in charge of congress is that they haven t been able to accomplish the agenda. coming back with a big ticket item and saying we got this done for you and making the argument your paycheck will be bigger and the policy arguments the republicans will make is just a hugely important way turning into the election year when all the headwinds are coming at them. yeah, looks like it s going to be a big win for the republicans. the president said by christmas. he may just get it. and, you know, there are people who say that republicans who say that if the president had not set that deadline, they probably wouldn t have been able to get this done, but he was adamant about it. so i think you have to give him credit on that. all right, guys, everybody stand by. there is more news coming into the situation room, including a brand-new mystery in north korea. one of kim jong-un s top generals hasn t been seen in months. has he fallen out of favor? has he been executed? stand by.
uncertainty undermine diplomatic efforts for the u.s. and do you think that tillerson will have a problem being taken seriously while he s in europe? of course. there is almost no credibility left. secretary tillerson sort of surprised me how ineffective he s been. the whole notion of slashing a third of the state department budget is just preposterous. and, you know, obviously, lack of communication with the president, himself. which almost is to his credit. but, look, at the end of the day the new team allegedly, this mike pompeo and senator cotton, they are very capable, knowledgeable, smart people so the new team may well be a step forward 678 although, there will be policy arguments against them they are certainly competent, secretary tillerson has been to my surprise a disaster in dealing with foreign policy. all right, general, it s always good to speak to you. i m sorry about the brevity of this situation. we will up to you again. thank you.
rights, i don t know we re going to. i think what s happened is the nra has positioned a lot of policy arguments which are what we debate for public safrt, inside the constitution. that has been a deft rhetorica move. brett, when you support back checks and jb says no, i support the second amendment. and the background checks, the assault-style weapons not even protected by scalia and heller. the profound question is whether the second amendment, whether the rights to bear arms protects the constitution of liberty. and you can make a solid argument that in 1789 that it did. the argument becomes increasingly improbable when 30,000 people or so many thousands of people are dying of gun violence.
steering clear of the issue sending talking points to their surrogates, let s gather the facts before we make sweeping policy arguments for cur tailing the second amendment. let s be clear. new laws won t stop a madman committed to harming 90 people. they asked did he have harmi harming immocent people. and after mass shootings in san bernardino, california and orlando, he wanted to prevent more muslims from coming into the u.s. how many more must die? 100, 1,000, 10,000, a million? what is your blood price? how many more must die? now is this time to come together. be responsible.
at the situation and say to your point, we re going into a midterm campaign here. these are the kind of things that are going to get democratic voters fired up. these are the kind of things that are going to get potentially democrats to recruit and get new voters on their side going in to next year s election, so they want to kind of defuse some of these things and focus more on policy so they can make policy arguments to the voters. there s really no resolution in sight right now for that debate. because you have a lot of trump supporters eagerly picking these fights. eagerly waiting until the culture wars. and on the other side you have republicans who say boy, this is the last thing that we want to see right now. sean and melanie, stay right there. we ll talk health care in a few minutes. but first, the defiance against president trump is venturing beyond the world of sports. stevie wonder staged his own protest at last night s global citizens festival in central park. tonight,