the house gets a chance to send the bill to the president s desk, first time congress passed a piece of legislation since 1993. carley: leaders have spoken up strongly calling it an effort to chip away at law-abiding citizen second amendment rights. griff jenkins has the latest developments from washington. good morning. griff: good morning, that vote remarkable, democrats needed 10 republicans and they got 15 on an issue, the gop long resisted, guns. chuck schumer praising the bipartisan effort. the gun safety bill can be described with three adjectives, bipartisan, common sense, life-saving. griff: gop included minority leader mcconnell after negotiations were led by senator john cornyn. i knew this effort was about the art of the possible, looking at areas where we could agree and setting aside areas where we could not. griff: not everyone does agree, senator ted cruz blasting in a statement saying approach of democrats is to take away democrats from law-abiding
what has happend and happens in a lot of areas where the supreme court determines what the constitution says and doesn t say, counties go back and forth and try to pass laws consistent with the constitution or not. if folks like mayor eric adams and sheriff brown are right, they have the ability to change the rule if they want to, there is a process. carley: jamill jaffer, thank you for joining us this morning. president biden caught reading off a cheat sheet with instructions on how to behave down to the most simple human function. joey: jimmy failla is here next.
there s real tension between the u.s. and ukraine with the ukrainian president calling out the west for some of the rhetoric, some of these dire warnings, saying that they re creating panic and fear, unnecessarily, and in some cases, disputing outright u.s. intelligence assessments. for example, there s a media report circulating, citing three anonymous u.s. officials that russia has sent blood supplies to the ukrainian border, bolstering the idea that an attack could be imminent. that s a further example of the tense situation in the region here right now. lindsey? joining us for more on all of this is the founder and executive director of the national security institute, jamill jaffer. good morning. thanks for being here. thanks, lindsey. do you think that russia sending blood and other medical supplies to the border with ukraine is a sign they plan to invade? or is it essentially posturing
we have to make sure they have the terminals so they can be independent of russian oil and gas. but for a while, there will be a significant pain point for europe if, in fact, we impose those sanctions. jamill jaffer, thank you so much. still to come, 20,000. that s how many people were killed by gun violence last year. and it s an issue that president biden will address with new york city mayor eric adams this week. but how do democrats reverse the spike in violent crime while also curbing police abuse? our next guest breaks it down for us our next guest breaks it down w. isn t that right limu? limu? limu? sorry, one sec. doug blows several different whistles. for us several different whistles. [a vulture squawks.] there he is.