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republican lawmakers say all of it -- all of it puts our national security in danger. im harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the decision by president biden to release another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve puts our nations emergency supply at its lowest level in four decades. this has been his administrations reflexive move for months now. biden already has released, when you add it up, 165 million barrels. now add on to what he is abou...

good evening, jeff. >> yeah, bret. after days of growing frustration within this community here in uvalde, texas, law enforcement now says mistakes were made. for the first time on the record, texas dps investigators admitting that there were kids inside the classroom with the shooter as the clock was ticking that might have been helped. >> people hindsight now that of course it was not the right decision. a wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasnt there. im jus...

Over the, our defense posture. and the baltics and in poland and what is the right level of investment. what happens during a kind of quote -- review process of where we put the best assets. these are very sober, and a legitimate national security questions, more seasoned polls are having right now. in cooperation with the white house. what you are seeing is an antagonistic far-right reflexive move by arguably some of the most ignorant members on capitol hill. >> so. ruth, david raises some inte...

Saying we continue to urge congress to make this a federal crime. what would that change for you in terms of that left of boom that you talk about? >> so thats where it gets complicated because this debate runs smack into the first amendment and the protections we enjoy there and the fourth amendment that protects us from illegal searches and seizures, meaning there has to be probable cause for the government to be able to do that search. after 9/11 the patriot act handled that. we were talking ...

So blue, it is a sign of the extraordinary level of porlerzation, really. >> and you look and you see in 1966 the reason why ronald reagan did so well in orange county, the reason why republicans started sweeping orange county starting in 1966 watts you have this vast, sprawling suburb. it was suburbia. there was a reflexive move away from liberalism, from over the.top 1960s liberalism. they moved right and they started voting republican. and here we are, 50 years later, 52 years later suddenly ...

To say that the media had been focusing more on what the president did or did not say and not enough on the actual events and the alleged perpetrator here accused now and charged with that crime and others who were involved. theyve frequently attacked the media. that is a reflexive move. it is popular among many in their base. they expect that. so that does not surprise me. but the vice president has said more and he defended the president, as he often does, but the vice president also saying th...

Countries. its pretty low. >> well, it would be one thing if there was one senator who was doing this, threatening, say, a hold on a nomination if he or she did not get this information even though its not within the history of the senate to demand this sort of thing. but its a large number of republican senators who have signed on to this. what do you make of that dynamic? >> you know, i think you have a lot of republicans who just dont like what chuck hagel has become. he has been an ike oncon...

Doing this, threatening, say, a hold on a nomination if he or she did not get this information even though its not within the history of the senate to demand this sort of thing. but its a large number of republican senators who have signed on to this. what do you make of that dynamic? >> you know, i think you have a lot of republicans who just dont like what chuck hagel has become. he has been an iconoclast. hes criticized his own party for moving to the radical right. he endorsed barack obama. ...

Dont like what chuck hagel has become. he has been an iconoclast. hes criticized his own party for moving to the radical right. he endorsed barack obama. and he has positioned on foreign policy that many of them dont like either. but much of this for spite and lets face it some of it is the kind of reflexive move to try po punish barack obama where they can. and im afraid what concerns me most is that this set of unreasonable demands, and hagels quite reasonable response to them is an excuse to ...