me, and that gold was not made clear with syria. there were a bunch of different reasons. we lost american u.s. personnel because iran has been killing our people on the ground. we knew that there was almost a proxy situation going on on the ground. her member, we were in the air they were a lot of reasons. isis was on the list but they were not the primary. i want to give you the last word on that. jason: when i was in congress, we were giving president obama a hard time because we were saying who are our allies? how do you vet them? there are a lot of bad characters and it s a tough region. it s hard to come to a final solution. but if you don t define success, you will never get there. we haven t done that in these areas. we went to the point of isis, we still haven t defeated them. we just captured americans who are trying to join the parade you can t do and what isn t there. moving on, some republican lawmakers demanding a status check on the investigation into allegations o
we ve talked about the background checks issue specifically a number of times over the years. i wonder if you feel like the window is shifting at all, the window of what s possible and what can be reasonably discussed with an eye towards actually getting somewhere with the democrats taking control of the house. i got sworn in to congress for my second term to the senate this week, and i m furious that six years after i got sworn in right after the shooting in sandy hook we still haven t made any meaningful progress. but that the lies, the transformation that has happened in the american electorate over that time, this is now an issue that you have to run on, background checks, bans on assault weapons, if you want to win seats in the united states congress. and so you see this new wave of democratic freshmen who unapologetically enthusiastically went out there and ran on these issues and won. you see a race like georgia s sixth which was the epicenter of
for, you guessed it, universal background checks to buy a gun. but it will do so with the help of former congresswoman gabby giffords. the bill will be named h.r. 8 because it will be introduced on the eight-year anniversary of the shooting that almost took the life of congresswoman giffords and a shooting that killed six of her constituents. the democratic majority will introduce that in the house this upcoming week, and on his side of the capitol, senator chris murphy will also try again. joining us now is senator chris murphy of connecticut whose own bill on background checks he is ready to reintroduce. sir, i appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you for being here. thanks for having me. i want to ask you, we ve talked about this issue broadly. we ve talked about the background checks issue specifically a number of times over the years. i wonder if you feel like the window is shifting at all, the window of what s possible and what can be reasonably discussed with an eye towa
shoo sandy hook we still haven t made any meaningful progress. but that the lies, the transformation that has happened in the american electorate over that time, this is now an issue that you have to run on, background checks, bans on assault weapons if you want to win seats in the united states congress. and so you see this new wave of democratic freshmen who unapologetically enthusiastically went out there and ran on these issues and won. you see a race like georgia s sixth which was the epicenter of the political world right after trump s election. john ossoff lost, having frankly stayed away from the gun issue. two years later, lucy mcbath, whose son was killed in gun violence, ran on the issue and won, a swing district. as you mentioned the eight races we targeted won as well. it used to be that guns turned out republicans in general elections. that s not how it works any longer. exit polls show from last
100 times virtue made false statements about it. the fbi was aware that at least one of her aides also mishandled classified information in one of the folks employed on behalf of secretary clinton intentionally destroyed evidence known to be subject to a congressional subpoena and preservation order in line to the fbi about it. you go on and say on july 5th, 2016 years to be you nor any reasonable prosecutor would rate any charges in this pattern. is that accurate? he answers you to say yes i believed it then and i believe it now. yeah, maria coming your folks come on the show and try to spin things. the reason i put that out there is that is the actual transcript. that s what he said in response to my question in the american people have a hard time reading not and believing that is why they re so upset. the maria: we still haven t seen accountability. i ll ask you again and i know i ve asked you a lot this year, will there be accountability to