but only on the gun crackdown policies that he supports. instead of trying to find commo ground. the president taking the opportunity to bash and blame republicans. according to a new poll, the majority of americans don t agree with biden. over half don t see school shootings is the guns problem. but that s not stopping biden from trying to strong-arm congress into doing what he wants. president biden: for so many of you at home, i want to be very clear. this is not about taking away anyone s guns, we need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. if we can t ban assault weapons we should raise the age to purchase them from 18-21. the fact that the majority of the senate republicans don t want anti- of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote i find unconscionable . i believe the majority of you will act and turn your outrage into making this issue central to your vote. enough, enough, enough. that s not good enough from some on the left. here ar
gasoline. peter doocy starts us off with a complete picture of the economy live from the north lawn, good evening, peter. good evening, bret. officials around here saying two things that sound like they both can t be true at the same time. on the one hand they say they think the president s economic plans are working. but, observed they say they know that people are paying more than ever for essentials. fighting inflation is my top economic priority. and despite rising prices on just about everything, biden officials are celebrating a stronger than expected 390,000 jobs created in may. we aren t likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. that s even though the economy remains 822,000 jobs short of pre-pandemic levels. inflation has been an issue since last year. before russia invade ukraine but the president continues to blame. putin s war in ukraine. putin began amassing troops. this is a putin price hike.
expected to press washington to take action after the rash of deadly mass shootings. we ll bring you his speech when it happens this hour live, let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin bur e, burnett, biden about to discuss gun violence in the united states, looking at pictures from the white house in a moment where biden will be speaking in about 30 minutes. his prime time speech follows what, of course, in the past few weeks has been mass shooting after mass shooting that have taken the lives of children, teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends, in so many different settings. hospital, grocery stores, schools, just some of the faces of those who have lost their lives, in buffalo, uvalde, and now tulsa. police say two doctors, receptionist and a patient were killed in a rampage at a medical building. the gunman, according to police, purchased the ar-15 style rifle three hours before he went and murdered all those people, went to the hospital with th
i m going to talk to a city council member who said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we get you up to date on what happened in tulsa this evening, we re not going to forget for one moment what s going on in uvalde, texas. how can we? and we re going to look at all the important questions that we re asking there tonight later in this hour. but we cannot turn away from the reality that this is happening all across this country. gun violence, as an epidemic, only seems to be growing. and tonight, it is throwing yet another american city into mourning. and right now i want to bring in katherine richard nealen berg of the tulsa police department. captain, thank you for joining me this evening. it s really stunning that here we are again and perhaps for many people not stunning of the state of affairs today because no one believed it would happen in their town. and here it is in tulsa. what is the latest? what do you know about what s happe
another one. another mass shooting. look at this video. you can see police in the distance. they are running toward the scene with guns drawn. emergency vehicles racing as other officers take long guns out of their trunks. police say that they were on the scene within three minutes of the first call, arriving while the shooting was still going on. the officers that did arrive were hearing shots in the building and that s what directed them to the second floor. the president of the united states, joe biden, has been briefed on this shooting and fact is, america is living in fear of gun violence. no place is safe. not hospitals, schools, groes stores, cononcerts, graduations nightclub, office, places of worship, on and on and on. we have news tonight on the investigation of what police did and did not do while a gunman was still inside that elementary school in uvalde where 19 children and two of their children died. the mayor telling the washington post what he called a ne