18-year-old, walk in, a 20-year-old, and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994, i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years, mass shootings were down. ten years in a row since i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004, republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. look, i m proud that after seven years, we finally have a senate confirmed director of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms responsible for any gun crimes. for seven years, the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job, to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement. identify the ballistics. a whole range of things. for s
ukrainian forces until 24 hours ago at the beginning of this court offensive. this is clearly been a location where there s been pretty heavy fighting. the fighting is now concentrated, we understand from soldiers we have spoken to here, close to the front line. five or six kilometers beyond and beyond that lies the ultimate goal of kherson. the regional capital captured by russia in march was rocked by fighting, russia said today. its forces claim to have wiped out a ukrainian partisan cell in a firefight. who won the skirmish is unclear, but the city has been the center of ukrainian resistance for months. ukraine says that it has damaged the bridges connecting it to the russian held left bank of the dnipro river, cutting off key supply lines for the russians. translator: continue to try to set up a ferry crossing, but the whole area where it can be deployed is also under our fire control and will be hit.
yeah, you have the right to do this and of course, mike pence rejected that but mark short was there for that conversation and can recall that conversation. so the committee has heard from another former pence aide, general kellogg, mark short, and the big question is, of course, will they hear from mike pence himself or does mike pence really want his aides, as we were told, to kind of act as his proxy, and to effectively say what he would say anyway to the committee because mike pence, politically, would not relish the fact of going before this committee because he want to be president and that would clearly alienate the trump base. abby, real quick. as manu was reporting about biden going to the hill to talk about his eventual supreme court nominee, one of the members on the judiciary committee is ted cruz and ted cruz is calling biden s promise to appoint a black woman to the court offensive. he did this on his podcast.