because we have seen border arrests dropped 60% since may, having that kind of success which is a success of president trump and putting that pressure on mexico to enforce more, congress probably won t act because they don t do anything unless it s a dire crisis so the less inclined congress is going to act. elizabeth: the numbers were up 338% just two months ago from people crossing that border. they weren t acting anyway. i do want to say quickly something about there were temporary because you asked a great question, is this temporary? everything is temporary. we are temporary. we don t live forever, nothing lives forever. does that mean we shouldn t do anything? does that mean that if this is working, does this give us a window, and by us i mean congress, the politically constipated people on capitol hill, does this give
what are we going to do to ensure members of congress who are elected to serve the public, regardless of whether those members in their communities and districts and states voted for them, they have an ensemble foundation to serve the public. we know right now is that gun rights are conflicting with human rights, the right to live. for all the people especially on the conservative side of the aisle who says they are pro-life, you should be pro-life when it comes to gun kills. where are you? where are you when the right to live, people being killed, kids andrew just talked about his kids and the kinds of conversations he s going to have with his children as they go to school. do we want those conversations with kindergartners, preschoolers? it s incumbent to do something about this when the president won t act. i m depressed, exhausted, tired. an age old adage, i m sick and
something more has to be done about guns, that the senate won t act? this is not normal. what we re seeing in this country is not necessary, not normal. it s preventable. there are solutions. for far too long our politicians have been doing the bidding of the gun lobby. they don t answer to what the american people want and need which are steps to be taken to make our country safer. he should call the senate back and the senate should vote on these measures. more than 90% of americans support them. will they vote for it? is the power and the money of the gun lobby stronger than the american people? think about all the responsible gun owners? could they not stand up and says the nra no longer represents what our beliefs are? absolutely they could and they should. in fact, the nra s approval ratings have been tanking lately. they re under so much attack, whether it s under investigation, internal dissent. not only do they not represent gun owners, they don t even represent nra memb
do that. it just got results here. in the last few month. this could be months, weeks, year long process. not a lot legal he politically obviously an important step for democrats to take. of course they re not going forward on impeachment proceedings and unclear why this matters because her not wanting to move forward on the thing that they could do if they wanted to which is impeachment. nancy pelosi putting up the brick wall on that one. she said she wants president trump in jail. and it s not worth impeachment. she has got the process in place in the constitutional responsibility and she believes that the president did something improper, illegal, she has all the authority in the constitution to take the proceedings and go forward, she cannot put him in jail, she can conduct impeachment proceedings and she s unwilling to do that. the answer of the senate won t act on the president
the acting homeland security secretary says migrant children are staying in congress even longer because congress won t act. more on the situation next.