state has also instituted a new requirement that any woman seeking an abortion at a facility from here on out must submit herself to an extra invasive medically unnecessary pelvic exam, literally an internal vaginal examination on orders of the state government as the price of requesting an abortion at that last clinic. that is a new requirement in the state of missouri. that was our special report last night. tonight we ll have part two of that special report which is about who s doing that. who made that happen? who in the state government decided to order these doctors to do these medically unnecessary mandatory vaginal examination? the answer we found is very specific and it may surprise you. we have the second part of that special report coming up tonight. i hope you will stick with us for that. that said, because it s friday, the news gods are pitching stuff to us tonight like they ve got eight arms throwing all at once all with terrible aim. it s been hard to field it
operating abortion clinic in the state. whatever is going on in there is evil and wrong. brennan: and steve hartman meets someone with all the answers. because i love grammar so much, and reporter: you couldn t think of anything more interesting? ( laughter ) brennan: good evening. i m margaret brennan. this is our western edition. we begin with breaking news. at least 11 people have been killed in a shooting at a municipal building in virginia beach, virginia. jeff pegues has the very latest. jeff. reporter: margaret, as you said, there are 11 people dead. but that is a number that can rise because there are many injured at this hour. police say a disgruntled employee is responsible. he is now dead. investigators say it unfolded at about 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. that s when the active shooting began. there was an officer who was injured, but he survived. and investigators say it was because he was wearing an armored vest. the initial shots were fired at around
license and shut them down, the state has also instituted a new requirement that any woman seeking an abortion at a facility from here on out must submit herself to an extra invasive medically unnecessary pelvic exam, literally an internal vaginal examination on orders of the state government as the price of requesting an abortion at that last clinic. that is a new requirement in the state of missouri. that was our special report last night. tonight we ll have part two of that special report which is about who s doing that. who made that happen? who in the state government decided to order these doctors to do these medically unnecessary mandatory vaginal expectations? the answer we found is very specific and it may surprise you. we have the second part of that special report coming up tonight. i hope you will stick with us for that. that said, because it s friday, the news gods are pitching stuff to us tonight like they ve got eight arms throwing all at once all with terrible
we are certainly seeing all the candidates roll out big bunches of new plans and new statements and new parts of their stump speeches as they get ready for this big doubleheader of ten-sided competitions that we are about to attempt to put on television. i say we are attempting to put it on television because it is exactly as hard as you might expect to prepare for this kind of debate. there s a reason you don t put ten people onstage at once unless they are dancing in a coordinated fashion. nevertheless, we shall do it. and, you know, it is hard not to sense that the white house and the trump administration might not be almost as focused on this first debate as the democratic candidates are. tomorrow morning, for example, vice president mike pence will be here in miami, of all places, and spare thought for vice president pence at this difficult time, when you consider what exactly he has been tasked with doing here on his miami trip tomorrow, the day before all the democrati
and if you want yet another sign from the news gods that we really should open our minds to what may have previously been unimaginable, another sheer coincidence today is that on halloween and on the day that washington woke up to its first national championship in 95 years and on the day that the house voted to move forward for only the third time in modern american history with impeachment proceedings against a sitting president, on this same day, our great allies overseas, the brits, today started their own election. because as nutty as this brexit thing is that they are going through, and as nutty as a lot of things are about british politic, the brits do actually have one very, very sensible thing in their politics that i would do anything to have us dopt here, which is that they have a really strict time limit on their elections. their elections are six weeks, full stop, that s it. unlike us where even the primary process takes more than a year in our presidential elect