America, political commentator kayleigh leigh, bob beckel, and political commentator buck sexton and amy holmes. A very lovely team. Whats your reaction . Weve seen the tenor of this race continue to deteriorate. Theres no pretense anymore. You now basically have all the candidates walking away from the pledge, the pledge to support whoever is the gop nominee. I think ted cruz notably has the one who was in the best decision to deny trump the nomination is saying hed be a disaster if he got the nomination, he would hand it to Hillary Clinton. Did anybody come out ahead . I think cruz made a pretty strong conservative pitch, particularly in a state hes in a good position to win, or at least to win the most delegates in. That will be important if hes going to put an important stumbling block in front of trump. So the new guy stole my news about trump. The new guy making news today. Do you continue to pledge whoever the republican nominee is . No, i dont anymore. You dont . No. You wont p
Im fredricka whitfield. Two big stories today. Lots to talk about following that democratic debate. But first, donald trump today launching his harshest attacks against jeb bush on nbcs meet the press, calling him an embarrassment for the bush family. Jeb bush ramping up his insults towards the gop frontrunner over the weekend. This really is getting pretty ugly. Hes an embarrassment to the bush family, and in fact he doesnt even want to use the bush name, which is interesting. Just one other thing, i have to get this off my chest. Donald trump is a jerk. You cannot insult your way to the presidency. It was so sad to watch him. So sad. Bush. No. It was just sad. I mean, its like close to incompetent. You look at that, it was terrible. For us to win, donald trump cant be the nominee. Hes never going to beat Hillary Clinton. Its just not possible. Anyone you want to call out by name . Im the only guy thats speaking out about the lack of seriousness of donald trump, not being able to apps
Attack. They are demanding a vote on gun control. A team of democrats led by georgia congressman john lewis, the civil rights icon delivering an impassioned speech. Mr. Speaker, i would ask that all of my colleagues join me on the floor. I wonder what would bring this body to take action . What would finally make congress do what is right, what is just, what the people of this country have been demanding and what is long overdue . We have laws, hundreds and thousands of innocent people to gun violence, tiny little children. We can no longer wait. We can no longer be patient, so today we come to the well of the house to dramatize the need for action, not next month, not next year, but now today we have to occupy the floor of the house until there is action. Rise up, democrats. Rise up, americans. This cannot stand. We will occupy this floor. We will no longer be denied a right to vote. And then the members started to tweet, tweeting out photos, showing their solidarity, showing their de
Launch and despite kim jonguns presence, it does not have anyone laughing. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news and high drama on capitol hill. Democratic lawmakers are staging a sitin on the floor of the u. S. House of representatives. They are led by congressman john lewis and protesting the unwillingness of republicans who control the house to even allow a vote on gun control legislation ten days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern u. S. History. If youre wondering why were using photographers and periscope to show you this instead of using cameras inside the house chamber, the ones you pay for, thats because shortly after democrats began this show of defiance, republicans gavelled into recess and as is protocol, the cameras were shut off. Lets go to manu raju on capitol hill. Reporter frustration has been building upon democrats. Democratic senator chris murphy demanded action and today it was the House Democrats turn. Furious democrats take to t
Reported yeas and nays. Theyre having a vote if they will adjourn. They will if there are enough republicans on the floor to record their votes. Why thats important, too, what they will do now, democrats will take that vote and use that against the republicans to say that they chose to adjourn instead of dealing with what we consider a major issue that the American People want to see passed. This is now a Strong Political ploy by the democrats against the republicans. Do we still have audio of this . Can we still hear . Now theyre voting. Its just milling around. Got you. Its hard to see how many people are there. The question is, weve been talking about how, you know, wouldnt it be interesting if donald trump is the one who could broker a deal, considering his stance on this particular issue. Where does that leave your candidate, Christine Quinn . Look, i think thats a fair question. Could donald broker this. Weve seen no evidence that hes willing to put his Political Capital on the l