air force air force base or another in the war, but in any case, he announced yesterday that on the 13th he is ready to leave, but he is very frustrated to transfer power to another, the commander of the sri lankan army, which, unlike the police in the current clashes did not take part urged citizens to avoid violence and prevent human casualties. ahead of the island are vague prospects for a political settlement of real plans to break the economic impasse in sri lanka, no, the protesters say they will not leave the palace grounds. so far, the president of the raj baksa is not officially resigning. opposition. he is holding a meeting today to work out a further strategy on the eve of the parliamentary vote on a new prime minister. the country now has no one, no one could the office. on behalf of the state to negotiate on international assistance dmitry melnikov vladislav dodonov south asian news bureau in south africa at least 14 people were killed in a shooting in a bar on the outskirts of johannesburg, 10 more were injured. three of them are in critical condition, according to preliminary data , a minibus drove up to the bar at night, armed men got out and opened fire on the visitors about their motives for information. no. to find the criminals of the local police, also not yet possible. verkhoyansk region of yakutia declared a state of emergency the water level in the rivers has risen due to heavy rains, almost 90 houses have been flooded, local residents are being evacuated with details fulltone volaris. dams cut through the roads turned into rivers, water. heavy downpours poured into the houses, which broke through the dam for several days and flooded the village of sibenkyul , kobyakovsky district of yakutia. gym complex administration, the village trunk flooded all 88 residential buildings, not only the village was completely submerged and agricultural. lands, social facilities in some places , water rose up to 70 cm. colossal damage was caused from the floor, the rain, which all yakutia called for so long, fell on the verkhoyansk region with a powerful downpour instead of saving dry and hot weather. heavy rains, thunderstorms and gusts of wind from the shores are all the consequences of the southern cyclone from mongolia where no fires. now the water element is raging. this is all that we had from the southern cyclone passed directly through the alekma region further through the mountainous kovey and on the upper reaches. that's just the way it follows everywhere. heavy and sometimes very heavy precipitation fell. even the promised decline in water carries a threat to other settlements , outgoing streams can flood a number of villages located downstream and according to weather forecasters. rains, will return the situation remains difficult flooded today, populated punctus, suardah and bulagalah and downstream there is flooding. well, also settlements that expect the next few days, the forecasts do not give any chance of improving the situation for local residents. it is strongly recommended to pick up all valuables, drive away livestock and, if possible, leave their homes for their own safety fulton resa robert nabiev vesti, yakutia seal the windows of houses with transparent tape to protect yourself from splinters about life on the line of fire, see sasha bublik's report. the shell flew kirish, the roof from there from the side of ukraine, and now it turned out such a prologue, all you can do is go a little bit from another room into the settlements bordering ukraine in the kursk region under fire. and also the window on weekdays was broken by many residents, those who remained had to hide in the basements from ukrainian shells and left their homes. and i closed the banks, because suddenly the fragments or something else, in order to extend at least less in the area, the increased yellow level of terrorist danger here to fall is a mine or somewhere nearby. so you saw what you see here, like that there is some kind of target. uh, the shelling of an enterprise or something, how people live in the territories bordering ukraine in the early morning. we sleep on july 5 and hear crackling. e whistle and we are already determining. where are you flying whistles this arrival. here we already distinguish when our branch shoots and when it arrives to us. so it all happened at 5:45 in the morning. here the shelling began shelling around the perimeter from the street from the bridge. there were, as it were, several mini shells, and then the arrival was at the house, on the left, one shell flew the second shell. a little further for 20 m there. this is what caused the car to catch fire. so i did not have time to run out anywhere, not to leave, because it immediately caught fire and then the bombing went on and then a shell flew into the house. let's go to this apartment. she is more here for us will be for us. she understandable alexander tkachev shows everything that is left of his and neighboring houses. after mortar shelling from ukraine was powerful enough, i was in a neighboring apartment where i live, as a result of which the entire roof of the house was raised, all the windows that are both outside and inside flew out, and it turned out that it turned out that the mine flew through the roof. and on voronki right in the middle of the room 2 m. 12 families lived in the house, everyone left. alexander tkachev was left alone, all the neighbors. already dispersed, as if by relatives, where anyone is. and i'm still present on the protection of the object. that's why i feed cats to dogs and i guard our home. the village of priests, lying down not the first time falls under the shelling of the ukrainian army masonry, he all of this fell. here. sergey telegin was smashed into the kitchen on the morning of july 5, woke up from loud whistling sounds and immediately ran out into the yard, it was already further on that it was already heard that we were being bombed higher into the yard and flew to you. please here it is on a rope we are closing here. yes, here it does not close, we hang things up, because the air is a little humid. we take it out here and put it together so that they are dry, so that they do not nourish. here it is, just wait. even though kirill, i will be so scared. nina and politovna's daughter will have two grandchildren at the time of the shelling at six in the morning, everyone was sleeping. we have been running there for a long time, as we heard, somewhere broads, and there, then we find out close, far, already by ear. she hears to endure these masters, it’s very hard, very scary and hard morally hard, the eldest. the youngest was crying a lot. he still somehow does not understand. and rita was crying a lot 11 it will be six soon, and this is the boy, how to hear broads somewhere, he runs and says, it's time for grandma to go to the basement volich in the basement, where twists with tomatoes and jam are stored in case of shelling , prepared candles and water were closed, because suddenly there were fragments or something else, so that at least nina palitovna was showing

the main thing to help is to support our soldiers our fighters er must understand that the air force air force is doing everything really possible to knock down the answer yes the percentage is not significant but if there were forces and means it is precisely the forces, there are no such powerful modern ones to specifically shoot down those planes, we are talking about nasans . to place installations in those directions, the enemy would have already thought three times about approaching there or not, here is the 22nd that hit kremenchuk in particular. for someone to sell no one is selling thank you prevailed we will pass we will win the news together we are strong unconquered cities of ukraine pavlograd industrial center with a cossack past a secret waterway ran through the wolf river here zaporozhian cossacks after the october coup , the unr army led by peter bolbochan drove the bolsheviks out of the city, although for only two years, the pavlograd anti-communist uprising became one of the largest in the 1930s. jews today, pavlograd is under fire, but it continues to help all those who need

air force one. this is where air force air force one. this is you see a picture there bob haldeman and next to him is his chief lieutenant larry higbee and they obviously are drilling me with questions and hold them and has a skeptical look on his face. like are you kidding me and to his left is dr. henry kissinger and in back is winston lord who later became ambassador to china julie pino one of the secretaries and kissinger aid william howe and on the far back on the right is mario hartley who was a kissinger secretary and and we're working we we were always working. i mean it's almost impossible to underscore the amount of energy, we put into everything that we did. 24/7 this is a meeting of my we picked up some chinese leaders on the way into beijing and i am sitting at a table aboard air force one going through what would be our plans upon arrival and beijing? and here's the president this this is a great shot because it's so so representative of what this man was all about. he's got the briefing books in front of him. he's working.

air force again trained. cuban exiles pilots of b-26 bombers which were in the cuban in inventory. we see i had its own b-26 is that were painted to look like human air force bombers. so the story would be of these were air force cuban air force officers who defected and then join the rebellion. the cuban invasion forces were trained at cia bases in nicaragua and guatemala. the invasion was planned originally i saw in the cia declassified documents. this was the preferred plan to land at the beach at. trinidad this was considered an anti-castro town again looking for that local support. it had a good port. it had a defensible beach with good maritime approaches and was close to the mountains. the key mistake in planning for this covert action was that for operational security cia's own intelligence analysts. kept in the dark the experts on the current experts on the state of cuba. they had no input the directorate of operations. did its own analysis? and based its optimistic assessments of internal cuban resistance on the initial opposition to castro when he came to power in 1959. well, it's two years later and the analysts of the directorate of intelligence. the di analysts could have told the do that t

china can air the air force into the air force respectively nuak to force the piloshi plane to preventhe coverage area, while taiwanese air defense alerts and so on. that is, de facto , we see that some kind of large-scale provocation is underway from the united states and us officials compete in an anti-chinese position in the conditions that on your airs they discussed the strategic disorganization of the top military-political command of the united states, we understand that this is a risk there is, whether the chinese are now ready to fight, to whether they are really ready, they will start a war. this is ambiguous. but what a visit to pylos. maybe, start, the plane can go there, that china can raise armed forces, the air force itself , in order to prevent the visit. indeed , after this, the countries will take one more step closer to war, large-scale preparations for an armed conflict will begin, and what we saw in ukraine is stage-by-stage pressure, stage-by-stage preparation, and the pulling of troops. here it is, may start happening in august. this is a realistic perspective of

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out of action, the second british base in the air force, the royal air force forces, stopped flying atest base of the brothers. norton, as the runway began to melt due to the heat, it was unprecedented the heat exhausted and the chinese hanju did not wait for the rains and launched powerful missile strikes into the sky. clouds launched more than fifty rockets into the sky to cause precipitation, but the inhabitants of the collective west so far only hope that patience debilitating evil will not leave europeans in the near future anastasia ivanova lyudmila lyzhenko , matvey popov thunderstorms with heavy rains and a strong storm swept across the north east of the country in new jersey flooded street major cities. over 60,000 people were left without electricity. the storm hit new york as well. in some places, the water reached the roof of the car, storm drains, water clogged with garbage, sometimes slowly rainfalls paralyzed the work of several metro lines, and no casualties were reported. the british parliament did not support. here is the lack of confidence in the government of boris

of the state, we allowed mass losses, that is, of the armed forces of ukraine, a special anti-aircraft force, air defense means of the air forces is, of our planes and air defense we did not allow a sharp encirclement and seizure of the troops that were in the oos zone, sometimes throughout the spring they held back practically in the same positions, not only now with the exception of going to the raisin we lost a position there, which now hinders us a lot, in addition, we managed to knock them out of kyiv oblast to knock out the sumy oblast of ukraine that is, these are the countries that support ukraine in this war, this is our victory in the first stage, the second stage unfortunately, we expected that we would start with a contrast but our partners did not have time to provide us with the necessary amount of weapons, and our own weapons that we had in ukraine for 30 years down the line - we destroyed destroyed through an attacking organization, which state organization still exists in our country and the organization is called ukrspeetseexport, that is, it is not ukr special import, that is, in order to import weapons and a

air force. he's the head of the air force at the time of the vietnam war! he was both appointed head of the air force and given the medal, the highest medal that can be awarded to a foreigner, by the japanese government. >> i know! >> despite being the fifth most murderous individual of the 20th century. i mean, it's just like -- >> but part of the argument, if i can elevate it to an argument, is that what he did actually spared -- purely utilitarian argument. what he did actually spared other does. it shortened the length of the war, and therefore saved other lives. >> that is the argument that is made, of course, on behalf of the united states. i think there is a lot of truth to that. in the absence of, certainly in the absence of the atomic bombs, a land invasion of japan by the united states, and also island nation of japan by the soviet union which of course was poised to attack on the other side, it would've resulted in casualties even greater than were what happened over the summer of 45. it would've been probably one of the bloodiest military campaigns in modern history. there is no dou

aerospace forces in the region of kramatorsk, donetsk people's republic, a su-25 aircraft of the ukrainian air force was shot down. in addition , a mi-8 helicopter of the ukrainian air forceas shot down by russian air defense systems as part of a counter-battery fight. fight. in the russian military department. they also clarified that as a result of the strike on july 16, the high-precision weapon of the mvks. russia on the point of temporary deployment nationalist settlement. konstantinovka and children's odessa region eliminated 600 militants, including up to 120 foreign mercenaries. details in just a few minutes. in the last minutes, the eu council approved the seventh package of eu sanctions against russia, it includes partial imbargon on gold, expanding the list of dual-use goods prohibited for import, as well as expanding the list of russian individuals and legal entities on which the european sanctions are expanding, the head of the european commission announced this in her account. . ursula fondarm all the current sanctions against russia have been extended until the end of january 2023. russia resumed gas supplies to europe via the nord stream pipeline repair wo

air force, the royal air force forces, stopped flying at the largest bryce base. norton since the runway began to melt due to the heat, unprecedented. the heat exhausted and the chinese in hangzhou did not wait for the rains and launched a powerful missile strike into the sky. clouds launched more than fifty rockets into the sky to cause precipitation, but the inhabitants of the collective west so far only hope that he will not leave the europeans in the near future anastasia ivanova lyudmila klyshenko , matvey popov i still won't cut. okay? what is there to save now? open a free business account with alpha bank. connect advertising in yandex.bise, and we will transfer you 10,000 rubles. my ex is calling, partner, by the way, hurry up. there has never been such a russian cold 150 g, an unprecedented rich taste in one glass. try real ice cream, russian cold, great incredible taste, the kids are full, parents are happy, frutonyanya delicious and healthy food for the little ones, buy at competitive prices at wildberries welcome to the world where everything is only for you. so it was possible, of course, to map the world. pay for purchases in any way that is familiar to you from the world card or the mirpay application, as usual endlessly your own warm, interesting, most relevant, convenient tier, a cozy social network where everyone will find their own. the recipe for natural taste is born on the banks of the don river where golden and don barley grows don yuzhny non-alcoholic recipe created by yuzhny nature. how long have you been working here? all the benefits of a subscription no tariff with access to exclusive nco football content from whom was the backbone of nationalist groups going to be young people? this is the ultras idea of ​​the nation, as they say. two pieces of mine handling. yes, this is a general criminal offense. they close people in the drama theater, and then they undermine the framework and the aird not fall on the drama theater. he was undermined, apparently . you charge was laid from below the ceiling here. what time do you see him? at how much from below is enough undermining from below to walk on the legs shot. ministry of finance intends to update the budget rule and set the cut-off price at 60 dollars per barrel of oil, proceeds from the sale at a higher price will be directed to the purchase of foreign currency. this should weaken the ruble exchange rate, which will benefit the exporter. at the same time, it is proposed to fix the volume of production at the level of 9.5 million barrels per day, a new version of the rule is being discussed in the government, let me remind you. now all oil and gas revenues of the treasury go to current expenses, meanwhile, oil production in russia is growing, despite sanctions in july, about 11 million barrels per day writes bloomberg, while primary processing is growing for the third month in a row by about 6-8%. and it has already reache

air force air force one landed in ben gurion airport. get out of the plane. biden. asked first. what should i do now? a little later, sleepy joe decided what to do and decided to get into an international scandal before a trip to the memorial complexes of the holocaust history and from sham the american president said that it was necessary to keep the truth and honor in memory and lacoste apparently, he was communicating with the ukrainian nazis. then the truth about biden immediately corrected himself, which meant generally dishonesty, and the horrors, but the israelis managed to shock, were struck by their behavior of one of the president's bodyguards the united states, as reported by tin, on the eve of the visit, an american secret service employee got drunk in a bar and had a fight with a woman in jerusalem, as a result, he was sent home, but back to the canoe, he distinguished himself from the us president and in an interview with israeli television. at first, he suggested that the set in ukraine could drag on for months and even years in a minute. he took his words back and began to assert that he did not say anything like that, another gem, a quote. i said that putin will attack, and everyone said. no, he will invade what's the difference the us president did not explain. in america , they are talking louder and louder about the fact that their elderly leader has everything in order and lead the country. he is unable. biden himself, promises that he will cancel the putin tax he invented and will seek to reduce gasoline prices, depleting the strategic reserves of oil, he is also going to impose a price limit, and on the prices of russian oil, in order to deprive putin of income from sales to you, no one in this does not believe. inflation reached june 9.1, the highest since 1981, the price of gasoline rose almost 60% per year. and the price of groceries went up 10.4% when you look at these numbers easily, you understand why even in his own party they don't want joe biden to run again people don't travel anymore because of gas prices at the same time joe biden signed a $40 billion aid package in the name of democracy, not for you americans, but for ukraine, and this, according to joe biden, is only the beginning of part of our boundless commitment to funding the corrupt ukrainian government. what do i need now make? today i will visit the holy site of yad yours in order to honor the memory of the 6 million jewish lives that were stolen during the genocide, and also in order to continue doing what we must do every day to keep the memory of the truth and the honor of holocaust horror holocaust. one of the problems is his age. and this is not life, but medical supervision can work 5-6 hours a day. and unfortunately, this work needs 20 hours a day. according to the poll, only 13% of voters believe that the united states is on the right track, and 77% think that the united states moving in the wrong direction mr. president what do you say to democrats who don't want you to run for a second term. you're wrong. they want me to participate in the next election. well, how come 2/3 of them don't want you to do it? read more carefully you are already tired of 92% of democrats. according to this question will vote for me if i run for a second term, most democrats said they do not want you to run in 2024 not at all 92% just said they would vote for me. if i do it he us president the most powerful man on earth the leader of the free world and all i see is this man who is showing worse than himself end of quote. repeat line. of course, the president. putin can surround them with tanks, but he will never earn the word and soul of the iranians. i decided to run again for three reasons and everyone in my company disagrees with me. in principle, biden did not deceive, 2/3 of the democrats said they would not vote for him in the presidential election. at the same time, the owner of the white at home he said that he would not be upset if he had to face donald trump again in the elections of 24 years. but plain americans will be clearly upset by this, which we donald and joe are in order. tired of the assistant secretary of state with shablinka , drobinson, in response to journalists' claims that washington was only prolonging the conflict with its military assistance, replied that america would be with ukraine to the end until the end of robinson. nato secretary general stoltenberg has the same rhetoric. according to him , allian. now focused on providing military aid to kyiv. here is the preparation of ukraine, for joining the alliance an hour is irrelevant, that is, joining nato, kiev may not wait for the european unions, staltenberg, ordered not to complain, not to cry and pay and pay for sanctions to help ukraine conflict. according to him, it will be delayed. so the europeans should also tighten their belts; the europeans themselves do not want to freeze and starve. holland, farmers organize tractor processions at night as a sign of protest, berlin tried its best to persuade ottawa to give the turbine for the northern stream, without which reduced gas supplies to europe canadian prime minister trudeau admitted he almost cried when the decision was given. it’s hard for him, he didn’t want to offend zelensky but to warm the europeans, yet more important than porning policy comes out, an article headlined europe’s worst energy nightmare is becoming a reality, the publication reported that now europe has the worst energy crisis. history predicted that the situation would only get worse. it is imperative that we, as politicians, do everything to ensure that our countries provide support ukraine and for a long time. and this support has a price, part of this price is sanctions, and also, of course, military support , economic support, you have to pay for all this, because this is the price we will pay. if we do n’t support them, it will be much higher for me , this is partly a question of morality, we are talking about a sovereign independent country with a population of over 40 million. a person in europe was brutally attacked by a large country , russian trousers, if we do not respond to this after what we have seen what happened and other places, it will run counter to when friends and neighbors of ukraine should behave. therefore, yes, of course, everything, it is not free. inaction, if we allow this cruelty to continue, if russia benefits from its cruelty, then for me it will be a higher price. secondly, it is in our own interests to help ukraine. because you must understand that if ukraine loses, then the threat hangs over us . europe will become even more vulnerable to russian aggression. we must stop complaining and support ukraine, period. i am everyone day i receive a request from people who want to live in our campsite on a permanent basis, because they cannot afford to pay the rent or because they do not know what will happen next electricity, rent. everything becomes more expensive with the biggest savings potential. in the shower, everything starts with a shower head, water-saving models use six to eight liters per minute of conventional shower heads from 12 to 14. l , respectively, you need to heat more water. taking a shorter shower or turning off the water when you lather you save more liters and a shower with a lower temperature saves energy in a kettle water is cheaper than on a stove it is also worth looking into the refrigerator an increase in temperature of six to eight degrees celsius for example reduces energy consumption by 6%, the most prominent way to save less heat, if you switch to a pellet heating system. you will be able to heat with wood with little or no harm to the climate the deliberate loading of motorways today prevented many drivers from getting to the point on time destination activists blocked key motorways to protest rising fuel prices on the wales m4 highway. drivers slowed to 50 km/h, which caused traffic jams so severe that people got out of their cars and played football. police arrested 12 people and also evacuated cars that were obstructing the passage of emergency services. europe will pay a high price for sanctions against russia this winter it will be the most severe winter in the last 40-50 or even 60 years for the whole of europe there are no such problems in the countries who do not dance to the tune of washington do not impose anti-russian sanctions the most striking example in europe friendly to us, serbia look like this red star fans celebrated the beginning of the new football season. the entire rostrum is singing katyusha and chanting slogans in support of russia according to a new issue of the youth organization of serbia, the majority of young serbs do not support the anti-russian sanctions of rapprochement by the west, compared to last year, the number of those who advocate the eastern and not the western course has grown by 5% from 52 to 57, serbian president vučić, in an interview on tv pink, accused the us and its satellites of hypocrisy. on the one hand, now they are talking about the impossibility of violating the territorial integrity of ukraine forgetting that they themselves destroyed yugoslavia violated the territorial integrity of serbia, and this absolutely rightly distinguishes the serbian leader set in ukraine, the vuchech called that it is in reality a world war, since chery is for the ukrainians and their lives the entire western world is now at war with russia. you must understand that in the conditions when there is a world war, leave the talk that this is a regional or local war, because the western world is fighting with russia through the ukrainians, this is a world conflict and there is only a significant conflict in asia, we will never be able to understand how western politicians dare to force us to think about the territorial integrity of ukraine when they themselves have so horribly and ugly trampled on the territorial integrity of serbia, the country and i have extinguished the territorial integration for it must be united continues its european court to protect our relations with the russian federation from china and with everyone else. as you can see, this policy has withstood the hardest time. we'll see how long it can last. this is a question of the interest of our state. the war in the world scares me the most. i'm afraid that there will be a much more difficult conflict than this one now. i hope it will not be done in the balkans . in order to preserve the serbian people in serbia and other peoples, in order to build the future in the world. i know what awaits us as soon as vladimir putin will finish things in seversk bakhmut and solidarity after that on the second line of the slavic, kramatorsk avdeevka, an attempt to negotiate will follow if the west does not accept his proposal. we're going to hell and they won't accept it. to rule the future of the world, which will be based on international law, they came up with washington rules want more and more countries president of the brix international forum turniana announced that egypt turkey and saudi arabia are planning to apply for entry into the brix processes for their acceptance in the association on its words won't take long. let goodness emerge, this issue can be discussed already at the next themselves, like argentina’s application for joining the brix of iran, they also passionately want to join our association today, us president joe biden and israeli prime minister and lopita will sign a joint declaration in jerusalem, in which they undertake not to allow the appearance of iran's nuclear weapons, as if someone asked them to suit washington and provocations in the territorial waters of china the ministry of defense of the prc reported that it had invaded us missile interceptors in the department said that the actions of the us military seriously violate the sovereignty and security of china, international law, and undermine peace and stability in the south china sea. the chinese fleet patiently accompanied the us ship until it left the area. opponents in the context, perhaps the operation against taiwan was decided to answer there, look like this, the taiwanese military overcome the so-called road to paradise, crawl 100 meters on a bare stomach over sharp stones. as this will help them protect the island from the chinese army not too much. clearly visible. he hopes that insane masochists will be scared in beijing. a chinese airdly denounced the us for passing through allegedly their territorial waters, chinese officials say that the missile destroyer ben fold entered chinese territorial waters without permission, so they chased it away from the chinese army, saying that the us poses a security threat to the south china sea and added that the us army had seriously violated sovereignty and security of china for many years. china is building artificial islands literally out of nothing in order to consider it their territory, partly the south china sea, to declare them chinese territorial waters. yes, they are professional victims. let me explain everything to you with an example. imagine that you are at home, a neighbor across the street begins to build up his sidewalk , puts a couple of barbed wire forts there, then puts a checkpoint there, and so on. you say that this sidewalk is common for people to go to the store children in school and so on. and even if the neighbors put up obstacles, i will continue to w

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it's a navy command just like marine one and air force one an air force plane et cetera. it was first established in 1942 where president roosevelt. >> missy asks was the highest rank of someone from the marines or the navy at camp david? >> the camp commander is a commander, u.s. navy commander. sometimes that officer might be selected from captain as he is, he or she is the parting the campus. a commander job for commander. the senior marine is a captain. he's a ceo, marine security company. and for the white house communication agency detail that's their. maybe a lieutenant colonel typically in the u.s. army. >> and our last question this evening. several of viewers have asked this. why did you decide to write the book on camp david. and what was one or two things that were just fascinating that you learned while you are researching to write the book? >> thank you. wonderful final question. on the day a change of command, there is a photo of my wife and two daughters. ages seven and four. and she hands me this journal. and the first page of the journal is a scroll of t

air force one, again, air force one is also still requiring masks on board, even though that federal travel mask mandate has fallen for commercial flights. the white house has insisted on maintaining masks aboard air one. so obviously, again, a lot of protocols that have been taking place. but clearly joe biden has still managed to get covid at this point for the first time, of course, in his presidency and for the first time since this pandemic. >> jeremy diamond, please stay with us. joining us now, dr. william shatner via telephone. this is notable, because the country has been experiencing quite a surge in covid cases, in many places even exceeding where it was at the previous peak. but tell us, what are the risks to a 79-year-old man who is vaccinated and boosted to get covid today? >> well, people who are vaccinated and boosted can still get mild cases of covid infection. these new variants particularly the ba-5 variant can infect people who were previously vaccinated, or people who have had previous natural infection. that said, the infections then are generally rather mild. they don't require hospitalization. and in addition, people who are over age 65 are also candidates for paxlovid, tha

stb the only news ukrainian air defense forces have become better at shooting down enemy missiles and the air force command explained why yuriy ignat, the spokesman for the airommand, noted that the world had never seen such massive missile strikes before strikes like those from which ukraine is currently suffering and the successful repulse of russian missiles is due to the qualifications of the ukrainian military, which means look at the personnel. the invoice and not the basis for is the supply of weapons, that's why i still have everything on the air of the repeated address of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, stay with us ukrainians ukrainians indomitable people of the strongest today, the occupiers hit the odesa region again with rockets on ordinary houses, rocket launchers designed to destroy warships and other significant targets, with such heavy weapons the russian army is destroying the ordinary private sector near the sea. people lived there, rested, and we will definitely hit the answer is that there are no lies about such strikes, the russian ministry of defense constantly russian terror in kharkiv and the mykolaiv region, cities and

military equipment of the armed forces of ukraine in 189 regions, the fighter aviation of the russian aerospace forces, was destroyed in air combat. three aircraft of the air forcemig-29 in the areas of settlements novopavlovka, mykolaiv region, vladimirovka , dnepropetrovsk region, and one su-25 in the severskaya region, also shot down in the air, two ukrainian mi-8 helicopters in the veliky novosyolka region have 24 in the seversky region of the donetsk people’s republic, russian air defense systems destroyed 14 ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in populated areas points, long raisins malaya kamyshevakh, kharkiv region bulrushes, kherson region, reshetelivska, zaporozhye region, alchevsk, luhansk people's republic serebryanka gregorovka. spartak krasny oktyabr and krinichnaya of the donetsk people's republic in addition, a ballistic missile was intercepted in the area of ​​​​the settlement of novozvanovka of the donetsk people's republic . i took it, a hurricane of fire. in total, at first , a special operation was carried out, 256 aircraft, 139 helicopters, 1,557 unmanned vehicles, 355 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,073 tanks and other armored combat vehic

air force. -- my dad was in the air force and we spent a long time in europe during the cold war.ny was still relatively poor in the 60's coming out of world war ii. it was not the industrial power it is today. your father was a serbian immigrant to the united states. -- david: your father was a serbian immigrant to the united states. phebe: you treasure democracies, and particularly market based democracies. he is an avid patriot as is my mother. they imbued me with that sense of patriotism. david: you grew up in various places. then he went to college at smith. did you study aerospace defense at smith? phebe: no. i was a government major and a philosophy major, and i got a superb liberal arts background and education. i learned how to write and how to think in college. david: most people that graduate from smith probably do not end up in the cia. when you were interviewing for jobs at the end of your college career, did you tell people " i want to be in the cia"? how did you get to be in the cia? phebe: i had a sense of service for my nation, and it seemed like a good place for

the armed forces of ukraine in the kurakhov area. of the donetsk republic a fighter aircraft of the russian aerospace forces in an air battle destroyed two aircraft of the ukrainian air forces-29 in the area of ​​​​the settlement of snegirevka, mykolaiv region and one su-25 in the area of ​​​​dobropolia of the donetsk people of the republic, russian air defense systems shot down four ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in a day areas of settlements blagodatovka, yavorskaya , kharkiv region, zugres, donetsk people's republic. in addition, in the vasilinkovy districts of the kharkiv region, as well as novorossiysk and krasnoselskaya stepnoe tarasa shevchenko, kherson region, nine shells of the enemy's multiple launch rocket system were intercepted. publishing machines 356 anti-aircraft missile systems 4.135 tanks and other armored combat vehicles 760 jet combat vehicles gulp systems. fire 3.166, field artillery guns. as well as 4,410 units of special military vehicles. north korea has recognized the independent republic of donbass, now prospects for broad cooperation are opening up for them, russian ambassador to the dprk alexander matsagara is sure of this. now he is in direc

russian aerospace forces, the launcher of the us-made harpoon missile system fighter aircraft of the russian aerospace forces in an air battle two aircraft of the ukrainian air forcestroyed one moment-29 in the nikolaev region one su-25 in the dobropillia area of ​​the donetsk people's of the republic as a result of a strike with precision weapons on a warehouse of missile and artillery weapons 14 mechanized brigade vysovy in the village . solidar, destroyed, 19 armored vehicles and up to 40 nationalists. details in just a few minutes. russia egypt will build a nuclear power plant near cairo, the foundation of the first power unit of the new nuclear power plant will be laid today by russian specialists, and on the mediterranean coast in egypt, a whole village managed to grow up, in which we now live thousands of people with the details of borisin. this town itself, ile de baun is located about 300 km from the capital city of cairo - this is the largest aron-speaking city. e mira and also eldeba is located on the coast about 150 km from alexandria, it is the second largest city in egypt, both of these metropolises have long been in need of new capacities in terms o

air force actually releases a report about roswell. 1000 pages long. you can still find this, as i pulled it off for today, on the d.o.d. website. this is still very easily publicly available. and the air force says, okay, actually, we did lie to you about it being a weather balloon. in actual fact, it's the wreckage from project mogul, which is a top secret project to try to detect long-range soviet nuclear experiments. so, it's good, right? it comes, out all of the roswell conspiracy theorists come out and say brilliant, now it's cleared, up now we can move on. no, doesn't tend to work that way. the government coming out of saying we've been lying you for almost 50 years but now we're telling you the truth, doesn't convince an awful lot of these conspiracy theorists. in much the same way that the pearl harbor inquiry just spurs more conspiracy theories, and much the same way that the warren commission jesper's more conspiracy theories. the air forces rise well report just breeds more conspiracy theories. it's not held by the cia also coming out in 1997 and saying, we've also been lying to you and we lied to you about the ufo sightings. you did see stuff, but it was top secret military planes and we couldn't tell you. sorry, but ufos still aren't real. we didn't have exactly the same impact. saying that you've been lying for years is not going to build public trust that you are now telling the truth. and so, over this kind of course of the ages -- as this rise well conspiracy system specifically develops and this abduction conspiracy-ism generally develops, eugene really see it move into not mainstream acceptance, but mainstream recognition. nobody came to class today never having heard of roswell. nobody came to class today never having seen a picture of a short, great alien with a big head and big eyes. and it's really very strongly at the forefront of popular consciousness in the 90s. you get best selling paperbacks that

it's a navy command, just like marine one is a marine command and air force one is a air force -- it was first established in 1942 by franklin roosevelt. >> missy asks what is the highest rank of a -- someone from the marines or navy at camp david? >> the camp commander is a commander, u.s. navy commander. sometimes that officer might be selected for captain, as he or she is a departing the camp. it's a job or a commander. the senior marine is a captain, we call them captain, the co of the marine security company. for the white house communication agency detail that's there, maybe a lieutenant colonel typically of the u.s. army. >> our last question this evening, several viewers have asked this, why did you decide to write the book on camp david? and what was one or two things that were fascinating that you learned while you were researching to write the book? >> thank you. wonderful final question. on the day of change of command, there is a photo of my wife and two daughters with me at the age of seven and four, my wife michelle, she hands me this journal. the first page of the jou

russian aerospace forces in the region of kramatorsk donetsk people's republic, a su-25 aircraft of the ukrainian air force was shot down. in addition , a mi-8 helicopter of the ukrainian air forcet down by russian air defense systems in the area pervomaisky nikolaev region, as well as five ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of settlements tobolsk dementievka. sandy kharkiv region. yenakiyevo and makeyevka of the donetsk people of the republic intercepted eight rocket-propelled shells. took a hurricane on fire. in the regions of chernobaevka, the cossack camps of the kherson region and kamenka of the kharkov region were first destroyed by a special operation. 260 aircraft 144 helicopters 1577 unmanned publishing vehicles 356 anti-aircraft missile system 4,135 tanks and other armored combat vehicles 762 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles 3,174 field artillery mortars, as well as 4,413 units of special military vehicles. today he finally resigned the decision to quit, the head of government announced at a meeting of the lower house of parliament, the deputies gave the outgoing prime minister an ovation twice, then the meeting was interrupted and dragged. went to

air force of the kiev regime was destroyed. colonel dmitry burdika. head of the military-scientific department of the headquarters of the air force command, lieutenant colonel konstantin pyzryzhenko and head of the armament and logistics service of the airorce of the country, colonel oleg makarchuk about fate. there is no information for the participants of the meeting, but it is unlikely that the headquarters of the nato countries will publicly see off the officers who die in ukraine to the liquidation of ukrainian generals on their last journey. kyiv the regime also does not advertise, but on the sidelines of the office of the president of ukraine after the strike, hysteria broke out. a close friend of zelensky, the head of the sbu, ivan bakanov, as well as the prosecutor general of the regime, irina venediktova of the ministry of education, lost their personnel positions , too many traitors, and it is known that the kiev regime made personnel decisions under pressure from the north atlantic alliance, the destruction of only ukrainian officers, would hardly have led to such consequences. nobody considers them to be privates, and even more so, but those mobilized in territorial defense units, in general and in as a whole in parts of th

air force has failed. yes , the royal air force has stopped flying at the largest bryce base. runway began to melt due to the heat was unprecedented they began to wait for the rains and launched a powerful missile attack into the sky. clouds launched more than fifty rockets into the sky to cause precipitation, but the inhabitants of the collective west so far only hope that it will not leave the europeans in the near future anastasia ivanova lyudmila lyzhenko, matvey popov message a the hawaiian islands were hit by monstrous waves of the local press, so it was written. the height of the waves exceeded 8 m, they damaged the houses, destroyed the wedding venue, but the birthday cake. at the same time, no one was injured. now beaches are closed for surfing in the coming days, please refrain. well, even grad with a diameter of up to 2 cm fell near voronezh. damaged the crop and, in addition, wind with gusts of up to 16 m / s. in the city itself, a powerful downpour flooded the streets, it was necessary to pump out water from the basement to residential buildings, a similar situati

air force. and that is absolutely true. [laughter] now i was always partial to the air force to be honest but i am in all of these people. they are not insensitive. they are all too aware. and they work really hard to make sure we don't fall into that trap with the condition that military decisions are made by political interference that in consultation with military guys which in some ways it's another book with a graduate seminar in political theory but we don't have political to decisions made by military people. we have a lot of questions coming in. they are coming in like bombs in a pickle barrel. not looking at instagram but the questions coming in. this is fascinating. this is a great question can you talk more about the service academy chapels. why do you think the ideological differences between the branches show up so significantly in places of worship quick. >> this insanely brilliant book forgive me i have forgotten the name of the book and the author a thousand apologies but he's a political science working for the rand corporation in the seventies and wrote an incredible book called the masks of four it was all about the various branches of the american military the army and navy and air force but he makes an offhand point in the book that i thought was so genius you all understand the differences between the services look at the chapel at the academy so i took the train down i see west point in the west point chapel is gothic and gray granite monstrosity doesn't look like it could survive a direct nuclear blast and look like it was built in 18 century and it looks like it represents the sky argued tradition, strength connection with the land and on and on the navy chapel in annapolis looks like it's out of italy grand glass and marble and a huge dome and and then the navy has this grandiose international vision they go all around the world. they are the most secure branch no one can touch them with these fast ships. that is the navy. that somebody has rubbed the grass on the church every way before services. that is the navy but the air force? that want to ruin it but i would encourage everybody to go on your phone and google air force academy chapel and you will see

air force base. hall church, royal air force, stopped flying at the largest bryce base. norton since the runway began to melt due to the heat did not happen. the heat exhausted and the chinese did not wait for the rains and launched a powerful missile strike into the sky. clouds launched more than fifty rockets into the sky to cause precipitation, but the inhabitants of the collective west so far only hope that he will not leave the europeans with his patience, exhausting evil all the time. anastasia ivanova lyudmila klyshenko , matvey popov forest fires in the khabarovsk territory fire more than 7,000 hectares. now specialists are fighting the fire in the area of ​​the village of jigda. there are more than 2 dozen forest fires in yakutia. in a number of areas, the concentration of nitrogen dioxide is exceeded. in the airrp increase in natural fires is noted in the yamalo-nenets autonomous okrug, a total of 25 foci were found in 17 fires , more than 200 people were localized in the work, extinguishing the flames and from the air. extinguishing at a warehouse complex in anadyr in chukotka, locals report this authorities say three buildings. there are shops and warehouses in the fire extinguishing involved the entire staff of the fire department - it's 60 people. six fire trucks and water carriers, all the staff evacuated the victims on time, the area of ​​the fire is being specified. british parliament did not support. here it is the lack of confidence in the government of boris johnson for the continuation of the work of the cabinet of ministers, 349 parliamentarians voted against 238. this is how the local media report the majority of seats in parliament. that 358 out of 650 are now owned by the conservatives, whose leaders and is boris johnson, he will continue to fulfill his duties until the electio

air but i will say yes, not as intensively as he wanted because our forces are acting accordingly. our forces against air defense in general, the armed forces in terms of activity, of course, the probability of launching missile strikes remains very high, because they correspond to their zone, the operational centers are located from where they can launch these missiles for the time being, and we see that this happens periodically, and these calibers fly not only in odesa and the odesa region in another region of our country from cape fiolent, they are now shooting at such a point, they chose a point for themselves on the territory of the temporarily occupied crimea near it, so i say this again there is a very high probability that a missile attack can be carried out even in these minutes when we are talking with you here, it is worth reminding our residents about the rule of two walls, at least it is even better to go to the shelter this saves lives and in odesa there are such examples, they are very bright people who went to the shelter and even after such massive attacks, there are people in the coastal zone who remain alive. well, people continue to be blown up by mines in the sea while swimming. you also wrote about this in your blog today. please tell me the details and whether do people really follow the ban on swimming in the region and how can we comment on the tragedy that happened, how can we prevent new such dramas in connection with enemy mining by the enemy and the coast and water area of ​​the black sea, i ask that the mines have become a de facto uncontrolled weapon of the russian federation in the black sea also in the sea of ​​azov, it was clear from the beginning of the great tornado that the enemy will continue to use demining. odesa mykolaiv oblast unfortunately, both people died and this is again a vivid example of what happens when people neglect elementary safety rules, and in general we are talking about suspicious objects not only in the sea, you don't have to approach the sea, you have to go to the beaches and the coast. well, that's understandable . the personal responsibility of every adult, however, we were reminded and we will remind you about how to prevent a tragedy, just don't go, don't break the rules, we're also talking about explosives that can remain after falling rockets can fly , artillery shells, which do not explode, and today we already have such an example, there will be different types of existence, accordingly, they found an anti-personnel minus of modern production , another matter. how did it appear there? they will work and security will be at the highest level, because once again, all swimming, all beach visits, only after victory, after demining, you must protect yourself and your relatives serhii bratchuk, the spokesman for the head of the odesa regional military administration, was in touch with us. thank you, mr. serhii, what can we say , that there is news from the south that the occupiers are fleeing from the kherson region, and they have actually escaped representatives of the united russia party, and the russians meanwhile kidnapped the evacuating russians laid out a passenger ship to cross the dnieper in the area of ​​the antoniv bridge damaged by the armed forces of ukraine. it gets into the ukrainian media, well, we are talking about it, we see them. we have them in the palm of our hand, and they will not be destroyed. the 43rd general of the russian army is sleeping in kherson. i think these days and nights , and i think that checkers are good in just a few minutes well, then on the airair force command of the armed forces of ukraine, wait, whatever ukrainians think about not talking about the first place , war, war and our victory will still come out seven days a week from monday to sunday seven different spheres human activities sports culture politics eight presenters of express journalists experts opinion leaders in real time about the most relevant events through the prism of war every day author's projects on espresso events the most important events events that are happening right now and affect our lives of course the news feed reports on them, but not many people know that what is happening must be understood antin berkovsky and invitation experts soberly evaluate events analyze them modeling our near future every saturday at 1:00 p.m. with a repeat at 22nd studio event with anton borkovsky nayspresso our choice struggle our anger has become the power this is our war for freedom happy special operations forces day of the armed forces of ukraine the war in uk

air force of the kyiv regime. colonel dmitry burdika. head of the military scientific department of the air force command headquarters lieutenant colonel konstantin puzyrenko and head of the armament and logistics service of the country's airlonel oleg makarchuk, about the fate of other participants, there is no meeting, no information, but it is unlikely that the headquarters of nato countries will publicly see off the last journey officers who die in ukraine eliminate ukrainian generals. the kiev regime also does not advertise, but on the sidelines of the office of the president of ukraine, after the strike, hysteria broke out. a close friend of zelensky, the head of the sbu, ivan bakanov, as well as the prosecutor general of the regime, lost their personnel positions. irina venediktova, they say there are too many traitors in the department. moreover , it is known that the kiev regime made personnel decisions under the pressure of the north atlantic alliance, the destruction of only ukrainian officers, it would hardly have led to such consequences ; for the mode. consumables are thrown to the front line by the hundreds without equipment and preparation without a chance to survive the daily losses of the formation of the

air targets. thank you very much, mr. yury, for this brilliant analysis on the air of the espresso tv channel . may the enemy die, yury ignatrechnyk of the air force command forcesukraine worked live on the espresso tv channel well, what about khrystyna, what are we going to do? it won't be long. will conduct the chronicles of the information war, traditionally for this time, a program on the espresso tv channel without which we cannot understand what is happening behind the bars and what is in the heads of these occupiers of the foul. fakes are created here and there, let's talk more broadly, so that in a moment the peculiarity of russian propaganda is that it applies the same methods not only to foreign or ukrainian audiences, but also to its own population introduced by psychological warfare, they are usually used against the enemy with whom they are waging an armed war, and they have been doing it for a very long time . i was struck by this next fragment, which we will now look at, it is from such a fresh work of russian aitprop, where they try to convince themselves that the destruction of mariupol and the killing of thousands of people there is a russian t

air force one. he takes air force one to his beach home in delaware. john kerry didn't go to germany by private boat. he took a private jet. they want the benefits of fossil fuels. yet use the power of government to deny us a privilege that makes them my enemy. elizabeth: how about zoom and skype? we'll watch the president make as series of gaffs. he mispronounced a congressman from massachusetts and claims he got cancel from oil use in delaware. >> where, is she go. put on the windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. why i so many people i grow up have cancer. he is not a bad guy at all. i live in his house. sheldon whitehouse, a great champion, champion of the environment. been banging away. >> of course the more pain we're all experiencing from the high price of gas the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles. >> if we reach the goal by 2030 biden has of 50% adoption, instead of 100% adoption, that means the average household would use twice as much electricity charging one of their cars as they would use for all of the aironditioning that they use for the entire year. elizabeth: yeah. there was no answer to that. carol, here's the thing. the white house has 11 million oil and gas workers now in a bull's-eye. they want to get rid of fossil fuels. the gop is party of blue-collar workers democrats elites. why doesn't the white house do all of the above messaging that u.s. oil and gas can fix a problem with more clean natural gas that is lower emissions around capturing carbon emissions right at power grids, factories, recycle it? this, carol, is a booming industry. you can recycle carbon capture into concrete, carpets, sparkling water, even vodka. i love that story. >> yeah, i mean you're asking me to explain crazy. the only explanation i have come up with is that the profiteering isn't happening in the area of energy, or these people who have gotten together found ways to extract fees from investments, from, you know, consultants, all the way on down by pushing this green agenda because it doesn't really

property, but also, getting access to the closest locations to some of the american air force bases security with the air force base with the blackhawk drone capabilities, which is the most advanced drone capabilities. being able to be so close to the base will give a lot of insight as far as trying to understand what we are working on and how we are trying to innovate in that field as well. >> carley: nicolas chaillan thank you so much and we appreciate you joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> carley: turning to this the kremlin making it clear with the u.s. for a prisoner swap involving wnba star whitney brittney griner and paul well an end could be free in exchange for a russian arms dealer. but moscow says nothing has been finalized and these types of negotiation should be negotiated discreetly but the biden administration has been trying to broker a deal for week and greiner faces ten years behind bars after pleading guilty to marijuana possession and whelan has been held by russia since 2018 after being arrested and accused of espionage. >> todd: the controversial golf tournament takin

forces, two mig-29 aircraft of the ukrainian air force were shot down in the areas of settlements in a day . slavyansk and druzhkovka, donetsk people's republic, russian air defense systems shot down two su-25 aircraft of the ukrainian air force near the village of barbashov , mykolaiv region, as well as nine ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of settlements. thorny kharkiv region. novaya kakhovka , kherson region, and merry tarasovka, luhansk people ’s republic in total , 253 aircraft, 137 helicopters and 1,543 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed at the beginning of the special military operation. 55 anti-aircraft systems 4.060 tanks and other armored combat vehicles 746 combat vehicles of the rocket launcher system 3.147, field artillery mortars, as well as 4.341 units of special military vehicles. summer will not be boring movies series documentaries cartoons no, nothing is impossible. everything seethes and diarrhea filtrum, thanks to millions of micropores, filtrum absorbs bacteria and toxins, helping to eliminate the unpleasant symptoms of filtrum in order to restore order in the stomach. this is lena and she has just found the apartment of her dreams, completed all the necessary documents for the purch

air force tornadoes at u. s. air base. the consequences of nato air force bomb as being prepared for new american nuclear weapons can be far reaching just opposite the british ministry of defense, maxwell denman works for an institute which is critical of nato. the 1st place russian missiles would go would be the be $61.00 sites. ah, there are so many hurdles for these things. getting off the ground, you would need to load the planes with the bombs, because the bombs, the planes and the bombs on together. these would need to take off, then. this is all presuming that russian missiles are coming and then once they're flying, you would need to refuel them in an and then you would need to fly them into russian ass space. plot past russian, ballistic missile defense before dropping free for bombs. compare that to firing a missile. there's huge risks with these things, and they realistically would never get off the ground. and even if they was successful in taking off with nuclear weapons, experts fear that when refueling in the, at the latest, they would be an

air force officers and specifically air force intelligence officers, to try and substantiate his warnings that first of all, ufos are real and military pilots are encountering them on a semi regular basis. second of all, he thinks there's a very good chance that the aliens have set up a mothership in orbit of earth and the ufos are coming from that mothership rather than all the way from another planet. and thirdly, that these ufos are most likely from mars. right, he's not a venus fan. he's back on the mars train. and what's interesting about kehoe is that he does see a conspiracy. he does see a conspiracy by the military to cover up the reality that earth is being visited by these flying saucers. but, he does not blame them for doing so. for kehoe, but he calls the silence group is acting out of a desire to protect national security and a desire to prevent public hysteria. and while he disagrees with that decision, he sees it as a matter of reasonable disagreement. he doesn't see nefarious motives at work. and that it's an idea that is going to change significantly over the 60s and especially coming out of the 70s, into the 80s. but it's really easy, at the time, to see the impact of writers like kehoe, who see a conspiracy of silence, but not necessarily aid into conspiracy of silence. right, in 1952, that same year that true magazine is debunking scully, life magazine leads with a big front cover splash of marilyn monroe and the headline, there is a case for inter planetary saucers, and life comes down hard in that issue to say that they think something probably is going on with ufos. less concerned with kind of credibility, but no less influential in putting these ideas into the american consciousness is the glut of alien invasion films in the 1950s. of course, the classic invasion of the body snatchers, but also invasion of the saucer man, invaders from mars, killers from space, earth versus the flying saucers, and more and there are a couple. of interesting elements to be brought out from these films. not the least of which is a lot of them deal with aliens either taking control of humans minds or of replacing them entirely with simulacra, with lookalikes. and given that these are coming out mid to late 50s, what other fears have we've been talking about that kind of coincides with that? marissa? >> communism was spreading into the u.s. government. >> certainly communist infiltration. yeah, caroline? -- >> brainwashing of korean p.o.w.'s? >> brainwashing, good. this is very much playing on two simultaneous fears bubbling up in the 1950s. not just that the communist are infiltrating, without the communist are infiltrating through this kind of mind control ideas. and pairing that with this fear of extraterrestrial threat as well. it really is and extraterrestrial threat. these films overwhelmingly buy into a donald kehoe style view of what is happening. the threat is purely extraterrestrial. it is not human. and in fact, most of these films, rather than the state being complicit or suspect, government agents, particularly military agents, are the heroes. they are the ones saving us from this extraterrestrial threat. so, you have, yeah evelyn? >> what is the thought behind the motives of the aliens to, like, be a threat? to attack us? is there a thought of, like, why they are doing that? >> yeah, kind of the y of the conspiracy. there isn't really a single, unifying idea in the 50s other than domination, right? the plan is always to conquer the world. why they want to conquer the world is open for interpretation. is it because their own planet is dying? is it because they would want to kind of make us into slaves? there is a pretty wide latitude there, but yeah, good question. so, we see this kind of kehoe style opposite of paranoia at work, to some extent. anybody remember our word from opposite of paranoia? no? >> security? >> yeah, but not quite, right? security is kind of the middle line. yeah, not quite. what do you call it when a conspiracy is acting for your good? not against you? not paranoia, but pro noaa? this is very much an example of pronoia conspiracy thinking. and that's evident in another kind of thread of extraterrestrial phenomena that emerges in the 50s, which is an increasing number of people who claim that not only have they seen ufos, but that they have been contacted by aliens. this is really kicked off by a man called george a ski. he's the first contact me to publish a book length account of his experience in 1953. and adamksi contradicts virtually everything that has come before him. he says that they are not from mars, they are from venus and if scully is right about them being from venus, he's wrong about them being short. he says that there are about five foot six, they are humanoid, and they are very beautiful. and adamski also says that they are not a threat. he says the coming was friendly. now, adamski it's going to lose kind of popular support in the 60s after he claims that he will be leaving any day now for an inter planetary conference on saturn. somehow it never quite makes his appointment for that. but his ideas, his narrative that there are these friendly visitors has very much caught on. and throughout the 1950s, you see this series of encounters with extraterrestrial beings who have seemingly come to warn humanity about our warlike nature, to warn us that nuclear weapons will destroy us all. a very pure distillation of common cold war fears at the time. cold war fears also bearing no small resemblance to the 1951 film, that day the earth stood still, which is basically the exact same plot adamski recounts two years later. but no nobody really picks adamski off on this at the time. so, there's still this pronoia at work in the early 50s, right? this idea that yes, the government might be lying to us, but they are doing it for our own good or yes, aliens our visitors, but they are doing it for our own good. that increasingly is going to take a darker turn as we move out of the 50s into the 60s. you start to see not least the government's motives and its methods become much darker in hiding the truth. and that's especially going to become symbolized by the idea of the men in black. and the men in black is an idea that is really kind of more or less put into play by an author called gray barker. and great barker is an interesting guy. barker makes a pretty good living publishing books about supposedly true ufo encounters. but to friends, he privately calls flying saucers a bucket of excrement. so, very much capitalizing on this trend. but he's going to more or less launch this idea of the men in black in his 1956 book, they knew too much about flying saucers. a book that's based on the experiences of a factory clerk from connect to get, a man called albert bender, who claimed that three men in black suits had approached him and intimidated him into not telling the truth about his alien encounter. now obviously, bender had not been that silenced, given that he, a, was able to tell great barker about it and be, publishes his own book about it in 1962, in which he explains that it's not the martians or the venusian's, in actual fact, he had been taken for a ride in a flying saucer to the south pole by grisly monster like aliens from the planet -- wherever that may be. despite the, let's be generous and skates skepticism, with which we might greet albert bender's story, the idea that government agents and these sinister men in black are working to hide true information early gains popularity and it really takes off going through the 60s and 70s. there's an interesting phenomenon going on with just the men in black themselves, and that quite often, they are characterized as all together human agents of the state. but at the same time, they are often given many inhuman or unearthly characteristics. characteristics that very often belie the difference between these scientific and supernatural explanations we've been talking about. and quite often, almost demonic powers are ascribed to the men in black. walking as though they are not of this earth. not blinking. unnatural powers of persuasion. even up to and including the idea that when they appear, an odor of sulfur also appears. this is very, very literal call back to folklore about demonic appearance. the fact that, traditionally, they also appear in numbers of three, also heavily rooted in mystical supernatural texts. it's not just accounts of human action and that take a darker turn as we move into the 60s. increasingly, narratives of alien contact are going to turn away from friendly warnings about war into abduction and experimentation. that really starts with a couple from new hampshire, betty and barney hill. they claim to have been abducted in 1961, although their story doesn't receive wide publicity until 1965. the hills abduction is going to set the template for all the abduction narratives that come after. looking at the spread of abduction conspiracism is really interesting, especially if you compare to kennedy conspiracism. because like kennedy conspiracism, this is very much a grassroots endeavor. it's not somebody sitting behind their desk saying, this is what you all need to believe as the truth about what's going on. it's all these people going out and trying to uncover the truth themselves. the difference being that, in terms of abduction conspiracism, they are not detectives. they are not going out looking for evidence. they are not turning themselves into experts on bullet trajectories. they, themselves, are the evidence, their own abduction experience proves the truth of their conspiracy. spencer? >> do you feel that these people are trying to uncover the truth or trying to get book deals? i feel like everyone is just -- i could make up a story and turn it into a public affair and get a lot of publicity from it. i don't know. do you have an idea of what their motives -- were they trying to uncover the truth? >> i think it's really too complex of a question to have a single answer to. not in the least because, while there are certainly these criticisms labeled -- leveled against abductees or experiences, as they prefer to be called. there are accusations that they are trying to profit, trying to cash in and sell books. on the other hand, as brigitte brown points us to, a lot of these people who come forward and say they have been abducted, that is a socially devastating phenomenon. they will get cut off from groups of friends, be ostracized. they risk being fired from work. you can benefit from this. but you will have to benefit from within the world of u.s. fell abduction conspiracism. >> that question gets a the theory, the paranoid style. it doesn't seem to be enough to explain these first-person encounters, if we need -- it's unlike anything we've seen in any other conspiracies. we need another framework to understand. it could be profit motive, mental illness, that's something that came up in the reading. is there a third prong to that? a different scheme of through which we can approach these people? >> outside of they are either crazy or trying to make money? the third prong would be that they have been abducted, i suppose. the problem is we will never know for sure what their motivations are. you are right, it is the fundamental difference between earlier conspiracism that we talked about, where people are bearing the burden of this conspiracy themselves, as their own direct experience. pearl harbor conspiracists are saying that they flew the planes of pearl harbor. kennedy conspiracists aren't saying they are the ones that took the shot. i shouldn't say that, there are a couple conspiracists who do say that. this is fundamentally different, when they are saying they have been abducted. dylan? >> some of that could be a lack of verify ability, when you claim that it is your narrative, that you were in fact abducted by aliens, what have you, there is no factual ground point. in the kennedy assassination you have x, y, z, happening. those are undisputed. kennedy was shot, you can't go too far past that. >> unless somebody says kennedy is still a life, right? >> at least it looks like it was. in these -- the rhetorical useful things about saying it was your own experience is that nobody can really and deny the. >> yeah, that is at the root of why, why ufo conspiracism can become so expensive. we talked about this, the fact that in terms of abduction evidence, that evidence is, by definition, personal. it's by definition subjective. once we move away from the objective veracity of physical evidence, what's do we get to? what have we've been talking about the last couple classes? >> trust of the government? >> yeah. this wider issue we, talked about it with thompson. >> knowing that we can't ever know that it happened or it didn't happen, we are left with how we have or feel like interpreting the things we were personally able to experience. >> miriam? >> this sounds a lot like religion. why are we so quick to discount ufos when we base everything on the word of god, personal experiences, people in power have had? >> to the extent that we talk about mystical or angelic visitations. why do we accept those but discount ufos? that's a good question. some people combine the two. some people say ufos are angelic visitors. some people, scholars, tend to say that they are coming from the same kind of place. that there are people who are saying if they have been abducted now, they are the people who would've said that they were visited by angels several hundred years ago. devin were you going to? >> one thing is the numbers you brought up earlier. the 1947 spike after kenneth arnold, when 50 people came forward with alien stories. the likelihood that these trends of them all of a sudden being from venus, all the sudden being from mars, follow verifiable truth, especially when you can't follow it up with any physical evidence, i think it is somewhat problematic. >> certainly. it's inscribed into the name, right? as matthew pointed us to before, they are called unidentified flying objects. the problem is that all these conspiracies are trying to inscribe them with meeting, are trying to identify something that is, by definition, and identifiable. we do reach that same kind of point of crisis of knowing, as we've been talking about. that crisis that runs -- that we were talking about on tuesday. in these known gnomes, these known unknown's, and those unknown unknown's. those things that you don't know that you don't know. that's going to allow ufo conspiracism to be so expensive. because once you move away from the strictures of any physical evidence, pretty much anything is going to come into play. pretty much anything is going to come into play. but still, the fact that there is this wide latitude where conspiracies could go, the fact they tend to track within these trends would seem to suggest something to us about how they are being shaped by historical context. for example, these objection aired ifs. the fact that as they are refined and revised over the following years by authors like -- , that they become ever more focused on medical experimentation, an increasingly focused on graphic and explicit sexual violation. scholars like brown draw a direct link between the kind of evolution of these abduction narratives and changing anxieties over sexual and reproductive sociology and technology. the fact that these abduction narratives start around the time in new forms of contraception are coming into play, around the time new forms of sexual liberation are coming into play, the fact that, increasingly, these abduction narratives focus on reproductive experimentation, after the roe v. wade decision in the 70s, and especially in line with the culture wars over abortion, in the 80s. >> do you think there is a separation between people who, like, look into this as a sort of conspiracy, as an interest, versus the issue of how it relates to religion and the fact that it has a basis in

air force, because and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you in general, the command of our air forces, for the fact that you managed to do miracles in general saved our aviation as a phenomenon. yes , we understand that the enemy planned to destroy everything on the airfields, luckily, or rather not luckily, thanks to dedicated conscientious work, in particular, and you managed to prevent this. but what is the situation now, because we have already lost count, so how many were delivered to us, how many were promised to be delivered and not delivered, what the enemy destroyed, what the enemy did not destroy, i.e. how powerful is our airesterday the fake general eh konoshenko in their speaker destroyed four planes eh he destroyed them as they say on facebook yes eh and on his na on the pages eh and on the uzm of russian fake tv channels actually they have already destroyed if i'm not mistaken, about 250 of our planes, according to statistics, well, you know that. well, god forbid that we had so many there at the beginning of the war. well, it could have been different, well, actually, you can't trust there. it's clear, uh, as for helping us with the planes themselves. we we didn't receive it. the first thing we received was the army aviation of the ground forces. we already talked about it a few days ago. we already made it public. it was several mi-24 attack helicopters. this is the first attack aircraft of this type that arrived from partners. it is clear that the soviet helicopter of production, however, this is already some kind of blood. well, we also received from our partners, it is certain spare parts, assembl

air force u.s. air force academy. as associate director of the institute for future conflict and professor military and strategic studies. dr. hunters a marine corps combat veteran with moldable deployment to iraq in a handstand in the super cobra attack pilot. thank you for your service to america by we are glad to be. joseph blocher is a professor in code rector for the center for firearms law at duke university school ofri law curt professor s 21 is touted did since 2009 and a scholarship focus on issues of gun rights and regulation. before joining the faculty he clerked for the second and 11th circuit and practiced law where he assisted with the briefing for the district of columbia in district of columbia versus heller now i turn to senator grassley to introduce his witnesses. >> mr. chairman i wanted so you i have time and the floor to speak so i'll come back and ask my questions later on. >> thank you. >> ross bentley is a senior -- the largest nonprofit k-12 school safety center. mr. bentley has over over 20 civil law enforcement experiench in 15 years in executive positions within campus police. he's a 2000 graduate of the fbi national academy and kuchar being author to the book extreme violence,, understanding and protecting people from active assailants, hate crimes and terrorist attacks. i thank you for being with us mr. bentley in and the next person torr introduce is phil smith founder and president of the national african-american gung association a group he created in 2015 with the mission of educating and training african-americans in firearm safety sportsmanship and lawful defensive firearm use. this association is a 48,000 active members and a stronge. organization with 127 chapters located throughout 39 states and the district of columbia. welcome to you. >> thank you senator grassley. our firstt recognizer first witness nancy rotering mayor rotering. >> goodd morning frank member grassley distinguished members of the senate judiciary committee thank you for inviting me to discuss today astonishing things.ra my name is nancy rotering on the mayor penn park illinois an all-american western tempered as at the highland park 4th of july parade shooting and i will be haunted forever picked up for a timely story or want to recognize the brave police and fire personnel who ran directly into danger to save lives. they didr. everything right. they cost the shooter within hours and were true american heroes. he was a perfect summer day. excitement of 3000 partygoers was palpable especially since this is our first parade t in to years post-pandemic. he floats a sea of children and adults with red white and blue a waving american flags. at 10:00 a.m. i cancel my kicked off ourpo break and cheering was all he could here's a hint down the streets. i looked up an away tie has been in the crowd. what i didn't know that moment was just to my right hon a one-story rooftop by 21-year-old was about to traumatize my hometown for a roof and assault weapon. shortly after we proceeded down the parade route i turned turn to my colleagues inn the questin why the marquee band stopped playing music and was only ulplaying a drum cadence tap, t, tap. i saw a sea of marching band members sprinting on the sidewalk. i realize later of the i heard was not drum cadence it was the sound of an assault weapon. my cell phone buzzed in the shooter on the rest of the local store had shot dozens of rounds into the crowd. fire and police vehicles were roaring towards us and started emergency evacuation. we were screaming run, shooter, not comprehending that the kids do immediately that this was that drove me yell to everybody, run and hide. the new is happening. toddlers are being placed in dumpsters for safety and the bodies of those who were hit were scattered on the ground. wean now know that 22-year-old cassie goldstein told her mom katie to round. cassie had to tell her mother she left o her but she couldn't stop because were flying and she kept running to safety hiding behind a can and when she dashed when the shooting stuff she returned to find her mother lifeless. emergency response teams attended tosh the severely wounded. the shooter was still at. large. photo of a. covid touching blanket flash on my phone and whose child was his? people were hiding wondering why no one is looking for the child. 2-year-old aide mccarthy had triedd to lead -- no one was frantically looking for himo- because both of his mother andd father had been murdered to. governor pritzger and i attended the funeral of her. jackie is love with knitting and eduardo celebrating his 40th birthday on july 8. we have heard how shrapnel had melted into the arms and legs of relatives. his widow as was the unconscious was he alone and the response wasng no. police rendered cpar and stay with him. several children attend this funeral on crutches gunshot victims themselves. sitting with him at the parade experienced first-hand the ammunition this velocity has went hitting people. she wentd to the hospital after on major surgery to be with her own whose shredded soptic isn't ripped spinal cordrd continue threaten his life his twin brother were shot in leg to a real butter is handed to strangers while this was rushed to the hospital because of the. she has shrapnel in her leg and she may never walk again. less than a minute a solid to heon wh an assault weapon to shoot 83 rounds into crowd forever changing some advice. the most disturbing part this is a norm in our country. highland park has the uniquely american experience which is becoming uniquely american experience of the shooting. we know about that the health issues exist everywhere in our world. american mayors and i've talked to several past few weeks fear not if but when mashing is going to hit our town. what's different about the u.s.? the u.s. has civilian access to assault weapons and large capacity with magazines in that diverting factor by 20 diverting factor. 20 but in the wake of sandy hook we as a city banned assault weapons of large capacity magazines. we knew a federal ban would be the most effective and it was her only option of law. local government cannot do this alone. congress must take action. you must federally banned assault weapons and large capacity magazines. today's the day to start saving lives. thank you. >> thank you mayor rotering. mr. bentley. >> could you check your microphone sir? thank you. >> mr. minter meant greinke member grassley and members of the judicial committee appreciate your concern for school safety and i'm grateful to have the opportunity to do my best to try to assist you in your afford it efforts. my name is russell bentley nine on behalf cashier on behalf of safe center and corporate. this non-governmental organization whose handlers of work in all 50 states and over two dozen countries with the goal of having to make schools safe wherever students happen to live and attend school. safe haven has assisted the u.s. department of education justice on the security and providede assistance to school safety efforts under the demonstrations of president william clinton the president george bush jr. and present barack obama as well as governors in canada poland vietnam -- ..in israel, poland, vietnam, and trinidad and tobago. to make schools safer for students in those who are dedicated their lives to educating them. i have been a school full-time school safety practitioner for more than 32 years. and, i have worked in >> in a message for you today is that while there are many things make schools safer, i would like to see greater access to the immunization of the immense excellent unparalleled school safety resources that have been developed by host of fellow government agencies over the past three decades in the u.s. department of education, justice, homeland security, the united states secret service, the bureau of alcoholic - and firearms in federal law enforcement, and the u.s. department of homelandca securi, prosecutor prosecuting infrastructure security agency, and other fellow agencies in our department i worked tirelessly to develop what i feel is superb resources and programs are available at no cost to our nation's schools. however, during her school safety climate culture and assessments, more than 8500 k-12 schools, in our official post incident, assistance between 23 active assailants and partner shootings in k-12 - we have found that many school districts and nonpublic schools, from extremely effective and imported prevention measures in one particular is my experience with studentef assessment and management and working with school social workers since the early 1990s, who was a deputy chief of schooll police, and the department developed what was likely the first multiple disciplinary predecessor teams which helped to hurt tragedies including plan middle school, deeply - students and desire to heal african-american students pretty we had such success with his approach and using federal grants, student intervention teams from school social workers, and school district police, and working out of trocar in each team and since that time, multiple agencies and experts from various sectorstr have dramatically advanced and better assessment and management processes unlike many other predecessor management teams, offer significant protection is from the tax regardless of type of weapons, used in the time of date and at the location of the attacker, and protects good and the students and the classrooms and restrooms and media centers, school grounds and buses, and athletic events and while there are many other things the kennedy make our nation schools, safer, i would urge you to do what you can do it able assessment center of the secret service to this incredible body of knowledge and the work of so many millions are leadership about parties and into the center provide them with additional resources tou provide greater reports for nation public and nonpublicer schools. an immense faith in their ability to have the dedicated men and women of the centers to improve our ability to prevent plan acts of school violence and thank you for your service to our nation, and allowing me to share my thoughts with you today. >> thank you, doctor hunter. >> thank you. there we go, all right, ranking member grassley members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to testify today before i begin, i do want to recognize the residence while parked who aress here with us in the audience as a combat veteran, have knowledge that the sounds of the images that they veryheard would've been troubling given recent experience and i thank you for your bravery and sing in the audience through that. we hollered to the victims of gun violence and families in the american people to ensure they gun violence prevention policies is based on objective facts and actionable solutions only come when we are willing to take clear e eyed look the state of e science. the includes looking at role of assault weapons are commonly called, modern sporting rifles in mass shootings pretty today all present to you of what is known about these weapons, and the role enough shooting evs so that you can make informed policy decisions that will keep our communities safer and i will do this by addressing three points, first, these weapons have an outside impact on injury and death. second, it will shall be no and illogically confer, about the efficacy of the assault weapons ban and 30, i will discuss why it is essential to ensure access to quality research. assault weapons of absent impact on injury and death, thankfully these weapons are used in the minority of fire arms and however they are just partially used in mass shootings wittingly public mass shootings which the fbi shown rose by 50 percent from 2020ar - 2021, when assault weapon is used in one of the shootings, there more than 40 times more injuries, and twice as many deaths, then when any other type of weapon i is used. it is because these weapons were designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible. as senator duckworth said, they are descendents of ar 15's design was created in the 1950s, is updated in the mid- 1960's, the thing m-16ey service 11 and his weapon has been used up byte service members in every conflict since vietnam, i use t them as a marine as a service worker, they have several advantages, lighter weight, shorter, they have wider ball is in the can shoot more bullets quickly and bullets are designed to do damage to the human body and even shoot through a standard issue military moment to sort it is a great service weapon. and indeed thehe very design of the firearm is a benefit that it brings to the intended purpose, maybesh responsible for outsized impact on injury death in mass shootings and secondly, research and logic tell us what does it tell us, studies on the effects of previous federal state assault weapon policies are few of us notice important that we use logical deduction to consider carefully the impact of these bands. while there is little evidence ofof the ban on assault weapons reduces the overall incidence of crime, knowing that they do result in larger levels ofre injury and death, given that we know this, we can infer that they will significantly reduce the numbers of injuries and deaths pretty there's also research to show that stays with stronger gumbos have lower levels of all types of gun violence, the states and localities to include highland park, which is an assault weapon. come are limited in their ability to protect their unity and there are no hard borders between cities or states and what limited trace data that we do have shows that weapons flow from areas of more permissive ostomy areas of more restrictive laws. finally, the fact that we have limited - should not be taking that these policies do not reduce injuries and death, but there's just little availableag research and a portion of this can be traced to the lack ofea federal investment, and inability researchers to access essential data. the effort to prevent research on this topic as a result of the lack of understanding and discussions that evolve into partisan talking points, rather than a meaningful discussion of the facts pretty between 1997, had 2019, federal funding on gun violence prevention research is virtually nothing and over this0 year dearth of funding has begul of our other health issues that we have evidence-based solutions for this country. access notablyn trace data has been by the federal government, enacting new gun laws, requires the balance between public safety, and individual rights and access to firearms trace it date it is an to understand how guns get into the hands of criminals including mass shooters. members of this committee has repeatedly called for laws that target prosecuting felons trying to buy illegal guns. we know the one in three mass shooters are committed individual whose prohibited from purchasing a firearm yet we as researchers are unable to use trace data to study patterns and trends to help inform the supply-side approach that will prevent criminals from accepting guns t and who included criminas on the other side of the border pretty and thereby keep our communities safer we owe it to our fellow americans of a decisn based on what we know and we know the presence of these weapons in the hands of mass shooters increases injury death and if there's the decision to act, season mentalities may be challenged to act on their own we know the best way to make good policy is to have good research and a pro- omissions on research continue to cost lives and thank you look forward to answering youres questions. >> thank you doctor hunter, mr. smith. >> can you hear me. chairman durbin and ranking member grassley distinguished numbers of the committee, my name is philip smith i'm honored to testify today and present of a firearms organization of this is a national conversation regarding firearms, and i appreciate the opportunity to be a part of it and little bit about myself, i was one race in california, graduated from the university of california at davis, married to my lovely wife of 20 yearsab and i have three kids i am also proud member of my fraternity. i am the president and founder of the national gun association we are to load largest black firearms organization the history of the united states and grown to over 40000 members with 120 chapters, and members in every state. we are a pro to a unconstitutional carry an april black firearms organization with no apologies we've grown tremendously in seven years with a diverse base of focus and you name it, we have a person within our organization when especially significant has a surge of black women joining and yes, black women are coming. and they are coming in large numbers and currently they are the fastest group of new gun owners and that united states i am proud to say, they are the apples of the national african-americans. association d never before, as many black people in the united states have thguns. it's estimated that at least 40 million currently have firearms and their homes what is happening is that our communities have awoken becoming we are taking steps to protect ourselves legally and today at this hearing, ith am representig millie's of our people in this country past and present, that have been unable to seize the opportunity to protect themselves through the second amendment. i will be the voice, i will be there defendant in the history black americans in this country's well-documented slavery being a social andnd illegal burden that we have to fight but what is not as well-known as that were laws of the blackouts earning 80s 85, every minute black folks, from owning any type of firearms in their possession of a black person, the gun company could be killed, no questions asked, on the spot. the goal was give the black community under control and defenseless card and today, in , researching american citizens from purchasing firearms to the same effect as a black code of 1865, and the end result is people especially black folks, are unable to secure a gun which leaves them vulnerable and to me, is unacceptable and un-american. the recent supreme court decision inc. of new york state - will now allow millions of gun owners whose rights were restricted to exercise those rights as crime has significantly larger impact on black communities is more important that we have the ability to defend ourselves exactly as the decision affirmed. focusing on banning rivals like ar 50 is an exercise in futility incident direct conflict with the second amendment robs us of our right to use the best tools available to defend ourselves and will only resultt in those who have access to the money, hand the privilege of private security and the means to defend themselves and the misinformation about the ar 15 is incredible for the public figures making state with that have no truth or facts about the firearms enemy by the right now so we can be on the same page. the ar 15 is not a fully automatic machine gun like the m-16 use by the military, it is a semiautomatic rifle, in other words, you pull the trigger once, and only one bullet comes out just like a pistol, and justly a shotgun. spendingrd ar 15 will not have y impact on violence, cities have already shown this from the previous man in the '90s, bad people with bad intent, will soon have guns to cause harm to her most and most vulnerable americans in black americans you cannot pass out to solve the human condition of violence unable and we must look at the root causele of the shootins and that requires tough, uncomfortable, conversations within our nation, thank you for allowing me to address his committee and the seriousness subject matter in our country today and thank you. >> thank you mr. smith, professor. [background sounds]. >> chairman durbin, and ranking member grassley, this english members of this committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today my name is joseph and i'm the myth professor law school where he also codirected center for firearms and i am testifying here today purely my individual capacity as this committee considers thoughts and policies keepp americans safe from the risk reality devastating mass shootings like happening in t highland park on july 4th and it is on the week of this "recent decision, in new york state rifle and pistol association versus merlin nikes announced a new legal test and governing constitutional challenges any new gun laws that ncongress or state may pass as well as the laws already on the books, including highland park visible assault weapons ban was revived in early second amendment challenge and how to do just is applied have significant impact on efforts to protect public safety and is therefore critically important for the committee anywhere can people understand the new judicial framework in my brief remarks want to focus on two points in particular pretty horses that justice thomas jori penny about the new test for evaluating the constitutionality ofof gun laws and of the secondd according to the court constitutionality of modern firearms regulations designed to address the contemporary real world problems will now depend solely on whether they are in some sense consistent with historical tradition and not and whether they are effective in preventing serious harm. probably put up like such a test should uphold most gun laws in relation of deadly weapons is one of the common law tradition since before this nation's founding and the historians of written volumes on the topic and the duke center for firearms laws most with the historical demos which hasn't more than hundred historical regulations but the courts new test does open the door to an enormous amount of judicial discretion because the court has done little to a slight how we are supposed to determine whether a modern law is relevantly similar to a historical one and days after the decision a case was filed here inn dc, challenging the prohibition on guns in the metro and is the metro relevantly similar to the medieval fairs and markets where weapons were heavily regulated some of the questions will arise in a number a second and an amendment cases and part of the ar 50s that we have been discussing while hundred relevantly similar to motherly muskets have. our domestic abusers, under federal law today relevantly similar to groups who were disarmed in the founding and smith just spoke another reason to be's skeptical of the history forever the fire generations disarmed groups like americans and native americans and those who refuse to take a loyalty oath and drawing analogies between that historical record and contemporary challenges will involve a great deal of judicial this question defining the scope of the inquiry in choosing historical comparative and introduces substantial uncertainty and will make the content of the second amended law even more obscure to the hundreds of millions of people whose lives are governed by it from a single point, is that despite his medela job method, does not mean the end of gun safety legislation and a majority of his eyes that was only breaking down new york's ln effect is specifically approved alternative forms of licensing for concealed carry such as an issue law providing more objective criteria for licensed and occurring opinionsed by justices kavanagh and the latter joined by chief justice roberts emphasized probably interpreted the second amendment allows a potentially wide variety of gun regulation. in evaluating whether those laws are analogous to governments of the course will have to ask as gruenof says, they are relevanty similar especially with respect to how and why the burning people's ability to have guns ended determine whetherle something is relevantly similar not only permits, when effect requires the kind of contemporary evidence that this committee is considering today, simply impossible as a matter of law project to compare of modern gun to the historical ones without evidence about the former. in the course decision improving this problematic and disruptive it to the constitutional law it's not the end of evidence-based good policy are the important work of this committee. and senator use of the second amendment good public policy are not exclusive and strewn remains true after running and thinking i look forward to your questions. >> thank you professor, the gun lobby also going to best way to stop massive treaters, is that lots of people carry guns and so bystanders can engage in the master and shoot them as well and of course that approaches good for the gun lobby's goal of selling more guns braided new york times recently looked up 433 active shooter attacks sincs by standard stump to mass shooter, i haven't 22 times out of 433 mass shootings about 5 percent and ten of those incidents half of them, involved a bystander who having to be a security guard or an off-duty police officer so we can happen olthough it's pretty rare statistically movements from over the many states have concealed carry or open carry with no requirement of training whatsoever read my question to you is this, how much can we cot on a good guy with a gun to stop the mass tutor when the mass tutor has an ar 15 style assault weapon and can empty a 30 round using and about as may seconds. >> a good guy with a gun would've had no impact on the shooter we have heard from hundreds of parade goers theye all had hundreds of explanations as to where the shooting income from and they could not identify even where the shooter was in the area when this took place, so the bullets ricocheting off of walls and there was a courtyard, andid we had good gus with guns on site who were trained and you got there within seconds and it was just too hard to see where he was and we also know that these weapons have these bullets can pierce best and i think the fact that we have less than a minute to tell anybody who thought what a good wife and a guy with the gun had an impact, it would've been more chaos and more courage and you would have people shooting all over the place and that absolutely would been a disaster inly highland park. >> ldsubject only, your police d law enforcement without and it was outgunned by the shooter. >> they work and literally, because it was so quick, they got there within seconds, butt again, hundreds of people had hundreds of explanation man husbanded is right there the shooter had been on the street and he was right in the middle of it all and everybody gave different stories to have professor, you read the bruin opinion and i have as well, what is a safe about potentially banning assault weapons or requiring official training in the weapon before you can own one. >> nothing directly come the course very clear that it is willing only on legality of may issue public carry, restrictions like the one in new york had in place and sees do as well and of course majority any kind appearing in an opinion were very clear that the second amendment was very good relations perhaps including those involving certain kinds of arms and i think the question going forward will be about the historical analogs in the lead up to bruin prohibitions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and the universally upheld in the federal court in the lower court and panel opinion they call them into question often held pending road and out i think the litigation will be about whether assault weapons constitute the kind of dangerous and unusual weapons which the court and in bruin, emphasized an prohibited consistent with the second amendment and i suspect that's where most of the litigation will be in evidence that you are hearing today is prohibited on the question. >> this may stick with theco inanimate object, we heard it's just a piece of material weaponryry, plastics had steel d so forth. i wonder how that logic applies to grenade launchers and we don't allow those to be legally sold to americans are just an error in objects and we don't allow automatic weapons to be sold to americans which pulling the trigger continues to fire round after round after round and could you describe whether you think there is an analogy. >> i think itin weapons and firearms in particular it is by violence and generations they'll have research has shown us that in doctor hunter's smoke intoer this earlier that certain kinds of guns patricians may not less than the number of criminal incidents but what they do is what weapon susan testified violence and that is the nature of the instrument, that is why some people wanted for self-defense and some criminals want them foror criminal use thk there's not much to the idea that the instrument alone is inert and of course it has but the question is what happens wih that instrument inde various situations of weather is being put to good use or bad. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hold on just b a second, senator cornyn. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. smith, you talk about the increased and the number of african-americans who purchase firearms including african american women in the recent past, when you attribute that to. >> give her the question senator pretty multifaceted but the one overriding for my perch is the president of the organization is black american women feel they need to be able to protect himself not waiting for some guy in the white horse to find and save them they want to be able to protect themselves and if so many breaks into their home at 2:00 o'clock in the morning, they don't have thelv time to tl the - that person of hold on let me all theem police car they hae to be held to deal with that dthreat right then and there is with her doing and women in mass are self-reliant and they are e,purchasing fire arms. >> where you live. >> live outside of the land of georgia. >> okay, are you familiar with the fact that last year alone, there were 836 homicides in chicago. >> understand chicago is a very interesting place in terms of tviolence yes. >> you have an opinion on whether that violence is predominantly caused by criminal street gangs sina i talked about this many times and in many interviews and for really serious about helping those poor folks of were talking about poor black and brown folks and give them jobs to take away the super incarceration of them at an earlier age where they have two or three felonies by the time the 23 and 24 years of age and give them a and ability to edit secure implement in thisn most other doing what anybody else would do if you cannot find a job become of the sold drugs, the people up on the do whatever it takes to take care of those babies they have no and if kids know but we have to as a country, to save them from his to do something other than say will look guys, again and again more are coming by can we have to think holes holistically and for me my personal belief is no scholar, like some of the on this table, i'm a black man who 63 years of age has been in this country for a long time to get folks employments come if you give them a reason to buy into the american dream, and i can't like all of us have been able to do to certain extent in this room, will see dramatic changes in people's behaviorsle with the belief they do not believe in. >> thank you for your explanation of what an assault rifle is in reality, it is a semi automatic rifle correct. >> that is correct. >> and is they are 15 the only type of semi automatic rifle in the market. >> there's a multitude of guns, so many manufacturers out there billing codes have a lot of choices but the think that i wanted to point out that you brought to my statement, when you pull thema trigger, they ar, it is no different than when you pull the trigger on a shortcut, only one bullet comes out to michael that's an important point because the a lot of people are into the misimpression that is an automatic weapon for example and in terms of the mechanism by which a semi automatic rifle works, is it in principle any different from the sale semi automatic pistol or other semi automatic weapons. >> summer pretty i even, in ters of that in a milligan smith and another person and putti togethr guns but when you buy a pistol, rebuying a shotgun of the mechanism to pull the trigger, is relatively the same, one pulls the trigger will produce one boy coming out of of optical done. >> so what if they were to take suggestion of banning assault weapons semi automatic weapon comes in any reason it in principle why that same man would not to other types ofap firearms. >> i would say this, and i appreciate the answer the question senator, i would say this a lot to my folks, the gun rights and gun violence are two separate conversations into several events, but what happens when we have this deeply passionate conversation as we emerge those two and refuse to look at the nuances enemy if we are really serious about helping folks, stop looking at restriction after restriction after restriction it in the law after law after law after law, it is obvious and we can laws level right there, i can feel his room up with how bunch of folks that back my position we need to look at what will really solve the issue is looking at the human condition at this we were all filling to do this right now, people are hurting people are scared, people are in umtrouble. >> you're familiar with the fact that 60 percent of the gun deaths in america are suicide, are you aware that. >> yes, i am. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> senator feinstein. >> thank you mr. chairman, for me this is a very emotional hearing. on may 14th, in 18 -year-old killed ten people in a grocery store in buffalo, new york using an assault weapon, a week later, in 18 -year-old killed 19 children and two teachers in elementary school in uvalde, texas using an assault weapon and on the fourth of july, 21 -year-oldd killed seven people and injured dozens more in community parade in highland park, illinois using an assault weapon and just this past weekend, a 20 -year-old killed three people and injured two others att a shopping mall in greenwood, indiana huizinga an assaultol weapon and the 41 peoe killed in these four shootings in just the past two months, think about that, they would all still be with us today if it were not for the easy access that people and particularly young people, have to be assault weapons and i also believe it does congress job to make sure that we are safe going to the grocery store, the school and parades and shopping malls and that safety is not happening i believe the solution is simple, we must ban assault weapons they are basically weapons of war thy have no place in our community, the federal assault weapons ban, was in place from 1994, - 2004 from the 2016, study showed that during that time, the number of gun massacres felt by 37 percent and the number of people dying from gun massacres, fell by 43 percent in the ten years, after the band last, there was a 183 percent increase massacres had touring 39 percent increase in massacre deaths. so it is clear that assault weapons. helped make our communities safer and strongly believe we must pass it again and doctor hunter, how doit assault weapons different fromy other types of firearms and do you believe a ban on assault weapons would be effective. >> thank you, thank you very much for the question and i'm a native californian, so when we talk about these weapons so there's a lot of discussion around my automatic versus automatic it produces three round and that is referring to a fire mechanism, each time you pull the trigger, one bullet comes out but there are far different characteristics between different types of weapons from sarcasm you pull trigger one time, and very different muzzle velocity so if we start just there and there is quite a bit of medical research that shows that the culmination of the 223, or 8556 round, and it does come from the military medical community as well coming in combination with puzzles velocity on these weapons, they do a quick incredible amount of damage or to the human body and that's what they were designed to do and that is substantially different than a 9 millimeters round was designed for a clean entry, kill type wound as opposed to around the that is designed to not just kill, but also maybe is able to disarm and if you injure someone, has a far greater suffer injury which is something that is good for combat but were sing it happened here that we have and there's also some substantial differences of just the size and the creation of this rifle, it was designed to be lighter if we look at the m-16 as the m1, previous service weapon comes to rebound different so a lighter more maneuverable weapon in several of the other hunting rifles that you might see and you commonly see and so i things important that when we talk about weapons we t talk about me than just whetherr they are sei automatic it were fully automatic because the caliber muzzle velocity velocity and maneuver these aremi all characteristics of the weapons that reported. >> tthank you, also that assaut weapons legislation was line i have introduced legislation for this session. i also following the tragic attack in buffalo, the bill called the age of 21 act, along some of my senate colleagues including several members of thisbu committee, has just kill would prohibit the sale of the assault style weapons it and high-capacity magazines that pretty went under the age of 21, and this shooters in buffalo, and in uvalde, texas, highland park and we would come of all obtained their assault weapons when they were under the age of 21 and if this bill had been law, it would have prevented these four shooters from killing a combined 41 people and so it is ratherr simple i think, if yu cannot fire you have the guy you should not be able to buy an assault 12 and doctor hunter, do you believe it prohibiting the sale of assault weapons to individuals, the age of 21, would help protect our communities and violence with the evidence will there is not a whole other research around 800 restrictions but continue with the evidence to show us is that he's weapons measuring create a disproportionate number of injuries and deaths that we have an speaking from his eyes that's what we know that when we talk about shooting there is more injuries and death. >> thank you. >> senator grassley. >> i want to follow up on your expertise community talk about the bill that i have that involves the secret service threatw assessment center and oe of his goals or places of worship or other community organizations going seems to me it's a step we had taken his behavioral threat assessment and the best method to identify an individual mobilizing violence interceded before a violent act is committed. [inaudible]. >> the process of behavior threat assessment coupled with practice training and secured measures help provide safer schools, places of worship, and safer communities and that they have that comely individuals are educated in the process. >> behavioral threat assessment again for you, then school workplaces and civil society organizations the folks closest to the person moving towards violence and recognize the science if appropriate law enforcement, some believe that we should be involving law enforcement the person is getting closer and closer to violence in part because they distrust the police deeply organizations who desire to implement behavioral threat assessment program should have access to training sorry to implement such programs. >> this one of things i'm here for, never the schools and organizations place of worship that we work with are not giving good information that is out there and that the training that would enable them to better recognize and for individuals e.organizations to make decisios about situations and better education of school employees from the superintendent down to the individuals that work in the lunchroom come up with the beneficial and providing safe more secure learning environment. >> mr. smith, your organization, the new york rifle association versus the run case, and in that case you cited disciplinary bob sorry, you cited discriminatory racial motivations behind gun control policy and can you tell me how can control policy likely is on semi automatic rifles in magazines would have a negatively impact minorities like members of your organization. >> it thank you senator, waiting several come often times monetization, over 40000 members very active and often times are good an e-mail from a single block mom living in a challenge area, she said hey i just bought an ar 15 a thank you for your organization and thank you for the attorney and now she is able to protect herself and if you implement a lot of these proposals the hearing today, ellots and lots of black single women and lots of black men are trying to get protection in these tough neighborhoods, are not going to be able to do that this way is discriminatory and an effect on our community so proposing anything along those lines. >> we get to on so-called, assault weapons and center capacityd magazines are not effective and only limit to the individuals constitutional protection of rights toca self-defense. >> they don'tt work, is been proven in the '90s, they just do not work in the only prevent my community to having the best tool possible to protect himself and i will say this, for my family, it is the best firearm to protect my wife, my children and my property is a very good tool when used by law-abiding citizen s waves were important for us to have that access to that particular weapon. >> thank you. >> thank your mr. chairman, doctor hunter, would you consider violence in our country a national health issue. >> absolutely is a public national health issue to the footplate health issues there for the public shouldn't we be able to have a lot more information about the incidents been violence and brushwork like women for example go out and buy guns in this environment. >> e-uppercase-letter, evidence-based public health approaches to solving problems is something that is essential we have seen it with motor vehicle accidents we have seen it in approaching the hiv-aids epidemic of meaningful solutions wellclude legislation as as public invest in companies wells informing the consumers to make better decisions, i know we don't have the data to give you the best information possible to make the laws, has a set of laws i will keep them safe. >> anywhere holly, testified that fund the highest positive death for young people in our country you think that we would want to better understand the decimal we can do and professor, sorry, so after bruins, was a good going topr be a lot of questions about various state laws that makes it within the ruins including polite i don't know if you're familiar with effective white that hawaii t te most laws in the country and wheeled the lowest gun violence rate in thekn country really afr the supreme court is already syndicate challenging wise loss to the ninth circuit for a new rulingng chapter reads would you expect a lot of challenges to state law such as floyd case one is a duplicate effort to lower than violence in essays. >> thank you, not only would i expected i think we've already seen it cases that have been subaccount for further consideration issues which we thought to be resolved, by prir second minute cases including the constitutionality ofn prohibitions like highland park municipal assault weapons ban think appellee will be relitigating my hope in a quotation is that the recognize within judge in becoming their wrote the opinion onab seventh circuit, is a history is consistent with common sense anh they understood the dangers persons could be disarmed likewise interest of the dangers and unusual weapons could be prohibited. >> after bruins, do you think that the suffering port will sustain a national man an assault weapons anything this court was essays ban on assault weapons and what about the large capacity magazines do you think that the supreme court was o sustained and either the national or state level. >> one of the difficult things that answering the question is the degree to which brian is introduce uncertainty rears i would think through, milling ups of ruin anyway come that such laws bear dixie might well and so there is one that exists in the courts upheld thesein laws under a variety of different nationals in concluding that the weapons are dangerous and unusual therefore fall outside the scope of the second amendment and some concluding that the government has sufficient interest in us are tailored to that interest in some certainly will be re- litigated in three factors at least we can consider in predicting a supreme court response what is the court that is again affirmed the dangers and an usual can be prohibited and an opinion by justice scalia, the court quite a dangerous and unusual weapons with m-16s and the like have all the reasons you are today, they are different but they areon similar and the like may include he ever entered ar 15's as well and there is an argument that these weapons are in companies the national shooting sports foundation often plays affected 20 million have been told the past few decades and i'm no reason to doubt that the accuracy of the number i'm saving 20 million assault weapons and circulation inem the past few decades does not mean 20 million assault weapon owners that ownership is probably traded in a much smaller proportion ofn gunowners and knows the minority of the population so we are may be talking about four or 5 million americans out of 300 plus million and also 20 million weapons is only 5 percent of the civilian been stalking not sure that constitution, and are not what iea would really want to kw to be able to evaluate the question is what i hope the supreme court would ask invited the ruin was directed to consider the burdens on something and says how often are these weapons used in self-defense in comparison to k the use and good massacres and mass shootings that we are today earliere example of when was bt when marilyn's prohibition on assault weapons which also night of the children of the lifers we to a single example of one being used for self-defense and if that is the case, then if we take the industry and justice thomas for that matter, at their work with these are modernist sporting rifles, that i think there are two times removed it from the historical interest in self-defense. >> living as a supreme court is not asking the question of whether or not or have often these assault weapons, however we describe them are used in self-defense comes out the question dressing on their asking whether this dangerous and unusual you have 20 million of these items in our environment does not particular unusual, this what this is a supreme court spinning us towards enabling more more people to want all kinds of guns were already washed and guns in her country and thank you. >> senator blackburn. >> thank you mr. chairman and to each of you for being here today and mayor certainly we extend our condolences' of these to you all and highland park as we do with all of the victims that have faced this type of violence i think it's fair to say that we all share the goals of safe communities and making certain that her children have statements hold making certain that we can celebrate when we have a july 4th parade or a community event and what we've grass we work on this issue when you look at cities like chicago, philadelphia 30 stricter laws state how to get to the crux of this issue make certain that people are safe and mr. bentley, w, appreciate the work you been keon mental health and as we lok at this better among the last several mass shootings, we saviors have previously expressed a desire to commit violent criminal there in highland park the police even having responded to a clear and present danger call on the shooter after he had made death threats pretty so mr. bentley, talk a little bit about how we can enhance mental health programs and awareness particular shooters were stopped you fully commit some of the crimes of violence. >> thank you for that question that is a look of the additional resources to view the research and to provide mental health with dignity as a relates to school safety a lot of children coming up situations involving trauma and the need that support so that they can function providing the helping communities okay, can i get you to click that to your work with behavioral threat assessment is only warning signs. >> yes, not as part of the situation that the center pointed out in the research that in order to make the never threat assessment process work as effectively but has week, with providing a crime and also providing the situation with his individual schools understand what we are looking for and report that information to timely manner and also provided those individuals that are crying out that help with a need and often those individuals not receiving that help particularly mental health. >> so what you need is a greater jurisdiction if an attitude at the state and local level so communities can respond. am i perceiving that right. >> the work we are doing with k-12 involved preparing the schools, those individuals in the schools the tools necessary. >> okay, thank you for that mr. smith mahoney come to you if i may, as mentioned about not being sure with then uses there were every year and the cdc estimates between 60002 half-million, and then usage every year and they also estimate 39700, gun related deaths every year in the u.s. you have talked a little bit about the importance of a firearm possession of a prior under fire for something has and i wanted to give you the opportunity to elaborate on that i have a few seconds. >> thank you for the question and i thank you so medically important really for my community to have access to protect themselves in a very basic human level for years and years, thank everybody knows in room, we have not had access to firearms like in the communities outside of the bucket community my organization goes out and literally, educate folks on what god is and what it is not out how to purchase one had all begun, get trained and going to the reins of the intimate thing that you needan to know for firearm and gun ownership and we go over those things with our community and that is what organization such as from following folks are very very trained and you just don't jump into our organization and run coming just does not have the wake versus source of the freud and all right folks know how heavily on the very intimate level i think that's probably one off the reasons we done so well. >> all thank you all sons much d i think we all can agree that i want to keep our communities safe and thank you all so much w for your testimony thank you mr. >> thank you let me know for the record from the presence of franchisor who recognized represents hyde park and thank you brad for being with us and we also note for the record that chicago is not highland park. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> and on how to represent both communities, their challenges in both community is behind in part, is a separate county for those not familiar and as of the same jurisdiction in chicago ana the problems in chicago is a serious on foot much different to the shooting incident that occurred on july 4th, the broadest together today, senator. >> think you very much and abroad graduate university chicago also and i appreciate you sharing that with the rest of the committee and doctor hunter thank you for your service in the marine corps, and i say minnesota with a strong tradition of hunting and fishing and i have talked with many gun owners like yourself, who support the second amendment believe in common sense gun safety measures including banning assault weapons pretty how easily these proposals i asked myself with this heard my uncle beckett's deer standing could you explains is another combat veteran who grew up shooting, based on your knowledge of guns, is uncle need an assault weapon in his dear stan. >> thank you very much and really times i i will get the microphone to work correctly, and as someone who had spent time around guns my entire life in my opinion they are 15 is not an ideal weapon for deer hunting and so your uncle likely when abusing onepi for dear hunting. >> okay and thank you part of what makes the assault weapons are dangerous is high rate of fire and ass you know which is also true when handguns are actually codified with conversion devices actually turned them into fully automatic weapons these devices can be purchased from foreign to becturers hundred $20 installed in under a minute and that is why this week, introducing legislation it was center gary peters of michigan to require federal law enforcement to coordinate with local law enforcement to crackdown on these illegal devices and do you agree that keeping illegal conversion devices on our street will also help save lives. >> menu for the west on that and on the shows about these weapons is that when they are used, there is a higher rate of injury and death so the research around initial federal assault weapons man, digital ways to essentially make be out weapons and had the same effect as a weapons intended to be banned and so while i have nothing the exact legislation, with research does show us is anything that increases the rate of fire or increases the deadliness of a weapon will lead to more injuries and death to my think you, for your leadership and it has shown your community and really the nation last week i met with survivors from the horrific shooting park, kids, parents, and i also met with another group from uvalde, texas worries over the ten -year-old girl whore was in classroom nex work during the preschool and it was a friend that was insane braided she lost jude pictures o of the friend when she had a little button that she wore around her neck and really brought home to me, and of courm and did not end at the funeral or the hospital and he continues for the families and there's not just one victim, can you talk about the long-term impact that you expect to see highland park how people are dealing with their grief. >> we are still community try to figure out the next step to healing. we observed a moment of silence week after week of the visual with traumatized community members flow s.w.a.t. teams and roof top teams because people were scared together together when just before this hearing, spoke with her her husband of as survivor was doing the icu, we are to weeks later, was dividing for preserving her ability to haven a life that she had the past. there's a lot of physical and emotional pain that we will all be carrying with us for a lot of folks, their lives will never be the same and we are trying to figure out how to begin her children to feel safe going into school next month and i horn are in whole heartily appreciate all the mental health efforts in the school efforts the red flag laws and everything that everyone is trying to do, at the, we know that moving forward asnd a community moving forward as a nation, we need to get combat weapons out of civilians ie appreciate the question still new for all of us will be on 30 right now we need to get these weapons out of h civilian hands. >> well said well said. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> ... ... well said, well said. >> and for my very last question, mister chair, and that was so well said. i think is really important to express the grief, but to turn it into action. and you are there, on the white house lawn with the president gave his remarks after signing into law the bipartisan safer communities act. i think so many of us and our colleagues who worked on that, in that were provisions that many of us, in my case the boyfriend loophole coup closing we cannot wait another ten orxp 50 years by assault weapon. highland park was never 309 and now we are up to 350 mass shootings in the last 16 days. that many more have been added to thehe list. there's so much to be celebrated in the bipartisan saver h community act and we thank you for your efforts but my gosh, how much more needs to happen before this obvious action is taken? we know mental health issues and other countries throughout this world, we know there are troubled people inclined toward violence. we know that their menl health issues in other countries throughout this world. we know that there are trouble people who are inclined towards violence. what is a differentiating factor? combat weapons and access to civilians. there is no place for these weapons. i appreciate, and share deep concern about the gun violence issues in the city of chicago, and all of our nations large cities, and frankly elsewhere. but at the end of the day, today's hearing is about how to reduce mass shootings. we reduced mass shootings, by getting rid of count combat weapons and civilian hands. >> well said. thank you. >> senator cruz. >> the state of illinois, like the state of texas, is dealing with yet another horrific mass murder. inevitably, when a crime of the sort occurs, a political debate bursts out in washington within an instant. everyone on this committee, and everyone in this room, wants to prevent the next mass murder. everyone is horrified at the criminals who would take the lives of children, take the lives of the innocent, and were horrified at the steadily increasing rates of murders. whether in the city of chicago, and cities across the country, or whether my home state. in the beautiful elementary school of robb elementary in uvalde texas. the question is, how to do so. how do you stop mass murders? there are two questions. one approaches target the bad guys, target the felons, target the fugitives, target those with serious mental illness. prosecute them, put them in jail, when they try to legally buy firearms, prosecute them and get them off the street. and at the same time, and hence the security of vulnerable locations in our society. that includes schools, churches, that includes places that these strange murder rumors have been targeted. that is the approach that i believe works. there is a second approach, which the democrat members of the committee and support. which is gun control. which is targeting law-abiding citizens, and disarming law-abiding citizens. that's like an approach this week. it is consistently ineffective. if the objective is, stop mass murders, gun control doesn't work. state of illinois has among the strictest gun control laws of anything in the country. pierre highland park as even stricter gun control laws, then the state of illinois. consistently if you look across the country, the jurisdiction with the strictest gun control laws almost without exception, they have a high crime rates, and the highest murder rates. it is not complicated why. when you disarm abiding citizens, the result is the criminals don't follow the laws. they have the guns, and law-abiding citizens are unable to defend themselves. now we saw, on sunday another deranged murder, killer fired into a park in greenwood indiana. within 15 seconds, that killer was shot and killed by 22 year old eli taken. who thankfully was carrying a concealed handgun. many more lives would've been lost in indiana that day of mr. dickens had not been there, had not exercises second amendment right, and had not saved the lives of the innocent there. that is not an exception, it is not unusual. according to the obama white house, firearms are used defensively to stop a crime in the united states of america between 500,000 and 1 million times every year. whenever you have a deranged murderer committing a crime, there to, and only two ways i stop. number one, law enforcement stops them, or number two, and individual cyst citizen who is armed stops them. those are the two ways. if we want to stop crimes, we need to get the criminals off the streets. and we need to increase law enforcement. but now, we just had a debate on gun control, and the democrats passed a bill with some republican support. that i think is likely to do nothing to prevent violent crime. it's satisfied political agenda. but it is unlikely to stop the next mass murder. i submitted a bill, chris bourassa, which would have prosecuted violent criminals, got about the street. it would've created the national project exile, so that a criminal commits a crime with a gun, he faces federal prosecution and mandatory jail time. so the trigger pullers not there to commit crimes. and cruise fossa would have doubled the number of police officers in schools. and it would have devoted an additional ten billion dollars to mental health counselors in schools to stop these troubled young boys and men, who so often are the trigger pullers committing these crimes. unfortunately, the democrats on this committee, and every democrat in the senate, voted against cruz bourassa. because a proposal that actually is devoting resources to law enforcement to prevent law murders, to getting riders off the street, that is not politically advantageous. their objective is disarm the law-abiding citizens. indeed, many of the democrats on this committee would happily ban concealed handguns, which would have disarmed eli dickinson and would have resulted in a lot more people being murdered. many out the democrats on this committee would have banned ar-15s, which would have these disarmed stephen willard, who stopped the sutherland spring's mass murderer with his ar-15. and save lives. this topic is serious. i commend the witnesses for being here. i wish the members of this committee treated it with the seriousness to actually ask, what stops crime and stops murders. because the political solutions this body has put forward, does not do that. and instead of the political bill that is not going to stop crime, we should past crews bourassa and doubled the number of crops and schools, and stopped murderers from committing their crimes. >> senator patio. >> thank you, mister chair. and barely a month after the tragedy in uvalde texas, the committee of highland park join the ranks of those who have experience the uniquely american epidemic of mass shootings. will the bipartisan safer communities act was a critical step in addressing the problem, we must now turn to the issue of unfettered civilian access to military style assault weapons. and the laws that enable them to be obtained. again, these are weapons designed for the battlefield. not hunting, not communities. these are saw weapons. not pistols. the threat posed by these instruments is robbing our communities and safe spaces. people should not have to live in fear of what happened in uvalde, and highland park. to all americans who've been impacted by senseless gun violence at two over the years, we owe it to them to make sure doesn't happen. again the bipartisan sabers communities actually provide that 100 $50 million in funding to support crisis intervention services including state red flag laws. and we began to touch on it earlier in the hearing. these laws allow community members like families, police officers, to petition judges to issue a firearm restraining orders for individuals who they believe pose a threat to themselves or others. robert crimo exemplified many questionable characteristics that should have made him unfit for gun ownership. for example, highland park police responded to an incident in 2019, work remotely that's against this family. it is documented. they confiscated 60 knives, a dagger, and a sword, and ultimately filed a report declaring him a clear and present danger. between april and september 2019, he reportedly attempted suicide, threat to kayla's family, and told police that he had been depressed and was using drugs. criminal also made social media post glorifying mass shootings. the signs were there. yet despite all of this, it was approved for a license, and purchase several firearms including the semiautomatic rifle he used to carry out his attack on the fourth of july. now, this is not the only instance in which red flag laws should have been invoked. but work. in the first two years of which illinois red flag law was in effect, only 33 firearm restraining orders were filed with nearly half of them coming from a single suburban county outside of chicago. in 2020, and 2021, judges issued only 150 restraining orders. less than five per month, statewide. my question, mayor rotering, i want to thank you for your testimony, and fear leadership during this devastating time for your community. our hearts go out to you. now that we know that red flag laws save lives, their usefulness is limited to the extent the people actually know about them. wet suggests you have for promoting awareness, of the purpose and applicability of these laws so that they are more effective? >> i appreciate the efforts of the bipartisan safer communities act, and the willingness to recognize that those closest to our potential shooters are best at assessing the risk. but a burden is placed on them. i agree that there is an opportunity to move forward to stop people from being able to access f of ideas, and access weapons. but at the end of the day, those weapons are particularly these assault weapons, shouldn't be available period. all of these stopgaps are excellent efforts, and we support them. let's be clear. the differentiating back to between the u.s. in the rest of the world, is assault weapons are available. so, yes. red flags, we need to promote, we need to show the world that this is available. but we are putting a burden of people who may already be dealing with the difficulties of having a mentally ill family member, trying to work through that balance of keeping them safe and keeping themselves safe. it is important to have red flag laws, but we need to get rid of combat weapons. >> look, i could not agree more. that is where, as much great work that was done to pass this bipartisan measure, we need to continue the fight to ban assault weapons, to ban large capacity magazines. i could not agree more. the fact that we did take these steps, as skeptical as some people may have been at the beginning, to stop the ban. there is a lot to be said about enhanced background checks, even if it is for buyers under 21. the investments in mental health, but the red flag laws that left a complete solution in and of themselves. they will help save lives if implemented more broadly. they have their own lives, it is contingent upon public awareness that they exist. look forward to some follow-up with you and the other witnesses on how to better implement and raise awareness about this. >> i would like to point out that police did everything right, they follow the rules, they did everything they had at their disposal to make sure that these weapons were not able to be obtained and yet, here we are. thank you. >> thank you, senator diaz, senator booker. [applause] >> thank, you mister chairman. mr. smith, i actually feel you and a lot of what you have been saying today. people just want to sink into parts of divisiveness. i just want to affirm the fact that we agree on a lot of things, with the exception of the fact that the omega's are better than the alpha. you do not get to return, i get to ask the questions. let's just be clear, we know the history of african americans in the entire history of this country being overwhelmingly the victims of horrific violence. from the killing of four girls in a bombing in birmingham, to the killing of breonna taylor asleep in her own house. from massacres that have happened in tulsa, oklahoma, including massacres like we saw in a church in south carolina. you would agree about the natural instinct for communities to want to defend themselves. like the black panthers did in oakland, or, as you are seeing with black women now, correct? >> absolutely. >> so you and i also agree that we need to, with urgency, and this kind of violence in the united states of america. he said that in your testimony. i want to point out some things that i find outrageous, that i think you probably find outrageous as well. they first is that we do not invest in communities, so violence is not happen in the first place. something you have said already. finding jobs. number two, i introduced a bill called break the cycle of violence act that was included in the bipartisan compromise to do community violence intervention. from oakland to new york city, there are strategies that are about empowering communities, that actually lower violence. are you agree with me on that? >> absolutely. >> you and i agree that most of the crimes happening in communities like ours, i am the only senator that lives in a low income black and brown community for the last 25 years, and what kills me is that every single shooting, when i was mayor, except for one that we could find, happened with a person who was not qualified to buy a gun, that was able to get that done. you agree, generally, that is the truth, right? >> repeat that last part? >> most in the crimes of communities like ours are happening because people who do not qualify to buy a gun, criminals, find a way to get a gun, correct? >> absolutely. >> you and i would probably agree that this nation should have universal thorough background checks, correct? >> yes, i support background checks. >> number two, they traced data. when these crimes happen in communities like mine, they clearance rate on murders is so low but the communities are like, why can't we get the bad people behind but we have laws that prevent people from doing research on trace data, you think that is absurd, yes? >> i would agree, yes. >> thank you very much, you do not have to hesitate so much, i am not trying to trap you. >> it is okay, it is okay. >> here, you and i, i could go down a long list of things that would make all of us safer, that we do not do because friends of mine block us in this body that would make communities like yours and mine a lot safer. correct? we could find bipartisan things that we could do today. take the atf, it is the one law enforcement organization. we have increased budgets massively. we hand strap the atf and do not allow them to do the job. we do not even allow them to keep computer records of things that are going on. that is absurd, to stop law enforcement from doing their job, right? >> i think where you and i defer, and i see a lot of similarities. >> especially haircut, go ahead. >> beautiful hair, beautiful hair. i think when it comes down to looking at, let's be clear, i believe that having an ar-15 is a value ad. >> i will get to the air i am just trying to establish the foundation. >> we have commonalities, but there are differences. >> yes, but americans have a lot of agreement on this issue. even folks that are republican and some democrats from jersey. let me switch to one thing that i take issue with, you can talk to me later. you said that pulling a trigger, an ar-15, pulling a trigger is just one trigger, similar to a pistol or a shock on. at the top of my block a few years ago, shot smith was killed with an assault rifle, one of the police officer said to me, it was as if, when that bullet hit him, his head exploded. can you please explain, for the record, the difference between a one shot pistol, versus one of these assault weapons that are used in the war zone? >> from a functional standpoint there is no difference. >> sir -- >> you asked your question, let me answer. when you take a shotgun, an ar, or a rifle it is a one trigger system, the sum systems or shotguns and rifles are stronger than the others, ab

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