There are no guns manufactured in the hands of those who have them here and who are bringing them here. we have to pay attention to the iron pipeline and the proliferation of illegal weapons coming into our city. there s no if, ands, or buts about it. we also appreciate president biden. his crackdown now on ghost guns, which we saw take the life of an innocent child just the other day. there are several different things we ve got to take a look at. we have to take it seriously, but it is going to take clamping down on the legislation in this country. this is not a new york thing. this is a nationwide phenomenon. gun violence is an epidemic in this nation. new york city cops will acknowledge that. that you can get rid of every gun in new york city, but you don t have to drive far in any direction to go get one because of the nature with which they come through. we covered that event yesterday and i d love to have you back to
Enforcement would be doing something different. it would look different. we had that feeling, but not as informed as yours. frank and dermot, thank you for starting us off. we ll continue to monitor any developments as we learn more. up next, we turn to the war in ukraine and new fears of the brutality that russia will unleash. we heard unconfirmed reports by the pentagon of russia using chemical weapons. now president biden just called vladimir putin a dictator who is committing genocide. plus, we ll talk about the administration s response with matt miller. we continue after a quick break. don t go anywhere. break. don t go anywhere. up. bring what up, kayak? excuse me? do the research, todd. listen to me, kayak searches hundreds of travel sites
Reality here. and certainly to the city council speaker s point, it s not just a new york story. it s a national story. the white house knows that and events like yesterday, cracking down ghost guns, is part of it. whatever federal support the mayor requests, president biden will provide. it was interesting that yasmin, i liked that she pulled back the curtain on our industry. she was on her way to do a story about inflation. president biden was at an event on gas prices. they ve gone down in iowa. that s what the stop was. he s been in that event. in that meeting, but you re right. in terms of political headwinds, these two intersect to make some heavy ones. this is a week and obviously they had no idea this tragedy was happening today. but this is a week where the white house is really trying to pivot back towards domestic politics. the war in ukraine is in the front of mind for everyone for six weeks, but the ghost guns event today. today is about ethanol fuel,
Than not that the former president committed crimes and fraud. so it s pretty significant. and i just want to be exact here because i think words matter very much to our viewers. i think there was some relief that a bar had been reached, that what judge clark was speaking to was the very evidence that the times reports you know have enough of to prove to anyone that wanted to investigate donald trump criminally that a bar had been reached for a referral. the process piece aside, do you agree with the assessment from federal judge clark that that bar has been reached? well, i think his decision was soundly based, let me say that. that s a yes. we ve got more work to do at the committee and of course we ve made it clear throughout, we re a legislative committee, not a prosecutorial body. and when we have got our report in line, we will release all of
Served as the vice president for russia and you were at the u.s. institute for peace. mr. ambassador, i wanted to start with the news that president biden described vladimir putin s war in ukraine as a genocide. if you were still the ambassador, how would that change how does that change how the united states carries out its policy with russia and ukraine? if anything it increases the intensity, increases the focus, increases the determination to support the ukrainians to win this war. the only way this is going to be resolved, the only way we get the criminal investigations, the only way we prosecute for genocide is if the ukrainians win. they have to win. we need to support them. that s what you said last week. i quoted you several times after i talked to you. i want to understand what that looks like in the donbas which