understand how much worse they were prepared for it to get. ba; understand how much worse they were prepared for it to get. prepared for it to get. by the sounds of prepared for it to get. by the sounds of it, prepared for it to get. by the sounds of it, do prepared for it to get. by the sounds of it, do you - prepared for it to get. by the sounds of it, do you think- prepared for it to get. by the i sounds of it, do you think there prepared for it to get. by the - sounds of it, do you think there is a bit of blame shifting going on? it is notjust blame shifting, it is this denial of quite how serious the situation was in 2020. it was before the vaccine, no treatments and a completely new disease and we were filling up intensive care beds, masses amounts of the nhs had to be shifted over to care for curvy patience. that happened. it wasn t just people were not turning up for appointments, i don t know how you can pretend it wasn t as bad as it was, it was bad and it was scary. r
not only did the fbi ask, the national archives asked. they got 15 boxes. then the fbi showed up with a subpoena for more information. they got more documents. and yet still, they had to do this search because there were more documents on the property and they were able to leave with about 20 boxes of what they believe to be very significant items. the last part he said, he accused his predecessor, former president barack obama, of doing the same thing, saying he took millions of documents to chicago with him. the national archives has responded to that today. they say that is not true, that obama turned over all classified and unclassified documents but that millions of those documents were moved to a secure national archives facility in chicago. in addition to hearing from former president trump, we ve heard from some of his representatives, more blame shifting. we heard from kash patel. this is the person designated to deal with issues around the presidential records. he blamed the
there more positives on what is happening with the economy and realities about what is happening to the economy. one final note. i have never seen a white house in power that had any problems economically standing up and going my bad. and gloom and doom. no political party will do that ever. martha: quick response, guy? it s not a messaging problem. it is a policy problem. the democrats control the white house, senate and house and part of the reason they haven t gotten their agenda through is because of democrats, not republicans. the blame shifting will not be successful here. martha: great to see you both. coming up later today on the story i ll speak with mitch mcconnell senate minority leader and we ll talk about the white house strategy here in terms of increasing spending or even potentially increasing taxes on small businesses. what is his strategy? as we head toward the mid-terms.
we begin with president biden concluding his overseas trip, but not before handling another headline making media session on thursday. white house correspondent kevin corke taking a closer look at what the present had to say. it was actually a bill with the chance to show and show off and for that matter expands the strength of nato, but for the president, it was the numerous crises back here at home that kept the questions pointed half a world away and some would argue kept him pretty much off balance. i am out of here. out of there and apparently not a moment too soon. president biden unable to avoid prickly questions from reporters about raging problems back home like soaring gas prices, but as he so often does come again today, he resorted to his well-worn strategy of blame shifting. the reason why gas prices are up is because of russia. russia, russia, russia.
by allowing people to conceal, carry anywhere they want to. law enforcement was against this. but my response to that is it s madness. it s absolutely madness to put more guns on our streets, to exacerbate the problem even more. there are people who say, particularly i think people that are sort of committed to this kind of gun maximalist view, that what you are doing right now as a kind of blame shifting, kind of a scapegoating, which is democrats and big democrats cities, there are the ones who have a problem with gun crime, or crime more broadly. and they re trying to push blame off on gun manufacturers, that are a, or law-abiding citizens. what do you say to that? mayors don t have time for that crap, right? 255 mayors from across the country, including republicans, signed this letter, urging senators to take action, urging them to stop the violence, to help us, give us the tools, as mayors, to reduce the violence in our cities. look, mayors across the country are doing what we