showing another 372,000 jobs added, a sign that that part of the economy remains strong. today s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. i m not suggesting there s a lot more work to do, but i am suggesting we are making significant progress. in fact the biden presidency has seen extraordinary job growth, a half million jobs added every month. the president said all of the jobs lost in the pandemic have been recovered and then some but that s not what people are feeling. they re feeling the spiking gas prices and the sky high inflation numbers that for many americans have made things like summer vacations now simply unaffordable. which is why the latest a. p. poll found the number of people who think inflation and gas prices should be the government s top priority, has roughly tripled in the last six months. one very interesting note, those two issues ranked one and two among independent voters. and those numbe
believed was connected to the former prime minister. later at the man s home, investigators found more weapons, also hand made. among the 125 million people, there are less than 200,000 licensed firearms, mostly hunting rifles and shotguns in japan. the process to get one over there is daunting. you must pass a written test, a psychiatric evaluation, an extensive background check, a drug test and a shooting test to prove you know how to handle the weapon. because of all of that, japan s violent crime rate, especially gun crime, is exceedingly rare. put to it in context, japan experienced just ten shooting incidents in all of 2021 where just one person was killed. just one. abe s assassination has rattled the country and world leaders alike. here was president biden earlier today. i tried to put a call in to the present prime minister, and he was on the very late night there. i m going to be stopping to sign the condolence book at the japanese embassy on the way to the cia.
testimony of other witnesses. i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come. have a january 6th hearing is another mounting investigations of his actions. clearly getting s to trump s head as he lashed out in las vegas. biden has established committees to go after republicans. it seems as if the justice department and local and state prosecutors have become weaponized. thereafter politicians, not the people who are murdering people on the streets. trump reportedly even considered releasing steve bannon from his nonexistent executive privilege claim to unleash him on the committee. in a moment i will speak to senator ben cardin about the january six committee after the july 4th mass shooting in highland park, illinois. that community is engaged in what has become a sad american ritual, laying the dead to rest, after one of the senseless attacks yet again. this hour also, the shocking assassination of former japanese prime minis
with 30 grams of protein. welcome back. the body of former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is back in tokyo today, one day after the 67-year-old was shot and killed in broad daylight while delivering a campaign speech in support of a ruling party candidate in the western town of nara near osaka. he was one of the most transformational policies petitions in japan in the world were since world war ii.
is virtually nonexistent. shinzo abe, japan s former and longest serving prime minister was assassinated during a lunchtime campaign rally in the city of nara near osaka. the murder was captured on multiple cameras. a loud bang and abe turns. another loud bang and abe falls to the ground. here you can see him being put into the medivac helicopter. officials say his heart stopped beating on the ride to the hospital. doctors say he had two gunshot wounds and no vital signs when he arrived less than an hour after the attack. cameras captured the suspect and what appeared to be his homemade gun. a 41-year-old man was arrested at the scene. officials say the man confessed and told authorities he had a grudge against a group he