has happened. that the prime minister hasn t given a straight answer to that particular question about the events on the 20th of may 2020. others are saying this might be survivable for him. what is your sense, from your contacts, of how the mood is amongst conservatives? i think the mood is terrible amongst conservatives. certainly here in westminster. people who i have spoke to this morning, when i was on my way through the building to go to my office, people were deeply, deeply fed up of all of this. i think the patients that some of the conservatives have had with the prime minister has really ebbed away. i would go, again, prime minister has really ebbed away. iwould go, again, to prime minister has really ebbed away. i would go, again, to a prime minister has really ebbed away. iwould go, again, to a point that has been made to tory mps quite often recently that they need to put themselves in all of this. they are themselves in all of this. they are the ones who have the ability
it, but to come here that little bar there, okay, right across the street, you know, it s like a place that any of us would go, that we would come on a saturday night with our spouse, with our friends and we would have a great time and have a drink and eat and laugh. and then you see the flowers on the sidewalk and then you see the picture of the 9 who are dead. i don t have a list of all the people injured, but when you see where it, when you re here as you know being in el paso and being here, it s much different. it makes it so much more personal, right? absolutely it does. and i think probably like a lot of folks at home you find yourself in public places, i m sure you ve been in the same situation where you wonder what if it happened here, right now? i think those thoughts are going through the minds of a lot of americans. you said what you want to hear from the president. you know how the president has talked about this issue in the past or even the tweets he sent last night, i
over the last couple days. i spent christmas eve and christmas day at the white house. and it was a strange environment there. granted every part of the federal government goes through a skeleton crew over the holidays. but the christmas scene at the white house was particularly strange. you had the president making that point to even tweet about how alone he was with his parenthetical poor me with his familial advisers, ivanka and jared kushner already in mar-a-lago on vacation, the first lady on the way back. and he s had these pop-up meetings he was tweeting about that we could never confirm. a meeting on north korea with a picture of himself at the resolute desk. we never got any background information on that from the white house. why is the president having the meeting on christmas eve about north korea, a threat he says is no longer a threat. talking about building 115 miles of border wall that is still, to this day, not been clarified by anyone in the white house where that w
so do you really believe, knowing that relationship, knowing michael cohen, knowing donald trump, as you have, that donald trump would say to michael cohen oh, cool, yeah, i ll sit with at&t. or i ll sit with these other companies. you make half a million dollars and i ll just sit here and do nothing. or do you think that donald trump wanted to a cut of that, just like he was going crazy during the debate season, demanding, he was actually thinking about demanding that cnn, msnbc and fox pay him to go on the debate stage. that he needed royalty checks, because they were making so much advertising off of him? do you think that donald trump would go, oh, it s great, michael, you make $600,000 and i ll take some meetings for you. first of all, the relation with michael is, he did have a
this had to do with sutherland springs, the fact that the killer there was discharged with the military, had a history of domest acic abuse. would you support those efforts? did you vote author that legislati legislation when it came up in the house? the problem is, the house of representatives, speaker ryan won t let us even have a debate on this issue, let alone a vote on any of the gun measures. and, by the way, i ll believe the white house when i see it. because they said the same thing about banning bump stocks after the las vegas shooting. that has gone nowhere so far. you would be willing to work with them, if they came back and said, look, bump stocks, we ll give it to you, background checks as far as john cornyn would go, trying to close the loopholes, we ll give it to you. it may not be everything you want but it is something. is that a starting point? absolutely. i would start with adding bump stocks, background checks, those are low hanging fruit, i think we can get t