why i believe that artists and film makers and actors are liberal because to be a liberal is to have your mind open. you have to have your mind open to experience all of life, to be able to process it and communicate it in whatever media you are communicating. so, there is a liberal vent here and we are liberal on certain issues. i wouldn t call it ideology, necessarily. do some of your neighbors and colleagues take it too far? i could go through a laundry list of bad behavior that helped the president. the most recent is this horrific peter fonda tweet of baron trump in a cage. i didn t see that, doesn t sound good. i would say you are on to something here and that i wouldn t put it at the feet of hollywood. i wouldn t put it, necessarily, at the feet of trump. it has been coursening over the
heart, and the hand. her mother is now calling for a new gun control laws. but will the president follow that warning, follow that heed? will they do anything? joining us now is former congressman dave jolly and secretary of state jason candor. congressman, i want to start with you. on our air you said republicans will never do anything on gun control. despite the pleas from that mother, despite the pleas from the kids from this high school, do you still believe republicans will do nothing? i do. and history has proven that. you can t listen to that mother and suggest that this issue is not about guns. it is. it can be about mental health and all these other issues, but it is good guns. is it ideology? is it influence from organizations like the nra, or just raw politics with both the the left and the right at play?
difference from someone else being violent. however, when the president sounds like he is supporting this white supremacist attitude or this white supremacist ideology, they re getting that message loud and clear. they re getting it and what they re saying is he wants us to grow and they are recruiting. they are recruiting on college campuses and getting a lot more people to join them. let s be honest. there is no moral equivalency between neo-nazis and anyone else. i think that s kind of a basic point. mark, does the president not understand what he s saying or does he understand but just not care? you know, kate, i posed this question to a person who worked very closely with donald trump, knows him very well. i said, listen, is he a racist? does he believe in race it ideology or is he so thin skinned that he s incapable of expressing fault or saying sorry. the person paused and then said,
that s a great campaign promise be then you have to have the recognition once you re inside and managing the largest bureau world, with a lot of appointees, lots of people looking for direction, you actually need to know how to move that government perform we ve seen maybe it s the travel ban and health care. those things can t get done if you re trying to lash out at every part of the government. may not be a steady hand is what you re saying. wow. the root of all of this, the jared dusher in, steve bannon, reince priebus, is it ideology? is it personality? is it competence, jealousy or all four? i think it s all four. i think these people these are all smart people. they re all good at the jobs they had before they came to this white house but their
use every attack they could and end up with no meaningful criticism of judge gorsuch s record. senator chuck grassley from the great state of iowa, on th senate judiciary committee. nice to see you? thank you. good to be with you. is the democrats effort to filibuster judge gorsuch, is it ideology or payback for merrick garland? from the speeches they gave in our committee today, both of those excuses were given, but, remember, all these skexyougs e heard today is because they can t lay a glove on this candidate nominee because he s so outstandingly qualified, he has expressed the independence we expect of our judges and just all together 10 years of extreme