Hancock & Kelley: Missouri Legislature defends Planned Parenthood, STL squatters removed, Trump’s trial & immunity plea, Biden says ‘yes’ to debate

It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political discussion on Hancock and Kelley for Sunday, April 28, 2024.

Republican consultant Jean Evans (in for John Hancock) and Democratic consultant Michael Kelley discuss the following topics:

• The Missouri Legislature defunds Planned Parenthood ahead of voters getting a chance to restore abortion rights in the state.

• The issue of a state-appointed police board taking over the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department just keeps rolling in Jefferson City.

• The St. Louis Board of Aldermen is proposing a hike in the city’s sales tax rate.

• The city removes a refugee couple and their makeshift shelter from the sidewalk, where they’d been living in front of someone’s house for more than three years.

• Universities—including Washington University in St. Louis—continue to grapple with tent camps and protests against Israel’s sustained bombing and ground campaign in Gaza in the months following a Hamas-led surprise attack in Israel last October.

• Former President Donald Trump endures a week of damaging testimony in his New York trial and also argues for immunity before the U.S. Supreme Court.

• President Joe Biden says he will debate the former president, but he’s been saying a lot of things that may not be true.

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