howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage, guy benson, host of fox s guy benson radio show and podcast, and laura fink, commentator and democratic separatist. guy, it feels like we re stuck in this endlessly painful cycle. mass shooting, the politicians expression outrage, nothing gets done, and then another mass shooting. yep, you basically just summarized it. i think a lot of people believe that it is intoll the rabble. the question is why do we allow ourselves to maintain the exact same roles, the same scripts in this cycle. you can almost write out predictably what everyone will say, and it s like they ve got their positions memorized, they go to battle stations, and it start thes within minutes. starts within minutes. i just hope maybe at some point there s an opportunity for people to change the script just a little bit and say maybe we shouldn t do the exact same things over and over again in terms of the way we interact with each other, the talking
spiritual. how do you sight, brit? i think that s a reasonable take. i wish i had blinding insight to provide, bill, i don t. i m not sure anyone does. what has happened is what always seems to happen when one of these hideous atrocities occur. everyone goes to battle stations. the left goes to gun control. the right looks for other remedies such as more cops on the scene at schools and more attention to mental health. but nothing ever seems to resolve this problem. and the wall street journal s comment that there is a spiritual deficit involved here may well be exactly right. that is one thing that has changed in this country over the decades is the institutions we used to look to for leadership for moral guidance and so on have been diminished by time and social customs. so we have people who may be
dangers which beset us and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. president roosevelt s last christmas as commander in chief came in 1944. he had just been re-elected to a fourth term, and with the war ending, he spoke on radio from his house at hyde park, new york. it is not easy to say merry christmas to you, my fellow americans, in this time of destrictive war, nor can i say merry christmas lightly tonight to our armed forces at their battle stations all over the world or to our allies who fight by our side. roosevelt felt the presidential waves and personal sacrifice of war. as the family gathered for the
particularly the united kingdom over the last couple of weeks. obviously he was rattled by the remark made by president biden when he indicated there would be lesser response if there was a lesser invasion, if you like. the united states has rode back on that, in lock step with ukraine saying any kind of military action here would be met with massive response, and that is the position of the rest of western europe. but then you have both the uk and the u.s. saying an attack potentially by russia is imminent. they do not agree with that here in ukraine. they say it s not imminent. it s possible it could be weeks away and none of their intelligence indicates that the russians are quite yet poised for battle stations. they re not yet on the front foot, if you like. they re very keen for that message to get across to their fellow ukrainians so calm nerves, calm the markets, keep people going to work, prevent people from starting to panic. then at the same time, of course, here on the groun