Tonight on The Readout, I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes.

What does she want to call me?

Well, 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 eight-year-old in a whining complaint to the US Attorney General

with dual apologies to eight-year-olds.

And later, one year after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in Uvalde, Texas,

an activist group floats a radical proposal for reigning 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 US

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, per investigation by USA Today.

She was at the Capitol riot inside, in fact.

Her friend, Sherry Edwards Cox, also marched for Trump in Washington, but said she went

back to her hotel rather than into the Capitol.

She told USA Today that Atkinson claimed to have been inside the Speaker Pelosi's office.

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