what s the latest. chad: griff, good afternoon, the senate has met for more than 24 hours straight and voted for nearly 14 hours straight. exhaustion is setting in. senate chaplain barry black sought to calm freight tempers. our weekend work gently reminds us that freedom s price must be paid. as our senators provide the currency of perseverance to protect and defend this land we love. chad: there s gamesmanship, republicans controversial amendments to get vulnerable democrats on the spot especially on border issues and on energy. so the next time you see a mark kelly in arizona or a raphael warnock in georgia or a maggie hanson in new jersey or michael bennett in colorado or katherine cortez, hey, we want gas prices to be lower, you know they are lying because they stood up and voted, raised the gas taxes, stick it to the producers, make our consumers pay more at the pump. chad: democrats lashed out at gop for striking a provision to cap insulin at $35 a month in private
a lot of conversations and up and down votes. it s chaotic. i will say this it s going to come out on the other side because it s too important and we have to close hoop holes and companies making money hand over even with inflation pay fair share and get the money back in the pockets of everyday americans. griff: we will see exactly what we get and we may get final vote in this hour or if not very soon. erin, let me ask you, do you think that democrats have really caved or is it just negotiations to get something across the finish? senator sanders who i mentioned obviously having to give on this sort of taxing billionaires which he and senator warren have long made their crying call. well, voteramas are a painful process and they take a lot of hours and a lot of votes. but what you re seeing right now is democrats forcing the american people to ultimately pay more for everything. when they go ahead and they raise taxes on anybody, it always gets passed down to the
here on set is congressman beyey. thank you very much. are you hopeful this is going to make a difference? that mitch mcconnell will change his position the next two years? i do hope so. . you do hope so? i do so. when walmart is doing more than mitch mcconnell, it is pushing us in the right direction. the odessa case, we re so clear if there were universal background checks he probably wouldn t have been able to buy a gun. he was turned down because of mental health issues when he tried to buy it legally. but through the loophole i bought it vil via private . under the house background checks. not under other background check bills. if there is something that expands background checks, even if it doesn t cover all hoop holes, would you be supportive of that? . i would be.
really it was somewhat of a surprise. 16,000 troops at our southern border. immigration laws are very strong. ours are a disaster. a disgrace. we had loopholes and asylum that we can fix the asylum very quickly. we can get rid of and fix the loopholes. we can get rid of the hoop holes and have no problem at the border. if you watch the debates. whatever they were. they don t really i think they want open borders i guess. four years ago they wanted walls to be built. we had another judge rule against us on section of wall. it s a disgrace. ninth circuit as usual. the good news i put a will the of judges in and a number are in the ninth circuit now. and it s very unfair when a