everything else that we ve seen before in arizona and don t need anymore of. eight hours laters s, she did v it. the forces of in-toll retoleran no match for economic pressure. same lesson we learned in the fight against the original jim crow. so who is ready to go again on gun control, immigration reform and the right to vote? anybody? that wraps things up for us. it has been incredible first week. thanks for the entire crew here in the studio and as well as the report family. we will be back next week at 2:00 p.m. eastern. the cycle is up next. what you got going on? congratulations on the first week. way to go. we re all very proud of you. we ll try to live up to the hype that you re putting out. we have robert townsend on the show, i ll tell you why my brother s keeper reminds me the berlin wall. and somebody named josh farrell here the whole hour. that sounds like good stuff. i can t wait to watch.
those allegations. and now to today s 20th anniversary of the brady bill. in a week where we ve seen progressive forces push back against potentially discriminatory bills in arizona and other states, and where recent headlines indicate that despite another potential repeal vote, obamacare isn t quite the rallying cry for republicans once was, events mashirking tods anniversary remind us that effective gun control is one area where the progressive movement still struggles for a foothold. signed by president clinton in november of 1993, the bill itself took six years of politics to pass. 13 if you start counting from the attempted assassination of president reagan. but once it did pass, the number of lives saved can be calculated by the number of gun sales blocked. the brady center to prevent gun violence reports that more than 2 million gun sales to people who failed their background checks have been blocked in the past two decades. that includes more than a million would-be s
nixonian? well, he almost promoted his image as a bully. and then we have a staff acting like bull lisies. the narrative writes itself but of the facts dictate how this ends. josh, this is interesting this invariably will be a drip-drip situation. but there are folks who say i knew chris christie was this bully type. that s actually the part of him that i liked. if there s no linkage here, he may survive the storm and come out fine. i would separate this into a couple of things. the stuff about the mayor of jersey city having the meetings canceled. that s kind of seems like you give more access to your political allies. what caused this to go haywire is they took this bizarre i m going to interrupt you right now and go right to governor christie.
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0 that may be a liability. and people are asking how is he enforcing that within the state. i think within the state of new jersey, though in a sense there s go be ton about inclination of wrongfulness. i think there are democrats closely involved in the legislation who are going to keep pushing this story and something that s a headache for the governor for months to come. but i also think there s an appetite on both sides of the aisle in new jersey to do the legislative things that they were planning to do this year. i think that s what the governor is going to spend all of his time talking about in the state of the state address. i think if you had an analogous that was affecting president obama, i think they would try to do political damage. i think in new jersey, republicans are going to be wanting to inflict political damage on the opponent but also wanting to get things done with which is too many mes and mys. when he was asked the question about the 2016 presidential ambitions,