their primary push at this point in time, try and get the united states senate to come back to washington from their five-week recess and consider and vote on a house-passed bill to expand background checks. here s the rub mitch mcconnell has made clear that won t happen. at least bringing lawmakers back for recess. what he has said instead is that lawmakers, he has tasked lawmakers, three chairmen specifically, to work on bipartisan proposals over the course of the next couple of weeks. and then consider whether there s something to debate in september. that is not good enough for democrats. take a listen to what house majority leader steny hoyer had to say. and i think the american people need to be outraged by that refusal to bring a bill support by over 90% of the american people to the floor for consideration. not to bring it to the floor is an abdication of his responsibility. reporter: the real question is what could actually pass. a republican-led senate and a democratic-
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lot of voters who voted for you for this particular issue this is not a win, period. you re making those same voters pay for this. i know some of them have started a go fund me or whatever to help support that. and, you know, more power to them. but at some point, he s got to acknowledge this was not the campaign promise. and there s revisionist history, surprise, surprise, from his administration on what that campaign promise was. on the national emergencies piece, i promise this is my last point. the national emergencies piece, there have been limitations placed and codified for this very reason that were signed into law by gerald ford. so if there are limitations on what a national emergency even is, like let s just start there. and just stop. full stop. let me ask you this. he s already trying to do the spin that the new trade deal yet to be ratified by congress that will ultimately be mexico paying for the wall. to the base, does it matter? i don t think that it matters a lo
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about teneats. the democrat candidates have been racing to the left. in a number of cases they are to the left of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. if we get a republican democrat runoff in all of the ten seats, most of the republican candidates are main stream most of the democrat candidates are far left of where the average california voters are. so i don t think irrespective of the democrats desire, i don t think they will pick up seats in california in november. jon: what about the tax bill that was passed by the republican controlled congress signed into law by president trump? is that a problem for republicans? or an asset as they run in california? well, in most of the districts it s an asset. most californians file their income taxes and pay the standard deductions. so when you raise the standard
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my view is, we ought to find the issues where there s common ground. moving the age from 18 to 21, background checks, mental health checks. that s where there s common ground on this shall. but i think it s still pretty messy when it comes to banning guns, which is what a lot of the speakers at the rallies wanted. you just listed, the polling shows that the majority of americans, including republicans, support those ideas. why won t republican lawmakers who have the majority in the house and the senate put those ideas to a vote, scott? well, actually, they ve already started. i mean, if you look inside the omnibus that passed on this week and was signed into law by president trump, there were two important gun control issues in there. the fix nix bill, which was a bipartisan bill from senator cornyn and others. and there was the top school violence act, which was also in there. these had wide bipartisan majorities. i m glad they were in there. and i think frankly they were in there
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