president and the vice president. do you think the president may tack back to his original positions which were more in line with the nra positions? i certainly hope not. he has had a great deal of strength in the issue telling the lawmakers you have to be strong. you cannot be afraid. you have to go with your gut. you can t say that and walk away from that. many of the president s suggestions at the meeting, bipartisan meeting, were in line with democratic positions. now officials scrambling. the rollout of gun violence measures will not be released today as planned. mitch mcconnell says they will take up a banking bill next week dashing hopes of the quick action of the school shooting in florida. the president said common sense sin things he could do. he said that people who were mentally ill should have guns taken away before due process. he was specific, the president
bipartisan meeting was more in line with democratic positions. now officials are skram nlicram. the measures will not be released today. mitch mcconnell says they will take up a banking bill next week. joining us this morning here in new york, julian zelitzer. let s start on guns. with immigration, we saw the reality tv unfold. we saw tuesday and thursday trump. this time it appears to have taken 24 hours for the president to do a 180 on guns if you believe the nra s tweet. i think the nra got spooked from hearing the comments. they understand he is not the most predictable president in the world. they are back and reminding him in the meeting and reminding members of congress the amount of votes and money they can deliver. they are trying to give a
and then expect to go on to something where they work well together. also, that entitlement reform that paul ryan wants, is being, there s they have a euphemism they ve created calling it welfare reform, because the president ran against never cutting medicare or social security. so that s a fight within, again, the republican party. if he wants to go after food stamps and stuff, the democrats are not going to be so helpful, i don t think, on infrastructure. that s interesting. look, guys, i interviewed mitch mcconnell late last week and asked him, what was on his agenda? and he said nothing as ambitious as tax reform. he talked about an immigration bill dealing with the daca kids that the president will sign and mitch mcconnell stressed that. and then he also talked about a banking bill to deal with a particular rollback of dodd/frank. those are the only things he discussed legislatively. he s always focused on the election. hea he has one less seat to deal with his majority, to
starred to convince the motion to concur is passed. zbrr then late saturday night, the senate voted 56 to 40 to approve the government funding package. cruz challenged the constitutionality of the measure because it does provide some money for homeland security which could be used to help implement president obama s immigration executive action. cruz s effort was rejected 24-72. it would have been political malpractice for him to adjourn for the year without getting these things through. meanwhile the left has praised massachusetts senator elizabeth warren for her vocal opposition for a weakening of dodd-frank banking regulations in the 1,600 paige banking bill. a financial institution has become so big and so powerful that it can hold the entire
children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion or abnormal behavior. the most common side effects are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. the flu comes on fast, so ask your doctor about tamiflu. prescription for flu. forget the pick cliff. are we about to go over the climate cliff? al gore calling for a carbon tax to be part of the negotiations. he said it will help fight global warming and keep individual tax rates low. wayne, you re cold on this global warming idea and the tax. why? well, he s a politician. he s not a climate thomas. it s like asking barney frank to be an expert on bank, although he wrote a banking bill. they re implicating unnecessarily they ve got a problem already. you re talking about the fiscal cliff, which has to do with taxes and has to do with income and has to do with things that have nothing to do with the