believed was connected to the former prime minister. later at the man s home, investigators found more weapons, also hand made. among the 125 million people, there are less than 200,000 licensed firearms, mostly hunting rifles and shotguns in japan. the process to get one over there is daunting. you must pass a written test, a psychiatric evaluation, an extensive background check, a drug test and a shooting test to prove you know how to handle the weapon. because of all of that, japan s violent crime rate, especially gun crime, is exceedingly rare. put to it in context, japan experienced just ten shooting incidents in all of 2021 where just one person was killed. just one. abe s assassination has rattled the country and world leaders alike. here was president biden earlier today. i tried to put a call in to the present prime minister, and he was on the very late night there. i m going to be stopping to sign the condolence book at the japanese embassy on the way to the cia.
griff: anita, great to see you. let s kick things off with lucas tomlinson from the white house. the labor department issuing a brutal report saying inflation is getting worse not better. in los angeles president biden says it s not just putin that s responsible, but exxon as well for skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill, they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one and number two the reason they re not drilling, they re buying back their own stock. exxon made more money than god this year. when president biden was sworn into office he had a 57% approval rating, gas was just 2.39 a gallon. today s approval rating was presume plummeted to 39%, some lower in some polls. and gas nationwide soared across the country and the president s popularity has gone down. president obama once told him his popularity was tied to the price of gasoline and it s happening once again toda
of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
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