supporter of the second amendment, and a member of the nra, i would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the family and all those suffering in uvalde. this is a time to focus on the families first and foremost. he joins a number of musicians who canceled their appearance, as well as texas senate john cornyn and congressman dan crenshaw. those lawmakers saying it is due to scheduling conflicts. texas governor greg abbott scheduled to speak here will send a recorded video message. he will be in uvalde as well. 55,000 people, as i mentioned, are expected to attend the nra annual meeting. three organized protests also plan the nra rejecting calls from critics to cancel. saying as we gather in houston, we will reflect on these events, pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members and
governor dan patrick canceled his appearance tweeting while a strong supporter of the second amendment and an nra member, i would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in uvalde. this is a time to focus on the families first and foremost. he joins a list of musicians who canceled their appearances as well as texas senator john cornyn and texas congressman dan crenshaw. those lawmakers saying it was due to scheduling conflicts. protesters have been gathering all day yelling at attendees as they enter the building. in the crowd we found rachel conner a texan who hunts and supports the second amendment but not the timing of this event. i think they should have said, you know, we can do this another time. those families who are suffering, grieving, who probably don t have enough money to bury their kids. this is an affront to them. we also talked to nra member
plot to overthrow the biden presidency. boris, christi? thank you so much for breaking it towdown for us. prescribe vows to fight for voting rights. senate majority leader says the senate is taking up votes next week. daniel a diaz joins us from capitol hill. run us through the timeline that schumer is proposing. boris, the way it was going to go, they were planning to vote this week on thursday on voting rights legislation, but because of scheduling conflicts, a senator has covid, they decided to push it and buy time. they plan to take it up tuesday, even though the senate was originally scheduled to be in recess. the problem here is exactly what you said, boris.
he does. maybe that was the best strategy. dana: katie, last word to you. katie: i was not an olympic diver, but i was an actual diver, so trying to stay with his analogy, so he insisted yesterday he is not a socialist, but he certainly is a prophecy for bernie sanders who is in charge of the senate budget committee and has tried and failed to govern the socialist multitrillion dollar bill which failed, the other thing yesterday when he said that he is going to be campaigning a lot, i bet republicans love to that, and i think the democrats are going to say they have lots of scheduling conflicts in a tough position like stacey abrams, lots of scheduling conflicts and appointments when the president wants to come and campaign for them when he is sitting at 30% approval. so i think that the dnc will not like that strategy. dana: you think they can
sign. the problem is this the reform needed in washington when you put these bills together. it starts out with people, legislators, supposedly caring about infrastructure. what ends up happening is you have members of congress, you start stuffing things in these bills. rand paul has done a good job of exposing this. they have nothing to do with infrastructure. it s just pet projects, a ton of work, not a good look. the economy is so remarkable. i would think all of the democrat lawmakers and candidates would show up to grieve the president, but in fact, two and heated races are not, including the senate contender for the democratic party in pennsylvania. scheduling context sounds a lot like stacey abrams and her scheduling conflicts. usually, you clear your schedule when the president of the united states is coming, but they are not. why is that? do you think maybe it s because of his historic all-time low approval rating?