Mayorkas who they insist is responsible for turning a blind eye to the immigration here along the southern border, neil. neil: matt finn, thank you. meanwhile, we re back looking at the [inaudible] in iowa to get out the vote. governor reynolds says ronty ron desantis remains her first choice. but the lieutenant governor endorses somebody else. no friction, no pain.pe she r,s next. h rate debt is stressing your budget. but your family s service has earned you a big advantage. the va home loan benefit. with the lower rate newday 100 va cash out loan, you can pay off high rate credit cards and car loans. and can save $6,000 a year. that s real money you can use to take care of your family and home.
Terror attack on israel. what did you see? desantis accused the biden administration of turning a blind eye to americanss stuck in israel after that attack by hamas. listen. you know what, biden wasn t helping americans get out of the war zone. these are people that were stranded. i didden an executive order. we scrambled planes and rescued over 700 americans from israel and brought them back safely to the state of florida. the attacks was on october 7th as the counterstrikes began, the state department began arranging for americans. the first official flight came out on the 13th, only the day before that did desantis declare a state of emergency to free up funds in florida for the same purpose so his air lift of americans did not begin until after the biden administrations s effort was well underway. desantis claim he had to do the job because the white house would not is false.
The washington post who pointed out hunter biden s attorney accuses jordan and company of putting all of their focus on present biden while turning a blind eye towards former president trump and his family s businesses. what do you make of that assessment? look what s going on now. president trump has been a persecuted very explicitly. his business owns or under a microscope you have again a politicized d.o.j. it s working all in one direction the going after president trump, throwing the book at him on minor things on his particular case right now in new york there is no victim he is being accused of some sort of financial fraud the banks themselves are not legit he paid back every penny of it. and on the other hand you have this kid s glove treatment hunter biden would ve gotten off without any charges and a sweetheart deal until a federal judge said this smells fishy ask questions a the whole thing exploded.
Later this year. but i think as we get closer to this and we see the dangerous candidacy that we see from donald trump, the authoritarian ideals that he puts forth, that americans will turn from kitchen table issues to look at democracy just as we did in 2020. so my guess is that americans, while they re largely turning a blind eye, many americans are turning a blind eye to this now, that as we come closer to the election, democracy will become more and more important. and perhaps something that really underscores real concerns about trump being the next gop nominee, former president barack obama, apparently was very animated in talks with biden at the white house about the idea of top decisionmakers in biden s administration needing to be involved in his re-election
Headlines that we are watching this hour. new video out of japan showing the incredible moment a woman is pulled from the rubble three days after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the country s west coast. the survivor s family watching on as he has pulled from the collapsed house. the quake has killed more than 80 people with dozens still missing. thousands of troops have been dispatched to the region to assist in rescue operations. in the meantime, biden s over the handling of the israel-hamas war. he was a policy adviser in the department of education, in a letter to the education secretary, he accused the administration of turning a blind eye to the atrocities of innocent palestinians. he is the second administration josh paul stepped down in october as the u.s. accelerated