if you follow politics at all you will know the president trump s new lawyer, rudy giuliani, held a news conference after the 20 1:20 election, was held at four seasons total landscaping, a gardening business nestle between adult bookstore and a crematorium. honestly, i don t know that we have heard definitively settled on why the press conference was held there, but the whole reason rudy g event gilles at trotted him on out this morning from the guarding business was to basically claim that the election had been stolen. the real chef s kiss here is that that fever dream of a press conference took place exactly at the national news network, we re calling the election for joe biden. and honestly as unbelievable as that series of events was, it was not even the most memorable news conference that rudy giuliani held that month. just over a week later mr. giuliani held another one, where he appeared to be, for lack of a better term, melting? during that press conference he clai
believes you have to basically burn the system down to rebuild it and fix it. steve bannon on trial in the first of several major developments this week related to the capitol insurrection. right now the secret service is getting ready to hand over subpoenaed text messages as the january 6th committee gets red for thursday s primetime hearing on the 187 minutes when trump did nothing to quell the violence. in uvalde, texas it was 77 minutes that police, hundreds of them, did nothing has children were being murdered. what a damning report reveals about policing in uvalde and beyond. we begin with a day in court for steve bannonch the right wing podcaster and one-time adviser to the twice-impeached former president. his trial for contempt of congress got under way today. jury selection wrapped just a short time ago after two last-minute attempts by bannon s team to delay the trial, including an offer to testify before the january 1th committee. narrowing the jury pool from
i remember asking my bunky, do you think our brains are fine? all of these women that were suffering with me had not a lot of time, and feared they were getting death sentences. that was maggie luna, who was convicted of drug possession and served two years in texas state jail, which is the maximum sentence. two years felt like a death sentence for luna and the other women in that jail, because of the heat. which was in the triple digits. with the state now shattering heat records, state lawmakers in texas have attempted to pass laws to protect inmates in the summer by requiring air conditioning. but republicans have largely tanked those efforts. texas s inability, or it s resistance, to respond to this climate-related crisis is not that different from what happened in the state after 2021 winter storm, when mass blackouts resulted in hundreds of deaths. after that deadly winter, democratic state representative james telerico trying to pass a climate action bill. calling the storm a
climate bills that republicans and legislature have stifled. as well as david wallace-wells. thank you both for being here tonight. representative, let me start with you, since we talked a lot in the wind up to this about texas and what s happening there. i am struck by the inherent cruelty of some of these republican lawmakers, who understand very much, that their constituents are dying. because of this heat. and seem very, i mean, uninterested in doing the basic, taking the basic measures to help them. can you offer any insight into why the resistance, in terms of putting air conditioning in texas prisons, which get to be in the triple digits, in terms of heat? well, if you grew up in canada like ted cruz or you grew up in maryland like our lieutenant governor, dan patrick, you may think that texas summers have always been this hot. texans know that our climate is changing. i m an eighth generation texan, my family s been here since it was mexico. i remember, on summer days, just
or professional careers. you know, some people it s personal. it s emotional. we have families. but voting is everything in this country, and we are in this fight, and we are going to stand up, and we want you across america, if you re being suppressed in your state, join us in our nation s capital. let s rally to the finish. let s get a vote on the for the people act before the recess. representatives, thank you both so much for your time. now for more on what is happening on the hill and where west virginia senator joe manchin currently stands on this, let s bring in political correspondent for business insider and senior correspondent at vox. also the new co-host of vox conversations, a podcast about honest discussions about everything from the relationship between democracy and fascism to psychedelics and mental health to the intersection of sports, politics, and culture. i have already subscribed. you should, as well. we heard texas state representative james telerico say