Even falsely blame the fbi. All this after 21 republicans voted against awarding congressional medals to the ives who defended their lives. Reporter: newly released footage somehow an upclose look at what officers went through during the january 6th attack. These new videos revealed after cnn and other media outlets sued for them in court, showing scott fairland, a gym owner from new jersey, taunting, then shoving an officer, and punching him in the face. Another video, taken from an officer s body cam, showing thomas webster, a former marine and retired nypd officer seen here, wearing a red coat, threatening police with a flagpole before tackling one officer to the ground. Both men have pleaded not guilty to all charges. It s a rude awakening for everyone, but hopefully it will also help people see the lies of the former president. It s shameful, but sadly there s an awful number of my republican colleagues who seem to not field shame. The videos come as some republican members of con
converge at the same time. the big important one, the president of the united states that is planning to combat crime that he says is the source of guns. too many of them out there in everyone s hands and he wants to limit that. we re also going to hear from his attorney general on how you go about doing that without stepping on some constitutional rights here. critics are already saying the president is ignoring some other factors that have been at play for quite some time, long before the gun issue was an issue. more on that in a second. first, to black berman with the latest at the white house. blake? thanks. state dining room here at the white house. we expect to hear from president biden at animent. the president will lay out the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and crime is how they re putting it. let me walk you there what we re about to hear from the president this afternoon. his plan calls for a zero tolerance policy for rogue gun dealers, allowing atf
epidemic of violent crime in america. his focus, overwhelmingly and as expected is on guns. if white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off from the north lawn, good evening. a few minutes ago, the president said he never gives up hope that congress could someday pass on assault weapons ban but in the meantime he thinks there are more common sense measures that can be taken to protect crime-ridden cities making the same joke twice. he doesn t think anybody needs a gun with 100 rounds of ammo unless they think a deer is wearing kevlar. we aren t changing the constitution, we are enforcing it. speak of the headlines of the presidents multipoint plan are arrest firearms dealers, help former prisoners reenter the community and expandable limit opportunities for young adults. help make sure the young people pick up a paycheck instead of criminal. critics argue criminals are emboldened by softer sentencing standards and bail reform. the biden plan will not address
Yesterday. The two children got caught in the crossfire and miraculously not harmed. The gunman firing on a man as the 10yearold girl and her little 5yearold brother were trying to escape the bullets. Their dad made an emotional plea for leaders to stop all this violence that s plaguing their streets. Americans seeing high crime across the country. Take a look. Fox news poll shows more than 7 in 10 voters say they believe it s on the rise nationally and more than half say it is higher in their own backyards. It is not hard to figure out why crime and lawlessness is spiking across the country. Mainly in democratrun cities. It is what happens when you demonize law enforcement and use race as a weapon to excuse bad behavior and convincing looting and lawlessness is justice. It is predictable. It won t end anytime soon. Harris: aishah hosni is live in new york city for us. I ve been talking to voters all morning and one mother outside told me that she has two kids and she is terrified now
japan faces criticisms for plans to release into the sea contaminated water from the fukushima power plant. hello to you. johnson &johnson has delayed the rollout of its covid vaccine in europe. regulators in the united states had already called for a pause because of safety concerns. expedia who have had the vaccine in the us have developed rare and severe blood clots. it has so far been given to almost 7 million americans. 0ur medical editor, fergus walsh has the story. an abundance of caution was cited by us health officials as the reason why they paused the use of the single shotjohnson &johnson covid jab. the vaccine, which in europe is branded as janssen, was approved in the us in late february. since then, there have been six incidents of very rare clots in the brain, out of 6.8 million doses. so, less than one case per million people immunised. all were women under 50, one of them died and one is critically ill. i think this is an unusual occurrence of a serious adver