at the time parkland, florida high school. he plans to introduce a bill to ban high capacity magazines, so let s go to capitol hill to cnn congressional reporter liz landers and liz, there are no republican cosponners for this bill so how likely that it becomes law? reporter: brooke, this is going to be an uphill battle for democrats right now but it s a battle that they are willing to fight. as you said, it s been a year since that parkland shooting happened and there s been no meaningful legislation in either the house or the senate on gun control. congressman deutsch who represents that district joined with bob menendez to reintroduce a ban on high capacity magazines for guns. that means any device that attaches to a weapon that has ten rounds of ammunition or more. deutsch spoke just a few moments ago at a press conference. here s what he said about that bill. the few seconds that it takes to
the wealth. is that fair? i do think we have an uphill battle for democrats in texas. last time a democrat won state wide was before i left the state in 1995. it s perfectly fine for beto to decide to keep this money. here s where this race i think is going to come down to the fact that it shouldn t be this close, right? ted cruz has the numbers. the registered voters that are republican. the strength of the republican party. the texas democratic party is rebuilding. so it shouldn t be this close, but it is. the thing is, we also have to look at the facts. texas was closer in 2016 than iowa was as a swing state. dana: people forget about that. that s right. he s tapping into that. it s going to take investing in this state whether the electoral gain is immediate or not. dana: yesterday in the oval office, the president saw the
growing opposition to key policy decisions including tariffs has created another headache for republicans facing a difficult political landscape with widespread expectations of a so-called blue wave. new analysis from the cook political report shows democrats could pick up as many as 40 seats. they only need 23 to gain back control of the house. but it s still an uphill battle for democrats in the senate. joining me, charlie cook, editor and publisher of the cook political report. even with 40 seats, the democrats would gain a lot of control, they would have subpoena power, control of chairs. but they would not necessarily have effective legislating control because of the divisions in caucuses and the power particularly of the freedom caucus on the republican side. that s right, andrea. between right now democrats need 23 seats. we see the most likely outcome as a net gain for democrats of between 20 and 40.
that president is a bigot. i think it will be an uphill battle for democrats, but i don t think it s out of the question for them to take back the house. wow. that is really interesting. you both went uphill battle. democrats are certainly fighting back. can i ask you about chuck schumer and me and nancy pelosi. some democrats are denying the power of pelosi and schumer, particularly in district 18, where they ll see redrawing of lines and things could be different in november after the special election where the kind of gop-like democrat won. what do you do with the old guard? by old, i mean experienced. democrats, winning in these special elections, aren t hiding the party affiliation. the d is right there next to
be more popular than legislation that have kind of entitlement but poll numbers weren t that different back then, david. yeah, no. i mean, it was an uphill battle for democrats. they passed what was an unpopular piece of legislation. as you know, it has grown more popular with time. right. as people have gotten used to it. and i think republicans are hoping that this piece of legislation will also grow more popular with time if people feel a little more money in their pocket. they re banking on it. the nancy pelosi model of we have to pass it to see what s in it, david, is what they re banking on. anc a.b., i think the similarities are eerie. republicans railed against that then because they said you ll have to live it. you ll have to love it while you live it basically. let s show you the timeline for how fast tracked this is. the house is expected to vote on it today. the senate will take it up shortly after, whenever that