in their recess. by the way, i m on my way to the hampton to a fund-raiser, hurry up, because i ve got to get out and pick up money. then i m going on an extended vacation. but trust me, even though i lied to you every time before, trust me after my vacation and my golfing and after mitch gets finished in kentucky, we re going to do this. what are we going to do? we re going to do background checks. we re not even going to talk about assault weapons. the fact of the matter is this whole tape you played where he said if though know guys have a gun, they won t come, they came. walmart is in a carry state. there was no way that 21-year-old didn t know people in that walmart didn t have guns. they sell guns in walmart. he didn t care anyway. he came in and started shooting no one somebody could have taken a gun off the rack and shot back. he was so full of hate and determined to do it. we are in a state of emergency and we have a president on his
the russians. the russians know the stronger we are as a unified voice, then it s harder for them to resurrect themselves. right now the russians what they re trying to do is resurrect themselves at any cost and they found someone in donald trump to do that work for them. and we can t be bullied, i know he s going through a twitter war. i went through it last week with the president. he needs to know and the democrats need to show they will not be bullied. he says i m a racist yet we were friends for 25 years. what did he have on blackface when i saw him for 25 years? i knew you were white. yet i was racist. we need to stand up to him, make him stand up to the country or get another president. phil rucker, i see signs of there s no way to spin your way out of being so politically rigid. and the ra jidty in his politics suggest he knows he s a hostage of the nra. the president doesn t have wiggle room on guns because he can t walk away from them.
bipartisan background check legislation. the president scrapped a rule making it harder for some mentally ill individuals to open guns and he s shown little-to-no interest in stronger measures such as an assault weapons ban. the bottom line, skeptics have every justifications for their pessimism when it comes to donald trump, his allies in congress and stranglehold the nra holds over both. here s congressman tim ryan with legislation on gun control will be front and center. that sound like the potomac two-step to me. they re playbook, donald trump, mitch mcconnell, national rifle association, their playbook has always been how do we slow walk this? how do we mealy-mouth it until it goes away, until the news cycle changes and something happens in the world or something happens in america and there s a natural disaster and the story goes back on the backburner. trump is saying we will have
slowly disappearing. there s no real reason to believe that the president has a commitment. there s no specific plan on the table, even though there are a lot of options. i want to dive into the news that broke this afternoon that the law enforcement has confirmed the killer s motive was to kill mexicans. i want to dive into trump s language on guns because he explained everything from arcade games to, you know, bad moods or mental illness and unhappy people. but i want you to tell me, i want you to explain to me sort of the organization of donald trump s brain. because i remember donald trump during the campaign at the nra convention and we didn t pull that out but he was i think the first and earliest person endorsed by the nra. he has been so proud and happy to be as aligned with the nra as he is. he has been he has talked about it as though it is in his mind a great political
i will be back at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the last word. and i will be back monday at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch on sirius radio, tune in, apple tv, and all over social media. it s time for deadline: white house with nicolle wallace. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. breaking news this afternoon the suspect accused of carrying out last weekend s massacre at the walmart in es-paso, texas, was specifically targeting mexicans. that s according to law firms earlier today. that confirmation comes on the same day donald trump promises, as he did after the parkland shooting, to do something on guns despite being warned not to by the nra. i have a lot of respect for the people at the nra and have spoken to them on numerous