it looks like it will run dry within the next ten years. that would automatically cut benefits from 23% for every single american who needs those programs. medicare funding is vanishing even faster. the timing of all of this of trying to figure out what to do comes during a fierce battle that s happening in the nation s capital over spending. the debt growing precipitously. the stand-off between republican lawmakers and white house over raising the borrowing limits. democrats want to spend, spend, spend. republicans want to slash and save. speaker mccarthy says we had better find a way to check off the spending fast. i want to look the president in the eye and tell me there is not $1 of wasteful spending in government? who believes that? the american public doesn t believe that. our whole government is designed to have compromise, let s find common ground and let s eliminate the wasteful spending to protect the hard-working taxpayers and protect the future of america.
and the fire department arrive before you did? no, sir, i was first on scene. did they arrive while you were there? one of the fire rescue workers, barry mccoy. we hear unidentified person in your notes you indicate it was the fire chief, i believe. indicated to you pointed out to you tire tracks and you went over and looked at those tire tracks and multiple tire tracks coming and going, correct? i don t know that someone indicated them to me. i believe i just saw them. okay. and what did you do to preserve those? the tire tracks? nothing. you certainly are not an expert in tire tracks? i am not. you couldn t tell whether it was multiple vehicles or one vehicle? no. it may have been multiple vehicles may have been. i didn t take pictures of the scene. that s not my job.