do you see a change? i think the consciousness level has been raised, but i think, like the experts said at the hearing today, people are being rewarded for advocating this race replacement theory, and they are using their cable news shows, they re using their political pulpits to make it popular, get more ratings off of spreading evil. and we have to call that out. we cannot put politics over people anymore. and we have to, like garnell said, deal with the issue of white supremacy. we need to pass the antiblack hate crime bill. it needs to be very straightforward to the black community that keep bailing out the democrats to say speak to this issue directly on our behalf. garnell, before we go, is there anything you want to say about your mother, ruth, that you didn t get to say today? i ve been wonderfully blessed to have an opportunity to share memories of my mother with a pretty large audience. my mother was a great person, a great woman. she was my hero. she was our
legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. why do you think people need to have ar-15s in this country? you are talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. if we can introduce to them safely, they normally say that thing s not even scary. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. wednesday, june 8, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will hear the testimonies from the families of mass shooting victims reflecting on the lives they have lost. while gun policy, talks on a bipartisan deal, carry on, many believe it is not enough for the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. on tuesday, the u.s. senate heard from some of those families, they called on congress to take action on gun reform and hate crimes. one man s mother was killed when a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, new york last month. he remembered his mother as the heart of the family. what i loved most ab
laws. a source tells cnn that mitch mcconnell has privately expressed openness to raising the age to buy them but he won t say so publicly. it won t surprise you to know that i m not going to sit here and try to negotiate the deal with all you guys. we re waiting to see if we can get an outcome that directly relates to the problem that brought the issue to the fore. daniella diaz is live on capitol hill for us. what are republicans concerned about, are there divisions among them on this issue? reporter: there is divisions about what they actually want to see on any sort of gun safety legislation that could pass through the senate. there is still the more conservative senators like senator ted cruz and ron johnson that don t want to pass any legislation and wouldn t support any sort of bill in the senate. of course there are negotiatneg, john cornyn of texas being one of them, that is trying to reach some sort of deal to get ten republicans on board to support any gun sa
powerful republican in the senate is open to raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. he has said that in private, but mitch mcconnell has not and won t, it seems, say it in public. it is highly unlikely that it will be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks intensify between democrats and republicans. two weeks ago republican senate cynthia lieu mass of wyoming said she doubted any ideas to curb gun violence would be welcomed in her pro-gun state but now she s signaling an openness to finding legislative solutions because her office has been flooded with calls from con sit stants demanding an end to mass shooting. let s bring in arlette saenz and sunlen serfaty about this. let s talk about why discussions stand. there s optimism from both sides at this moment but they have not brokered a deal, have not had an agreement on some of these issues and that is what today is all about. today they have to sit down as negotiators, narrow their d
constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. as negotiations continue, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju pressed lawmakers about ar-15s and why people need them and he got a range of responses. here it is. why do you think that people need to have ar-15s in this country in. you re talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. people who are law abiding citizens are in good mental health and aren t a threat to the public. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints, so i think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. that s used for sporting events, for sporting activities all the time. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semi-automatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus, that came into the discussion. but right now we re trying to work on things w