blamed for the botched response to the school massacre has been placed on administrative leave. and stunning underwater photos of an american swimmer being rescued by her coach after fainting during the world championships and sinking to the bottom of the pool. the swimmer is okay. this is not the first time this happened to her. we ll explain what s going on there. along with joe, willie is back and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee michael steel and white house bureau chief at politico and host of way too early. good to have you all onboard. i have a couple things i want to start with today. you re warning me. i have a couple things on my mind. i need the american flag and i need to talk. i have about five minutes. really, yesterday you missed i have to tell you, you missed a very special moment in washington politics. there was an aticus finch like character who testified before the january 6th committee. he was a speaker of the a
before. so let me jump to i hear you, michael. claire mccaskill, i guess what i m saying is that these republicans i agree, they would love to just move on and say one and done. i don t think i don t think the reality allows that. okay, i think you re both right. first, michael steele is right. mitch mcconnell decided to do something, so he sent his deputy cornyn and said make a deal. make sure you don t touch high-capacity magazines or ar-15s or any of the other weapons that allow dozens of children to be killed in less than a minute. and cornyn made the deal. and he had mcconnell s backing from day one. i said from day one this is all about them taking it off the agenda for the fall. but this is what where mika is right. don t be fooled, america. you ve got more work to do on this subject. you ve got to pay attention to these elections in november. the way you get high-capacity magazines in front of the united