donald trump, the guy trying to cheat to win an election, go ahead on on foreign interference, or are you going to stand on the other side and support democracy and free and fair elections? you can t hide out in this forever. i think romney happened to figure out he had to make a choice first and was one of the first people to realize that. people have to fall in line sooner or later. but rick, if the transcript of the phone call isn t enough, if the text messages aren t enough, if the very public plea to china to investigate a political opponent is not enough, what will it take for republicans to be outraged at the president s actions? john, what we know about this president, what we know about the republican members of the senate in particular is they are terrified of this man. they are terrified of his mob, terrified of his tweeting, if he says something about them, they ll get a primary opponent or something worse will happen to them. they have lived under this cloud for three
18. so they may not count. i m of the belief in political journalism that nothing is a coincidence. when i woke up and saw ed rendell wrote an op-ed in the washington post accusing elizabeth warren of hypocrisy on accepting major donations, i was like, huh. that s interesting that a major joe biden supporter is all of a sudden calling elizabeth warren a hypocrite. does that mean there might be more direct confrontation from team biden or the rest of the political world to elizabeth warren? what was his thought? a turtle on a fence post? yeah. i do think not just something like the rendell of sed, john. but we heard from the biden camp themselves about how they re previewing this event. joe biden wants to go in, we re told, and make sure people know that having plans aren t enough. well, who is that about? that s clearly a shot at warren.
checks, background checks. 18 months ago after parkland, florida, where, what, 16, 17 staff and students died, he said, oh, maybe we ll raise the age on weapons. he said it after other mass shootings and then he talked, for example, to as he did weeks ago the nra had wayne lapierre on the phone. any talk of doing anything sort of evaporates. you get this word salad like yesterday culminating in the fact, well, if we did background checks, that wouldn t help anyway. background checks aren t enough. we need a ban on semiautomatic weapons. we need to raise the age on ownership. we need to talk about red flag laws. we need to talk about a decent system, not one that takes all guns off the streets immediately, but one that begins to limit the unnecessary pre-existing condition o proliferation of guns. if we don t do that. every time a politician says something but does nothing, we
from bullets. two sisters and a friend too young to be saying this. i miss his laugh. i miss his voice. reporter: they were all playing with 7-year-old xavier in their backyard when gunfire broke out down the block, a bullet hitting xavier in the throat. i feel mad and sad sometimes. reporter: she could only watch as violence in the neighborhood took another child, hers. that message repeated by at least a dozen families in saet. louis. the youngest only 2, the pain hard to watch. the happy memories that we had, it s just reporter: these families told us they want the nation to feel their pain. if the photos aren t enough, listen to this man, a bystander.
the happy memories we had ain t even enough. reporter: these families told us they want the nation to feel their pain. if the photos aren t enough, listen to this man. a bystander. he tried to save journey thompson. she was unresponsive. tried to find the bullet wound. found it in her abdomen. you could see the life leaving her. reporter: journey was hit when shots rang out outside a high school football game. journey was a lover, a protector, a fighter. reporter: her father says journey wanted to be a police officer. she was always the protector. things will not just be the same anymore. my house is dry. reporter: john, i don t know if you could imagine this, but we were talking to several of these families. they have other kids in the household and now they have personally touched by all that is going on. a lot of these murderers haven t