standing up to the gun lobby when the congress won t. the other side, ted cruz promised to reverse any of executive orders if he is elected. the president is expected to roll out sweeping new executive orders trying to take away our second amendment right to keep and bear arms. well, president obama may have a phone and may have a pen, but if you live by the pen, you die by the pen and my pen has got an eraser. pawn ryan slammed the executive action in the state. president obama is subverting the legislative branch and proper tensionally overturning its will. ryan said that no president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat. to help us break down the proposal, let s bring in our
orders trying to take away our second amendment right to keep and bear arms. well, president obama may have a phone and a pen, but if you live by the pen, you die by the pen and my pen has an eraser. paul ryan said the president is subverting the legislative branch and overturning its will. the gun rights were debated by the senate and rejected. ryan said no president should overturn congressional failure. let s talk about the gun prop e proposals and political news. let s bring in cnn political reporter eric bradner. president obama is in his final year in office. the first votes are less than four weeks away. how much of the spotlight can he
executive orders on guns if elected. the president is expected to roll out sweeping new executive orders trying to take away our second amendment right to keep and bear arms. president obama may have a phone and may have a pen, but if you live by the pen, you die by the pen and my pen has an eraser. house speaker paul ryan said the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch and overturning its will. the gun rights were debated by the senate and rejected. ryan added no president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat. a special programming note. this thursday at 8:00 p.m., president obama will join anderson cooper for an exclusive live town hall event about guns in america. one hot topic is executive action he is taking today. he will take questions from the live studio audience.
dr democrats, but leaders in their own party. you definitely have led fights against obamacare, against immigration, against the epa. but obama is still around, immigration let s be very clear on immigration. i led the fight against obama s am nesty. against the gang of eight bill. championed by barack obama. by chuck schumer and marco rubio. and i led the fight standing side by side with jeff sessions and we defeated it in congress. amnesty did not pass. you want to talk about fights? a block is a legislative win. blocking something that is bad, is harmful, is good. i ll give you another example. over two years ago, following the tragic shooting in newtown, connecticut, the democrats came out with a massive raft of new gun control proposals, i led the opposition against it. i remember chuck schumer being on sunday shows saying they were in the sweet spot. nothing could stop this. we defeated every one of those proposals on the floor of the senate. defending the second amendm
advocates out there, you know, in force, saying, one of the signs you saw, there obama not welcomed. he s the president of the united states. he would be criticized if he didn t show up and say something. the gun argument and the abortion argument are complete mirrors of themselves. the left thinks the right is using the planned parenthood videos to ban abortion. the right thinks the left is using mass shootings to get rid of the second amendment. there s somewhere in the middle. people are angry about this. neither necessarily correct. there s a dangerous thing though here and i agree. you should be able to politicize an issue. if it s your opinion it doesn t matter if it s political or not. a symbolic action that s used to soothe your soul can actually be dangerous because it replaces real action but more important it elevate risk because obama s visit expands the spectacle of