suicide than are being killed in battle. e phone and they call the va in their area, they need help. we ll come in in six weeks, come in, whatever. well, we ended that. we ended that. now they want to go back to the levels where we cut those folks that now provide that kind of help. this amounts to a $22 billion cut in veterans healthcare. now, they dispute this. they nowhere in their actual proposal are their exclusive protections for veterans. but they say i m it s unusual language we use with presidents these days. they say i m lying when i say that. well, the truth is, why do so many veterans groups, why have they spoken out in opposition to the republican proposal. they re not all democrats. they know what s going to happen. folks, that s a game republicans are playing. anytime you single out the impact of their overall cuts, they tell you, no, no, it s not true. but they re wrong. they want to protect thing, they would have written it down and say, we re protecting
with their high-powered rifles to protect you? here s the response from his office. quote, we don t comment on that as related to the prime minister of security. so in other words the people in power get to keep the guns, people lose theirs. in this country, unlike canada, we have a second amendment, you d like to think that you would be protected with your second amendment from your guns and be able to have a gun. politicians who want to suspend your civil liberties while you have a second amendment wouldn t be able to do, but the bill of rights is just words on a paper without a government that cares about protecting your rights. you lose your rights and that s what s happening right now. this week, jay insley, governor of washington still, signed a law banning semiautomatic rifles when which he called assault weapons. watch how he justified the massive move. there is no reason for their use in the state of washington. no one needs an ar-15 to protect your family. the you
have occurred in the lastey 18 months we ve moved that wasov joe biden s first sit downed interview in one hundred and eighteen days. and despite a flurry of well, nothing but softball questions from a democratic activist pretending to be a late nighted comedian, biden still struggleia to communicate he could barelyy get words out. he had noo answersword for the economic problems we are a lot worset got today. now inflation is up yet again to an all new forty one year high, eight point six percent. the the cost of food is up ten point one percent. o the cost of housing 70%f rent is up in some places as high as 20 percent. household energy bills are up a whopping nineteen point one percent. and meanwhile the average cost for a gallon off gas has nowd more than doubled since biden took over as president. now over five dollars a gallonev nationwide for the first time ever. remember when he first became president on day one you were only paying two dollars and thirty nine cents f
still alive in there. but they haven t reached them yet. the ship ran aground and sent passengers scrambling for lifeboats. [ screaming ] . [ speaking foreign language ]. three people are dead among 4,000 who were on board that ship. 43 to 73 people could be missing. 126 americans were on the cruise ship but none of them appear to be hurt. the captain could be charged with manslaughter and abandoning ship. the parent of the company is carnival cruise ship. some passengers got off quickly and safely. others like benji smith who found the ship transformed into an obstacle course. we scrambled around the ship looking for the best way to go. some ran to the lower deck and some to the upper decks. we made ropes we made ladders out of ropes and used the ladders to climb down from the outer fourth deck to the third deck where we could kind of shimmy our way down the side of the ship. did the ship we climbed down the ship with rope ladders and waited clinging to the lad