could impact donations from the n ra s victory fund. during a news conference, scalise shared more of his thoughts on gun legislation in response to the uvalde shooting. . what we saw, unfortunately, in the minutes and hours after, by some people here in washington, was a movement to promote their political agenda on the heels of that tragedy. and what they were talking about the night of the shooting was trying to get congress to move a bill that had passed the house, a gun control bill hr-8 that would have absolutely nothing to do with the shooting and instead focusing on fundamental questions that ought to be asked every time there is a tragedy in this country why, did it happen, and are there things that we can do to prevent it. and goy back to september 11th, because on that tragic day, the country made a clear realization that dots weren t being connected. terrorist attacks were
reminder, votes on the bill could impact donations of if nra s victory fund. during a news conference, scalise, who is a victim of gun violence himself, shared more of his thoughts on the legislation in response to the uvalde shooting. what we saw, unfortunately, in the minutes and hours after by some people here in washington was a movement to promote their political agenda on the heels of that tragedy. what they were talking about the night of the shooting was trying to get congress to move a bill that had passed the house, a gun control bill, hr-8, that would have had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting. instead of focusing on some fundamental questions that ought to be asked every time there is a tragedy in this country, why did it happen? are there things we can do to prevent it? and i go back to september 11th. because on that tragic day, the country made a clear realization that dots weren t being
leland: and another one of these cases where sort of the dots weren t connected, if you will, we saw that with the air force shooting as well. kristen: and witnesses inside the building say that they saw a laser sight on that handgun. is that fairly common? no, it s not actually fairly common, but the weapon itself is fairly common to have that kind of an apparatus to it. one of the sad commentaries is that he just walked through this plant and just at random just started shooting at people. i was going to say, one of the things that stood out to me the most is the fact that these police officers had to go in and try to find him in a 29,000 square footwear house and it took them an hour and a half to do it. can you walk this true? what that must have been like? first of all, you have the first responders, those brave first responders were the ones shot or at least five police officers at the very beginning of this incident and then you had the s.w.a.t. teams converging in the are
is going to be held to account for not doing the right thing ahead of the 2018 election. yeah, all the warning signs are there. and i hope that we are not holding hearings upon hearings. right. as we did after 9/11 trying to figure out why the dots weren t connected and who s accountable. the man accountable is our president. he needs to fully embrace the notion as russia as threat. why is he not doing that? because it doesn t serve his self-interests. if he embraces the notion of russia as bad guy, then he s in a trap. this is what he s thinking through. if i say russia is bad and the special counsel comes out and confirms that, and confirms campaign officials were engaged with russia, then i m buying into all of that, and i m confusing my base. so he s got to stay straight on message, keep his distance from briefings like this morning and
it doesn t make them look good. much like the runup to 9/11 the dots weren t connecting. there was intelligence failure. there was reporting what the russians were up to bill: let me push forward. daniel prieto the longer you wait it diminishes your effectiveness. it s no much evidence the obama team chose to hit back. certainly not at that point. they did after the election and we can talk about that in a moment but in the summer people in the white house staff saying in real time if it s going to mean anything the russians need to see consequence. the obama white house wrestled with this. there were concerns if the white house went to public about what the russians were doing that it could help bill: they thought hillary clinton was going to win they assumed hillary clinton