but so far we have seen the stick part of his approach to trade, sanctions, the carrot part would be let s negotiate a deal with britain which would be pretty easy to negotiate, i think, they don t compete as much and have ideal deal, not only do we have deal with britain but open to everybody else, that s a big opportunity for trump to have a parton agenda, they make noises about it but haven t done anything about it. paul: dan, i think that the critic that you hear from some people that would otherwise would agree that would say trump has actually some fair points on russia pipeline and nato spending but criticism ha he makes about nato that undermines over time american public support for the transalantic alliance. you look at polling of republicans here in the united states, support for nato is falling. is he doing long-term damage here by that relentless criticism? well, i mean, that s a good question. it s just part of trump s
congress doesn t attempt to have any debate about how to fix this in the wake of these tragedies. and i just don t think that people are going to get re-elected to congress if they are totally utterly silent after each one of these tragedies. senator republican presidential candidate carly fiorina was on morning joe this morning. i want to play a bit for you of what she said. i actually think it s ideology, not common sense. that causes the left wing, every time in a knee-jerk reaction, to say the answer here is more laws when we re not enforcing the laws we have. let s start by enforcing the laws we have. your reaction, senator? i have no idea what she s talking about. 90% of the american public support background checks to make sure that criminals don t get guns. that s not the left wing of america. that is the vast majority of america. i don t know what laws she s talking about that we re not enforcing today. the reality is is that you can t get mental health services in th
should look. the campaign the brady campaign pushed would not have stopped this tragedy. mr. gross? i mean, it boggles my mind that we take one individual tragedy and talk about how it wouldn t have been stopped and use that as a way to write off a sensible measure a sensible measure that 90% of the american public support that is stop people from dying every single day. we could spend the rest of the interview rattling off people that died because of purchases that would have been stopped. what kind of background check are you talking about. we have background checks? gun shows and online. that s the extension? why are people against that? ben, it s not about what type of background check, it s where it applies, no loopholes. why are you against that? again, i go back to this. we had a background check for
to open the government before we can have negotiations. it s pretty simple. if john boehner put a clean continuing resolution with no political riders attached to it on the floor of the house today, pretty clear it would pass, mainly with democrats but with a handful of republicans like peter king at the top of the hour who don t agree with this strate strategy. we can t allow it to continue to happen, where we have political guns put to our head to keep the government up and running. i have a lot of things i want to that the american public support. for instance, i think we should have background checks on gun purchases but i m not threatening to shut the government down until i get what i want. if we allow this to essentially become the way of business in washington by allowing republicans to get away with it right now, then essentially we re going to the dialogue here, the lack thereof, what is this going to
night, craig, i thought, well, one historical contrast this makes and if 20 years from now, 50 years from now, when people are trying to instruct the students and others about what this time of ours was like, i think this day, that day, yesterday, provides some kind of contrast. you know what, you also mentioned something or alluded to something that has gotten lost in this debate to a certain extent. the fact that a lot of what we have seen play out over the last week or so, even longer is the direct result of gerrymandering in this country and direct result of districts that have been carved out by both parties over the past 20 years but these districts that have been carved out to create very, very safe seats for incumbents. what role what role has gerrymandering played in all of this? why does that seem to have gotten lost in the debate?