world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won t say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she s signaling an openness to finding legislative solutions because her office has been flooded with calls from constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. let s bring in cnn s pamela brown about some of the latest reporting we re hearing on these negotiations and where this discussion goes from here. what are you learning, pam? so i m learning, me and my colleague manu raju have learned that the senate minority leader mitch mcco
discussions, ultimately they could not do it. i want to ask you one last question, this about the secret service. the washington post was first to report and cnn matched it yesterday on january 6 when former president trump said he was going to march to the capitol the secret service started making frantic phone calls to see if they could help him, could make that happen, ultimately they decided they couldn t and they had been working for a few weeks to see if they could get him to march for the capitol because he was pushing for t what does that tell you in general? so as secretary of dms i used to be the oversight for the secret service, i was also a secret service protecty so i know the secret service. it is a can-do government agency if you give them advanced notice of what it is you d like to do. this was never going to work, putting the president of the united states in a in a crowd of unscanned people who may or may not be armed, who have been
biden over trump where they have particular concerns about unscanned, unprocessed election materials piling up. i should just mention here that the post office is kind of having a minute right now. the guy appointed under trump to run the post office, his name is louse dejoy, he is city in charge, even though he was personally under fbi criminal investigation on top of that last week nbc news reported on new documents that were opened by court order which show that louis dejoy s conflicts of interest are way worse than what was previously known. we knew already that his old company, which he still financially benefits from, his company got a $120 million contract from the post office last year while he s running the post office. and while he still benefits financially from that company that he just gave $120 million contract to. wait a minute. but beyond that even, he has had
mail service permanently slower, and permanently more expensive. except apparently for christmas when he s making it even more expensive than that. happy mary, mary happy. enjoy the holiday. and now he stands accuses in federal court in virginia of so screwing up the mail that it potentially is going to mess up yet another election. according to the democratic party of virginia this lawsuit they ve just filed, unscanned, unprocessed election mail piling up in particular in three democratic leaning counties that biden won last year, and this just eight days before the election in virginia. thank you, louis dejoy, doing a great job. yes, virginia, there is a santa claus, but it is not this guy. here s the other thing, though, that s going on in virginia. that is worth paying attention to, both in its own right but also because this is going to be
federal court in virginia of so screwing up the mail that it potentially is going to mess up yet another election. according to the democratic party of virginia this lawsuit they ve just filed, unscanned, unprocessed election mail piling up in particular in three democratic leaning counties that biden won last year, and this just eight days before the election in virginia. thank you, louis dejoy. doing a great job. yes, virginia, there is a santa claus, but it is not this guy. here s the other thing, though, that s going on in virginia that is worth paying attention to both in its own right but also because this is going to be a blockbuster thing that is going to be unfolding in a very high-profile way in virginia this week into next and beyond just as virginia voters are going to the polls in this superimportant tight election. it is now just over four years