kevin corke s life with more on the search for answers. good evening. my search for answers indeed evening to you. before heading out for another delaware become the president did finally take some questions from the press after refusing t do so a day earlier in the day, following a meeting with ireland s prime minister. despite assuring. despite assurances yesterday from the press secretary, karin jean-pierre, that the press corporate have a chance to ask questions every time a head of state would pay a visit to washington. as you can see once again that didn t happen today. the president has been slow, delayed, and hasn t had a plan for victory party didn t listen to his military enough gas from the stand and there s consequences for decades to american. pressure mounting on the presence of armed to forcefully respond to moscow after russian pilots downed a $32 million us drone of the black sea all this is the international criminal court has issued an arrest warr
up about one year later to the senate with his hands very bruised and it is still kind of unclear as to what caused that. the condition of the minority leader remains unknown and we will keep you up to speed as the show goes on. also breaking right now, three police officers in los angeles have been shot in the line of duty after some sort of standoff with a barricaded suspect. a tactical alert has been issued to, which is another phrase for all hands on deck. this happened in lincoln heights which is near downtown los angeles, primarily an asian hispanic area. we are told they responded to a call and someone open fired and somebody involved in a standoff. the police officers were taken to usc medical center, a level 1 trauma center that s good news. we are being told that we don t know exactly what the injuries are and we are being told all three officers are expected to survive. we ll have breaking information on that as well as the show moves on. now to our other top story
we wanted to know, now is yourrp security detail going to stop ro with their high powered rifles to protect you ? office a response from his office. quote, we don t comment on matters related to th e primeto kee minister s security. so in other words, the people in power get to keepguns the gu the people lose theirs in this country, unlike canada, we have a second amendment. you d like to think that and would be protected with your second amendment from your guns and be able to have a gun politician who wantyour cl to suspend your civil liberties. well, you have a second amendment that wouldn t be ablht to do it. bil but as justice scalia famouslytw said , the bill of rights is just words on a papert protei without the government that really kills it but cares about ng ghtsprotecting your rights, you lose your rights. and that s what s happening right now. j ay ithis week, jay inslee, the governor of washington, still signed a law banningg semiautomatic rifles, which he calle
members and 169 fatalities during the now infamous exit from afghanistan didn t really qualify as a chaotic failure at all. that s despite the fact that hundreds of afghans were clinging to the wing of u.s. air craft as it departed afghanistan. despite gunfire sprang into a crowd; despite u.s. troops pulling an infant over barbed wire into safety. brunt chaos? i m sorry, i just don t buy the whole argument of chaos. for all this talk of chaos, i just didn t see it. it was tough in the first few hours.down would expect it to be. unbelievable. the white house went even further releasing a 12-page report today saying president bide s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from afghanistan were severely constrained by condition created by his predecessor. on capitol hill gop lawmakers are practically incan docent ripping kirby for his call comment. house foreign committee chair called kirby s comment disgraceful and insulting. rain jackson texas called kirby s comments sicke
central television. it means that npfrr is not thate different from the tehran times ,with the exception, ofhappen course, being lessed accurate and more anti-american. yo so that happened on tuesday. why are we telling you. chan abt with all the momentous changes underway around the world, whyy would we open a showab with a story about twittergorizing categorizing npr as state media will ? because it s true. reaso that s the reason.n. finally, thankfully, somebodyd in authority has told the truth about something and that is thrilling to see on its own terms. in a world defined by lies froms our leaders. this seemedig like a rare sis of hope and progress. up telling the truth is the mostms revolutionary act of all, far more than taking up arms. and yet you rarely see it. human beings created language or to describe the world around them more precisely than they could with , say, grunting sign language. ng o beeurnn evly, we have national publi own creatioern ever since, b