Political correctness. Its available now wherever you get your podcasts. I hope you will join me as we aim to maybe rewrite, find a path in this world of modern rules. I hand you off to my friend and colleague back in action, katy tur. Teddy says hi and misses you. Tell him i said hey. Thanks, stef. Good afternoon. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In washington where were live on capitol hill. Just a few minutes away President Trump faces a number of difficult headlines that all told paints a complicated picture for his 2020 prospects including a slew of new National Polls that show the president s approval below 40 . Economic anxiety appears to be the main factor for those low numbers, but the president doesnt want you to believe those numbers and frankly why should he . National polls did not predict the eventual outcome of 2016. So let us instead consider whats happening in two key
states. First North Carolina, where the republican Won Yesterdays special election in the ninth
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are again up for debate on Capitol Hill. But our existing gun laws are irrationally limited, loophole ridden, and inadequate, said Robyn Thomas, the executive director of the Giffords Law Center. These gaps make it too easy for felons, and mentally unstable people to get their hands on guns and harm others, said Sen. Dick Durbin.
So what are these loopholes that currently exist in the country s background check system?
Gun show and internet loopholes are two of the most frequently mentioned. Federally licensed firearms dealers are required to run buyers through a background check for every sale, regardless of where that sale is completed. Private and unlicensed sellers don t face that same requirement. So they can sell firearms at gun shows or online without doing a background check, and even gun rights advocates recognize the rise of internet gun sales could be problematic.
listen to what the president said about this a moment ago. we are working very hard together to see if we can come up with something acceptable to everybody. we re looking at background it has been nearly a year checks and putting everything together in a unified way so that we can have something that s meaningful at the same time all of us want to protect since democrats flipped 42 seats in the blue wave of the 2018 mid terms. two joining me now, occupied by our great second amendment. california democratic congresswoman katie hill and new it s very important to all of jersey democratic congresswoman us. mikey cheryl. thank you for being here. we are now in meetings. thank you. it s been a year. what s it been like? the meetings will go on tonight. the longest shortest year i will speak with them tomorrow. ever. that s how i see it. i think progress is being made. yeah. that s a good sometimes i we re looking at background tell people, oh, it s only been checks, we re
outgunned of who are the ones that really hate the police, mr. o rourke, if you re going to keep putting them in danger s way, playing politics with the nra? that s absolutely right. you listen to the individual officers or the police chiefs or the sheriffs deputies. they don t want machines, weapons designed for killing people on the battlefield. in those communities they are serving and protecting right now. in many cases, they are outmatched and outgunned and they re asking us to help them do their skrjob. do not continue to sell these weapons into our communities and let s make sure we do a background check and close every loophole from the boyfriend loophole to the charleston loophole to the gun show loophole to the internet loophole so that we keep guns out of the hands of those who should not be able to use them because they re a danger to themselves or others. they ll make it harder for the