president took steps to track down on ghost guns. he also named a nominee to lead the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. do you think the president is doing will make a difference? i think the larger question is, why is it left to a president to redefine firearms and winnable around the periphery of the gun problem because congress isn t acting on it? they could do some very simple things about closing the gun show loophole by doing background checks. those two bills have been pending forever. the president did what he could do within his authority by trying to regulate and redefine a guns to address ghost guns. the atf hasn t had a director for something like seven years. because we cannot seem to get politicians to agree on what a nominee should look like over a gun enforcement. yes, getting a hold of ghost
about gun control. this attack, one day after the president took steps to track down on ghost guns. he also named a nominee to lead the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. do you think the president is doing will make a difference? i think the larger question is, why is it left to a president to redefine firearms and winnable around the periphery of the gun problem because congress isn t acting on it? they could do some very simple things about closing the gun show loophole by doing background checks. requiring someone to wait to get a gun to work discrepancy out with those two bills have been pending forever. the president did what he could do within his authority by trying to regulate and redefine a guns to address ghost guns. the atf hasn t had a director for something like seven years. because we cannot seem to get politicians to agree on what a nominee should look like over a gun enforcement. yes, getting a hold of ghost guns is important because the manufacture of it is rea
Doing as Voter Fraud Misinformation Spread despite repeated requests from political professionals, and cnn has the receipts. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Any moment were told President Biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge in Violent Crime across the United States homicide rates are up. This year there have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 9,500 gun violence deaths, all higher than at this time last year. And 2020 had to have been the deadliest gun violence year in decades. Making matters worse, local authorities are now warning of a brutal summer of killing, that it could lie ahead. Now, President Biden were told will call on congress and use Executive Action to try to propose measures to curb gun violence. He says he has a fivepoint plan. Lets get right to Cnns Phil Mattingly who is live for us from the white house. The president has failed to be able to get congress to act on Gun Legislation such as universal Background Checks before. What makes him think thi
Opinion writer at the boston globe. Welcome both. Garrett, hit both big issues. Where are we with the latest on Infrastructure Talks and what are the realistic options on democrats on Voting Rights. Ill do the Voting Rights bill because it is short. There are no realistic options to move that bill through the United States senate. 50 republican votes opposed and even the usual moderate republican senators who side with democrats and other key issues like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins spoke out against this bill yesterday. Republicans say its a federal takeover of elections and they dont like the changes that it makes at a federal level and things like voter i. D. Laws and the fcc, you name it. Theyre not for it unless democrats can find votes to get rid of the filibuster which we talked about ad nauseam and know they do not presently have, that bill goes nowhere. On infrastructure its a different story although with a similar refrain. The challenge there remains what it has always b
Doing as Voter Fraud Misinformation Spread despite repeated requests from political professionals, and cnn has the receipts. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Any moment were told President Biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge in Violent Crime across the United States homicide rates are up. This year there have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 9,500 gun violence deaths, all higher than at this time last year. And 2020 had to have been the deadliest gun violence year in decades. Making matters worse, local authorities are now warning of a brutal summer of killing, that it could lie ahead. Now, President Biden were told will call on congress and use Executive Action to try to propose measures to curb gun violence. He says he has a fivepoint plan. Lets get right to Cnns Phil Mattingly who is live for us from the white house. The president has failed to be able to get congress to act on Gun Legislation such as universal Background Checks before. What makes him think thi