7 Things: Rogers, other Republicans come around on Jordan; Trump gags on order; and more …

7. Natalie Hollaway’s suspected murderer is about to reveal how she died as part of a plea deal in his case where he extorted her mother to give him money in order to release that information.

6. The fight over transgender issues has a new front and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is backing the state of Florida’s position that state tax dollars should not be used to perform gender reassignment surgeries. Marshall said, “Healthcare authorities in the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, and elsewhere have all recently recognized that gender-transition procedures are experimental, if not pre-experimental.”

5. A hateful lunatic murdered a six-year-old who was buried yesterday in Illinois because the child was Palestinian-American, after the attack on Israeli civilians. 71-year-old Joseph Czuba was the landlord of the building where the child and his mother lived when he attacked them after she suggested they “pray for peace” after the attack.

4. American troops are flowing into the Middle East with 4,000 sailors moving into the region as part of a growing naval fleet as Secretary Antony Blinken returned to Israel after meeting with multiple Arab leaders.

3. While Florida worked to get its citizens home from Israel on the state dime, the federal government is charging U.S. citizens for their flights home and U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) is not pleased. Palmer expanded his criticism of Biden’s administration across the board, “If [Trump] had been reelected, we wouldn’t have had the disastrous pull out in Afghanistan, which I think led directly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I think it’s put more pressure on Taiwan from China. I don’t think any of this stuff would be going on.”

2. A federal judge has ruled former President Donald Trump can not call potential witnesses in his criminal case “thugs” or “deranged” and can’t suggest they should be executed for treason. This gag order actually may be good for the former president, but it remains to be seen if he will abide.

1. After speculation that U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) might work with Democrats to get a moderate Republican Speaker of the House, Rogers announced that he would go with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) instead. Other Alabama GOP representatives support Jordan, as well, and Jordan may have the votes to win the speakership.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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