We're keeping an eye on the United States Senate where the vote is 50 to 50 for Pete

Hegsses nomination to be Defense Secretary.

If you're thinking that sounds like a tie, you're correct.

But in the Senate, the way you resolve a tie is that you have the president of the Senate

cast the tie-breaking vote.

The president of the Senate is the vice president.

In this case, it's J.D. Vance.

And so J.D. Vance is expected momentarily, or at least some point, at some point over the course

of this evening, to come in and break the tie in Pete Hegseth's favor, which will make

Pete Hegsett's nomination succeed by the narrowest margin of any defense secretary in U.S.

history. This will only be the second time in U.S. history, a vice president has had to

break the tie on a 50-50 vote. We'll keep eyes on it. As the Senate action continues

to unfold, one of the most emblematic and harrowing videos of the January

6th attack is the one that you're thinking of right now without me even having to describe it.

This one, a police officer, Daniel Hodges, screaming in pain and screaming for help

as he was being deliberately crushed against the doorway

with a stolen riot shield. As members of the mob ripped off his gas mask and pumbled him and screamed in his face.

Several members of that mob were ultimately tracked down and arrested by the FBI, charged as a group by the Justice Department,

convicted in courts of law, and they

were sent to prison. The man who crushed Officer Hodges with a riot shield was sentenced

over seven years behind bars. The judge in the case, who was a Donald Trump appointee,

described him as a, quote, poster child of all that was dangerous and appalling about January 6th.

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