Ahead on cnn newsroom, ford and General Motors announce job cuts just days a of the Autoworkers Union went on strike, how a lengthy strike will impact the auto industry. Plus, gop president ial hopefuls descend on iowa stumping for votes. The only one who didnt show is donald trump. Downed trees and power lines is part of what tropical lee left behind. No breakthrough but reasonably productive discussions at least with ford, thats on how the United Auto Workers are describing labor talks on day two of its strikes. Striking Union Workers picketed outside the Ford Assembly plant. Ford says the strike is causing a lack of parts and 2600 uaw members will be laid off due to the walkout. The union and ford, General Motors and stellantis is far apart on benefits. Now the strike is putting President Biden in a tough position and it could get even more difficult for him if it goes on for a long time. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez explains. Reporter President Joe Biden weighed in on the auto workers st
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if you look at the major national gun retailers like cabela s, bass pro, those guys advertise ar-15s right on their website and one analyst that we spoke to says, listen, even if the national retailers stopped selling those guns, about 80% of those assault-style rifles are sold by small mom and pop shops, so it s so dispersed and so popular that it s going to be really tough to take ever really talk about taking them out of our system. the front page editorial of the new york times calling for a lot more gun control actually suggests and says these weapons shouldn t be sold and people who have them should return them. to the government, incredibly controversial, but you had this fascinating interview with the ceo of walmart and talked about the changes they were going to make, now they ve made it. they ve made it. he was very specific when i interviewed him about the kind of customer that walmart wants to serve. take a listen.
handgun, multiround clips, it s weaponry, most of these weapons shouldn t be on the streets of america. so i don t know exactly what the distinction is about. no citizen has ever said to me, oh, well, you know, i know got hit by a shotgun. i m glad it wasn t a rifle. mean. what? i don t know. let me go to the former police chief. val, thank you for joining us. as a law enforcement person, are you concerned about this rage that some people, statistics show it s not everybody but some people have to arm up and get not just shotguns or handguns to protect themselves with but they want semiautomatic weaponry and assault weapons in their household. we know guns are not the answer to every problem to safety. situations and real-life situations have demonstrated that. when we talk about the ban on assault weapons, i think people need to consider the assault weapons, the amount of devastation that ar-15s and ak-47s can do to the body you don t need one of those weapons to protect yourself.