graham and democratic senator richard blumenthal. plus, on the trail, as candidates make their pitch to voters, one democrat goes all in on a major issue. i am pro-choice and i am going to be governor because of my commitment to the women of georgia. what is the winning strategy for november? democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams joins me ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering how long they will go. you re looking at live pictures of the senate floor where tired lawmakers are still voting after more than 12 hours of all night debate on the democrats sweeping tax, health and climate package. right now, democrats have stayed largely united as republicans and bernie sanders offer up amendments to the bill. but now we re learning democrats may be trying to make some changes of their own. i want to go straight to capitol hill to cnn s chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, what s the latest? reporte
washington, president biden acknowledged his own power is limited. i can t outlaw a weapon. i can t change the background checks. i can t do that. the best hope of senate working group is diving in with a source telling nbc news that the group feels a new urgency. they have met twice in person, continued to text and e-mail and will meet again virtually tomorrow. but there maybe one key voice standing in the way. the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. as one of our guests latest put it, he s behind a deade s long effort to block gun control. so what is really on the table? lths dive right in with white house correspondent carol lee, washington post bureau chief ashley parker is also senior political analyst. thanks to both of you. carol, you re one of the reporters who wrote a story with the headline inside a biden white house adrift and it points to the texas shooting as a horrific reminder the president has not successfully pushed congress to pass legisla
storage, ethan s law named after ethan song who perished at a friend s house as a result of playing with a firearm, and a variety of other measures including the background checks system, maybe repealing the sweetheart deal with the manufacturers that give them absolute immunity. is any of that going to fly with republicans? i m certainly, you know, i m not going to do anything to gun manufacturers, playing them for an action of somebody who commits their crime. so that s off the table. ar-15, i m not going to ban ar-15s. but sandy hook looms larger. happened in connecticut. so uvalde, the guy s nickname was the school shooter on the website he hung out, parkland, the cruz guy, 30 visits by the cops. he did everything but take an ad up in the paper he s going to kill people. what more can you do beyond what has already been done? incentivize states to give them the tools they need to deal with this before it is too late.
see a rise in mental health services. 76% said faculty and staff members expressed concerns about depression, anxiety and trauma in students. and that s from the pandemic. doesn t even take into effect the impact of what we have seen over the last week from uvalde. we do know after sandy hook nearly ten years ago, no new gun laws were passed. after a after parkland, no action from congress. i m joined now by mahmoudy mcconaughey, an english teacher in maryland, that s just outside of d.c. she s also a new mother and wrote a delaware stating teacher s plea for gun reform. first of all, congratulations on the baby. but thank you for writing this because i think you expressed what so many teachers are thinking and feeling. let me ask you first about that study. does it sproiz you at all just how stressed out students are these days? do you think that school shooting will exacerbate an
they have been why will someone not stand up. the mayor of uvalde it not said a word since last week. he granted an interview to a local affiliate yesterday. it was a pool interview. it was disseminated to other networks and news stations. there was no one else there to ask any questions except this one reporter. you might argue that s not exactly stepping up to the plate and answering the difficult questions when you re control ing the environment in which you re interviewed. and i also just want to point out that you arrived in uvalde from houston. the nra convention, i wonder in your conversations with the community since you have gotten there, in addition to wanting those answers to what happened, are they talking about gun reform? reporter: it does come up. it depends on who you talk to and what you ask and what they want to bring up a at that moment. some come here and they are too emotional to think about anything outside of the victims here. but it does come up. and one thi