the only one that is truly sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm s way and care for them and their families when they return home, and when they don t. it s an obligation that unites americans, brings us together, make sure the women and men who were willing to lay down their lives for us in the very best to return. i want to acknowledge we are making progress in key areas, like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress to deliver healthcare services and benefits to veterans and the survivors impacted by toxic exposures. don t know how many americans and service members may have died because of what they are exposed to on the battlefield. toxic smoke from burn pits, burn pits that incinerated the waste of war, hazardous material, jet fuel, so much more. we have a duty to do right by them, and i m determined to make sure that our brave service families and members that served alongside them do not wait
for the victims of the deadly mass shooting at robb elementary school. they also met with families as well as community and faith leaders. in the meantime the u.s. justice department announces it will conduct an independent review of the law enforcement response to the shooting. the d.o.j. says that review comes at the request of you alls mayor. jeff has the latest there. in this community, there very much in the beginning stages of grieving. they have come to terms with the unthinkable loss, that is a big reason why president joe biden first lady jill biden are here to comfort the city that just lost 19 kids into teachers. the president make his first stop at robb elementary school, that is the scene of the mass shooting, they were joined by a bipartisan group of politicians. that included texas governor greg abbott and uvalde s mayor. some protesters shouted at greg abbott to do something with legislation that might prevent a tragedy from occurring again. the motorcade ma
it s who knows what. information is power and of able to affect outcomes. washington from leaked audiotapes to the prospective supreme court decision to the intelligence community. tension is too high, the country is too crazy. that is a small suspect pool. i m confident we don t have a master criminal working at the court. it s dangerous when people talk too much whether it s leaking and private or talking in public about specific intelligence issues. leaks are not new they spring leaks during watergate. the pentagon papers even a leak about the roe v. wade decision in 1973. is like oxygen to the press to have sources on the inside to tell them what is going on. ethic it s really a matter of how business gets done in washington. leaks come in all forms, mysterious envelopes, encrypted e-mails and ron dave use with parking garages woodward and
work at their desks. when you finish with the draft, every law clerk has a burn bag, it s a brown and red bag, you put it in there. it s later sealed, and it s shredded in fact, it s. is redd twice shredded twice and then it s burned. that s to protect decision making of the court. it is almost certainly one of those 36 law clerk, and i think it is almost certainly one of the 12 law clerks that are clerking for the 3 liberal justices. that is a small suspect pool. beyond that, look, you and i have both known at lot of supreme court clerks. many of them are book smart, very few of them are street smart. i m confident we don t have a master criminal working at the court. i think they re already going to be electronic records, e-mails or texts, there s going to be personal meetings between one of those 12 law clerks and the reporters at issue here. there are also the supreme court has pretty serious