nothing. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell completely silent. majority whip john cornen i don t know the facts. the facts. house speaker paul ryan punting to his spokesperson who said, quote, we need more information than is currently available at this point. then there s this from the longest serving living senator orrin hatch. naturally it makes you very concerned but you know, the president shouldn t be held responsible for the actions of people who he s trusted. and the point here is that michael cohen in his allocution said that donald trump instructed him to make the payments. we can hold the president responsible for that. it may not come as a surprise
something. and i m glad these republicans have come forward and that s helpful, but it s just the beginning. well, doesn t it have to be more than a strongly worded statement because i say that because the senate majority, john cornen said there are talks on capitol hill to reaffirm the assessment that russia interfered in the election. sure. have you heard this? i have heard them talk about it. i love to just take senator mccain s statement and vote on that. that would be a good idea. but i have also, there is bills that i m working on right now, one with senator langford that we re leading with senator graham and senator harris and that s a strong bipartisan bill that basically says let s give the states additional funding. we ve already given them 380 million to get back on paper ballots to do audits and make it clear when there is hacks, we just know from the indictments, 500,000 voters that had their information broken into, let s get that information out to the
to this is multifaceted. the problem with the debate is if you talk about anything other than gun control, you are called complicit and a child murderer and making excuses on that front. that s not the case. you have to do several things, and when you do, gun control stuff like fixing the system as we did in 2007 post virginia tech, you end up is state governments not compelled to put things in the data base, people who are not putting mental health flags into the data base, creating a data base that does not give tips needed. they need to improve that as well. there is a move in the congress right now to improve the data base between chris murphy, a big gun control person, and john cornen, a gun rights person. we saw there s huge holes where people who have violent records if not for the instant check
you can tell. what should we be watching for over the course of the next hour? we re looking at whether or not more senate democrats will come out in support of this house c.r. there will be this vote at 10:00 and they need 60 votes to move forward to a final vote on this bill, and right now they don t have those votes. they are looking at a failed vote in this instance. you have four senate democrats who have come out and said they would vote for this measure, but that means they need at least nine more, and so they are in a situation here where they actually have been shuttling around. they have been having meetings, democrats are meeting now. the legislative affairs director has been shoveling between offices here. republicans are trying to meet. they are trying to figure out something they can get around that they can actually get to where they can keep this government open but as of right now, there is no plan b. i just ran into senate majority john cornen and asked him, what is
they re focussed on growing the economy, creating better jobs and in this regard, the president, his team, and the congress are starting to put points on the board, important points. i think that s where the american people are focussed. those kind of issues. not the inside beltway issues that gets a lot of attention. let me ask you about north korea, you re on the senate armed services committee and obviously alaska has concerns about north korea and their missile abilities. president trump says he s the reason for the diplomatic opening. he tweeted, quote, after claiming that his oh, i m sorry after claiming his but the season bigger than kim jong-un s, his critics are fools. here s how john cornen of texas responded to the president s tweet. he said, it s a very serious issue, and i don t know how anybody s interests are served. that s the original tweet about his, his nuclear button is bigger. do you agree with senator corker? i think it s difficult to conduct effective f