colorado, vice chair of the gun prevention task force. thank you for being with us. a lot in the bill is not controversial when you look at polling with the american people. raising the age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle like an ar-15 from 18 to 21. tohigh-capacity magazines anditems you have in the bill. where is the pushback? why is this a party line vote, at least out of your committee, not a single republican voting for it? good morning. it is good to be with you. it is a great question. i wish i had a better answer. i think it is a question best posed to my republican colleagues who, unfortunately, seem all too willing to capitulate to the gun lobby and are unwilling to support the common sense reforms. as you mentioned, it is confounding to me. i can t for the life of me understand how some of these republican members, who, by the way, come from states where some of these reforms have been adopted. of course, you all have detaile.
for the better part of the last year, doing the work behind closed doors, taking depositions, pounding document requests, and i suspect they ll have a lot to share about the underlying conspiracy that the president and his acolytes engaged in to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. i also think, and you ve covered this, the recent charges announced by the department of justice with the proud boys, sedition charge, is a significant development. i suspect that also will be relevant as the committee begins its public hearings over the course of the next several weeks. all right. democratic congressman neguse of colorado, thank you very much for being on the show this morning. still ahead on morning joe, we have new reporting on a resistance movement happening inside russian controlled areas of ukraine. plus, this russian oligarch s life of luxury could take another big hit. they take his yacht. we ll tell you what the
the senate package is perhaps likely to do very little, but at this point, very little seems to me better than nothing. but i do have a question for congressman neguse, which is if the senate passes a package like we think they will, which is painfully incremental, but one can imagine it might save a few lives at some point, stop a few shootings at some point, will the house go ahead and pass this knowing there s so much more that can and should be done? i think the answer to that question, eugene, is yes. mika, i think, said it best. politics is the art of the possible. while i believe, and my colleagues share that opinion, we should do far more and follow the president s lead in terms of the call he made last week for decisive, significant action on gun violence prevention, at the
straight-up, racially motivated hate crime. now, the justice department is investigating. we ll have the latest. the january six committee slapped five congressman with subpoenas, and more could be coming. former impeachment manager joe neguse joins me live to discuss. a new nbc news poll is that with the latest snapshot of voter sentiment in this midterm election here. senator chris murphy joins me live on set to discuss the democrats agenda. also here, former attorney general eric holder to talk about the fight for voting rights and our democracy. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, we begin with that mass shooting at a grocery store in buffalo, new york, that left ten people dead and