18-year-old walk in, a 20-year-old and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994 i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years mass shootings were down. ten years in a row. i was going to say i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004 republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] it s time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. [ applause ] look, i m prouder that after seven years we finally had a senate confirm director of alcohol, tobacco and firearms responsible for fighting gun crimes, for seven years the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement identify the ballistics. a whole range
pm, now scrapped because of a hydrogen leak. then there was this, pretty remarkable, slow developing drama unfolding all morning over the skies of tupelo, mississippi an ending in a cornfield. it began with the pilot threatening to crash that plane into a walmart. that is where we begin with this mississippi breaking news. the latest development we have just learned is that that plane is now down. apparently landing safely with the pilot now in police custody, after circling the skies for hours. i believe four hours total. and threatening to crash there in mississippi. it all started early this morning. people got rid of the plane, his pilot saying a planned to crash into a walmart in tupelo. that prompted evacuations from walmart. police that the pilot were apparently in by phone early on. then the plane flew this really haphazard manner for hours before coming down in that cornfield, again just minutes before we came on the air. here is part of the coverage from our affilia
back in power at any moment. by the way, when he posted on truth social this week that he wants a new election, he wants to be declared the winner again, and it s august 2022, that s what they re talking about. the qanon people think that he ll be back into power, literally, any minute now. that statement is absolutely ludicrous. let me ask you real quick, we have a ballpark number on the, i guess, amount of people that would fall into this qanon following following donald trump? any idea how many were talking about? there s this great diffusion of qanon after january six. they realized it wasn t happening. a lot of people got picked up by militia movements. most of those movements were actively recruiting qanon people in q forums. after january six. a lot of them believe the general premise, there s a deep state, with the deep state does depends on how much you believe in satan, i guess. some of them believe
the president the ex-president to be headed, donald trump. he is focused now on getting his even more fringe base than before riled up again. in q forums, by the way, qanon forums, which had been largely dead over the last few amongst, because they ran out of hope that, you know, their plan that he was secretly still running the country or something could be enacted. it fired them back up today, and one of the top posts in response to donald trump s post today was just one that said, nuke them from orbit, which was referring to the deep state and people like joe biden. let me read ben, i just want to give our viewers some context. i m not sure i ve ever led with the qanon story on this program since it launched. this is senator chris murphy s tweet today. i just think everyone, including the mainstream press, needs to take seriously the growing culmination between
qanon followers, a disinformation group she at one time was affiliated with. she said she had no idea what people talk about in q forums. as far as that s concerned, she did obviously the right thing. gloria, what do you make of this apology from marjorie taylor green? i think what we saw today was the congresswoman without the snark that we are used to. she was clearly schooled in some history that perhaps she wasn t aware of when she made those remarks or maybe she was. i think she s under a great deal of pressure, both from her leadership in congress and other republicans around the country to resttract what she said. i think we ll have to see how she behaved in th d in the fu.