you re a candidate now, ron. thanks to what is sure to be remembered as the most awkward campaign launch in american history. plus, that s not fair. trump s lawyers channel their inner 8-year-old in a whining complaint to the u.s. attorney general with due apologies to 8-year-olds. later, one year after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in uvalde, texas, an activist group floats a radical proposal for reining in america s deadly gun culture. and we begin tonight with a question. would you ever hire someone who participated in a deadly insurrection to overtake the u.s. capitol or fellow rioters threatened to kill the house speaker and hang the vice president? would you hire a woman who was once arrested and charged with stealing the campaign signs of a political rival who she had run against for public office? personally i wouldn t and i imagine most of you wouldn t either. but florida governor ron desantis did. this is sandra atkinson. her investigation by
violent anti-democratic siege that left five people dead. surely trump and desantis s florida has no problem with that. instead controversy brewed over what she said at a 2022 board meeting when she berated a massage provider who was applying for a license for not speaking english. this is what atkinson said as the provider struggled to communicate with the board. if she can t understand or speak english, she shouldn t be practicing massage. it s ridiculous. there s no requirement to speak english. yeah. to be a massage therapist. the laws need to be changed. this is dangerous to the public. so i ask you again, would you hire this person? what about a cop with a mad sketchy record, would you hire one or several? that s another thing desantis did. and is still doing. a couple years ago desantis unveiled a plan to recruit police officers from other states who didn t want to submit to covid vaccination