that meant that your job literally ended at the moment that the obama administration left office, even if you had to keep up the fight for your retirement benefits into the trump administration. did that time constraint help or hurt your ability to blow the whistle? and so i had really hope that the office suspension council would have been more helpful in allowing me to stay on in a, in a like a career or non career position with, uh, the, and there are different authorities. they could have used to do that. well, my case continued, i honestly got it from 2015 to 2017 that we wouldn't, we wouldn't be dragging this on. and the, the one issue that gave me a thorough day to continue my case was because what the d o d had done was they converted the position from a political to a career position, which then gave me with some lower rice because i had applied and was trying to remain in the position as a career position. so my political appointee status really didn't matter for the case. but my employment ended when the obama administration ended and nobody after that was willing, of course

i was very honored and excited to join the obama administration. i actually stayed for the entire 8 years. but when i went over initially to work on wounded warrior issues and then bought, moved around and ended up working on the suicide prevention office and then got moved again and again and again and just some extra, you know, that's the life of the political appointee. but it was at the defend suicide prevention office that i made my disclosures and, and that's when things really went sideways for me. mm hm. so you are at the pentagon and you finally feel comfortable. tell us what it was that you saw that made you uncomfortable for that 1st time. what was the nature of your initial whistle blowing? yeah, so, you know, it doesn't take long to be at the pentagon and realize how complex and complicated things can be over there. in d, m, i was learning a lot about contracts and programs, and i had known a lot about how to manage and how budget's operated because of my experience is on the hill, the difference between an authorization and appropriat

you were then asked by the obama administration to go to the pentagon. what were you 1st asked to do there? and why was there such turmoil when you arrived? well, so the term why it wasn't when i arrived, it was after i made my disclosures, i was very honored and excited to join the obama administration. i actually stayed for the entire 8 years. but when i went over initially to work on wounded warrior issues and then got moved around and ended up working on the suicide prevention office and then got moved again and again and again. and to some extent, you know, that's the life of the political appointee. but it was at the defend suicide prevention office that i made my disclosures and, and that's when things really went sideways for me. mm hm. so you are at the pentagon and you finally feel comfortable. tell us what it was that you saw that made you uncomfortable for that 1st time. what was the nature of your initial whistle blowing? yeah, so, you know, it doesn't take long to be at the pentagon and realize how complex and complicated things can be over

and after a few years on capitol hill, the obama administration asked her to organize the defense suicide prevention office. would you ever saw disability policies impacting wounded warriors ment to health care accessability, suicide prevention and diversity and inclusion? jackie survived a period of great turmoil at the pentagon, serving under 10 under secretaries and 12 supervisors in only 8 years. in 2014 jackie began working for a politically appointed supervisor, who seemed to be hostile to her after she made legally protected disclosures regarding possible conflicts of interest and possible contract fraud. she was moved to another chain of command and soon after found that her performance ratings were being lowered and job openings were being close to her. she filed whistleblower complaints with both the office of the special counsel and with the defense department's office of the inspector general for purely bureaucratic reasons, jackie never received any satisfaction from her whistle blowing, and indeed in the end, she lost her job and was deemed in eligible for federal retirement

this is something the obama administration also faced. they were able to basically handle it, basically take a strong stand that made a difference. the biden administration is now trying to do that, too. it is proving to be very difficult for them. we've got an in-depth report coming up on that next. a lot to get to. stay with us. us e that a good da. is about to become a bad one. but then, i remembered that the world is so much bigger than that, with trelegy. because one dose a day helps keep my asthma symptoms under control. and with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler, trelegy helps improve lung function so i can breathe easier for a full 24 hours. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy contains a medicine that increases risk of hospitalizations and death from asthma problems when used alone. when this medicine is used with an inhaled corticosteroid, like in trelegy, there is not a significant increased risk of these events. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase risk of thrush and inf

that meant that your job literally ended at the moment that the obama administration left office, even if you had to keep up the fight for your retirement benefits into the trump administration. did that time constraint help or hurt your ability to blow the whistle? and so i had really hope that the office of special counsel would have been more helpful in allowing me to stay on in a, in a like a career or non career position with, uh, the, and there are different authorities. they could have used to do that. well, my case continued, i honestly got it from 2015 to 2017 that we wouldn't, we wouldn't be dragging this on. and the, the one issue that gave me a start a to continue my case was because what the d o d had done was they converted the position from a political to a career position, which then gave me with the lower rice because i had applied and was trying to remain in the position as a career position. so my political appointee status really didn't matter for the case. but my employment ended when the obama administration ended and nobody after that was willing, of course, to b

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he also opened -- >> the family separation policy actually began under the obama administration. and then we continued it until president trump rightly reversed course. we've got to stop putting band-aids on the problem. we've got to stop having small little fixes and programs. we have to secure our border. we have to finish that wall, we

what has changed from the time you were in the obama administration to the democrats now? you say you are on the education thing, what about the transgender people, boys and girls club or its? this is getting ridiculous. anybody out there that's got a little girl in school, they don't want little boys getting in their dressing room. i'm not talking about five or six years old, all the way to high school. it is ridiculous and i'm not the only one, republican and democrats don't want that. host: let's let representative stevens respond to your point. guest: let me answer both questions. on immigration, i strongly believe we need bipartisan common sense 21st century immigration reform. in the place i call home and across this country, we have a tight labor market. i've got small to midsize manufacturers who are starving for talent. we've got some of the lowest unemployment thanks to president biden's leadership and the actions of the congress in his first year in office. we've got some of the lowest unemployment rates in the last 50 years across this country. it's absolutely

this is something that the obama administration also faced and they were able to basically handle it and basically take a strong stance that made a difference while the biden administration is now trying to do that too and it is proving to be very difficult for them. we have an in-depth report on that coming up next and it is all ahead. a lot to get through, stay with us. , stay wit us my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®. his a1c? it's down with rybelsus®. my doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. i got to my a1c goal and lost some weight too. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. gallbladder problems may occur. tell your provider about vision pr

that meant that your job literally ended at the moment that the obama administration left office, even if you had to keep up the fight for your retirement benefits into the trump administration. did that time constraint help or hurt your ability to blow the whistle? and so i had really hope that the office suspension council would have been more helpful in allowing me to stay on in a, in a like a career or non career position with, uh, the, and there are different authorities. they could have used to do that. well, my case continued, i honestly got it from 2015 to 2017 that we wouldn't, we wouldn't be dragging this on. and the, the one issue that gave me a start a to continue my case was because what the d o d had done was they converted the position from a political to a career position, which then gave me with the lower rice because i had applied and was trying to remain in the position as a career position. so my political appointee status really didn't matter for the case. but my employment ended when the obama administration ended and nobody after that was willing, of course, to b

and so the obama administration needs to nominate a fed governor. they've had a couple scrapped because couldn't pass the senate and they are looking around to find who's kind of centrist and who would fit that bill. and they're like, why not jay powell know he's a republican. so the republicans will probably for him and he's just basically helped us out big time. on getting debt limit deal done. and so they'd send around letters, emails to each other, basically saying this is not qualified from an economic perspective, but we think that he's pretty you know, he's pretty smart and he did really did you know a lot help us here. i've got some of that detail in my book and the end conclusion is that they ended up nominating jay powell to a governor role. he they were a little worried. he wasn't ph.d. economist, but they were like, you let's go for it. and he got confirmed and, you know, rest is history. and so he spent several years as a fed governor. there's seven of them under janet yellen. donald trump gets elected. how does he end up in the in the

our administration ended what was a ban during the obama-biden administration on any military resources at all. we provided javelin missiles. all they were providing was military meals and blankets. we corrected that and ukraine was better situated to be able to deal with this russian invasion. but i want to tell you, i think it's in our national interests to make this fight, to give them the ability to fight and win against the russians for two reasons. number one, i've met vladimir putin, okay. i've looked him right in the eye

that was the obama's administration a.t.f. a.t.f. considered it legal for about a decade and the current administration talked about stream and an administration that is being controlled by the radical left of the democratic party and running the white house and in the absence of a commander in chief who is barely present physically or cognitively and people of the radical left are making up policies and going from studies from an ivy league group and now you got millions of americans who are felons and the ranking member of the house judiciary committee just separate the plastic. that is unclear from the rule. and which he acknowledged if you separate the piece of plastic from the weapon that you would be ok, that will have to be borne out. that's the reaction by my friends from the left, separate this piece of plastic you won't be a felon. people aren't aware of the rule or advised of the rule and suddenly they are going to be punishable up to 10 years in prison. would the gentleman like to contact? >> we contacted the a.t.f. and s

third, my administration of -- improved a program from the obama administration. back then we set a limit. student borrowers would pay no more than 10% of their disposable income through payback through debt at any one time. my administration is going to reduce that to 5%. it's now the most generous repayment program ever. no one with an undergraduate loan today or in the future, whether from a community college or a four-year college will have to pay more than 5% of their disposable income. that's after you pay for the necessities like food and housing and the like. typical borrowers will save about $1000 a year. if you keep up payments for 20 years, your total debt is forgiven after 20 years. in addition to that, i announced my student debt relief plan that was on the verge of providing more than 40 million americans with real debt relief. up to $10,000 from borrowers. over 90% of the relief had gone to borrowers making less than $75,000 a year. anyone making over 120 $5,000 a year would qualify. this program is all set to begin. the website had been set up. it t

what happened to the obama administration, the trump administration, the early biden administration? the authors of the post scripts looked back. he said, what is it tells us about the bush administration. what did they get right, what did we get wrong. 20 years over four administrations dealing with the issue, what are the lessons learned for future presidents? most of those issues that were confronted are still with us today. that is what the book is. these memorandums, post scripts, there is a preface via condoleezza rice and myself that talks about a balance of power favoring freedom at the organizing principle at the bush foreign policy. and three outside essays looking back at bush's administration foreign policy. a final one that looks at the jazz issue from president bush to president obama, which because calls the gold standard. accompanied the book is a archive, a digital archive being maintained at the presidential leadership center at fmu university. the center for presidential history maintains this archive. what the archive is, 30 transition memorandum in. the book. the

[applause] and when we got notice from the obama administration from their department of education, it went directly to our school superintendents that you need to make sure that the students can choose their own gender identity bathroom. i looked at that and announced publicly that our school superintendents can ignore that advice from washington, it is federal overreach. it is not required under the law and they took my advice and we handled it based upon parents and local school board decisions. whatever planned parenthood was investigated and it came to me that they were not handling the issues appropriately in their clinics, i asked our medicaid division to decertify planned parenthood and we did. [applause] we had given $1 million to support pro-life pregnancy crisis centers across the state, these are pro-life values that i have supported as governor and throughout my public career. yes, as president i would fight to make sure taxpayers -- taxpayer funds are not used to support abortion. if congress acts i will sign a federal law to restrict abortion as well as president of the

. >> thank you >> obama administration?> obama administration, yeah. >> going back maybe ten years or so. >> about that, yes. >> i would say -- how do we describe the u.s./china tone back then, certainly not what it is now >> certainly not so my last foreign trip as obama administration treasury official was to apec minister's meeting in beijing and a lot has changed since then right? i mean, you got spy balloons you have the theft or alleged theft of technology and innovation from american companies. you have china's continued intimidation of its citizens in the u.s. and around the world. but it is so important for secretary yellen to have this dialogue it must be constructive and got to be honest i've got, you know, three things that i hope she talks about when she's there. the first is she's got to continue to put national security and the national security of the interest of the united states first. she also has to talk about the need for china to have a level playing field for american companies. and then thirdly, ther

if you look at the last budget negotiation, during the obama administration, 2011, he was facing theublican speaker john boehner. in that instance, the obama administration came tojohn boehner and they got a deal called the budget control act. a lot of folks, including myself, think we are still suffering from that. it still has an impact on us foreign policy. defence spending. many years later. so what you are seeing with biden and mccarthy on the other hand, they may be learning from that experience and trying to find a way to avoid those sorts of incidents happening again. not talking about this again until 2025, potentially during a lame duck administration between two administrations, the quiet period of the year... i think it shows awareness that they have learned their lesson in not wanting to go through this again, at least for a couple of years, and two, they want to try to quiet down the discourse, to try to find more accommodation between each other. , , ., ., accommodation between each other. , , . ., , other. just explain what this economy — other. just explain what this

and then made a public statement, the former head of the magatem , mohammed al-khabad, the obama administrationlace. this bet on him, however, the president. he didn't. well , barak was hastily accused of corruption from the abuse of power in transit, mohammed of murcia became the president of the country through the military. he represented the organization. muslim brotherhood, but gain a foothold in the region did not help the americans, but apdel fatta hasisi has come for a long time, the president has been for 9 years. you are pursuing a much friendlier policy in russia, for example, here it’s even, i would say , those people who, according to their official position, according to their official position, are even official allies of the united states of america . how this caprice manifests itself, so to speak, this caprice of america , we do not like this figure. let's have another one. here's what doesn't matter. here, if only only here, uh, to punish in the previous uh, the leader, despite all that he did for the united states of america and where they can find this kind. here is such a c

john previously served as commerce department official and obama administration and helped private sector legal roles in washington and shanghai. nonresident senior associate with csi aerospace security project and ceo of conagra enterprises, a defense in intelligence, space, sciences and more. she's a self-described space nerd and served as top space nerve nucleus gore yay torr and lead -- negotiators and the top services armed committee and before that held roles at dod and intelligence community. travis is coo and director of war dc chapter of national fassociation of black engagement in asia. he leads the organization's effort to connect black asia in the public and private sectors and seeks to increase the representation of the black americans engaging in asia. he himself spent time working for major multinational in south korea and works as consultant at de-lit. excited to be with you here for this conversation and the thought, really, john, i'm fascinated with your journey on domestic and foreign poi seizure disorders side of the topic we're discussing today.f i'd like to hear more

the highest, the highest month during the peak of the immigration surge under the obama administration, the highest month that happened during that time period when there was chaos and cameras that were focused on the southwest border, the highest month was 69,000. the administration is now saying our plan is working when there is 150,000 a month coming across the border. it's not working. it's fudging the numbers. it's trying to tell the american people, look away. it's trying to say, we're doing a whole new set of enforcement on the border when really what's happening is people are being released into the country, same as they've always been released in the country for the last two years. the difference is they're told, hey, if you show up for your hearing three years from now, we may be more strict to you. but at the border they're moving through just the same, being waved through. now, i bring this up to this body to ask a simple question -- have we learned nothing from 9/11? thousands of americans died because a group of individuals overstayed their visas here in the united states

after the last recovery, because we failed to adequately stimulate the economy during the obama administration. host: where are we with wage growth? guest 1: it is decelerating. it is modest. despite 20 year on record highs for things like job satisfaction, americans are more satisfied, more content with their jobs than they have been on record. wage growth according to the federal reserve inc. of san francisco -- reserve bank of san francisco is contributing to inflation hardly at all. guest 2: wages are steadily climbing. the unfortunate thing is that inflation is far outweighing inflation. while the rate of inflation is decreasing, inflation is still a fact. i think we need to remember what raises wages. as productivity rises, wages rise. under president biden, worker productivity is following. that is how you and up with $6 trillion in spending. you end up with record inflation and americans spending $10,000 extra today for the same quality of life. host: we will go to eli first in baltimore. welcome to the program. caller: can you hear me? host: yes, we can. go ahead. caller: akash, you s

under the biden administration on the obama administration before him the blm has blocked energy leases on lands of acres of land across much of the interior west. many of the efforts it makes it sound like we could all use them which really isn't the case. we know it's not true let's refer to it as federal land. the administration has made clear that they do not seek to control use on federal land. they are specifically targeting privately owned lands. the very purpose of biding 30 by 30 plan sometimes called america the beautiful is to exert more federal control over private property. the usda and department of interior released their plans to do what they call climate resilience and forest conservation. buried in there is the plan for " analyzing reforestation opportunities tribal and private land. tell me why is the federal government targeting our private property. if you know anything about the federal government you know enough to recognize that the chill that just went on your spine is the fear that they are coming for your land next. for what you hold dear. and the fact is that

country, it has been focused on this sort of war on coal rhetoric a directing attacks at the obama administration's epa for regulating coal production. and of course the most recent administration's efforts to revive the coal industry. so it's important to revisit sort of an earlier period in this late 70s early 80s when there was support at the state level in a place like west virginia by pro coal democrats like governor john d rockefeller of the fourth. rockefeller saw the environmental regulations threatened. what was at the time a coal industry. that was just starting to rebound in the 1970s in the 50s and 60s because of mass automation over half of the coal jobs in the state had been lost and they were starting to come back with the energy crisis of the 1970s. and so rockefeller sort of at a state level represented sort of an intermediary position the energy crisis provided an opportunity to advance a pro-cola agenda, but utilizing a clean cold technology rhetoric. that would make the issue more palatable to national democrats who were feeling pressure and were concerned themselves about growi

we have the former aide administrator from the obama administration, doctor -- who thank you for being here. we have the usaid administrator from the w. bush administration, doctor henrietta holsman fore. thank you for doing this. the former usaid administrative in the obama administration, my friend gayle e. smith. and the former usaid, ambassador greene. thank you for doing this. i think, you know, we have a lot to cover in a short amount of time. my ask was to have each of our speakers make sort of an opening statement on, i left it relatively open, which was given this new age of great power competition, we are seeing challenges and opportunities that require a soft, power or development response, so given this new world that were in, what role should usaid be plain. i'm hoping each of our colleagues can take a stab, and take this in whatever direction. i'm going to start with administrator henrietta holsman fore, i want to start with you. >> all, right let me start on what john henry was saying about america, and how we see america. i think one of the most important roles that usa

the memorandum are exactly as they were handed over to the obama administration, but it takes the history from the bush administration forward for what happened under the ababa ministration, what happened with trump, what happened with the early biden administration, and on the basis of that, the authors of the postscripts looked back and said, what does it tell us about how the bush administration did, what did they get right, what did we get wrong? and finally, nepean back now 20 years over four administrations dealing with the issue, what are the lessons learned for future presidents? most of those issues, they were confronted in the bush administration are still with us today. so that is what the book is, based in the memorandum postscripts. there is a forward by president bush, preference by condoleezza rice and myself the talks about a balance of power favoring the need for freedom as an organizing principle of bush foreign policy and then three outside essays, one held by -- look back at bush administration foreign policy. and a final won by martha kumar that looks at the transitio

under the biden administration and the obama administration, the blm has blocked grazing and entergy leases on millions of acres of land across much of the interior west. many of these efforts focus on restrictions on lands already owned by the blm or forest service and they call those public lands. that makes it sound like we could all use them. which really isn't the case. we know that's not true. let's refer to them as federal land. this administration has made clear that they don't seek to just control federal land, they are specifically targeting privately owned lands. the very purpose of biden's 35-30 plan called america the beautiful is to exert more federal control over private property and in april of this year, another example, the usda and department of interior released their plans to do climate resilience and forest conservation. buried in there is the plan for analyzing reforestation opportunities on state, tribal and private land. tell me why is the federal government targeting our private property. if you know anything about the federal government you know enough to r

i served, jonathan, eight years of the clinton administration, eight years of the obama administrationand a half years in this administration, which has been an extraordinary privilege with an extraordinary team at the domestic policy council. i've loved every minute of it. i've loved serving president biden and getting to serve our country again, but i'm looking forward to some time with family, friends, and just sort of thinking about, you know, at this stage of my life and my career, what does make sense next? and i'm not trying to answer that question anytime soon. >> ok, i have one last question for you. it is the most important question because in your book, in tough love, you write about your love of the democratic party. how soon after you leave that -- the white house -- >> we will have a going away before i leave and like all of my parties there will need to be music, and i will be very surprised if it doesn't lead to righteous dancing. and afterwards, we can talk about what comes next. but i will have more time to plan parties than i currently do. that's the good news. >> on

by the way, victoria newland is in for her 2nd showing because she was in the binding, the obama administration when she started all approach shenanigans there with the legal transfer of power in 2014. but you know, the, they expected the sanctions to work see, they believe and these, it means fantasies that the sanctions would do it and it wouldn't be known. it wouldn't be necessary to, to worry about rushing militarily. they've completely grossly miscalculated and they don't know what to do, because if they, what, if they induct ukraine into the, into the lines, then there's going to be world war 3. ok. then russian will start hitting military bases in poland. okay. but if it doesn't do it, you know, then they're in this case where they're going to try to do it. um, or i've gotta spend 2 point oh, another 20 year more your thoughts? and i don't think well, and i don't think if, if the definition of for away it forever, war is afghanistan, then i don't think that that's where we're headed. because now the global dynamic has shifted dramatically since the united states started the fight in afgh

haven't read in a lot of outlets, highly credible source that has been with the bureau since the obama administration. one more question. >> thank you very much. in addition to this hearing, with all the charges to the doj. >> the 1023, due to the fact it is not classified, this is not classified document. it is an important part of investigation. and find this document in hand. >> all i know is there's an ongoing investigation. they confirm an ongoing investigation using this information. i assume it is in delaware. >> can you drop that? can you break down why what the information has and so on? >> what country's national? >> do you take notes in their? >> took notes on the unclassified portion but there's a classified portion. >> the ball is in the fbi's court. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hello, everyone. the fbi sent over high-level delegation to comply with the oversight majority's demand with us to see this document. we saw the document and the fbi team went beyond that to explain the historical and prosecutorial legal context of the document and from that, what i lear

>> that the rule was developed to reverse the obama administration's interpretation. >> incorrect. the underlying rule is based on guidance that was published under the trump administration concluded the stabilizing graces were widely used to create short barrel rifles and therefore should be subject to stricter regulations. what i expected you to say was yes that is precisely what happened and in the closing days of the trump administration after a group of house republicans, i am not sure if you were one of them implored the trump administration to withdraw the guidance. >> my understanding was that it was withdrawn during the trump administration. >> it was withdrawn which meant it was initiated by the trump administration and withdrawn after political pressure. thankfully the biden administration, and the objective members of law enforcement and the atf, decided they would not bow and propagated a rule that is fair, reasonable and could save lives. now, there has been a lot of talk. again, i hope that my colleagues from kentucky, whom i normally -- they appreciate our colloquy.

it in a a lot of outletsd, the highly credible source that's been with the bureau since the obama administration. one more question. >> thank you very much. in addition to the proceedings, do you plan to refer to the idea of [indiscernible] ]? rep. comer: we believe due to the fact it is not classified, this is not a classified document, that this is an important part of our investigation. and we want to have this document in hand. i will do one more. >> what about beyond the investigation? rep. comer: there is an ongoing investigation. they have confirmed the ongoing investigation using this information. and, i assume the ongoing investigation is in delaware. i do not know that but i assume. >> can you tell us why that is your assumption? rep. comer: say it one more time. >> can you break down why that is your assumption and what information you have to support that. rep. comer: i assume it is delaware, i will put it like that. >> what country is -- >> were you able to take notes today? rep. comer: i took notes in the unclassified portion, but not the classified portion. >> what about a briefin

i think you surprised a lot of people with your criticism of the obama administration that many saw be as harsh as your criticism of the bush administration. brock obama blowers and he surrounded himself with a lot of bad people from the c. i a. is that what your objection was to obama, or was it something deeper as well? the early days i was just just looking at his prior associations with, you know, where's the people associated with the weather underground? but i mean, he was, he was deliberately hiding his pass and it was, you know, the, the image that he betrayed and presented to the american public was not consistent . you know, for example, what i pointed right and indignation man, so i'm also carol and uh, actually i've tried to gain access friend of mine to retire f b, i hostage rescue team guy who is actually over in indonesia during to try to, you know, he got with some of his buddies there and they tried to access that material which had already been all been cleaned out, cleaned up by who john brennan. so brandon had been active out working to help uh, burnish uh, rock. ob

to make matters worse, the rule directly contradicts a prior 2012 determination made by the obama administration a.t.f. president obama's a.t.f. said that if firearm be equipped with a stabilizing brace would not be subject to the national firearms act controls. the a.t.f. says one thing for a decade and then does another which will then turn millions of law-abiding citizens into felons literally overnight. now, american citizens who own these pistol stabilizing braces and rely on the statements made by the a.t.f. are in violation of federal law and are subject to serious criminal penalties. the second amendment is imbued in the bill of rights for a reason. it preserves the first amendment and all other unalienable rights afforded to the american people. we don't need to reimagine a second amendment. we need to curtail it. and we most certainly won't be repealing it for the 28th amendment. this a.t.f. rule is an affront against the rights of the american citizen and an assault on the second amendment and must be defeated. this resolution will nullify the a.t.f. rule and further protect one of ou

was under the obama administration with jim come dagen: or earlier than that?. what that said is correct, you have people seeing things they do not agree with but are terrified to speak up, terrified. look what they did to these whistleblowers. you basically have to be a perfect person with nothing they could come after you for in order to speak up. i have spoken up and said you should share this with someone and they say no because they will come after me, but you are a good person, good employee, why not? you honestly feel like you could have the most innocent minor infraction or mistake and if you speak up they will find anything on you and rip you to shreds and that's terrifying to anyone. a lot of people are like i wasn't directly asked to work on the operation crossfire hurricane so who am i to speak up but it doesn't mean they agree with what they see going on in the agency so it's terrifying for people to speak up and that's not right, people should not be afraid to speak up. what i hope would happen, when a whistleblower speaks up why do go after the m

larry, i think you surprised a lot of people with your criticism of the obama administration that many saw be as harsh as your criticism of the bush administration. brock obama was certainly no friends to whistle blowers and he surrounded himself with a lot of bad people from the c i a. is that what your objection was to obama, or was it something deeper as well that early days i was just, just looking at his prior associations with, you know, convicted aerosmith bill errors the people associated with the weather underground . but i mean, he was, he was deliberately hiding his pass and it was, you know, the, the image that he betrayed and presented to the american public was not consistent with his background. i mean, you know, for example, what i pointed out that he was adopted by an indonesian man. so i'm also terrell. and actually i've tried to gain access to those adoption records in indonesia and i had a friend of mine to retire the f. b. i hosted rescue team guy who was actually over the nation during training at the time. and he went in to try to, you know, he got with some of h

what has changed from the time you were in the obama administration to the democrats now? say you are on the education thing, what about the transgender people, boys and girls club or its? this is getting ridiculous. anybody out there that's got a little girl in school, they don't want little boys getting in their dressing room. i'm not talking about five or six years old, all the way to high school. it is ridiculous and i'm not the only one, republican and democrats don't want that. host: let's let representative stevens respond to your point. guest: let me answer both questions. on immigration, i strongly believe we need bipartisan common sense 21st century immigration reform. in the place i call home and across this country, we have a tight labor market. i've got small to midsize manufacturers who are starving for talent. we've got some of the lowest unemployment thanks to president biden's leadership and the actions of the congress in his first year in office. we've got some of the lowest unemployment rates in the last 50 years across this country. it's absolutely unbe

the obama administration, the obama white house, includes then vice president joe biden. the special counsel is investigating both men when it comes to mishandling classified documents. this individual was asked about both. but you say there was a distinct difference in the line of questioning from prosecutors. >> yeah, this is what really makes this witness unique. it's really the only one that we know of that has talked to prosecutors in both the trump and biden document investigations. and they described very different experiences when they were talking to the two teams. with trump it was very aggressively focused on direct interactions with trump, who was having conversations with trump, who was talking with him, meeting with him specifically. the biden prosecutors were more focused on process, logistics, how were the boxes packed up and moved to his home in delaware. this former official said that the vice president typically does not have any sort of a role in the packing process. so distinguishing between those two investigations. and my colleague paula reid has le

allegedly with these phone calls while he was in office with the ukraine profile under the obama administration. >> there was two things that president biden did. he gave the smile. when asked last week about the allegation of bribery, he said where's the money? he's almost daring you, go ahead, find out. you'll never get it. i got shell companies everywhere. i was just in one bank -- >> martha: in that document, the speaker says -- the person speaking says well the take them ten years to find it because they have so many different bank accounts, which is what we learned from the investigation and all the different tunnels that the money may have gone into. this is hillary clinton number 1, receiving a t-shirt that was a joke. she was very excited yesterday. she had a great day yesterday. all smiles about the trump indictment. here's a little moment from that. watch. >> we have a shirt for you and says just in case you want it, it says totally impartial potential juror. you don't have to wear it but -- just in case. >> this is so great. i love this. >> like a totally chill thing to wear. >> mar