supporting me. they supported me very early, far earlier than anybody thought possible. this isn t about the nra. this isn t a question of nra, republican or democrat. i will tell you, i spoke to mitch mcconnell yesterday. he s totally on board. he said i ve been waiting for your call. he s totally on board. and keeping them honest, he s not on board, not even a little. the senate majority leader said he ll take up the issue and only after the summer recess perhaps because that s when maybe anger over the killings in dayton el paso might have calmed when people might not pay such close attention. as for the president, he left town for his own summer vacation, the tahafr hamptons a president expressed optimism but couldn t stop digressing from the subject at hand to a note to
not sure what that means but it is very reminiscent of the language from park land. he said his aids were there on background checks and the nra intervened. depending on which aid you talk to, he has been there all along for background checks and sort of got cold feet when he was talking to the nra in the last round. other aids suggestion he had a push to get there but he s been discussing it since saturday. again, to your point, we have been there before and not only have we been there before on background checks but legislation the president insisted there is an ap title for a deal on immigration and there isn t. so the proof is going to be in the pudding. could this be different? it might be but so far the signs that would require that such as mitch mcconnell bringing the senate back and having action around what just happened in texas and in ohio. that hasn t happened and so is there still going to be an appetite in a few weeks when the senate returns? we ll see.
onrestrictions. i think we can get something done. people that are mentally ill or sick, we re don t want them having guns we ll see where the nra will be but we have to have meaningful background checks. we ve already seen where the nra said it will be, against them. they said in a statement, the nra opposes any legislation that unfairly infringes upon the rights of law abiding citizens. the president talked tough after the parkland shootings where connecticut senator chris murphy put the challenge to the president. mr. president, its going to are to be you that brngs the republicans to the table on this because right now the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks. i think it s time that a
scared of the nra and said he s not and he ll take it on and they want to do what s right and does nothing and says it s not about the nra, i don t know why i mean, it s like we re rationally sitting here saying maybe this time will be different. we don t know. here is the reason the president said this will be different in terms of the nra. the nra is in a substantially weakened position that has an enormous amount of internal turmoil. so the president has privately said to advisors that he thinks the nra will go bankrupt and not going to be able to come at him the way that they might otherwise in terms of financial support and wouldn t be there to with hold the support anyway. they were a huge outside funder in 2017 in terms of being supportive. he thinks he s got the upper hand and he tends to look at things that way but what other advisors have said to him is he s misreading this, although i don t think they necessarily put it that way. they said the nra will remain
meaningful background checks. not sure what that means but it very reminiscent of the language he used in the wake of parkland. it is. at that time his aides said he was there for background checks and then the nra intervened. he got cold feet with the nra. he s been discussing it with them since saturday. to your point, we have been there before. not only have we been there before on background checks, we ve been there before on legislation where the president has insisted there is an appetite for a deal on egra immigration and there isn t. so far the signs that would require that, mitch mcconnell bringing the senate back, having immediacy of action of what just happened in texas and ohio, that hasn t happened.