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Senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has not endorsed any strategy on gun control despite what the president told reporters there that you just heard. kaitlin collins is at the white house for us. there seems to be a bit of a mixup here. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the president is claiming that he has strong congressional support on strengthening these background checks, something he mentioned multiple times as he spoke with reporters before leaving the white house and cited conversati...

Well, im looking to do background checks. i think background checks are important. i dont want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hate. six people, i dont want to -- im all in favor of it. >> theres a great appetite, and a strong appetite for background checks, and i think we can bring up background checks like we never have before. >> background checks, by the way, poll at about 94% approval. outrage over the weekends shootings in putting pressure on c...

When it is inconvenient. >> julie: it is interesting. he says when its inconvenient. when castro tweeted out the names of donors which is public information, he was doing so obviously to bring negative light to those people and negative light could potentially turn into a violent reaction from haters. is that not the same thing as mcconnells putting out video of protestors outside his home? i think we might have lost steve scalise. >> bill: want the frame this more. julie heard the sound bite fr...

Right now. come back in september and get something passed. a lot of pressure to really get something done this time. >> i want to play a little bit of mitch mcconnell on a radio interview in kentucky. theres that picture weve seen him carrying a rifle at a convention. so he has been as hard line as anybody in the senate has been against any kind of gun law legislation. this is what he had to say. >> there has to be a bipartisan discussion here of what we can agree on. background checks and red ...

Sales. narrow that poll down to just republicans, and you still end up with 90% support. joining me now is nbcs hans nichols in louisville, kentucky. hans, you are in mitch mcconnells home state. he has not chimed in on this. he sort of said hell wait for the president to direct what happens on background checks. >> reporter: yeah. we may hear a little bit more from mitch mcconnell in about an hour hell do a local radio interview. until that time weve been talking to a lot of his constituents he...

We know how to solve many of the challenges facing us. a majority of americans agree on the solutions. but corporate money is standing in the way. im tom steyer. i approve this message. because our democracy should work for the people. danielle moodi-mills and evan mcmullen are back with me. lets start with biden. this was joe biden on a radio interview still talking about the harris interview. here it is. >> i thought we were friends, and i hope we still will be. you know, she asked me to go ...

For new clean air laws and closed a billion dollar corporate tax loophole to fund public schools. by going directly to the people we got results. thats not something you see a lot of from washington these days. im tom steyer and i approve this message. lets make change happen. danielle moodi-mills and evan mcmullen are back with me. lets start with biden. this was joe biden on a radio interview still talking about the harris interview. here it is. >> i thought we were friends, and i hope we st...

Steve: indeed. we are going to talk to jim jordan from the state of ohio he was at that hearing. he will be with us in about 90 minutes. meanwhile yesterday up on capitol hill at a closed door breakfast, the democratic caucus all got together and nancy pelosi had something she wanted to say. keep in mind it was a couple days ago she took a shot at four super progressive freshman women on the democratic twitter. aoc and company also known as the squad reportedly said to everybody, hey, listen, we...

>> melissa: another fox news alert now. it is getting ugly. the big rift between house speaker nancy pelosi and four freshman on the left spilling out into the open as a congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez fires back at the speakers recent remarks. new york democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez saying she found pelosis remarks "puzzling, and just wrong" after the speaker dismissed her and 300 progressives who voted against an emergency border aid package last month. pelosi telling "the new york t...

Capacity for outrage? >> have we? were you concerned about the president accusing or not accusing but saying robert mueller committed a crime? >> yeah, i dont think weve lost our capacity for outrage but weve lost some of the energy behind the outrage because it is a constant drum beat. ive said it many times. i think this president would -- should be 20 points ahead of anybody in the election now and would be based on the policies and what his administration has done but hes not 20 points ahead...