compounded by familiarity. this is for accoloradans the thd mass shooting in a generation. i don t need to wait another minute let alone an hour to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the house and senate to act. we can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country. once again, we can close the loopholes in our background check system, including the charleston loophole. the united states senate, i hope some are listening, should immediately fas two-house bills that closed loopholes in the background check system. these are bills that receive votes with both republicans and democrats in the house. this is not and should not be a partisan issue. that is an american issue. it will save lives, american lives, and we have to act. tonight we ll talk about the chance for meaningful gun legislation with senator chris murphy who worked hard for reform after the killings at sandy hook elementary. we re joined
that. i don t need to wait another minute let alone an hour to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the house and senate to act. we can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country. once again, we can close the loopholes in our background check system, including the charleston loophole. the united states senate, i hope some are listening, should immediately pass the two house passed bills that close loopholes in the background check system. these are bills that receive votes with both republicans and democrats in the house. this is not and should not be a partisan issue. that is an american issue. it will save lives, american lives, and we have to act. tonight we ll talk about the chance for meaningful gun legislation with senator chris murphy who worked hard for reform after the killings at sandy hook elementary. we re joined as well by a survivor of this latest horror in just a moment, and we ll b
is gaining ground on his opponent. the clear politics average polling data shows him leading by less than two points. with over a week until election day. we begin this hour with mark meredith live in newport where he just wrapped a speech in his meeting with supporters. good afternoon to you, we are here in newport new virginia, we saw glenn yanking as he wrapped up into her all around the state he lost the bus to her yesterday and tried to see much as virginia because as you were talking about the pull show this is a close race you can see the crowd behind me there pretty fired up to hear from glenn he wrapped up his speech a few moments ago. what s been interesting the republican has a shot at the governors manchin that was considered not possible not that long ago but as he said that is not the case anymore. nine days out, nine days out from making the statement that is absolutely going to send a shockwave across america. a statement to say not here, number progressiv
heavy hitters from his party, ahead of an event with president biden scheduled for a tuesday. this as the latest polling shows youngkin gaining ground on his democratic opponent. mark meredith is leading our coverage. he s live in virginia and just spoke exclusively with glenn youngkin. it s been a busy weekend for the two men hoping to be the new governor of virginia. they have been crisscrossing across the state. where we are is where the republican candidate wrapped up an event, been surging in the polls lately with a major focus on two issues public safety and education. we have been with him all weekend long. the crowd is very enthusiastic for him, something many political experts may not have expected a few months ago in this traditionally blue state. the democrats are trying to label this political newcomer as an extremist but that hasn t been slowing down his momentum. democrats are bringing out every star they have to try to boost mcauliffe s campaign. yesterday fo
final decision, hey, mark. griff, good afternoon to you, he s opening the biggest names including former president barack obama will bring out his base and the voters. a poll came out that showed next and neck. the numbers have been surging in a race considered for a long time to be in democratest favor. mcauliffe is urging his party to take this more seriously as he tried to label his opponent, the trump. we don t need a donald trump in khakis, we need someone mo understands how serious this is. we don t need someone with no experience in government. but youngkin has been speaking out education, and controversial curriculum voices and he kicked off his own bus tour earlier this morning. folks, we re going to teach all history, the good and the bad. we re not going to air brush our history. [applause] but what we re not going to do is teach our children to view everything through the lens of race. we re already seeing a fairly large crowd to hear from mcauliffe an