million jobs, so i was really pleased to see that, david. one thing i really liked to see was more americans getting into the work force. as you know, we just haven t had enough americans working, so those were really reassuring signs. but you are exactly right, the inflation is the skunk at this garden party. and every indication right now that i m looking at, david, is that inflation is not subsiding, it s not transitory. in fact, it s getting worse. you know, the oil price hit $90 a barrel. that s the equivalent of $5 a gallon at the gas pump. unless you live in california or new york where you might be paying $6 a gallon. i just filled up yesterday, paid $of $68. i usually pay about 45 for a fill-up. so this is a real problem, and you are exactly right, david. if you take, put more and more trillions of dollars of debt and spending and money printing into the economy, obviously that s going to make, that s going to be like pouring gasoline on a
the national sheriff s association, sheriff standforth. good to see you. are the guns the problems? biden s policies are misguided. the guns are not the problem. the criminals are emboldened moving about freely within our communities and they re using the firearms and the penalty if you use a firearm, it s an enhanced penalty and go to prison not only for the crime they committed, but using the firearm. david: there s so much decriminalization of even violent crime and that s what the manhattan d.a. had to deal with and sort of the off the books approach to crime as well, where the prosecutors are not prosecuting to the full extent of the law. those seems to be as much of a problem as anything else. it s amazing the prosecutors want to become soft on crime, but they re targeting law enforcement and just regular community members as terrorists or as violent parts of our
going to work in this new era of authoritarian aggression. david: but senator sullivan, a lot of us who have got family in the military are frankly worried about how deeply the united states should get involved after what happened in afghanistan. if we re going to say, we just heard the democratic congressman criticize the president s rhetoric on ukraine-russia. so are you concerned that we have the right leadership in place to carry out a more aggressive plan against russia? don t get me wrong, i do not i do not support sending u.s. troops to ukraine. i do support the administration s focus on bolstering our n.a.t.o. allies in the region with other n.a.t.o. troops, by the way. can t just always be the u.s. troops, but we have an obligation to our n.a.t.o. allies, poland, the baltics,
public safety. lieutenant, thank you for being here. how specifically have biden immigration policies made the situation worse? hey, david, good morning, great to be with you. it s been a complete failure. we saw that at the beginning of the 2021, the remain in mexico policy canceling border contracts and the root causes and trying to make an impact on the current border crisis, but that failed to make any impact in 2021. we saw over two million apprehensions, in december over 178,000 apprehensions. we have individuals coming from over 150 different countries. so, you can t just focus on the root causes by focusing on the northern triangle countries. you have some from syria, russia, all the different countries coming to the border not just the valley, but throughout the southern border in laredo and also in arizona seeing individuals coming across. so it s much bigger than focusing on the root causes and
sword. david: what we re seeing on the aren t side of the screen and maybe rerack that tape. it was a correspondent for, in, it was a dutch television station who was giving a report and right in the middle of his report, live on dutch television he was man handled by a bunch of chinese government thugs who pushed him out of the shot and because they didn t like the background of the picture. if they can act that way because they don t like the background of the picture. imagine the way they would act if you disagreed with chinese government policies. absolutely. they came out with a statement saying yes, maybe the security guards were overzealous, it s true, the media are roped into certain parts of the bird nest arena for the winter olympics, it could be to cover up what s behind the scenes. we don t know. the fact of the matter is, china hasn t been transparent about anything. we saw a belgian skelton