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going down there and they are telling him this is what needs to change. go back to washington and tell them. then he comes back for a visit there are no changes are they frustrated? steve: do you know what they say? we have heard it before. let us do our job because they feel they cannot. they would like to stop the people. lawrence, stand by for that let s talk a little bit about what is has been going on over the last 10 days or. so more than that, actually about two weeks. and that is we have got a timeline so we are going to put it up. the secretary of defense, that man right there, lloyd austin, on december 22nd, first box on the left on the top, he went in to the hospital, apparently, for elective surgery. then monday, january 1st, he was hospitalized and taken via ambulance to walter reed he was
the speech because they say time s up, you know, the situation is so dire, it s time for no more speeches, it s time for action. what other action can president biden take? yeah, i mean, that is the big question. look, there s a lot of focus on biden going back as you just said, your previous guest said, go back to washington. you were supposed to be the master of the senate. get republicans on board for this. but the problem is that that s on this particular issue, even the moderate republican senators who played ball on previous legislative initiatives are not willing to stick their necks out on voting, and interestingly, i think the kind of way that all of these stories come together is you heard that clip of mike rounds talking to manu, talking about how the election last time was not rigged. there are a lot of republicans who believe the election was not rigged but also believe there s no need to go tinker with it. no need to make these changes that democrats want, and it s fo
wants. but he was also predicting success in virginia and other races, election day in america is happening. he was basically saying they re going to win, the democrats. it was surprising how confident he was given how we know how close the polls have shown this race but clearly the president feels good about it. of course, virginia is a state he won handily when he was running. and the question has been will that transfer over to terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate for governor. so the president said he does believe that terry mcauliffe will win, he will pull this off. the president predicted the results may not come in until 1:00 a.m. when air force one is expected to leave here in sc sco scotland, go back to washington and be landing around that time. an argument the president made to reporters was one that we ve heard from moderate house democrats who have said they really needed to get this bipartisan infrastructure bill passed before this race because they believed it wou
i want to start with what we saw over the weekend. hundreds of thousands of young people marching across the country yesterday in support of stricter gun laws. do you think the republicans should be worried that if congress isn t able to do something on gun reform they re going to face a big backlash from these same crowds at the ballot box in september? we ve already seen what the public thinks. we saw an election in pennsylvania where the people are basically saying they can t stand what s happening in washington. and, yeah, i really do believe that. i think people do want changes here, and, look, i think there s three kinds of people who are involved in this gun debate those that want no changes on guns believe me, they re there and they re strong, and those people that think there should be significant changes even while protecting the second amendment, and those afraid of their own shadows. the key is these young people followed by so many other people paul mccartney was at