18-year-old walk in, a 20-year-old and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994 i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years mass shootings were down. ten years in a row. i was going to say i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004 republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] it s time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. [ applause ] look, i m prouder that after seven years we finally had a senate confirm director of alcohol, tobacco and firearms responsible for fighting gun crimes, for seven years the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement identify the ballistics. a whole range
panel. i m baffled by this one. abby lowell is part of hunter biden s new strategy. he has represented a lot of political clients, if you will, over the years and he is aggressive, he is a boxer. but what are they up to here? knife fighter. i think what he s trying to do, hunter biden is trying to change he s trying to turn the tables really on these people that have really spent the last four years trying to make him the punching bag, trying to use him as a political cudgel really against his father. and i think, you know, certainly for the last few years, whenever we tried to do stories in the context of this laptop, you didn t hear very much in response from them. so now they re saying that these people committed crimes, they want the state attorneys general, and the attorney general in delaware and the justice department to investigate these people. but it does represent this huge strategy shift because they know now that republicans have the gavel, they re going to be doing he
jeff is someone who s comfortable with the president, senior advisers, top staff. look at his background. he was the acting head of office of management and budget, head of the national economic council, so that s someone you want when you are thinking you might have a recession. which they plan. tyler mentioned, master implementer. this is somebody who can corral the west wing at the time the president is expected to be running a reelection race, and republicans are barraging them with investigations and document requests. so this is someone who is very process oriented, not likely to put his thumb on the scale, a great phrase that axios hans nichols has. he s ambitious but not a knife fighter. more focus on operations and less on the politics of that white house. axios is covering a story that
courts that say that privilege resides with the incumbent president. so there s a lot here that could happen. we re eagerly looking forward to thursday. and melissa, amid reports that the former president has had a the lot of trouble assembling a top legal team, he s hired florida s former police tort general to represent him. he has tied to ron desantis, has a winning record in the supreme court. a reputation as a political knife fighter. how could this affect the defense strategy? there was a lot of questions raised about the lawyering up until now. that is generously put. i imagine it will be a more buttoned up effort going forward. chris is a good lawyer. a number of the lawyers already on trump s team have good reputations, but this is really unprecedented. a former president being the subject of a criminal inquiry, also fighting on a number of different fronts and
political knife fighter and says he has close ties to governor ron desantis and senator rick scott. now the question is will this person be will he be someone who will fight for trump at every level and every step of this fight? likely so. it s a win really for the trump team because, hallie, as you ve pointed out and mark points out in this piece, it s been so hard for this trump team to recruit someone. there have been a lot of people who turned down this job because oftentimes their firms just say, look, this is too much of a divisive figure for us to represent. trump also has a representation of not being a great client to work for, known to be penny pinching and not paying his attorneys maybe as much as he should. in this case this was a win for them to get someone like chris kies. i think we can expect it to be an elevated legal fight from this point forward. again, hallie, it comes back to timing. it s been three weeks since the