those lies and now we face a poisoned country filled with outrage blinding our ability to achieve real strength. it has become increasingly obvious to me that as a country we must unplug from the mistruths we ve been fed. for his part the leading purveyor of those mistruths remained true to form. he put out a statement today referring to the 10 republicans, congressman kinzinger included, who voted to impeach him. it says 2 down, 8 to go. and that s all it says. perspective now from former congressman and former republican scott ridgel. he left the party after the insurrection saying he could not stand seeing his former colleagues hold on to the proven falsehood that the election was stolen. also with us, cnn political commentator and republican strategist scott jennings. scott jennings, to you. what does it say that someone like adam kinzinger, a military veteran, a lifelong conservative, has concluded he has no place in the house republican caucus?
political commentator rick santorum and scott ridgel from virginia. congressman, let me start with you. you think mitch mcconnell is not on the right side here in terms of not moving anything forward. mitch mcconnell is consistently opposed anything that makes sense. and i m convinced he is the leading opponent to any type of rational legislation. the president himself has given himself a little bit of room with the red flag laws. and i think that that s going to make some sense. only 14 states have red flag laws. sadlymy state of virginia is not among them. i m convinced that s common ground. even that common ground may not make it through mitch mcconnell s senate. what s the reason he just says no? is it personal belief? he doesn t think there should be anything. my own experience with the nra is this. i proposed in 2013 some very benign legislation with respect to gun traffickers and straw
could be but i just have to say in a lot of cases like who picks up a red flag. i get it you don t want to go around due process. you have to go through a court. i know neither of you agree with what congressman turner is saying. all of these things are fine. but theulate reality is if you have a gun you can do something. and if you don t have a gun you can t. well, the fact of the matter we ve had hundreds of millions of guns in this country for a long long time. but in the last 20 years we ve had more mass shootings in than ever. you can say what s changed in what s changed is higher rates of depression. family breakup pb high he were video games. appear higher powered rival that is didn t exist before. well that s not true. i mean the high-powered rivalsed a linc time. they have gotten come on, senator. no, scott said- dsh as he said i have of an ar-15 it s a semiautomatic weapon it may be easier to handle but it s no more higher power than any other
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and madison county judge ann cow stepped down from the bench. she has to get out of a democratic primary first that takes place in a couple of weeks. and new york s 11th, one of three new york districts on the list. recchia is hoping he can unseat grimm after a string of controversies, vowing to conduct himself more honorably in washington than grimm. they ve identified four emerging races in four emerging districts where campaigns are trying to put longer seats in play. dewitt, running arkansas 4th district for the seat held by tom cotton, challenging mark pryor, and in virginia s 2nd, retired naval officer suzanne patrick is taking on scott ridgel, the second district is one that just come up inches away, and steve israel of new