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The death penalty is not in keeping with who we are as the United States.

We are better than that.

Thank you, President Biden, for following your faith and standing up for justice.

In a historic move, President Biden spares the lives of almost all,

37 of 40 men on death row Monday,

by commuting their sentences to life without parole,

just weeks before President's elect Donald Trump returns to the White House with a promise to restart and expand federal executions. We'll speak to two activists leading the call to

abolish the death penalty, sister Simone Campbell and Herman Lindsay, who spent three years

on Florida death row before being exonerated.

He's now executive director of witness to innocents.

Then to the damning House Ethics Report on former Republican Congressman Matt Gates,

Trump's first pick for Attorney General before he was forced to withdraw from consideration.

What struck me most was that the committee found substantial evidence that Gates paid

thousands of thousands of dollars to women for sex and illicit drugs over a three-year

period. Again, the drugs for a firm self, including ecstasy, marijuana, and for the women as well.

Then we look at what the toppling of the Assad regime means for the Kurds of Syria.

As Turkey, Israel, and the United States all vie for greater control.

He is just pushing all the buttons to exterminate Kurds from Syria and from Syria's future negotiations.

From attacking to cooperating with HDS to reaching out to the world leaders, to take Syria's

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