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their community or family. you know the law, you re a former attorney general of california, assume you take this executive action on gun control, there will be attorneys general out there to take legal action to delay it and get into court and this could prolong the situation dramatically. wolf, there is no excuse not to act. there will be those who will try and undo it, but if you follow that line of analysis, we would not have gone for things like daca or things like legislation like the affordable care act. there are always going to be people, especially people who use their powers and authority for a political agenda to try and undo progress. that s not an excuse, much less a reason to not act. you have a very detailed plan and if you if the congress were to act, at least right now you would need 60 votes in the senate and you re a senator. harry reid, the former majority leader wrote this among other things today. if a democratic president wants to tackle the most importa
sphere and something he doesn t appreciate took to the senate floor to rebut in terms of his relationship with russia but also underscoring the point, the democrats are frustrated and house democrats who have passed their own background checks legislation want to see action in the united states senate and the reality is this, mitch mcconnell has made clear the senate will not be called back and tasked three committee chairs to work on proposals and made clear he needs to see what the president will say or get behind before anything moves forward. again, at this point in time, a lot of skepticism about significant substantive changes but talks on the staff level are ongoing. given the history. that is understandable. all of that skepticism. phil mattingly thank you very much. joining us now candidate tom steyer. mr. stire, thanks so much for joining us. wolf, thank you very much for having me. let s start with the economy. a subject you know well. you re a business man. we have
and the senate democrats and republicans will now work together with the president and come up with some new gun control regulations in. obviously you have the senators senators toomey and manchin being publicly optimistic but i spent my day calling the aides who have been working through the issues with their bosses and who have previously worked on these issues through all of the other mass shootings and as one of them told me, potentially rather cynically, said that i saw 20 babies murdered, referring to newtown and nothing happened there. it is unclear what changes the president actually wants in the toomey/manchin legislation. a few of the aides questions whether or not the president really understands how much how much he understands. he understands exactly what background checks are. we do know there is going to be the white house legislative team that will go to bedminster and brief the president on what they could potentially do here. and we also know that ivanka trump h
to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers. wolf, 90% of the guns that are associated with crime are sold by just 5% of the gun dealers in the united states. and so among the many plans that have i both in the form of executive action and also in the form of legislation, one of them is to put more resources into the atf to take the licenses of gun dealers who violate the law. and that includes a number of things, including when they are responsible for doing background checks, not doing them. so but does your plan go from your perspective far enough? well, there are a variety of things. let s be clear, i have i have hugged too many mothers of homicide victims over the years. i have looked at more autopsy photographs than i care to tell you. of people whose lives have been ended because of gun violence. we need congress to act. we do not lack for good ideas. we do not lack for tragedies. the failure of congress,