but if we leave 15 million assault weapons on the street and we continue to do nothing, we should expect more mass shootings, and i just don t think we should accept that. i think we should go big on this issue and even invest in getting the guns off the streets. congressman eric swalwell, democrat from california, thanks for the time. my pleasure, steve. coming up, for a certain type of democrat, the best thing they might have going for them right now is actually donald trump. we re going to explain that at the big board when the 11th hour continues. we came here for the friends. and we got to know the friends of our friends. then our old friends from middle school, our mom, our ex and our boss joined forces to wish us happy birthday. then we discovered our uncle use to play in a band. and realized he was young once too. and we found others just like us.
but i see that there s a lot of evidence relating to paul manafort and whether the president had knowledge or candidate trump had knowledge of paul manafort s dealings with the russians and whether that made him more qualified for the job because there s so many people who were on the team that had prior relationships with the russians that would have been disqualifying in most campaigns, but it looks like to this candidate that helped them get the job. the president today talked about a lot of subjects in dallas but the setting was the convention for the nra. he did talk about guns. you made news this week on the subject of guns. i want to read from an op-ed that you wrote in that appeared in usa today. ban assault weapons, buy them back. go after resisters. this is your call, not just to have a buyback. it says reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 94 to 04 would prohibit manufacture and sales but it would not affect weapons already possessed. this
. president s trump relationship with these chief of staff, john kelly appears to be op the rocks this week after report of financials of kelly calling trump an idiot. kelly was eyeing the exits. on our way to texas this morningism trump and kelly made a point of prizing one another. i want to just tell you something, general kelly is doing a fantastic job. there s been so false reporting will be our relationship. we have a great relationship. he s doing a great job as chief of staff. i could not be more happy. so i just want to tell you that. the new york times has falsely reported. they ve said things that are absolutely false. so, i just want to tell you that. general you may have something to say. i ll just say it s an
absolute privilege to work for a president that has gotten the economy going. we re about to have a breakthrough, i believe on north korea. the jobs reporting today. everything is going well. attacking the opioid crises. it s nothing more than brilliant than what say been established in the past few months. mike, the big question here, is that a president rallying around his chief of staff or is that what they call the dread of confidence? we can play tapes like david shulkin. he ll never say your fired to him. i think kelly is like all of the generals who do it out of sense of duty. with kelly i believe his person politics are aligned more with the politics. looid like to ask you and john, i am a news computer on these issues. for months we got the reck wx wn or out stories. explain holme what the huge
about the fact that a million dollars apartment was bought in trump s tower. thank you both for joining us. there s this for all of you sport s fans, mike s latest book coming out later this mono. upon further review the greatest what ifs in sport s history. one of the chapters was written by yours truly. coming up we ll look ahead to the exciting two minutes of sports. this weekend, a preview is up next when the 11th hour comes right back. (vo) what if this didn t