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Senate judiciary doing their hearing today. theyre going to hear from the son of one of the women who was killed at the tops market in buffalo, and then were also going to see victims families speak tomorrow in front of the house oversight committee. theyre doing their own hearing focused on buffalo and uvalde trying to keep the focus on these gun violence deaths and the ways the house and senate both are trying to tackle this problem. just in the last few minutes as you were talking to the cong...

Cornyn, to require that state police be notified if a person prohibited from buying a gun, a convicted felon, say, goes into a federally licensed firearm dealer and lies on the background check and tries to get a gun. does that solve everything? no. but it will take guns out of the hands of several hundred people a year, and that might save lives and is well worth doing. >> do you have a sense of where the talks are this morning, and how close you might actually be to a vote on this? >> i spoke ...

And schumer and mcconnell. you know, obviously, it has to be with congress. >> esther, judge salas, tell us, if you could, what exactly the legislation would do. why is it so difficult to get through? >> it is so difficult to get through because, right now, it seems like a very few of our leaders, congressional leaders, want it to include them. they want the law to include members of congress. i say to them, yes, do you deserve to be protected? absolutely. but the daniel bill has been ready for ...

God-fearing hispanic voters writing in it. if they dont see that, theyre going to get wiped out by the group that they wanted to simpl throw together with other minority voters and take them for granted. bidens bright lights, pelosi and schumer, should have paid attention to what happened in last november. they elected the first hispanic attorney general, but while the swamp remained tone deaf, and stuck in their old paradigms, h focused on common sense, and crime. but instead of giving latinos ...

Democratic institution, largely driven by the filibuster in the tyranny of the minority. we have every confidence and leader schumer, every confidence and senator murphy. but, we also have to do we need to do in the peoples house, which is why, under the leadership of chairman nandler and the judiciary committee on thursday. were gonna move aggressively with additional gun violence prevention measures, because that is what the american people are calling us to do. hopefully, in the court of publ...

Democrat from new york, hes the chair of the house democratic caucus and the chair of that committee. he joins me now. its good to have you on, congressman, as a member of house leadership, i always wonder, particularly given how paper thin that margin is in the senate. given the fact that the house has passed a raft of legislation from everything from voting rights, to gun safety, to the presidents entire domestic agenda, thats basically installed their. how much do you in the house watch whats...

The policy response to Uvalde from the Texas GOP has been more of the same for school security. It hasn’t worked.

But will not get done is when they are in session, bills being put on the floor but chuck schumer to hold evidence accountable. schumer should put those bills on the floor anyway despite any negotiations that may be underway. >> professor greer, i want to play for you mentally brooks, he was on fox. and he was asked about the polling data on guns. weve been talking about all morning about how a majority of the american people want common sense things done on gun safety. watch this. >> i suggest ...

This discussion up when lawmakers return? senator chris murphy a democrat from the state of connecticut who has led on these issues, he told me he is going to be having phone conversations next week, he is not just going to take next week off and come back to this when they return. he views this as theres momentum, we need to act now. i want to be ready to have some kind of framework in hand when we come back. and schumer said this yesterday on the floor, the majority leader, if republicans do n...

Legislation, we are going on a break for ten days for memorial day and then, oh, and then the summer recess for 4th of july. and, all the steps that schumer couldve taken to put legislation on the table that wouldve backed republicans into the corner on these individual items doesnt have been. because they are talking to democrats about legislation. we have seen this movie 1000 times. mcconnell is acutely adept at playing this particular game this way. its still stunts me that senate democrats h...