Agreed on a frame work, and were going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. The white house confirmed tomorrows meeting taking place just before senators leave town for their twoweek recess. Theres more on this glimmer of partisan process just ahead. Biden also putting his weight behind fighting a surge in violent crimes. Homicides up 24 . Gun assaults, 22 . Over the same period last year. Late today the president and Attorney General outline a new anticrime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and violence intervention programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate existing laws. If you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the request or inspections, well find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. Well make sure you cant sell death and mayhem on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises
Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an endefensible position for any senator. So what now . Cnn has learned that democrats have georgia on their minds, pushing new legislation and spotlighting gop efforts at the state level to make it harder to vote after the growth of mailin voting this 2020. Mean team
Converge at the same time. The big important one, the president of the United States that is planning to combat crime that he says is the source of guns. Too many of them out there in everyones hands and he wants to limit that. Were also going to hear from his Attorney General on how you go about doing that without stepping on some Constitutional Rights here. Critics are already saying the president is ignoring some other factors that have been at play for quite some time, long before the gun issue was an issue. More on that in a second. First, to black berman with the latest at the white house. Blake . Thanks. State dining room here at the white house. We expect to hear from President Biden at animent. The president will lay out the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and crime is how theyre putting it. Let me walk you there what were about to hear from the president this afternoon. His plan calls for a zero tolerance policy for rogue gun dealers, allowing atf to revoke lice
Converge at the same time. The big important one, the president of the United States that is planning to combat crime that he says is the source of guns. Too many of them out there in everyones hands and he wants to limit that. Were also going to hear from his Attorney General on how you go about doing that without stepping on some Constitutional Rights here. Critics are already saying the president is ignoring some other factors that have been at play for quite some time, long before the gun issue was an issue. More on that in a second. First, to black berman with the latest at the white house. Blake . Thanks. State dining room here at the white house. We expect to hear from President Biden at animent. The president will lay out the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and crime is how theyre putting it. Let me walk you there what were about to hear from the president this afternoon. His plan calls for a zero tolerance policy for rogue gun dealers, allowing atf to revoke lice
Converge at the same time. The big important one, the president of the United States that is planning to combat crime that he says is the source of guns. Too many of them out there in everyones hands and he wants to limit that. Were also going to hear from his Attorney General on how you go about doing that without stepping on some Constitutional Rights here. Critics are already saying the president is ignoring some other factors that have been at play for quite some time, long before the gun issue was an issue. More on that in a second. First, to black berman with the latest at the white house. Blake . Thanks. State dining room here at the white house. We expect to hear from President Biden at animent. The president will lay out the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and crime is how theyre putting it. Let me walk you there what were about to hear from the president this afternoon. His plan calls for a zero tolerance policy for rogue gun dealers, allowing atf to revoke lice