system by adding additional disqualifying items. if we re serious about finding common ground and building consensus, those sorts of things will stand no chance of passing the senate. a lot there of what they won t do. that is john cornyn of course chief negotiator for the republicans in these bipartisan talks on a gun safety deal. a limited deal to be clear, but one that is now building momentum in the wake of the uvalde school massacre. so what is off the table? raising the minimum age to buy a semi automatic weapon like an ar-15. but republicans say that they looking at changing criminal background checks to include essentially scouring the juvenile records which would create an enhanced waiting period. so what is on the table? creating incentives for states to pass red flag laws, those are the laws that when actually used properly can keep guns out of the hands of people deemed a danger to themselves or others about also at issue, improving the background check system t
the courthouse. lisa rubin, catherine christian and caroline polisi. thank you all for being with us. in the meantime, ken, what can we expect from this hearing and remind us of the parameters of the current gag order. reporter: it prohibits former president trump from criticizing the prosecutor, special counsel jack smith and members of his team, court personnel and witnesses or potential witnesses in the case. it does not prohibit him from criticizing the justice department or the biden administration or saying that this entire prosecution is corrupt. but what the judge concludes is when former president trump makes specific attacks on individuals on social media, it s often the case that those individuals are then harassed and targeted by trump followers. that happened in the case of the judge herself, who was the target of a death threat after former president trump criticized her. so former president trump s lawyers are saying this is a violation of his first amendment
investigating his belief that there was fraud in the election that, if found, would tip the results toward him. in and of itself, i don t know that that is criminal. it s bad behavior, but i don t know if it were nothing else it would amount to a criminal law violation. however, in arizona, if you remember, there were multiple fake electors schemes ongoing run by the republican party of arizona, another one by a group called the sovereign citizens to have great state of arizona. those were undertaken, allegedly, by the trump campaign. all of that could rise to election interference under both state and perhaps federal law. you remember the cyber ninjas
probably stick as on point as this? well, exact litly right. they allege that this group of people, these proud boys and previously the oathkeeperss, conspired to essentially interrupt the workings of the government by force, by violence. and that is an act of sedition and that is a conspiracy because they were a group of people. and so the charges essentially you, proud boys, you oathkeepers, conspired to essentially overturn our government by force and you will be charged with that as a criminal law violation. now, the witnesses who interacted with the proud boys are going to be featured in the hearing we understand. but we still haven t really seen actually at all a link between this group, this fringe group, or the oathkeepers, and the trump campaign or the former president himself, right?
still, as the sound piece said, that he was the author of this text. assuming he was, and he s just saying, hey, how about this for a strategy, just declare martial law effectively and declare yourself a winner, you know, maybe that is an obstruction of some sort but maybe an immoral act, unconstitutional act than it is necessarily a criminal law violation. you mentioned mark meadows. mark meadows name continues to be mentioned because a lot of these text messages seem to have, you know, went straight through mark. can you talk more about how this then white house chief of staff, how central he is to this investigation in finding out what transpired through the white house before, during, and after january 6th. if you think of a wheel that has a hub in the middle and spokes that come out of it, meadows was the hub.