doing. leland: i ve not heard anybody talk about deficit spending in the republican party in a long time that might make you an outcast. industry. those folks in washington they got money is there money. they do not understand my motto. there is no such thing as government money, it s taxpayers money. nobody in washington and congress or ministration is workinlooking out for the taxpa. we need to reverse that and do what i did in massachusetts which is cut spending in dollars and if you have the political will you could do it. they do not have the political will to do it. leland: there is no appetite as you point out. my favorite, for anybody on the trail especially in iowa your favorite at the iowa state fair? i think it s going to be ride or something deep fat fried. there is no handlers, nobody in
against the law. that s a tough thing here too because again it is not just as we saw the immigration chiefs today argue, yes, these people are here. they are undocumented immigrants but also i think where a lot of the outrage is coming from is on the employers not really seeing any sort of justice there yet. we saw kevin mcaleenan and mark morgan both say this is a criminal investigation that has to see its way out. time will tell whether the employers are also being cracked down as hard as the employees, these undocumented immigrants so i think that s something a lot of americans are hoping to get answers on this week. jon: presidential ally steve bannon still sees this as a winning issue for the president. here are his comments. it s a crisis, but president trump i think his actions are having a huge impact. i ve been down on the southern border for the last three or four weeks, he has the mexican marines, the mexican military up on the northern board tore stop the cartels bor
helped donald trump take office. 80% of white evangelicals voted for him. while the republicans have cornered the religious market on pro-life issues and traditional marriage, pastor jim wallace, founder of a magazine and political activist says there are other faith issues democrats can claim. the bible has 2,000 verses about the poor, 2,000 verses. i never hear any of that from republicans. never ever. conservatives like tony perkins of the family research council point to democrats support of a bill in congress that he says emphasizes lgbtq and abortion rights at the expense of individual s religious freedom. perkins believes voters are looking for more than mere words. people who follow the bible, they believe the bible, that it gives direction to our lives are not going to be deceived by the rhetoric. they re going to look at the record. but there is one thing that both religious liberals and conservatives agree on, it is
beyond the macro checks we talked to mark meredith on their proposal and the counter republican talking point. last weekend mash shooting tough thus the debate over gun control for synthetic in the 2020 democratic primary. many of the hopefuls are boeing if elected to take on the gun lobby, they are also criticism president trump demanding more from he call congress back to work to pass meaningful gun control law. i think it s a matter of leadership, presidential leadership, i hear a lot people say if you took responsibly for this moment and step forward and said this is something we should do that it would move them along. withe would stand up to the entry of hand if they. their calling for congress to ban weapons and background checks for purchases and red flag laws. mitch mcconnell says gun control legislation will be up for debate when congress get back to
work, president trump said he is open to expanding record checks for gun purchases. he spoke with lawmakers from both parties as well as an array and he believes congress can pass a law strengthening background check. isaac we can get something really good done. i think we can have meaningful back enter background checks and we don t want people who are mentally ill and people that are sick, we did not want them having guns. a shooting survivor says background checks do not solve the whole problem. i know nancy pelosi called for the senate to come back with a pass as they pass through the house and that would not have done anything to stop the students because the shooters both in el paso and in dayton past backer checks and he says is eager to see what lawmakers will agree on when they return in september. indeed. thank you for much.