more school age children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. more kids than on-duty cops killed by cops, more kids than old engin soldiers killed by guns. for igod s sake, how much more carnage will we accept? it is time to do our part, time to act for the children we ve lost. the children we can save. for the nation we love. let s hear the call and the cry, let s meet the moment, let us finally do something. speaking of doing something, senate debate has gun. and danie daniella diaz will be us, but let s start with jasmine wright. the president is explicitly calling on lawmakers not just do something, but he has meat on the bones, he has specifics. reporter: yeah, the president outlined a wish list of sorts specific spinnings that he wants conditioning to take up. and he started with assault weapons. he called to restaretaught the assault weapons ban and also banning high capacity magazines. and if congres
diplomacy, the president meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. his message on gaza and ukraine. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get right to breaking news on capitol hill where former president trump has arrived in just the last hour, his first visit to the hill since his supporters tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power on january 6th, 2021. a reminder, trump himself didn t go to the capital that day, and he won t be in the capitol building today. instead he s holding meetings with sitting lawmakers nearby. right now he s behind closed doors with members of the house. later he meets with senators. nbc s ali vitali is staking out this meeting and joins us live from the hill. also with us former democratic congressman from new york, steve israel, and former press secretary to republican house speakers john boehner and paul ryan, brendan buck. ali, what have you seen out there this morning, and what should we
exactly. so critics of these bans say that like we ve discussed, they are not being enacted because there is a surge of trans athletes dominating women s athletics, there are political issues. republican lawmakers realize that this is an issue that they can reliably excite their are base and pull their swing voters into broader discussions about gender and transgender rights which tend to serve republicans electorally. the idea of a trans girl competing against sis girl tends to trigger an emotional response. trans people still have very little visibility. and i spoke with one sadvocate who told me she thinks that people view that the harm that they do to kids is very narrow, that this is only dealing with sports. but advocates argue that you
You know, i think this is an interesting point you bring up because thinking back post president bush s reelection heading into 06 which was a disaster for republicans electorally, you know, we were trying to do immigration, didn t get it done. trying to do social security reform, didn t get it done. you see the same thing happening here with the biden administration. from build back better to lots of challenges with the rollout of these changes around the pandemic, to what happened in afghanistan over the summer. he s had a really tough eight months and they definitely will need to make very dramatic changes quickly or this is going to set in. kristen, you know, you were covering this white house, i have had a theory that one of the challenges this white house has had with its sort of message management as president is it was kind of easy during the campaign. almost maybe it turned out to be
Cheating, then that means cheating. that s what this republican party is about now. compared to we re talking about the fate of the democracy and frankly, you know, senator romney and mike pence s comments to jeremy s point are pretty weak when we re talking about this. there is no alternative agenda for trump. s really all about the election. and that is incredibly frustrating to a lot of republicans. listen to scott jennings, who is a former aide to mitch mcconnell and speaks for a certain kind of republican. they re frustrated about what s going on right now. it sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous! you cannot crash the capitol, defile the house and the senate, and do back the police. that s not legitimate. this phrase, legitimate political discourse will be hung around every candidate s neck for the next two cycles. this is about 2022. and do you believe that? do you buy that? will this damage republicans electorally, will this actually