weren t aware of any criminal investigation into health secretary tom price. despite repeated efforts to reach tom price himself and ask him if he has been notified he is the subject of a federal criminal investigation we got no comment from tom price or his department, from hhs about it. and, in fact, we didn t even get a no comment. we literately got no comment. dial tone to. nobody even there to tell us no. usually what you get is i ll call you right back and then they never call. we got nobody. if anybody out there knows how to reach the department of health and human services, let us know. we could not get a singing freaking person to answer the phone all afternoon long today. www.sendittorachel.com. this tom price thing this is the kind of thing that will hopefully result in congress making inquiries, it s no small thing for a cabinet secretary to
and, in fact, we didn t even get a no comment. we literately got no comment. dial tone to. nobody even there to tell us no. usually what you get is i ll call you right back and then they never call. we got nobody. if anybody out there knows how to reach the department of health and human services, let us kno we could not get a singing freaking person to answer the phone all afternoon long today. www.sendittorachel.com. this tom price thing this is the kind of thing that will hopefully result in congress making inquiries, it s no small thing for a cabinet secretary to be under federal criminal investigation just as it s no small thing for a u.s. attorney to be fired when overseeing an investigation, if that is what happened here. so that s a big potential scandal and we can t get anything out of the administration on it.
that these problems were on display, were known to his parents, the people who knew him. but the bar for background checks is so low nationwide, and as it s applied to most states, all you have to do is not be a convicted felon and not be judged mentally incompetent by a judge. and there are a lot of people with all kinds of mental problems who aren t caught in either of those two nets. however, there are places in america where background checks are much more meaningful and that extends to police making inquiries into the associations and friends and neighbors and work colleagues of people who apply to obtain a pistol legally or a firearm legally. and had that occurred in this person s case, local authorities would have immediately uncovered what the people around him knew, which was that this person was deeply disturbed. but since that kind of check, that kind of more thorough check did not occur in oregon and does
there are lots of people with lots of mental problems who don t get caught in the two fwhet nets. however, there are other place where is background checks are much more meaningful. and that extends to police making inquiries into the associations of friends and neighbors and work colleagues of people who apply to obtain a pistol legally, or a firearm legally. and since a more thorough check did not occur in oregon and does not occur in most states although it does occur in my state of new york state he was able to obtain these guns legally. and that goes to the limitations and weakness of current gun law.
and there are lots of people with all kinds of mental problems who don t get caught in either of those two nets. however, there are places in america where background checks are much more meaningful, and that extends to police making inquiries into the associations and friends and neighbors and work colleagues of people who apply to obtain a pistol legally, a firearm legally. and had that occurred in this person s case, local authorities would have immediately uncovered what people around him knew, that this person was deeply disturbed. since that kind of more thorough check did not occur in oregon and does not occur in most states, although it does include in my state of new york, he was able to obtain guns legally. that goes to the limitations and weakness of current gun law. so you re saying that if we raise the bar on background checks, there is proof that it can work to keep guns out of the