affirmatively. you d think you d want to get your bad cop statement out there and have the president follow up. i don t know. in a sense it doesn t matter. ultimately what people are looking for is what the president says and important as the state department is, the auth authoritative voice is the president s. and the fact that they chose not to show the irregularities, that speaks volumes. there are those who believe this president sort of has a pension for strongman for overseas, whether it s cc in egypt or here in turkey. i think clearly that s the case and it s very unfortunate. there s a very interesting moment that s taking place on the turkish refer endm. the president of the united states calls to congratulate
it looks like it s going to be defeated one way or the other. so in a sense it doesn t matter if ted cruz and others are blocking it from coming to a vote. they can kill it in the house. they can kill it in any number of ways. the point is the nra, the gun lobby why don t they want a vote? why don t they want a vote? well, because 90% of the country by numerous polls is supporting the idea of near universal background checks. it doesn t make a whole lot of sense to oppose it. the nra used to support it. you said they could win. if they could win why don t they want to have the vote? then they can screw the other guys. carolyn maloney from new york. thank you for joining us, congresswoman. thank you for having me. i don t like to talk about this, but you ve been threatened. that s true. that shows you how deep and intense this gun safety debate is in the country. what s going on? what s happened to you in your office? what has been the threat, the nature of the threat?
knows he doesn t have the votes here. 40 votes or less. sure. it looks like it s going to be defeated one way or the other. so in a sense it doesn t matter if ted cruz and others are blocking it from coming to a vote. they can kill it in the house. they can kill it in any number of ways. the point is the nra, the gun lobby why don t they want a vote? why don t they want a vote? well, because 90% of the country by numerous polls is supporting the idea of near universal background checks. it doesn t make a whole lot of sense to oppose it. the nra used to support it. you said they could win. if they could win why don t they want to have the vote? then they can screw the other guys. carolyn maloney from new york. thank you for joining us, congresswoman. thank you for having me. i don t like to talk about this, but you ve been threatened. that s true. that shows you how deep and intense this gun safety debate is in the country. what s going on? what s happened to you i
because there s a bunch of filibusters out there saying we don t want to have to have a vote. look, a lot of it is also on the democratic side. harry reid said i don t want to bring up assault guns because he knows he doesn t have the votes here. 40 votes or less. sure. it looks like it s going to be defeated one way or the other. so in a sense it doesn t matter if ted cruz and others are blocking it from coming to a vote. they can kill it in the house. they can kill it in any number of ways. the point is the nra, the gun lobby why don t they want a vote? why don t they want a vote? well, because 90% of the country by numerous polls is supporting the idea of near universal background checks. it doesn t make a whole lot of sense to oppose it. the nra used to support it. you said they could win. if they could win why don t they want to have the vote? then they can screw the other guys. carolyn maloney from new york. thank you for joining us, congresswoman. thank you for