domestic terrorism. white supremacy is a poison and it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can, that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. there s certain things that we can do. we can keep assault weapons off our streets. we ve done it before. i did it when we passed the crime bill last time and violence went down. shootings went down. dana: comes amid an enormous surge of violence over the weekend. 17 people were shot in a single incident in downtown milwaukee. in chicago, at least 33 people were shot and five fatally so. chicago mayor lori lightfoot banning unaccompanied minors from millennium park in the wake of a 16-year-old s fatal shooting there and gun homicides reaching their highest level in 25 years during the covid pandemic. so lots to get to on this particular topic and the rest of the show. jesse, where do you land on there s a crime that happened, the massacre in buffa
More guns than people, we should support those lawfully owning them and those putting their life on the line every day to control crime rather than regulate it and take it away from the law abiding citizens. i aglee with you, jesse, this president has been all over the place. even now when he s talking about issuing an executive order for police reform and criminal justice, he s absolutely in the wrong arenas when 7 in 8 are young african-american men, why is he only focusing on the gun regulator being for racial biassed hate crimes? if you care about the minoritys in america, you would care about the black on black crime that s plaguing our inner cities that the d.a. s that are incompetent are doing nothing to try to prevent because they re staying with service to this progressive woke left that don t know what they re talking about. dana: do you want to zoom out about the way that crime has approached, the way that people look at it. greg: zoom out. i shall zoom out. there are 33
Tomorrow. the white house is clearly trying to shift its priorities to what most concerns voters in these mid terms. joining me is nbc s josh ledderman. what are we expecting on ghost guns and finally nominating someone to be the gun regulator after seven years are a vacancy there? gun violence is one of those issues that president biden as a candidate made big promises to democrats about the action he would take one he s got into office. but where we haven t seen a whole lot of progress since he took office more than a year ago and we ve been hearing increasingly from gun rights activists saying essentially that they have been let down so far by president biden. that s raised some real concerns about enthusiasm, turnout for democrats as they head into the mid terms and need to be able to show voters what they ve actually been able to accomplish on issues like policing, like guns, like immigration. and so we re increasingly seeing