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expected to press washington to take action after the rash of deadly mass shootings. we ll bring you his speech when it happens this hour live, let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin bur e, burnett, biden about to discuss gun violence in the united states, looking at pictures from the white house in a moment where biden will be speaking in about 30 minutes. his prime time speech follows what, of course, in the past few weeks has been mass shooting after mass shooting that have taken the lives of children, teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends, in so many different settings. hospital, grocery stores, schools, just some of the faces of those who have lost their lives, in buffalo, uvalde, and now tulsa. police say two doctors, receptionist and a patient were killed in a rampage at a medical building. the gunman, according to police, purchased the ar-15 style rifle three hours before he went and murdered all those people, went to the hospital w ....
Hello, everyone, im kate boldu bolduan. Thank you so much for joining me. Shock and surprise. You would think at this point it would be nearly impossible for a comment from the about the to shock or surprise anyone. But he did in a jarring oval office interview. President trump said hed welcome foreign interference in the upcoming election. Here he is with abc. Listen. Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on opponents, should they accept it or call the fbi . I think maybe you do board of health. I think you might want to listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. Oh, i think id want to hear it. You want that kind of Interfeesinte Interference on our elections . Its information. I think id take it. If i thought there was something wrong, id go maybe to the fbi if i thou ....
Age limit from 18 to 21. one of them is senator tom tillus a republican who said he wasn t sure that was an idea republicans could get behind because technically if you re 18, in the military, you can have those weapons and the president pushed back on that criticism saying that s different because you re in the military, being trained by what he said was the best ex-purtds in the world. so that did seem to be a point the president wanted to hammer home repeatedly, of course, along with the word enough he said many times even there at the end, saying this is enough. so it was a rallying car for capitol hill. of course, the major question is how do they respond to that and is that idea, the push back on the idea of raising the age from 18 to 21 and the criticism from that if that s something republicans could get behind. i want to bring in chief congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. ....
Republicans, especially the ones up in 2020. martha mcsally, susan collins and cory gardner among them. tom tillus. they re either going to vote to allow witnesses who have potentially important information or to stand for a sham trial. and at some point you really want to see that move forward. and see what the chief justice, john roberts, would be presiding over, will do with his own reputation at stake. it seems to me the political play is a lot about making those votes, at the very least as painful as possible. cheryl stormberg, thank you both. have a great holiday. up next, trumpism defines republican party members. and how he keeps it, next. and how he keeps it, next. ....
Opponent? i think it s a mistake. i think it s a mistake of law. i don t want to send a signal to encourage this. i hope my democrat colleagues will be equally offended by the fact that this actually did happen in 2016 where a foreign agent was paid for by a political party to gather opposition research. all those things are wrong. reporter: should there be legislation to make it expressly outlawed in this country? i think it already is, i think. but i m willing to make it clear if we need to. but most republicans are taking a bit of an opposite tack saying they have not seen the comments that some joni ernst, republican from iowa, up in 2020 said. marcia blackburn from tennessee, not familiar with what the president said. some also defending the president, as well, including senator tom tillus of north carolina, said making it pointing at hillary clinton and her effort to try to get dirt on the russia the trump campaign by hiring the opposition research firm fusion gps w ....