when it wasnt counted and e...

Wherever you come from, a lot of us miss community because of what happened with covid, because of the celebration we all had to go through. this was community. people were hugging each other, black folks, white folks, people of latino. they were all dancing with one another. once the community said, if youre black people stand up. if youre wihite people, stand up. and the white people were like, yes! and they were standing up. what you saw in there was a moment we desperately need in this count...

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And its kind of their community, and it is how they engage with each other, so my dad was in the lodge, both the orange and black protectory, so he was quite in there. in fact, the 12th, his lodge marched from our house to go to the 12th, and he was master of his lodge. so i was steeped in that sort of culture, and it was really only when i went to university at queens in belfast that i had my first taste of cross community education integration, of meeting people from a completely different bac...

Similar pattern in who they are and their backgrounds. what has been your takeaway after all of the research youve done? >> yes, thanks. i would say we are searching for a profile but its more of a pathway to a mass shooting. the one thing i will say mass shooters tend to be boys and men, 98% are male. but in terms of what gets them to the point of perpetrating a mass shooting this pathway is early childhood trauma. its an identifiable crisis point in that persons life, usually a grievance and a...