also i'm so mad about this because abigail spanberger, moderate democrat from virginia, she was the onel after the election saying guys, we have a serious problem. we have to do something. nancy pelosi says abigail, please try to get this bill done. she gets it all the way to the one-yard line and then these outside groups like the leadership conference on the -- leadership conference on civil and human rights, they massively supported defund the police. they killed it. now good luck to the democrats and they are trying to do all this from the minority because somebody like abigail spanberger in a very close race. nancy pelosi gave her a chance to try to fix it so she could go home and say that she did something and now the squad killed it. >> jesse: i think we should drink every time dana says abigail spanberger. >> dana: why? >> jesse: you mention her name a lot. >> greg: you have to remember that time when they were crying for defund the police. at a very vulnerable moment in our country. it was an indulgence by leaders of the mob. it was a really ugly thing to hear your politician s

congressional black caucus, to josh gottheimer who really has been a leader on this issue, and abigail spanberger. she has a bill, too, and they found a way to do what we want to support our men and women in uniform but to also do so with accountability. since we talked about our security package ago, we had been flooded with so many bills that people have that we need to, shall we say, we have to have the bandwidth to deal with all of them and hopefully, not hopefully, we plan to bring them support for our men and women in law enforcement with accountability to the floor in the second week of august when we come back. that's what i think we will comply with, conform to win the senate may be ready to send us the very important legislation, its title is inflation reduction act. so very excited about the fact that we have a break through there. it is in everything we want. how many times have i said that? cannot judge something for something it doesn't do but respected for what it does. and what this does do is quite remarkable in terms of our investment in protecting the planet. it lowers, in addi

joining us democratic congresswoman abigail spanberger of virginia, she is a former cia officer. we've been talking about this ad nauseam for months and years now that there's an aggrieved young man who's able to get access to a weapon that can kill many people in a very short time. it's a statement of fact that this guy dressed as a woman, climbed to a building with a shotgun and a handgun. there is some gun legislation that made it through the house and the senate, got some republican votes, signed by the president. but there are no republicans who support, for example, banning all together semiautomatic rifles or at least even raising the age to 21 to buy one. >> your point is exactly correct. he didn't climb to the roof with a baseball bat or a knife or any other sort of weapon. he climbed to the roof with an assault style weapon, which is how it is that he was able to kill seven individuals who were out on the fourth of july celebrating our rights, our freedoms as americans. what we have seen in the house, yes, we have passed some gun legislation with major investments in me

. >> bret: you know, katie, those are moderates we heard from, those democrats, tim ryan, abigail spanbergerpaigned as a moderate. he didn't govern at the beginning as a president. he went kind of more progressive. in fact, senator mitch mcconnell is saying one of the themes for republicans in the midterms is elect republicans to both chambers and we will make joe biden a moderate he campaigned to be. >> well, you know, president joe biden became a lame duck president in january when senator joe manchin, a democrat told you, bret, on "fox news sunday" that he could not vote for build back better. and that was president biden's big agenda item. they thought they could push it through with a 50/50 senate they could not. the legislation that they did get through, which is the american rescue plan has had catastrophic consequences for the country in terms of inflation. if joe biden wants to change or to get back on his feet in terms of the polling, is he going to have to change his policy positions, especially on the issue of energy. and he has given no indication that he is willing to do that.

abigail spanberger and virginia also said this. do you think you have president biden coming campaign with you in that district? >> i intend to do the camp hitting myself. i'm the candidate and it's my on the ballot. speakers can happen between now and the midterms, there's not can be a lot of people i want to campaign with him. >> bill: remember what he would down to georgia made such a big deal about the voting a lot on there. stacey abrams had something else on her schedule. we still don't know what that was. so the democrats are turning a president biden clearly as he struggles to manage multiple crisis ease. will this spell doom come november. carl robe with the bigger picture on that. we'll talk to him when we come back. >> dana: wnba started brittany griner is back in a russian court room this morning. president biden placed a call to griner's wife. the president reassured her that he is doing everything in its power to bring griner home pier the call came as a surprise to the family of another american held in russia. paul

i appreciate representatives abigail spanberger and rob wittman for their leadership on this legislationencourage my colleagues to help our nation's veterans and students by supporting h.r. 3544. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. maloney: if the gentleman has no further speakers i'm prepared to close. mr. keller: mr. speaker, i have no fourth speakers and i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. keller: thank you, mr. speaker. in closing ill like to note that congress is expected to pay tribute to veteran whence we honor retired chief warrant officer herr shall woody williams, the last surviving world war ii veteran to receive thed me oofl honor will lie in state in the capitol. in that spirit let us pay tribute to all those who soirved nation and will serve in the future. instead of letting technology american taxpayers have already invested in go to waste, the bipartisan computers for veterans and students act will get such reparable government technology into the lives of americans in

course, i remember the terrible day, i think of my friend, former cia officer and congresswoman abigail spanberger who, that day, performed heroically. she was asking other members of congress to remove their pins so they wouldn't be identified if the capitol was overrun. she was helping shield members of the press. you know, when you hear stories like that, i talked to abigail numerous times, i think, you know, president trump's -- and i wouldn't say inaction, i would say deliberate lack of action, you know, that really disgraces those police officers who fought back that day. congresswoman spanberger who performed heroically. look, the world is watching. one of the things that i take, you know, from this entire kind of really necessary accountability of what happened on january 6th, is that sometimes americans don't understand, the world is watching us. failure to hold those accountable is something that's going to really damage the united states in the national security field. our allies are watching because they see the degradation of democracy, and our enemies are cheering this because they s

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