police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
Two hostages have been released by hamas. They are Yocheved Lifshitz and nurit yitzhak, two elderly women, according to a source. A Release Falling Mediation By Cutter and egypt. They were taken out of gaza by the red cross. The source telling nbc news that they are in good health. One of the hostages was in dire need of medication. You can see here, according to the times in israel, she was a founder of the of some of the most horrific violence that was inflicted upon israelis and the terrorisattack of october 7 by hamas. Lifshitz is his Peace Activist who readily transported patients from gaza for medical treatment inside israel. Her husband is believed to still be held captive i hamas. The release of two hostages comes days after two americans, judith and natalie were free from hamas on friday. This is where we start the hour with josh letterman. Former cia director, Senior National kersey as, john brennan is back. And then we have john hudson with us. With us at the table, Executiv
Nobody is more establishment hand richard shelby. he is the establishment s establishment guy, and the fact his chief of staff won in alabama, and the fact that that s being considered a victory for trump well, that is some pretty, i guess you would call it thin gruel, isn t it? yeah. i mean, this said nothing about trump and an affinity for katie britt as much as i think it said about trump and consem tempt he felt for mo brooks. it is not just the ties to shelby. this also put trump on the same page as mitchell. because this is mcconnell s candidate in alabama. trump and mcconnell found themselves on the same side. what happened with brooks and trump was combination of things. brooks wasn t polling the way trump maybe suspected he would. he thought maybe he was jumping off a sinking ship when he
Investigation, we ll knnot see. i think we re all going to be curious about it. but i personally am prepared to read a lot of blacked out lines. but i think the context is is important. if it s blacked out, it matters to the investigation. if it isn t, it might be manafort specifically. so now william barre. how do we take william barre. a guy who said there s too many democrats on the mueller team. a guy who has questioned the president should be awe loied to start an investigation if he wants referencing hillary clinton. this is a guy who did the are right thing with comey. this is what trump wants to hear. but he s an establishme menment. he s an establishment guy who joe biden praised in the 90s. he s someone who got a lot of praise for running the justice department in a professional way. he s not someone who would seem like an obvious political lackey who would just protect the president as trump said
He was the head of the rnc, held have the bush white house and big lobbyist for a long time. establishment guy. maybe he should have run as who he is. laura: i think in the end the democrats are going to say ah-hah. first they were reporting that gillespie keeps trump at arm s length. that was the narrative. then it was gillespie is as right to become trump. the story line they wanted was trump has no momentum in virginia. has no momentum, he s going down the tubes. remember, you pointed out in 2009, bar ram obama won triumphantly in 2008. 2009 was chris christie in new jersey, and bob mcdonald. the bright new faces. laura: and now not so bright, maybe. laura: i like chris christie and bob mcdonald as well. but as a barometer for the future, what does it really