propping up maybe they should have faith in this president and go ahead and bring a bill to the floor and let s see the president signs it. mcconnell hasn t come out in support specifically of any background check measure, which is why it was so odd for the president to say yesterday i ve talked to mitch, he s for this. we don t think that s true, and that only makes this more confusing as you re negotiating. i understand you want to push for bans on assault weapons. i nsds there are a lot of things democrats want. a different way of asking, though, is what would you accept? would you take closing the loopholes? would you take red flag laws and consider that progress? of course they d be considered progress because any step we take along these lines towards gun safety would be progress. but that can t be the end of it because at the same time we have domestic terrorism going on. we have people motivated to act individually or otherwise. we do not have a law that makes domestic te
need for more gun control, background checks, universal background checks. and he was convinced otherwise by the nra. the data point i am focused on is the fact that he, the president is telling aides the nra isn t so strong anymore. it s weak because of very real internal fighting at the top. and if the president perceives this critical gun lobby as not strong enough for him to have to listen to and on the other side of the sort of political ledger he s obviously hearing a lot of people saying you ve got to do something, maybe he has the fortitude to stick with it longer than they did before, but mitch mcsquaunl the senate republicans, they re not going to do anything until they know in an iron clad way the president is onboard with something. and his words are confusing and can t be trusted and i say