Back during the holder contempt for the washington post. vote in 2012, this was what she they are diffusing this tie of was saying of the republican approach. on the floor of the house, impeachment in their caucasucau. around the week from the time it came out of committee, we have a contempt of congress, a here is the bottom line, resolution against the attorney everyone if speaker pelosi uses here they here they are within one week her brash, strong bare knuckles bringing something to the floor. on the president to diffuse some really trying to resolve the of this. it is clearly not all gone yet. issue. they did they did not even take two weeks i didn t come to congress to to say. didn t even take two weeks. you know sometimes in the news, they pull the old sound byte impeach a president. where you are sure it is the are you hopeful that impeachment show contradiction overtime. to be fair, we have been looking proceedings are going to move into this. forward in the future? pe
Capital where you and i know and everyone watching knows the nra still seems to have a lot of impact, they score these votes, not only on guns, they score the holder contempt vote, they score a lot of things and seem to move members of both parties. yeah. listen, i was not a big fan of i voted no on allowing guns in national parks. we actually had a woman who died in the northwest, backpacking and a young person thought she was an animal and shot her dead. that was an example recently of a change in my opinion in the other direction. i think instead of drawing lines right now and instead of you know, we had these incredible tragedies, what we immediate to do is come together and say how do we want to respond. i m hoping if we take that approach, that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will look at this and say we can do better than what we currently have. and, senator, i want to switch gears since we are here talking today and you are going into the private democratic c
Be infringed is something that a treaty can t trump. the very language in the constitution dealing with treaty-making says that the treaties have to be made under authority of the united states. and if we the people have been given authority for gun control to the united states, to the federal government, then its are tied and at a practical level i think even harry reid s senate would look at the treaty if presented to them to say this is toxic, i m not going there in an election year. megyn: the gun lobby has a lot of power, kt, a lot of power. once the nra scored holder contempt vote you had two dozen democrats come over to the other side of the aisle. the lawmakers pay attention to what the gun lobby wants. it doesn t want this treaty. i fail to understand how it will affect americans and the second amendment as opposed to the folks who are proposing this want us to believe it is only international thing. it will stop genocide in
Right. kimberly: $4 million since they sid it was constitutional. romney got that money. eric: yesterday after the holder vote you said let s get over it and move on. you want to get over everything. bob: this is going to have an effect on the united states. andrea: you lectured us not to gloat if the mandate was struck down. remember that? bob: i said what john boehner said. you think i d vote it now is wait until i get to my segment. i m really going to gloat then. greg: that s when we turn the sound off. with oar not running that segment. we re running four minutes of cute puppies frolicking and we re not going to tell you. coming up, sarah palin joins the five to discuss her thoughts on the healthcare ruling and the holder contempt vote. if you leave now, you only have yourself to blame. [mus
For that. i want to be deputitized with a name like that. that s cool. let me start with the holder contempt vote. now that the nra has said it is going to score this vote, how many democrats do we expect to be pulled over onto the contempt side? i ve heard anywhere from about 25 to as high as 35. you basically have to look at folks who represent swing districts for the nra could play an important role or the rural districts. we ve haired from mr. mass thiss thisson. mainly because they don t feel the information s gotten there. but the back story is that s a fear of the nra. you have to understand, the nra on capitol hill for blue dog democrats or democrats in tight swing districts that is one special lobbying groups you don t want to anger. a lot of people feel gore lost