18-year-old, walk in, a 20-year-old, and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994, i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years, mass shootings were down. ten years in a row since i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004, republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. look, i m proud that after seven years, we finally have a senate confirmed director of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms responsible for any gun crimes. for seven years, the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job, to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement. identify the ballistics. a whole range of things. for s
a breach of the minesterial code. tonight with the context, the spectator s deputy political editor katy balls and the republican strategist doug heye. hello, welcome to the programme. we have lived through an era of record low interest rates. for years, it was cheap to borrow, while the money put away in savings accounts earned us very little in return. but things are changing. today, the us federal reserve set out an increasingly aggressive approach to monetary policy as it confronts the highest inflation in the united states forfour decades. in the last hour, it raised interest rates by 0.75% which is the biggest jump in rates since 1994. and that has implications for all of us. here s the chair of the federal reserve, jerome powell. the current picture it s plain to see. the labour market is extremely tight, and inflation is much too high. against this backdrop, today the federal open market committee raised its interest rate by 0.75% in anticipation of ongoing increases
Parents feeling as they and their child were burning alive. The painful screaming of the love of their life was the last thing they heard, the last thing. Do you not think its unbelievable that this resolution here today and this session are not solely focused on the hamas atrocities . When reading this resolution, hamas seems to be missing in action. The drafters of the resolution claim to be concerned about peace, yet the depraved murderers who initiated this war are not even mentioned in the resolution, not even mentioned. They see each one of you as puppets. They write a resolution completely devoid of any content related to the situation. They assume that you have already forgotten who it is that is responsible for the inhumane violence, and ijust expect you to support it automatically. This resolution is a disgrace to your intelligence, a disgrace. They just expect you. Its unfathomable that this resolution, one that doesnt even mention hamas, could possibly be voted on here. Let
hire and train more police officers. and i think one other thing that was kind of interesting is you really got a sense listening to the speech just how much the issue of police and policing has become such a politically fraught issue here in the u.s. he said that he definitely understands that people across the country are just wanting to feel safe again. but then he also went on to say look, i also recognize that there are plenty of cops, police officers who are just bad cops. but he said that the answer to that, he believes, is not to defund the police but to support them even more, of course, one thing he didn t mention is that there are portions of his own party, people in his own party who are very much for the slogan and the idea of defunding the police. so i think you really got a sense of how complicated this issue is and also a sense of how the president intends to run on this issue, kasie. he does seem to be attempting to reclaim it in a pretty aggressive way. m.j. lee at
europe, the top concerns whereabouts attacks on their own countries from russia whereas in particular the western european countries and countries like germany, italy, france, people were more worried about nuclear escalation and the cost of letting. that points to some dangerous going forward if this becomes the sort of war of attrition that many people expect that carries on for months, if not years, maintaining that unity i think will get harder. maintaining that unity i think will aet harder. . .., maintaining that unity i think will get harder- get harder. katie can i get the sense listening get harder. katie can i get the sense listening from - get harder. katie can i get the sense listening from some - get harder. katie can i get the sense listening from some of| get harder. katie can i get the i sense listening from some of the rhetoric from this trust and boris johnson and that they spot what is happening in europe and the splits that are starting to emerge in the rhetoric