all the areas of mismanagement and the federal government what is going on now with the va with respect to records requests is the worst. we requested a briefing from the va and got a briefing, meaning republicans and democrats on the house oversight committee, they explained they are in many cases 6 to 9 months, even a year behind when a veteran requests badly needed medical records, what is the problem is they said we had covid and i asked i would assume this a few weeks ago i assume the workers are back to work, no, there s still the delta variant and problems out there. the republicans on the committee were outraged, didn t seem like democrats were very outraged, we demanded chairwoman maloney hold a hearing so we could brings to light and instead of holding a hearing to bring to light the misdeeds going on with the va
the deal went out after mitch mcconnell promised a helluva fight against raising taxes, president biden met with senator bernie sanders to discuss reconciliation and you heard sanders speaking briefly on the cuban protests but he had a lot more to say about the multi-trillion dollars spending plan. i introduced a proposal for $6 trillion so i will fight to make that proposal as robust as it can be in a strong majority of the democratic caucus want to go as big as we can. jillian: sanders admits democrats are not unified on the package which would expand medicare and make the child care tax credit permanent. todd: tampa bay lightning celebrating another stanley cup title.
witnessing the state s homeless crisis, crime surgeon coronavirus response as a judge ruled governor gavin newsom cannot identify as a democrat on the recall ballot. the embattled leader failed to designate his party when filing paperwork, the recall election only two months away. ashley: texas lawmakers fleeing the scene on a private jet with a case of beer in an attempt to block gop sponsored election bill aimed at strengthening the voter access rules. former california assemblyman who lived the state for texas and vice president of the texas public policy foundation joins me live to discuss. how are you doing? doing well after staying up late saturday night to testify before the texas house on the same bill. the democrats in texas being touted as brave, can you explain
know. this has been an issue that has plagued all of the democrat party over the last 12 months, this is an issue that i think americans are outraged by, crime is on the rise, democrats have had the absolute wrong position with respect to law enforcement and we are seeing the consequences of that in areas where they called for defunding the police these are areas we see massive increase in crime so president biden is finally getting the memo, trying to lead his party but his parties every direction in this issue. i hope our country can realize we have to have law enforcement to combat crime, we need to respect law enforcement and we need to fund law enforcement. ashley: i want to bring up the crime surges in bigger cities, and atlanta homicides of 36%, shooting 39, new york city shootings up 29%, portland homicides are up 530%, shootings
red states that are pro-second amendment had the lowest rates of crime. the democrats are not in the right position with respect to law enforcement and are wrong with respect to guns and the american people are realizing this especially the people who live in the cities of blue states hopefully democrats will be held accountable by the voters because we can t continue to see an increase in crime in all of these blue states, it s not sustainable and something hopefully president biden is starting to see is a problem and is trying to get his party to follow him but he has a long way to go on that front. you are raising alarm over a records backlog for veterans, we will pop that on screen, it is a big one, 500,000 is the current records backlog but there is a number and without context it is tough to appreciate what that really means. how that is the problem is you have researched it?