supporters the gun show promoters were urging them to please take the deal how watered down the provisions were and how many sweeteners they got in the deal. the nra didn t show its cards and at the end came out, torpedoed the deal and then started running about $100,000 in ads against joe manchin, somebody they always supported, given high ratings to, willie, this just shows you the perils of what president trump is urging congress to once again do which is to go back and trust the nra, negotiate the nra. these are good guys, they want to get something done this time, it just shows that even on that modest measure where their own members were urging them to take the deal, the nra has moved to a place in this era of no compromise. and elise jordan, the nra is sitting in some polls with 3% of the american people, 97% of
pathway to citizenship. shocking democrats and republicans in the room. president trump gets back to his office and steven miller and others say wait a minute, that s not actually what we believe. do you think we ll see that here on guns as well. that s going to be the big tell. the white house is supposed to brief today at that after that time they went and cleaned it up and said, you know, he doesn t really mean that, we re going to clarify what he means and if we start to see that then everyone has the answer. because the question is does he mean it? is he going to follow through with it? we ve seen this movie before back in january when it came to daca and he backed off that. so i think that s the first indication of whether he intends to follow through. what do you think? nra lobbyists were scrambling saying we have to get some pressure on the president. the only policy that this administration has helped shepherd through congress is tax reform and that s because republica
you that i put to senator toomey by some of the ideas that a republican president, donald trump, who s taken a good deal, $30 million or so, of money from the nra over the course of his campaign, some of the proposals he put out that sounded to an awful lot of people like a gun control agenda? you know, i was heartened by what the president said and some of the commitments that he made to see this through to the end. i represent a district in central florida that was deeply affected by pulse and i will tell you that my constituents in florida want to see us take action and this might be a nixon goes to china moment for trump. he might be the only president who can help us advance some common sense gun safety measures because as senator toomey said, nobody believes he s trying to take away anybody s guns. congresswoman heidi przybyla has a question for you. you say you re heartened by what you saw yesterday but 2013 was not that long ago and what we saw was this congress resistant
that is the conspiracy that many nra members and gun owners have long talked about, the gun grab. there it is as articulated by the president of the united states, a republican who s been backed by the nra. and of course that will never happen because as i ve always said, on the other side of the equation when people said the constitutional right to have an a. reporter: ar-15, no, you don t. mr. president you do not have that power to grab guns first and have due process later. david french actually had a great proposal in the national view that i think is going to actually become law, but gene, let s let s explain a little bit to viewers that may not have followed this closely throughout the day yesterday because they re actually working. yesterday was an extraordinary day in american culture. we ve seen these students protesting, and then yesterday early in the morning dick s
contributions from the nra contributions from the nra and more in terms of a part of his base rebelling that could be reflected in the numbers. that s why you saw in that tweet this morning stepping back a little bit, joe. i was going to say, that said, though, donald trump is looking at the electoral map. he s looking at what s been happening over the past six months, he s looking at one democrat after another winning state legislative races where they haven t won in 40 years, like for instance in connecticut this week, if you want to look on a county level and delaware pennsylvania, winning seats that democrats have never won before, you saw virginia, just an absolutely remarkable landslide, legislative landslide by the democrats doing much better there than anybody expected plus winning the governorship against another guy that went against the nra. willie, donald trump can worry about his base but right now if