hear s effort well. this the economy federal action on gown flab now. here with me now is senator be and i just hised some things that are in this framework but there are lots of things that are not in this same work. like remuing the assault weaponins want, first of all, it s great to you back with you. and that to see just meaningful that. i would support what a man on salt weapons and comprehensive back ground checks. but i will say that vlg the background checks, those aged 21 or under, it s important that
is to gain brownie points for senators and to give them some sort of credit for doing the bare minimum, which i don t think they deserve reporter: public opinion has been shifting towards tougher gun laws as mass shootings have become more common a recent poll found that u.s. adults support stricter gun laws over less strict ones by a 5-1 margin sarah kaufman is another former parkland student as a survivor of gun violence, this is so exciting. and a monumental day for the movement after parkland, i said i would turn my trauma and grief into action. today i feel like that has finally happened gabe is with me now. what do gun safety advocates say the biggest omission from this framework obviously, they would have wanted to ban high capacity magazines and universal back ground checks but that was not going to happen. so they re taking this as a win
on gun violence that s plaguing our country and pleading with congress to finally do something about it, calling for a ban on assault weapons, failing that, raising the age to purchase them. also tougher back ground checks. i want to bring in democratic congressman from colorado. congressman, thank you for joining. i wish it was under better circumstances. we appreciate it. so president biden got specific tonight about what congress needs to do about guns. there s a lot of hope things will be different this time. are you talking to your republican colleagues about this? well, don, i always talk to my republican colleagues. i never stop talking to people because that s my job, that s my responsibility. the president was absolutely right tonight. he made a compelling case. the bottom line is this is a national disgrace, a national disgrace. i represent a district in the community here in colorado that has seen the columbine
senator, a couple of things. we arranged as you know transit countries so any afghan coming out of afghanistan would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening. the vetting and the back ground checks. we surged customs and border protection officials to those transit points as well as other security law enforcement agencies to do these checks with biometric, biographic, other information that we have. then, as people were cleared and these transit points, they then come into the united states. but they re not being re-settled immediately. once they land at dulles or philadelphia, they are then being sent to military bases where the checks continue and are completed. but, again, what checks. we need specific the time of the senator has expired. i m sure you could follow up for the rest of your questions. senator coops. thank you. thank you for this hearing and thank you secretary blinken for
0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there