proposal which was announced just a few minutes ago. press release was sent out by senator chris murphy s office. he is the senator that has been leading this effort for almost ten years now since the sandy hook shooting. he says a group, a bipartisan group, ten republican and ten democratic senators have come to a resolution, an agreement in principle on this proposal. i will read a couple of the details that are included in this proposal to you now. one thing is incentives for states to implement those red flag laws that would allow weapons to be taken away from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. enhanced background checks for people between ages of 18 and 21. one source tells our team that a new system will be set up for this age group that does not exist for any other age group in the u.s.. it would require gun sellers to check with local law enforcement before being allowed to sell a firearm to that age group. as well as more funding for school securit
Them for the last three months. Four months, five months. And theyre still here. Theyre still here. Meanwhile, bipartisan efforts to Shield Mueller and his investigation are moving forward in the senate, interestingly enough after much delay. Today republican Chuck Grassley, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary committee announced his panel will vote on a bill to protect mueller potentially as soon as tomorrow. That puts grassley on a direct Collision Course with the Senate Majority leader who says he will not advance the bill to a final vote. Theres no indication that mueller is going to be fired. I dont think the president is going to do that. Obviously a number of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. Im the one who decides what we take to the floor. Thats my responsibility as the majority leader. Well not be having this on the floor of the senate. Its possible mcconnell doesnt read the New York Times which reported on two separate occasions when the pre
group. this group spawned of the internet, far-right, post charlottesville. that group is all over the place in the united states. they organize in the same spaces online. these are not particularly hard to infiltrate. if you say you want to be a part of this thing, they will let you in. that has been their downfall so far. according to police, here is what they found. firearms, ban may, edge weapons, even a smoke grenade. all of these things legally acquired by the members of this group? a don t think we know yet, to be honest with you. this group is a violent group. it is based in violence. that is their plan. what we have seen recently by the way on the far-right is this obsession with trans people in the lgbtq movement. you have seen them, the proud boys as well, targeting things like drag queens story hours, things like that. i want to say, today is the six
nationalism. we have an increasingly diverse country where white christians are now in the minority. and we have people perceiving race relations to be at a quarter-century low. on top of that, extremism has fragmented, but it has entered the mainstream. it s certainly been in the mainstream. do you feel like i mean, the three things i just mentioned just from this past week seem incredibly striking to me. are they striking to you? and what is causing these to grow? we have a variety of factors. first, post-charlottesville, these groups which were very well-organized and actually organizing across group lines imploded. and their leadership imploded. so what we have now are leaner, meaner, smaller groups and an escalation with respect to violence and weaponry.
the most reckless spending spree in american history i think this past year. he talked about conservative values in a faith meeting, paying off a porn star,etting busted with a playboy bunny. you could talk about all the racism after post-charlottesville, defending white supremacists. trying to ban 1.5 billion people from coming into this country based on their faith based on his campaign promise. did you get the porn star? yeah, i did. the litany goes on and on and on and then a left wing trade war and the alliances that held this country together and made us the strongest country on the planet for 50 years. explain to me on what planet is donald trump s presidency been