support those measures so it s really important that we have a good national conversation so people understand exactly what it is that s being proposed and what s not being proposed. many wondering where the talks are right now regarding the debt ceiling and the issues surrounding it and play again another one of your colleagues in congress, republican congressman greg walden on the daily rundown today with todd chuck regarding the debt limit and the problems he sees ahead. i think passing a clean debt limit is problematic for the american people, as well as for the congress and the country. i think we should find common ground here to look at spending reforms for the long term that get us on a path to reducing debt and deficit. the issue is can t we get the president to sit down with us and not tell us it s our way or the highway or his way or the highway? that doesn t produce the kind of collaborative response to a problem. so i don t know whose highway specifically he wants
congressman walden sees at least from his vantage point that the debt limit should be tied to spending cuts and that s the road he d like to pursue. where are things right now? well, here s where things are right now and the president s been very clear. the president s willing to negotiate a way to reduce the debt through a combination of cuts, but also, through tax reform. but what he s not willing to negotiate and he should not noer negotiate is over whether the congress pays for the bills. the congress is saying if we don t make the changes the way they want to, they re threatening to tank the united states economy. again, the debt ceiling, it is really important that people understand, this is not about expanding your capacity to start new government programs. this is paying for bill that is are already due and owing so not paying it would be like, tamron, you and i buying stuff on the credit card and then deciding after we bought that stuff we
executive power, he can do to tighten up the reporting system but the big three are the three you mentioned in your lead-in. getting rid of high capacity magazines, number one. getting rid of assault rifles, number two. number three, no one purchases a gun in this country without a thorough background check. they have do go through congress and the only way we re going to get them is if the president leads and all of us fighting this fight for decades get rebind him in a big way. molly, there s new polling out. two new polls of the washington post and abc news and the pew research center shows 60% of americans support a ban on assault weapons. we know that the nra has rejected any idea or notion of a ban on assault weapons and even some congressmen and members of the house of representatives and senate would oppose a ban on assault weapons seeing it as extreme. a few democrats used that language. nevertheless, if the president did not include a comprehensive plan which addresses th
obama can push gun control without congress. with the anticipation already that some of your colleagues, republican colleagues and maybe even a few democrats in the senate could be roadblocks for any solid legislation. well, tamron, first of all, i hope that the congress will adopt common sense gun safety measures. i think the mood of the country is clearly in favor of that. all the public opinion polling shows that but i also think that the president has a responsibility to act on his own authority where he has that authority. where he has the ability to take important steps to protect the safety of the american people and our children without congressional action he should certainly be taking those measures but that should not mean that congress avoids its own responsibility there. there s some things we can only do through legislation and congress should get moving on t it. let me play a sound bite.
kansas want to see more children gunned down with semiautomatic military-type assault weapons. with hundred-round or two-round clips. i don t think the people of kansas want to see people able to order 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet. i think the people of kansas are like the people of the united states. in that they recognize that, look, gun control is an issue where reasonable people can disagree f. the nra wants to protect the rights of hunters to hunt, okay. but when they say, we can t limit the size of an ammunition clip to some sensible number, that we can t check to make sure that an escaped murderer can t go to a gun show and buy a gun or a homicidal maniac can t go to a gun show and buy a gun, that s not sensible anymore, and