weapons of war. i d like you to think about that because this whole conversation defies logic, and you know what, it s actually insulting. you know what, you know what, in fairness let s just take a moment to step back and think about each of their arguments and whether that is the environment that you want or that they want for their children. let s start with mental health. as far as we know there was no mental health issue with the individual who stole the futures of 19 children in uvalde, texas. governor greg abbott even said it himself before he contradicted himself. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. we would have a problem with mental health illness in this community. greg, you flipped it around. now you said mental health was the problem. okay. yet nbc news reports abbott slashed more than $200 million from the department overseeing mental health programs in a state that is already dead last in the country for access to mental health care. abb
administrators to respond quickly because the reality is we don t have the resources to have law enforcement at every school. really, ken? you sure about that? because we ve just been through a whole season of republicans screaming how they don t trust teachers and teachers need to be monitored for suspicious activities. they have legally limited how teachers can teach about race and slavery under the boogie man of critical race theory. you can t trust teachers to speak to your kids about race, sexuality? but you want them to meet an ar-15. you ll have to ask them to fire this. lean forward into the firing lane. imagine that weapon in your
take this out of him and, you know, he s got really fragile ego. i would say that s the only sort of real leverage that we have over this man. so there are people out there that would say this is stooping to his level. why stoop to his level? yeah, there are lots of people saying that in this country. many of them supporters of trump. there is a big difference. donald trump sits behind the most powerful protected desk in the world in the oval office. he s the president of the most powerful country on earth. and he uses that position to bully people. we are just a bunch of people who disagree very deeply with his politics and our friends and family members are in the firing lane. so for us, this is political satire. political satire is the most important ways that we have of actually bringing the powerful down to size. so it s completely different. what we re doing compared to what he does on daily basis, you can t compare them. can we bring up that picture again of trump baby fly
go. go where? we are being used as human shields. i don t think we could believe it. we had attempted to find ways out of iraq and we were now going to be put right in the firing lane that we tried to avoid. that was a pretty frightening prospect. [ speaking in foreign language ] we were whisked upstairs pretty quickly. this was a very, very heavily guarded area. we were brought down to the very end room and they closed the door behind us. i was angry towards john for getting us into this situation. i thought that maybe there was a way out of this.