supporters the gun show promoters were urging them to please take the deal how watered down the provisions were and how many sweeteners they got in the deal. the nra didn t show its cards and at the end came out, torpedoed the deal and then started running about $100,000 in ads against joe manchin, somebody they always supported, given high ratings to, willie, this just shows you the perils of what president trump is urging congress to once again do which is to go back and trust the nra, negotiate the nra. these are good guys, they want to get something done this time, it just shows that even on that modest measure where their own members were urging them to take the deal, the nra has moved to a place in this era of no compromise. and elise jordan, the nra is sitting in some polls with 3% of the american people, 97% of
you that i put to senator toomey by some of the ideas that a republican president, donald trump, who s taken a good deal, $30 million or so, of money from the nra over the course of his campaign, some of the proposals he put out that sounded to an awful lot of people like a gun control agenda? you know, i was heartened by what the president said and some of the commitments that he made to see this through to the end. i represent a district in central florida that was deeply affected by pulse and i will tell you that my constituents in florida want to see us take action and this might be a nixon goes to china moment for trump. he might be the only president who can help us advance some common sense gun safety measures because as senator toomey said, nobody believes he s trying to take away anybody s guns. congresswoman heidi przybyla has a question for you. you say you re heartened by what you saw yesterday but 2013 was not that long ago and what we saw was this congress resistant
from north korean negotiations so now south korea is do you think south korea is going to end up giving north korea a better deal than we would if we re sitting at the table? because you ve said their interests are not perfectly aligned with ours. well, the danger is they end up with their own dynamic and our concerns are not put at the front of the queue. that s why we should be doing this, i believe, ourselves. but what you say about asia more generally the other day mr. trump had the unfortunate tweet that the russians are sitting there laughing their asss off about the united states. it might be the chinese who are laughing theirs off. we get out of tpp, china is the great beneficiary of it. it s good news we re talking about possibly getting back into it. getting out of tpp was an economic as well as strategic disaster for us. it was an own goal in the words you re more comfortable with
sporting goods said they re no longer selling assault style weapons, they re making people be 21 before getting guns. walmart followed up. that s a pretty big footprint who they stopped selling assault style weapons a few years ago after newtown. they also went up to 21. fed ex really leaned forward yesterday and said hey, wait a second, ups also, you know, ships guns. we we are giving the nra the same deal that we give absolutely everybody else that ships with us in bulk, no preferential treatment, but and then fred smith at fed ex said but you will note we were the only people to come out and say our position is we believe assault weapons should be assault style weapons should be banned. they should be kept to the military and delivered the sort