In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Marconi award winning host Dan Mandis fills in for the guys as hostile Democrats and skeptical Republicans tear into Kennedy on the Hill. Kennedy was grilled Thursday and called a 'charlatan' in scuffle over vaccine views. Also Dan shares his suffering with tinitus, A.G. Pam Bondi considers banning weapon sales to trans-genders, a comparison of gender dysphoria and a mental condition and on Thursday more than 20 members of the LGTBQ+ activist group Trans Queer Pueblo held a press conference at its downtown Phoenix headquarters to call for the release of 39-year-old Arbella Rodríguez Márquez, who has been in ICE custody since Feb. 10. Márquez is a Mexican citizen, according to an ICE detainee database, but her partner, Sonia Almaraz, says she has a green card and the legal right to be in the country. Now a congresswoman is pushing for her surgery to be performed with taxpayer dollars for a non-citizen of this country.

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