and we can do it if we if we have the cursor on this matter, you agree, then with republican presidential candidate nikki haley that the retirement age should be older for people now in their twenties. in other words, not 65. it should go up to 70 or 75. is that what i hear you saying? it s on its way up? because back in the day in the 19 eighties, you and i are old enough to remember. president ronald reagan sat down with speaker tip o neill, and they worked out an arrangement that extended social security s solvency for decades, and it gradually increased the age of retirement. look, i thank god that americans are living longer , uh, the average life expectancy has continued to go up. we re healthier. i honestly think that younger americans and in exchange for some of those modest reforms would welcome changes in the system that would lift the burden retirement. hp would you raise the number two? this is always where washington goes, not you, but it s where washington goes as let s p
that s that s being driven, uh, driving people to violence. secondly i really i really do believe that we ve got to get more serious about penalties and expedited penalties for those who engage in in mass killings in this country. wolf i think the time has come for federal legislation that would bring the death penalty to anyone that engages in a mass shooting that claims lives and we ought to have an expedited appeal. do that if there was what they call common sense gun control in america as there is in almost every other country, there s the issue is that we have the second amendment. we have a constitution. final right to keep and bear arms. in this country and law abiding americans cherish that right and it s in the bill of rights. so we look we taking guns away from law abiding citizens isn t gonna make america safer, getting tougher on stage. it s not in the constitution to say you can buy assault weapons. well look, look and again, we re going back
begin with the new york grand jury, as you well know, as all of our viewers know by now voting to indict the former president of the united states. donald trump. he is now the first president, former president in american history to be criminally charged. it s a really significant development. i want to get your reaction to this unprecedented development. well i think the unprecedented indictment former president of the united states on a campaign finance issue. is an outrage. and it appears to for millions of americans. to be nothing more than a political prosecution that s driven by a prosecutor who literally ran for office on a pledge. to indict the former president. but it wasn t just mr vice president. excuse me for interrupting. it wasn t just the prosecutor, the district attorney in new york. who did this? this was a grand jury, grand jury of some 23 people and you need a majority 12 to go ahead and criminally indict. i understand that and been a long
trillion 2 $150 trillion by the time my new granddaughters reached their 30th birthday, when you get to that point, if you wait to reform it by then all the choices are bad. massive increases in taxes or cuts in programs. i believe to answer your question. that if we bring people together, we sit down and we can talk about reforms to social security and medicare for people under the age of 40 say to people who are in retirement today. this has nothing to do with, you know, changes anybody that s going to retire in the next 25 years. no changes whatsoever, but for younger americans, most of whom don t believe they ll get anything from social security today. i think we can introduce common sense and compassionate reforms that have all been on the table for years. but i have to tell you i m talking about it out there because i think we have a moral obligation. to your grandchildren and my grandchildren not to leave this not mountain of debt, but mountain range of debt to them,
didn t need some international body to tell me that my wife and i traveled into ukraine. um about a month after the initiation of hostilities. we went to a refugee center. i have to tell you, wolf, i will never forget. the looks on the faces of those women of every age children of every age, carrying all their earthly possessions, the fear in their eyes fleeing their country. it is unspeakable , this unprovoked russian war of aggression has got to be met with strength. let s get to some other really important issues while we while we have you, i want to turn to the tragic school shooting in nashville, tennessee, this week, six dead, three of them nine year old kids in the school. we ll also three staff members that the school president biden is now calling. to ban all assault weapons like the ones used in this brutal attack at that elementary school of christian public christian school, many americans are wondering why do people need weapons like the ar 15? well