we begin with the latest developments in the mass shooting in illinois. six killed, 38 injured when a gunman opened fire at a fourth of july parade in highland park. that is an affluent suburb of chicago. this video shows a band playing as people begin to run. other footage caught the jarring sound of gunfire. [ gunfire ] imagine the shock and confusion. maybe it was fireworks, they could rightly think. no, those were gunshots. the series of shots you heard followed by a second round of shooting that lasted about 7 seconds. the gunman was on a rooftop with a high-powered rifle. parade-goers scattering in all directions once they realized what was happening. you see a band running there. the crowd left behind chairs, toys, baby strollers, and blankets. here s one witness describing that scene. a few minutes into the parade started, like, the marching band had just passed, i heard a subsequent pop, pop, pop, all in quick succession. i thought to myself, that s not that
Hello america i mark levin this is life, Liberty Levin send a prewe prewhi prewe ht guests and et cetera ted cruz and Stephen Miller appeared before we get to our guests you are living through what is not only the worst presidency in American History when it comes to domestic and foreign affairs, but when it comes to our constitution the rule of law law and order which is the core of this republic he is dismantling and he is destroying it. He, the Department Of Justice and his cabinet. He, immediately Democrat Party especially in congress. This is no joke is enormously serious. You note jon adams said there were two that virtue is tyranny. We have tierney right now. We have a president of the United States was defied to Supreme Court decisions one of which involving socalled Student Loan Forgiveness the court specifically said no only congress has the power to raise revenue, that is the text, to borrow into create debt. Joe biden said okay, i dont care what you say. The greatest defian
just like many of the young refugees and immigrants that come to the country. we are able to build a future for ourselves on par with anybody else that grows up in the country. the situation today is really, in many ways, not any different than it used to be for refugees. it s a difficult process, but it is one filled with hope. it s about a new life and a new beginning. the climate perhaps back then was a little bit easier. the year we came, 240,000 refugees were accepted in the country. now, the refugee ceiling, or under the previous administration, was reduced to 15,000. raised certainly by the certain administration, which is fantastic. but a lot of the infrastructure to support refugees was
the refugee ceiling from 90,000 a year to 70,000. president obama worked to rebuild the resettlement system when the world needed it most. millions of middle eastern refugees were fleeing several bleed conflicts in the region. the bmw administration raise the ceiling to 85,000 refugees in 2016 and the next year obama proposed an increase to 110,000, but then a new president who had launched his campaign in a zeal of xenophobia came along and slashed that number. by 2020 the american refugee cap was just 18,000 a year, the absolute lowest in u.s. history at a time when america had received its highest number of applicants ever, mostly from central america. under the trump administration and the minds of many americans today there was this assumption that refugees pose a national security threat to the united states, a false narrative that
crafty way. what s happening here is what probably the public saw was the reporting about the refugee ceiling that was being decreased on a jiri basis under the trump administration. you see the travel ban order, you see the anti-refugee where they re not going to do refugee resettlement at the beginning of the start of the administration. all of these things contribute to a scenario of like the reduction of resources at dhs and these offices that work these issues, the reduction of resources at state. what you see is the construct of the narrative developing. so the reason i put my tweet is because i was getting so upset at watching the images of these people who really have been by our side and watching the narrative start to surface that they don t belong here, that these people don t belong here, which is such stephen miller rhetoric that i heard repeatedly during my the trump administration. and part of it, too, is just one of the things is such a frustrating reality that we hav