miss mckinney was defending herself. she shot that asate lant once and before she did she called 911 and asked them if it okay for me to shoot this person. that wasn t the scenario of someone shooting back at her. she used force appropriately without an assault weapon. we actually have breaking news about sara mckinley here tonight. our staff reached her by phone today to talk about this. which is of course assault weapons what about them? she made it clear to us, she doesn t want to see anymore gun control and not in favor of the knee legislation but said this about assault weapons this woman
0 but also the victim. yes, i will agree to that. yes, sexual assault in the military is the issue facing the secretary of defense. he has no voice on his country s policy on israel. every minute spent on that today in that hearing was a complete waste of time. and there is no disagreement on this country s policy towards israel. all democrats in the senate disagree with republicans on israel. and they have. trying to find such a difference is a ludacris exercise. even on undbudgets the secretarf defense is one of many voices all over today about policies that have nothing to do with being secretary of defense when they have this crime crisis right in front of them. the reasons for that are two-fold. one is violence perpetrated against women have been ignored by the congress of recent years. the violence against women act has not been renewed. plenty of republican folks running for congress had a robust and totally unthennered to reality conversation about rape or protecting wome
0 a woman trying to defend her children. women he needed to defend themselves. they want to create the fear. trying to inject fear where a mother runs out of bullets. six bullets may not be enough. it is all fear based. at the senate hearing today for chuck haegle for secretary of defense. most senators thought this was the big question. troubling statements that he has made about israel. refused to sign the letter supporting israel. israel our relationship with israel. do you think the nation of israel has committed war crimes? john mccain thought this was when he makes decisions. but, the defense secretary does have jurisdiction over personnel and he has sole jurisdiction over how to handle what is now an out-of-control crime wave in the united states military for thousands of american soldiers the military has become a rape club. there were 19,300 sexual assaults in the military in 2010 alone. this rape crisis in the american military has come to light thanks not
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