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Suppression effort that the republican party is promoting. we just have to get a better looking at those core conditions, which are primarily enormous, enormous amounts of special interest money that has allowed to be spent anonymously by the millions in our politics, and creates an environment where secret threats, and promises can drive political behavior. >> at what point do we as americans feel that our democracy is not working. have we crossed that threshold when we look at the numbers, and...

Is top of her mind. >> we know what works on this. it includes lets have an assault weapons ban. you know what assault weapon is? you know how an assault weapon was designed? it was designed for a specific purpose. to kill a lot of human beings quickly. an assault weapon is a weapon of war. with no place, no place in a civil society. >> now, based on my conversations with senators last week as well as lawmakers on the sunday show this morning. assault weapons ban is not really at the top of the ...

And creates an environment where secret threats, and promises can drive political behavior. >> at what point do we as americans feel that our democracy is not working. have we crossed that threshold when we look at the numbers, and the majority of americans want sensible gun reform? we want universal background checks. we want a lot of the things that i am sure that you are on board with, yet somehow we are not seeing legislation reflect the majority of the american will. and it is not on the is...

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This is incredibley remarkable and notable. some republicans are meeting with democrats, a handful of them, are meeting to figure something out. and chuck schumer emphasized that he wanted to give time to democrats to negotiate something with republicans so they could pass some sort of gun safety reform because of that 60-vote threshold in the senate that is needed to break the filibuster to advance any legislation. and that is the problem right now is that democrats, all 50 democrats, even if t...

Senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate gave his blessing to senator john cornyn, the senior senator from texas to start these discussions with democrats. democrats of course being very eager to pass some sort of bill in the senate, but they need at least ten republicans to sign on to any legislation to break that 60-vote threshold for the filibuster. other than that, if they dont have the ten republicans to sign on with every democrat signing on, no bill can pas...

For the filibuster to pass any sort of bill, and right now there are not 60 senators, even if every single democratic senator signs on to any legislation in the senate, they still need ten republicans, and right now not even ten republicans are at the table. but it is notable that there are a couple. senate majority leader chuck schumer took to the floor this week and said he wanted to give time for democrats to negotiate with republicans to see if they could reach those 60 votes. of course all ...

Controlling what is going on with mentally disturbed young men or the gangs in the inner-city. until we start talking about those problems rather than simply imposing gun control laws on everybody in the united states there is not likely to be any political movement on this. paul: john cornyn is a serious fellow sanctioned by the leader to negotiate. any prospects there do you think of this emerging, past the 60 vote threshold? >> lets try, lets see. the senate came close but not close enough se...

Someone in, they should not be owning a firearm. that will be taken up by the house the first week of june. the house is proceeding with legislation. even if it passes the house, it might not be able to pass the senate. it all happenings on whether republicans could get behind legislation on gun safety reform. >> it all comes back to that 60-vote threshold. thank you for your report. >> whenever there is a school shooting in america, that is often, the movement for gun laws gathers momentum. the...

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