substantive movement this week is getting towards this administration has a gift for learned helplessness. where we re heading to is a point that the president gets overriden by a bipartisan majority in congress or he declares an emergency, immediately is thrown into the courts, immediately bogged down like his muslim ban that morphed many times until what it eventually was, which was passable and palatable. it s turned in to the courts which lets him concede the point in opening the government and say the courts have it. if he gets ruled against, he can blame the obama judges. he can tell his supporters, i ve dion something that nobody has ever done. declared an emergency. but the obama judges have keep me from maga-ing. dana: yesterday there were some quotes, a spam burger from
shootings and i said this when i was down there, i ve never seen kids in the aftermath of a shooting, immediately in the aftermath of a shooting come forward so quickly to speak out. usually it s weeks or months later some get involved. i think it s because we re at an absolute breaking point. i don t know that something will happen now. i do think something is going to happen, and we think we re all in this sort of learned helplessness that nothing will ever change. but nothing ever changes until it does, and we just saw that happen for my entire adult life, women just said to each other, we re just going to be sexually harassed, and if someone is powerful, there s nothing you can do about it. if someone in power attacks you, he ll be protected. guess what, that isn t true anymore. it took a long time, but this also has been going on for a while. i hope it s reached a breaking point. i don t know if this will be it, but i do think people should keep trying because eventually thing
shooting, immediately in the afr ma aftermath of a shooting come forward so quickly to speak out. usually it s weeks or months later some get involved. i think it s because we re at an absolute breaking point. i don t know that something will happen now. i do think something is going to happen, and we think we re all in this sort of learned helplessness that nothing will ever change. but nothing ever changes until it does, and we just saw that happen for my entire adult life, women just said to each other, we re just going to be sexually harassed, and if someone is powerful, there s nothing you can do about it. if someone in power attacks you, he ll be protected. guess what, that isn t true anymore. it took a long time, but this also has been going on for a while. i hope it s reached a breaking point. i don t know if this will be it, but i do think people should keep trying because eventually things will change. one thing the president said in his address the other night, which
through this is what we think about on days like this. i have covered probably, i don t know, probably 20 of these at this point. i was in las vegas, in orlando, san bernardino. i m sure you have sat there and watched a number of these. there s a kind of learned helplessness. you feel like you re sitting in a car in neutral and gunning the engine as you watch this transpire. do you feel that way? i don t feel helpless. i don t feel helpless because as i said on the senate floor, the responsibility for this lies in our hands. it is congress that has applied a kind of quiet unintentional endorsement to the murders. these are copycat killings. used to be there was a greater diversity of weapon used. not anymore. it s an ar-15 every time. there s a deadiness to the weapon that s unique. talk to those of us how have seen the crime scene reports from sandy hook.
through this is what we think about on days like this. i have covered probably, i don t know, probably 20 of these at this point. i was in las vegas, in orlando, san bernardino. i m sure you have sat there and watched a number of these. there s a kind of learned helplessness. you feel like you re sitting in a car in neutral and gunning the engine as you watch this transpire. do you feel that way? i don t feel helpless. i don t feel helpless because as i said on the senate floor, the responsibility for this lies in our hands. it is congress that has applied a kind of quiet unintentional endorsement to the murders. these are copycat killings. used to be there was a greater diversity of weapon used. not anymore. it s an ar-15 every time. there s a deadliness to the weapon that s unique. talk to those of us how have seen the crime scene reports from sandy hook.