senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese
republican republicans came to the conclusion that there were more political gains to be made for this bill, and standing with 90% of their constituents backing up the gun laws. that movement of families, of parents, who wants additional changes to gun laws, is just going to become stronger after uvalde, after highland park. i am realistic, i don t know that we are going to come back and pass another major anti gun violence bill in the next 30 days, but i don t think that these parents are and i know that these parents will not stop, and i think the congress will do more. that s what happens with the social change movements. once they get a taste of victory, they come back for more and more, and more. they usually get more, and more, and more. senator, we appreciate your time as always, thank you for covering so much ground with us tonight. senator chris murphy of connecticut, he is a member of the senate form relations committee. during yesterday s january 6th hearing, we learned
aggression continues. there s a bill that senator menendez in the senate form relations committee has put forth. and it is a very strong rebuke to russia, if they are to do any kind of an invasion or cyber ops or try to topple the ukrainian government, then the sanctions that are in that bill would automatically go into place. and those sanctions are heavy duty. putin, all of his assets, wherever they are around the world, frozen. russian banks, frozen. access to the international currency market, gone. frankly, the senate and the house need to get on with it and pass that legislation to strengthen president biden s hand. and also, to strengthen the hand and to strengthen the will of ukraine and to give putin some very serious kickback, should he try anything. now, no one thinks that a conflict between russia and ukraine would be an evenly
because the people i was starting this down with, had his differences with ben on his facebook page, lindsey graham, reinvigorated that rivalry even though lindsey graham salutes would be the afghanistan policy. bob corker was probably the biggest surprise prior to the president has not shown the stability. he needs to pick up the phone, this is solvable, fixable, that is coming may not like me, we might not hang out at night, but let s sandra: but these are all obvious things, that they would be better with a republican in the white house. why is all of this happening if that is also obvious? lisa: because he is attacking them on twitter. and a little bit of personal one-on-one diplomacy might go further than the president attacking jeff flake saying that he is going to endorse one of his primary opponents and also attacking lindsey graham and rehashing their presidential fight, because you have a razor-thin margin in the senate.
very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and who did not go in with a preset condition in terms of what questions to be asked or what decisions will be made. harris: senator ben cardin of maryland, the ranking democrat on the senate form relations committee was asked on fox news sunday for his take on the way forward in afghanistan. we have invested a great deal in afghanistan, the objective needs to be that we have a regime in afghanistan that can maintain some semblance of security so that we do not see growing terrorist organizations again within afghanistan. or should we put more military end? this is not the u.s. fight. i do not believe in putting more american soldiers in afghanistan is the answer. experience o brien, my top questions are, is this a search