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El-Sayed: Now the question about a right to exist is interesting because nobody's ever asked me whether or not I believe Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether or not we want a politics where our money is sent over to Israel to do genocide and apartheid, instead of investing in our own kids.

Hunt: Does it have a right to exist?

He has worn the uniform since 2005, and he risked his career, his pension, and his own freedom to say out loud what most of Congress won't.

Watson wasn't breaking any rule when he started. Demonstrating on those steps is legal, but only if a sitting member of Congress is standing with you. Rep. Al Green was. For as long as Green stood beside him, a man in an Air Force uniform holding a protest sign was perfectly within the law.

Then Green walked away.

The second the congressman left, Capitol Police told Watson to stop or be arrested. He didn't stop. They booked him under a statute with an almost comic name, Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding, and led him off the steps of the building he swore an oath to protect.

He's on leave from his post as a logistics readiness officer in Poland. He isn't a Democrat. He says he knows next to nothing about Al Green's politics. What he knows is that thirteen American service members are dead after strikes on Iran and Venezuela that Congress never voted for, and that the Constitution he memorized hands the power to start those wars to the Capitol, not the Oval Office.

So he came to the Capitol and said it to their faces.

A military pension is not a small thing to gamble. Neither is a criminal record. Watson bet both on the chance that a few members of Congress might feel some shame watching an active-duty airman get cuffed for holding a piece of cardboard.

The odds are not good. Green forced a vote on impeachment this year anyway, and the House killed it 237 to 140, two dozen Democrats crossing the aisle to make sure it never reached an up-or-down count.

The man accusing the president of shredding the Constitution left the Capitol in handcuffs.

He had no vote to cast and no gavel to bang. He walked up to the most powerful government on earth with a scrap of cardboard and an oath he wouldn't break, and dared it to arrest him for reading the Constitution back to its face. It did.

New video released by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch shows Emergency Service Unit officers making the dangerous climb to remove two people from the top of the Empire State Building spire after an unauthorized stunt.

"God bless these officers," Tisch wrote on X.

The couple, later identified as Netflix's Skywalkers: A Love Story stars Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, were taken into custody after displaying a banner and getting engaged atop the landmark.