that s a fact. that s not a.i. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. today s house oversight hearing looking at the chaotic withdrawal of kabul and the way it was handled that allowed u.s. military equipment to fall into the hands of the taliban, destabilizing the entire region and resulting in the deaths of 13 u.s. service members and hundreds of americans left behind. a separate hearing on afghanistan yesterday taking direct aim at previous denials of the chaos by the white house. denials like this. and so for all this talk of chaos, i didn t see it. not from my perch. at one point during the evacuation there was an aircraft taking off full of people americans and afghans alike every 48 mission and not one mission was missed. i don t buy whole argument of chaos, i m sorry. administration continues to downplay what happened is an insult to the service members sitting here and throughout the united states of america. one doesn t have to see the horrific images or footage
president s direct involvement? i would love the president s direct involvement and he has been directly involved. he s passed executive orders. the president is not a king. the president cannot just by fiat claim something to be the case. the system starts with congress to pass laws. the house of representatives has passed, in my time in congress, we have passed most of this major legislation. it goes to the senate to die like most things do but we re going to do it again. we re going to go and go back next week and we re going to pass it again because that s what the american people deserve and we re going to send it back over to the senate and people should vote and go back to their constituents and have to justify their vote and stand by their vote. we re going to make them vote. that s their job. we need to continue to push hard and have the american people m push with us to put pressure on those who are not willing to come to the table. do you think americans should
tuesday, but the gunman was not killed until just after 1 p.m. initially the texas department of public safety said the resource officer at the school fired at the gunman but steve mcgraw, director of the texas dps said he did not. it was a brave, independent school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him. at that time gun fire was not, changed. confronted him. he followed him right in immediately. so if this version of events is accurate, that means an armed school officer responsible for the safety of the children and teachers inside saw a man dressed in tactical gear carrying an assault rifle and did not use force to stop him from entering the school and killing 19 children and two of their teachers. nbc news reached out to texas dps for comment previously. the director said the gunman was engaged, quote, immediately and that two officers were wounded. inside the school a teacher heard gunshot as end of year celebrations were in full swing. speaking
Yet back in sacramento april 10th around noon aide alex stack blasted desantis saying the gop wants you to be silent as they ban books and promote a.r.15s. april 4, 5, 7, deputy communications director slams the harmful policies of desantis and quote authoritarian republicans. april 5th, a communication director. is it wrong? the law says whether it s the building you are in, the phone you are using or your time all are considered a public resource. not for campaign activity. so we asked about it and the governor s office said quote, all those are personal accounts and any tweets were all sent from personal devices. okay. we asked why were they sent during business hours? we got silence.
Our children demand. this is not about the second amendment. this is about what the gun lobby, what the gun eindustry i trying to do to sell more guns. i grew up a hunter. then i became an army ranger and i m a gun owner now. never, never, in all that time was this an issue of assault weapons, of a.r.-15s, it was never part of the dialogue until the gun lobby decided they wanted to sell more guns. we need to stop this insanity, get back to reasonable discussions about what we can do to save people s lives. so listen, the president is leaving it up to you to congress and the senate that the white house has been really staying out of the capitol hill negotiations on guns. is this speech a sign that s going to change the president s involvement or possible involvement may change here? would you welcome the