that s a despicable accusation. that s something, by the way, i would note that the right does not do. we do not blame bernie sanders for the congressional baseball shooting. we did not blame aoc who used concentration camp, which was used by an attacker on the i.c.e. facility. we don t blame people who have made anti-semitic comments in congress when the synagogues have come under horrendous attacks and assaults. melissa: do you think everybody needs a trotted out a little bit? i think the left needs to turn it down. melissa: what about the president can make president trump was consoling victims yesterday he was hugging children. he was around the country, as joe biden was giving a despicable speech assailing the president. you have a president invoking unity and a want to be president assailing him. that gives the contrast that everyone is witnessing. melissa: kayleigh, thanks for coming on. appreciate your time. another fox news alert, the el paso gunman s mother sayi
friendship forged out of pain when you and i first met. but brandon is right. the rate is much higher than 25%, and you can deal with that, but again he s also right that people with mental illness are more likely, much more likely to be victims of violent crimes than perpetrators of it. we do need a both mentality here. again that republican congressman and thank god he survived the baseball shooting, but the idea of, yeah, let s also talk this, we need a both mentality. you want to talk about these things, that s fine. but everything should be on the table at the same time. i know you ve organized and you ve tried to get public sentiment behind this to do more. nothing ever happens. yeah, chris, look, you re right. at the end of the day this should be a we mentality, an us mentality, a we team mentality not a republican mentality.
tragedies, like parkland. even the baseball shooting. their bill would not have done anything to stop these tragedies. las vegas, their bill wouldn t have done anything. what it would do is make criminals out of law-abiding citizens. both measures that passed the house this week face a steep climb in the republican-controlled senate. harris: mike, thank you very much. thousands of people forced to flee their homes in buildings flooded as record rain is affecting places along the russian river in northern california. a live report after the commercial break. wow. alright, i brought in
them? they take a step forward and a step back. usually they are in places, people kind of move on which i guess could be a bad thing. but people generally think, be tough on crime, be tough on criminals and make it hard for a truly mentally unstable crimina criminal. and what s that about this is they hide behind some of these tragedies, like parkland. take the baseball shooting, their bill would not have done anything to stop these tragedies. las vegas, their bill wouldn t have done anything. what it would do is make criminals out of law-abiding citizens. if you go hunting with a friend and your friend wants to borrow your rifle, you better bring your attorney with you because depending on what you do with that gun, you might be a felon if you loan it to him. let s say he wants to go scope it out the range before he goes
and killed, and the pittsburgh synagogue massacre and parkland, florida, through all of these those are just off the top of my head. those are just some of them, right? the house has held zero hearings. they have had zero response. they have paid zero attention to anything having to do with all of these gun massacres in the country. they actually thought about having a hearing on gun violence but it got called off because of the congressional baseball shooting. in 2016 after what happened at the pulse nightclub in orlando where 50 people were killed, another 53 were shot and wounded that s when congressman john lewis led democratic members of the house in a sit-in on the floor of congress. remember that? they sat in overnight for 25 hours demanding republicans allow some kind of vote on some kind of gun reform, some kind of