El paso, texas outside another American Crime scene, another sight of a massacre by guns. Welcome to our viewers here in the u. S. And around the world. Any minute now, we will hear from President Trump. This as the nation mourns 29 People Killed in two states just 13 hours apart. What will the president say . What will he do . What will he push for . What will he deliver . So far he has floated the idea of tying universal Background Checks to something hes desired for a long time, Immigration Reform, which normally means money as well for a wall on the border. He also took a moment to blame the media for the attacks and the violence. Left unsaid anything about White Supremacy. In fact, since these shootings, particularly the one here in el paso where the shooter referenced white supremacist views, the president has not used those words. Look at the comments of his fbi director, Christopher Wray emphasizing the danger in this country right now. The country is mourning the lives of so m
document. the nra immediately against it. republican senators reviewing that memo and saying this looks a lot like the mansi chan toome one if you re a republican, you say something is man chen toomey. that is a death nell for any bit of background check bill. if anything, it showed how difficult it would be for the president for this administration, the white house to advance the most modest background check measure on capitol hillment. here we are again. we ask the question after every shooting. will it be different? if you re right, the answer is no. margaret, seung, great to have you both. all-out war if a what the u.s. secretary of state is saying about that this morning coming up next.
of name recognition right now. what kamala needs to do is keep doing what she s doing. the more she meets people, the more they become engaged and like her, i think that after labor day or getting into the fall, people are going to start to pay more attention and she is going to start to get a bump. i can almost guarantee you that that s going to happen. congresswoman, it s jonathan. switching gears slightly, your home state was one of the two impacted with a mass shoot ng the last week or so. you ve obviously come out in favor of gun control measures, do you think universal background checks will pick up support in the senate and the president will add his blessing to it. if this ends up with a background check measure, is that an acceptable response to what happened or should the democrats be fighting for even more right now? i think it s a good first step. i think we should fight for more. that is who we are as a party, but that s also where the rest of the nation wants us to go
propping up maybe they should have faith in this president and go ahead and bring a bill to the floor and let s see the president signs it. mcconnell hasn t come out in support specifically of any background check measure, which is why it was so odd for the president to say yesterday i ve talked to mitch, he s for this. we don t think that s true, and that only makes this more confusing as you re negotiating. i understand you want to push for bans on assault weapons. i nsds there are a lot of things democrats want. a different way of asking, though, is what would you accept? would you take closing the loopholes? would you take red flag laws and consider that progress? of course they d be considered progress because any step we take along these lines towards gun safety would be progress. but that can t be the end of it because at the same time we have domestic terrorism going on. we have people motivated to act individually or otherwise. we do not have a law that makes domestic te
that not perjoratively. how do you know he s serious this time? john, there is something that can clear this up, and that s leadership. mitch mcconnell would flat out come and say this is background check measure i would support. donald trump could come out with specifics. i m not even convinced he fully understands the nuances of what background checks are because he s never spoken about them. he could come out and say this is background check. yeah, i wouldn t hold your breath from specifics from donald trump on any policy position. but it s clear it is his impulse. the problems is the stick tewativeness. one as dana said the nra is a dumpster fire of internal intrigue and scandal and investigation. they re not as strong as they once were. the second thing is political reality. 2018 mid-term elections republicans got their clocks cleaned in the suburbs