Big thank you to alex wagner. Always a pleasure to have you. Always a pleasure to be here. For all of your 2016 updates, until tomorrow we have this to say. Namaste. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Trump alone. Lets play hardball. Good evening. The man who will be the republican nominee for president of this country stands on a Mountain High up there and
alone. Is that because they see no victory coming. Amy fear is donald trump is the head of the Narcissist Party than the Republican Party. I think hes being very selfish. I do not support Hillary Clinton and i told the public i do not support donald trump either. I think hes too bigoted and racist. We got a long way to go. It seems to a lot of us that the train is off the track. Not a lot of happy campers in terms of how this race is proceeding so far. Its painful. People even get divorces. Sometimes things come about that, look, im sorry that this happened. Well see where it ends up. Im not making any final decision. At this point i just cant do it. Donald trumps response to all that, who cares. Yesterday he told supporters in atlanta that Republican Leaders need to be quiet. Republican, honestly, folk, our leaders have to get tougher. Our leaders have to get a lot tougher. Be quiet. Dont talk. Just be quiet to the leaders. They have to get tougher. They have the get sharper. We have to have our republicans either stick together or let me just do it by myself. Ill do very well. Ill do very well. Let me do it by myself. Perhaps the most troubling figure for trump right now is the number 70. According to the latest Washington Post abc poll, that his national unfavorable rating. Its a historic high for Major Party Nominee for president. By comparisocomparison, hillary is viewed unfavorably by 55 of voters which is her highest negative number to date. Robert, youve been covering this guy for a long time. I guess my question is this the final plan of the Republican Party to say, you dont like hillary, vote for this guy. All we got on the republican side is a very high number, somewhere close to 50 of negativity toward hillary or more. Chris, theres a sense within the party that trump is not of the party and he is just running for trump. Some of them are comfortable with that. They think he can rouse working class voters and he could draw people to the polls. Theres not an embrace of bringing him into fold and people trying to get him to the trump camp. They cant stop him at the moment but they have to survive and endure. Whats it feel like to be shut off from this guy . Hows the gag order working for the Washington Post . Does the body of reporting at all. Hes shut out more and more. Everybody seems to be on this growing list of reporters that trump says cant come and cover
him. My reporting continues. So does the Washington Post. Ive been talking to my trump sources today. This is trump. They will continue to ride that train. Hang in there. Let me go to michael steele. Theres a howard biel thing catching on. When you say thing, i dont want your help and go away, shut up. Hes always been an independent actor. Hes been a lone wolf in terms of business and national media. This arrangement is that you have folks that have an opinion about what youre doing and they have a way in which they want you to do it. Hes rejecting that. He needs five times the vote that he got. Hes still running a primary
strategy in a general election in which case hows that going to work out for him . Its not going to work out. It will become more difficult later. The reality for trump right now, i think, chris, is does he want to share at least a little bit of that space with the party and its leadership so they can go into this convention and come out of it on a better footing than right now. They have to bring that 70 number down. They cannot afford to have it grow more or stick. A lot of people are born republicans. They will end up being dead republicans because this is the way they were brought up. Why wouldnt you want those automatic republican votes if youre donald trump . You would. Maybe you need to convert some of the ones who are democrats in
order to win. Hes going in the other direction. As Hillary Clinton is consolidating her vote, Bernie Sanders is why is spiking to the highest negative after the best week shes had . I dont get this. She played it brilliantly. Up to 55 negative. If it werent for trump, she would be breaking a record. Once you get a negative image but its going up. Donald trump is doing something to drive the republicans away. This is still within his grasp to move it in his direction. Okay, earlier today senator john mccain accused president
obama of being, quote, directly responsible for the attack in orlando. Here is the senators reasoning. Barack obama is directly responsible for pulling everybody out of iraq. Al qaeda went to syria and became isis. Isis is what it is today thanks to Barack Obamas utter failures by pulling everybody out of iraq making that conflict just because we leave. The responsibility lies with president barack obama and his failed policies. Thats directly responsible. He pulled everybody out of iraq and i predicted at the time that isis would go unchecked and be at attacks on the United States of america. Hes directly responsible. Senator mccain tried to clarify. I misspoke. I didnt mean to imply that the
president was personally responsible. I was referring to his National Security decisions, not the president himself. It quickly became political fodder. Senator mccains unhinged comments are the latest proof that Senate Republicans are puppets of donald trump. Meanwhile Trumps Campaign manager seized on mccains comments tweeting out the quote that the president was directly responsible. Let me go back to robert on this. Is this primary politics, general election politics. All afternoon, he was trying to pull it back but he ended up saying the same thing. The actions of president obama led to isis and ultimately to this attack. Why are getting back into that blame game again. Anybody can play this game. Whats the partisan ship getting unpleasant about all of a sudden . When senator mccain was up for reelection in 2010, we saw him ramp up his rhetoric on immigration. He see him when it comes to terrorism and National Security doing the same kind of tactic and strategy. I think what youre seeing from mccain is what youre seeing from a lot of people, orlando has changed how they talk about National Security and as mumpchs they are uncomfortable with trump, they sound like trump when they talk about the terrorists abroad. The voters do. They want things to be less complicated. Theyre looking for the straightforward, from the hip response to some complex issues. I know how to do that too. You take all the baptist leaders of iraq and threw them out without pay and without respect. They will go find another army to fight in. If you look at those guys vulnerable to tea party challenges, theyre afraid of the right. We saw it in 2010 with democrats on obama care. Its the same issue, only in reverse. I do respects mccain for his
war record and i do root for him all the time to say the right thing. He doesnt do it all the time. Robert costa, good to have you back. We missed you. The star of the reporting team of the Washington Post. Michael steele, thank you, sir. Coming up, president obama goes to orlando today. Hes one more in the role of consoler. Back here in washington, the democrats filibuster on gun safety worked. They successfully pressure the republicans to hold votes in the senate on stricter gun laws. Thats coming up ahead. Well see if anything will get done. Hillary clintons battleground blitz. Shes launching new campaigns in the key states that will decide the election. Thats always smart. Get him on the sidewalk and pounce. The hardball round table
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remembering those who you loved so deeply. As a nation, weve also been inspired by the courage of those who risk their lives and cared for others. Welcome back to hardball. That was president obama. He was speaking earlier today in orlando. The president and Vice President biden was there. Both paid their respects to the 49 victims of sundays nightclub attack. They also visited with families of the victims and survivors of the attack. For more on the visit im joined by nbc correspondent chris jansing. Thank you. Reporter i have to tell you, the skies have opened up. Its really a torrential storm here. Somehow its like a metaphor. He said their grief is beyond description talking about the family members he met with for two hours today. Afterward, he spoke for 17 mips
and talked about what was lost. About an 18yearold girl whose parents told him how happy she was and what dreams she had. It also turned into the frustration. You could hear it in his voice and when he taked about how something had to be done and said the family members pleaded with him to make sure this doesnt happy again. Then it turned to the politics. This is a president who has said before that the most frustrating thing, at least one of the most frustrate things about his presidency is hes not been able to get anything done legislatively in terms of the attack. He knows the clock is ticking. Hes also had the highest Approval Rating and we heard determination in his voice even as he laid 49 white roses along
with joe biden at a memorial to the victims. Chris. Thank you. Yesterday, democrats had a nearly 15hour filibuster led by chris murphy and cory booker. Question not go on with business as usual in this body. This individual could have been stopped. Every member of this body has probably stated or tweeted or their thoughts and prayers for the victims in orlando. They want to see more than thoughts and prayers. They actually want to see us act. If we fail to act, the next time someone uses a gun to kill one of us, a gun that we could have kept out of the hands of a terrorist, that members of this congress will have blood on our hands. It doesnt take courage to stand here on the floor of the United States senate for two hours or six hours or 14 hours,
it doesnt take courage to stand up to the gun lobby when 90 of your constituents want change to happen. Ask yourself, what can you do to make sure that orlando, or sandy hook never ever happens again. With deep gratitude to all those who have endures this very, very late night. I yield the floor. Democrats are asking for votes to be held on two amendments to ban those on the terrorists watch list from obtaining gun licenses and whether to expand background checks to gun shows. The cheap sponsor of a bill banning people on the terror watch list from buying guns. How do you reconcile keeping people from buying guns on the watch list with their Due Process Rights . Well, we provide due process
rights. We provide administrative appear or court appeal or both. That can take place. I think the problem here is and i think director brennan addressed it when he said his assessment is well see increasing attempts at attacks. Most of the people on this terrorist watch list, the overwhelming number are foreigners. Either isil selecting or selfselecting themselves with no record to come into this country to buy a weapon and to engage in a terror attack. I cant say thats for sure for everybody. It sure is for some. What we want is those on the terrorists watch list have an opportunity to when they get the background check, the Justice Department can review it and if
they have considered the evidence in totality and feel that the individual is a threat to our nations security, they can deny the purchase of a weapon. Now, realistically, this is a small step. People who are felons, are fugitives, are addicts, who are misdemeanor Domestic Violence convictions, theres ten categories for which you can deny a weapon and no one is saying anything about those. A terrorists is not included in those ten categories. Thats the problem. It should be. Thats what were trying to do. Suppose a suspect, someone on the watch list goes into the gun store and tries to buy a semiautomatic rifle. Theyre on the list. What would happen . I dont know what list youre talking to. The watch list. Theyre on the watch list and they go in to buy a gun. They have to do a background check. Well, what we provide for is within the appropriations, a program to be set up where by computer, the database can be checked on that individual and what they know and if theres suspicions, the pin goes to the Justice Department, the Justice Department can evaluate it. If they see fit, they can stop the sale. Right now the justice has no authority to stop the sale. How long can they stop it . Well, they can just stop it. That individual will not be able to buy a weapon in this country, period. How about the republican option . Do they have Something Like this thats more restrictive in terms
of the administration ability to do Something Like this . Yeah. As i understand, the bill is a 72hour provision. You have to have probable cause. Probable cause is the standard under which an arrest can be made. Under which you can go in and search an individual. This will reduce the numbers to very small and likely not be very efficient in really sensing out these people. These are people that you dont have that standard of information because you just dont know. What you do have with point out what has to be there in the bill. The Justice Department can make the finding and stop the sale. That would seem to be idiotic because it would say you have to go out and buy the gun first and put on a probable cause list. Let me ask you about senator
mccains comments that president obama is personally responsible then he said his actions are responsible by with drawing troops from iraq. Thats not the john mccain that i know. Im really sorry that he said that. I think what we need is more like and less hate on this subject. I dont think thats particularly helpful. I work with john. I have a great appreciation for him. I think hes wrong. Great. I hope you run for reelection. Thats my view. I hope you run again. One more term. Thank you very much. Thank you. Sglrn joining inin inin ining cory booker. Thank you for joining us. How is this debate, its very impressive filibuster, going to lead to an actual bill, something the president can sign . What ive been finding recently is how americans did not realize that you can be under investigation by the fbi, that you could have been put on the no fly list because you considered to be too dangerous to enter plane but you could still buy a truckload full of weapons. Here we have this real war that were on. A war against terrorism. Were telling our enemy to exploit this loophole. Our enemy has said we want you to use this loophole to attack and kill americans. Most of us know. Were at war. We need to shut down that loophole effectively. We need to do it as quickly as possible so we dont see more of these horrific attacks like we saw. Not to make the case for the gun guys but they have the argument that getting on an airplane is not a right. Owning a gun is a right. How do we deal with the due
process problem . First of all, i do see one. I really do. First of all, you and i both know first amendment, Second Amendment. None of these are absolute rights. I dont have the right to slander. We have understandable restrictions on those rights. Americans understand if you have a person bent on terror, we should do whats necessary to prevent them from getting a gun. If mistakes are made, because we know there are. There should be a process that a person can read that complaint. Thats what we have in the bill that will be voted on next week. The fbi, can the fbi say you cant get on an airplane. You cant buy a gun. Do you have to go to a judge to get that kind