the children that are currently dying because politicians refuse to take action and continue to take money from these special interests groups. the nra hasn t commented since the shooting. it is important to remember that president trump has been supportive of gun control measures in the past. we talked about it on the campaign trail. maybe, just maybe this time things will be different. we ll see. alicia: we ll have to see. griff jenkins in washington bill: questions to the f.b.i. too right now feeling the heat over the massacre in florida failing to investigate warnings that cruz had guns and wanted to kill. steven hayes editor in chief of the weekly standard. good morning to you. we ll get to the russia matter in a moment here but there are two incidents that we know of for the f.b.i. when an american citizen calls the f.b.i., that is quite a step. you think about local police or the superintendent or the principal. in addition police were called to his house 20 times. who kno
state senate president of colorado senate, john morse. one of two senators being targeted in the recall. he joins us from denver now. senator, thanks for your time. let me ask you about that point, we have jennifer kerns right here, part of the effort, leading the effort to recall you. she s invoked mayor bloomberg. we see ads playing off, oh, this is the billionaire mayor from new york trying to meddle in colorado. is that something from your constituents, the people in your district, are they talking about that at all? is he a factor in this race at all? no, he hasn t been a factor in the race at all. as mark glaze suggested, we ve had some 10,000 donors from my district, from my state, from around the country on a grass roots level that have really kept this campaign going to this point. if there s money coming in the future, i mean, that s spectacular, but to date this has very much been a grassroots frefrt a fund-raising perspective on our side. you had a when you ran in
what happened in the 1990s and talking about these other priorities the party could be emphasizing, why is it the republican party is so committed to something as specific as we re never going to raise taxes, period? why is that such a bottom line issue? i think of the lessons from 1990, 1992 and 1993. it s such a core issue. bob novak was famous for saying, god put republicans on earth to cut taxes. that lesson has been internalized. the problem is the policy challenges of today aren t really so much about tax rates as they are about spending and regulation. again, if you re a conservative. so, that s where i think there needs to be a lot more of an adjustment where the policy attention is. that hasn t really happened because we re still having the legacy of those lesson the 90s and this younger generation of conservatives and republicans are trying to focus more on those issues but they re not they re not at the peak yet. i think if you actually look at the evidence, you don t
with my colleague, avik, on this point. it s not like the opposition was saying, if you do this, if you increase taxes and then you do a bunch of other stuff that goes the other way, somehow we ll be okay. they were saying clearly, as they re still saying today f you increase taxes on a fairly narrow slice at the top of the income scale, everything s going to go to hell in a hand basket. the economy s going to tank. not only did that not occur, as you ve stressed, but in the very next decade we had the opposite test. we had a test in the george w. bush years that went the other way. that said, we re going to cut all kinds of taxes and it s going to unleash lots of economic growth. the opposite happened. not only did it not unleash economic improgrowth, it was a decade, but of course the deficit became a big problem again. i don t think it s fair to say there are a lot of moving parts. there s always a lot of moving parts. i think the policy lesson just hasn t been learned. and we wer
michael bloomberg has easy for ridicule because it s a scary billionaire from new york, spending money in these races. when i hear republicans talk about how they kill the gun bill in the senate. they say the same thing. american people rose up. had nothing to do they never mentioned the nra. in colorado maybe the nra hasn t spent yet but a gun manufacturer was helping this election happen. he was threatening to leave the state. giving people i think it was $10 the kotch brothers. no, it wasn t them. they were saying, please help us stay in the state. it s very connected to business. the gun industry wants more people to buy buns aguns and op these things. that s when it comes to bloomberg, it looks clumsy when he dumps into a race. i want to bring in democratic