situation is fluid. we ll be listening to what nancy pelosi has to say. and it gets to a larger question, is momentum building for some big wins, a bill that helps us compete with china now heads to the president s desk for signature. and democrats have senator manchin on board for a bill they are calling the inflation reduction act that addresses everything from climate change to health care. couldn t come at a better time with the midterms fast approaching and democrats fighting to hold on to control of congress. and there are policy challenges from the war in ukraine to securing the release of brittney griner. there is iran and russia and china whose leader the president spoke with yesterday amid rising tensions of pelosi s trip to the region and potentially taiwan. let s dig into all of this. wehave mike memoli and also ali vitali. and we have our mcrib contributors. ali, what more can you tell us about the situation of the bills? reporter: at this point it is really fl
yeah, we are going to vote on the assault weapons ban. this is the right thing to do. i ve long said we should reinstitute the ban. we had it for a decade in place and when we had it in place, mass shootings using these weapons went down by over 30%. so we know it actually works. i m a former army ranger, i grew up a hunter, i m a gun owner now, i didn t take an assault weapon into the woods to go deer hunting and i certainly didn t take my tear hunting rifle with me to iraq and afghanistan to fight for this country because the weapon matters. they are designed to do very different things and i know that really well. and we don t need these weapons of war on or streets. so let s get back to the tax health care and climate change dealing that was negotiated between senators manchin and schumer. you will go back and tell your constituents about this. what will you tell them, how
so he s just mad at the world. he s got all of his grievances. but look, go to your second question with the ar-15 and what you were just talking about with robin, if he exited the vehicle or shot from the vehicle with a handgun, those two troopers would have been able to beat him in a gun battle. i have been in a few gun battles in texas and florida when i was an uniformed officer, it makes a difference if you have a pistol, rifle or shotgun. if he pulled a pistol, we wouldn t have seven dead and 21 wounded. we might have had an officer shot or two but he would not have been able to corral them. you can kill a lot of people with a handgun in close quarters but driving down the street, you re not going to be able to kill that many people because you cannot be that accurate from a moving vehicle and distance. so the weapon matters. the weapon really matters. of course, the ar is what
pass out bazookas. start selling neutron bombs on the open market and when people start using them, say it s not the owner i mean, it s just the bazooka owner. obviously the size of the cartridge matters. obviously the kind of weapon matters. that s why you can t buy bazookas or neutron bombs or weaponized drones because these things matter. it s very, very frustrating, the shame that i see right now is that on the one hand we re not doing enough about mental health, but then we have people who are hiding behind the fact that we re not doing one thing to stop us from doing anything else. that s wrong, too. marco rubio said today we s warned he will filibuster any new gun legislation. how can that be an appropriate response to what happened at sandy hook? well, simply because we have gun laws already on the books. most of the proposals are simply redundancy. why are we paying individuals to go and essentially waste taxpayer dollars to argue laws
president of americans for tax reform and an nra board member. welcome to you all. van jones, i just spoke to richard feldman who was pretty close to the nra leadership for quite awhile and the message is loud and clear from the nra as it always is. more guns and you ll deal with gun violence. what do you say to that? well, i just think people are just flabbergasted to hear this. the idea that the kind of gun, the size of gun, the kind of magazine, well, then, fine, just pass out bazookas. start selling neutron bombs on the open market and when people start using them, say it s not the owner i mean, it s just the bazooka owner. obviously the size of the cartridge matters. obviously the kind of weapon matters. that s why you can t buy bazookas or neutron bombs or weaponized drones because these things matter. it s very, very frustrating, the shame that i see right now is that on the one hand we re not