obama will get most of the credit but republicans will get some. on guns with this recent agreement between senators toomey and manchin, that also will, i believe, not just pass the senate, but it will be approved in the house. the reason being wow, you are optimistic, sir. here s why, chris, this is why this bill is going to go through in the house. obviously there are some republicans who are scared of primaries, but if they are in swing districts, several of them there s ten of them. which were carried by obama, they have to worry about those ads paid for by mike bloomberg and others that have newtown parents in them, that are denouncing them for being on the wrong side of this issue. what wants to sail into that wind? they will come around to this legislation. you re making the case. i don t think it s there yet. thank you, mayor brown, about the exposition i think is true about past and future. thank you, jonathan. i think you re way ahead of time
historically, has been the predicate for taxation, regulation, and ultimately for confiscati confiscation. that s what this fight is all about. they want a registry because they want to limit the liberties of law-abiding citizens. i don t know where to start in terms of taking that apart. deconstruct it. there s no talk of a registry. what in history in this country has ever been confiscated? i ve never had my car confiscated. it s been registered. people have their fishi ining licenses. their fishing poles aren t confisca confiscated. chris, look, they can t really argue against background checks. it s really hard to say. you know, you and i grew up, remember we heard the nra say guns don t kill people, people kill people? the logical result of that is, let s do background checks and keep the guns out of the hands of people who shouldn t have them. this registry thing is the best argument they have. frankly, i m disappointed in senator cruz. he s a really senator guy. there s noth
that means that probably they will bring along enough senators to support not universal background checks but expanding the current system to include gun shows and internet sales. beyond that not private sales. not private sales. relative exactly. or any other private sales. we re going to get more information about that tomorrow, what they ve been working on. but beyond that, we also expect the senate to actually take up debate on this on thursday. we expect it to be a couple of weeks, but if senators toomey and manchin can come together, that will certainly not be what everybody wanted who have been pushing for these new gun measures, but they call it a baby step and they say they ll take what they can get. fascinating interview. appreciate it. thanks.
there is news tonight about legislation. what are we hearing? we reported on your show last night that senators joe manchin and pat toomey, democrat and republican, both very big gun rights supporters, were working on a deal. they actually have scheduled a press conference tomorrow morning and senator manchin s staff says they feel confident that they can at this point get a deal and announce a deal by tomorrow morning. what does that mean? that means that probably they will bring along enough senators to support not universal background checks but expanding the current system to include gun shows and internet sales. beyond that not private sales. not private sales. relative exactly. or any other private sales. we re going to get more information about that tomorrow, what they ve been working on. but beyond that, we also expect the senate to actually take up debate on this on thursday. we expect it to be a couple of weeks, but if senators toomey and manchin can come tog
we reported on your show last night that senators joe manchin and pat toomey, democrat and republican, both very big gun rights supporters, were working on a deal. they actually have scheduled a press conference tomorrow morning and senator manchin s staff says they feel confident that they can at this point get a deal and announce a deal by tomorrow morning. what does that mean? that means that probably they will bring along enough senators to support not universal background checks but expanding the current system to include gun shows and internet sales. beyond that not private sales. not private sales. relative exactly. or any other private sales. we re going to get more information about that tomorrow, what they ve been working on. but beyond that, we also expect the senate to actually take up debate on this on thursday. we expect it to be a couple of weeks, but if senators toomey and manchin can come together, that will certainly not be what everybody wanted who have