Republicans can call at 202 7848001. Democrats can call 202 7488000. Independence call 202 7488002. A very good friday morning to you the headline in the wall street journal, prospects for a gun measure deal grow. There is the release of the name and iv National Rifle assist the asian. This is what it says. We know the shooter in the Las Vegas Attack had firearms, 12 with stocks. Saysublican from florida dozens of republicans have contacted his office about cosponsoring Bipartisan Legislation to ban the manufacture or sale of bump stocks. Dianne feinstein has introduced similar legislation in the senate. We want to talk about it this morning with you, our viewers again, the phone line, republicans 202 7848001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independence 202 7488002. That statement is getting reaction around capitol hill. This is Sarah Sanders being asked about the nra statement to. Does that change the administrations point of view. The president has been a exhibit of the nra and the nra his in a big supporter of the president. We welcome that any conversation on that. That has not changed. We want to be part of the conversation on that forward. Host the Editorial Boards of the Washington Post in the New York Times take up this issue. Patient, it iske the bare minimum. The refusal to take any type of and control, any step in the right direction is a good thing. To the editorial pages of the New York Times, they are calling the move when it comes to bump stocks, progress on guns. That is the headline they use on their lead editorial. We are interested in your dots this morning. Thought this morning. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think it doesnt know are enough. These bump stocks should be outlawed to even be in your one, youn, if you have should be prosecuted for the same law that would be tied to an automatic machine done. Thats my opinion on that. Be taken back to the store they got it and get their money back. Is there anything you would do beyond that . Caller i dont have a problem , any type of shot device that allows you to turn your assault weapon into a machine gun. You should be charged as if you had an illegal machine gun in your possession without a federal license. Host hagerstown, maryland. Go ahead. Caller good morning. A couple of comments. I have no objection to this regulation. It is already illegal or someone to own a machine gun. I think it was asked in the obama ministration. Democraton to your callers, we hear the same mantra. Passed would have stopped this. What law would have stopped shooter in orlando . What law wouldve stopped shooter in new tim. You cannot stop human beings. It is part of our dna. , thelassic example holocaust is the most horrible wing. It did not happen in the third world country. Nothing is going to stop people. What is the answer . I will tell you one ring, if you look at chicago and baltimore, they have the strictest gun laws and they are not in force. If you commit a crime with a firearm, the prosecutors dont go or. The jail has a revolving door. Strict gun laws and. Host how do you know the process readers dont go or it . Caller the research i have seen online. If we just enforce the current , we would put people in prison. Host go ahead. Caller i its progress. I dont tickets going to be effect. The most effective approach ownership,evels of almost like security and. So americans who are responsible can own these weapons and have proven they are trustworthy and reliable. Knucklehead who isnt trained or knows how to handle a powerful weapon, just as a piece of paper says i should be able to do that, thats not a good approach. I think thats the most effect of route. Loss for words now. Host we appreciate the call. Some reaction from republican members of congress. A republican rum laura tweeted out this from florida tweeted this out. Kentucky saidrom this. Among those who are opposing any new bands are the gun owners of america put they put out their own a statement. Atf were approved by the during the obama frustration to help gunowners with disabilities. It would be a board by criminals and serve to disarm honest citizens. That is the gunowners of america, another gun rights group. The nra statement is getting a lot of attention. We want to hear from you. This is a call for additional regulations. We dont know what that means yet. The nra is calling or possible new regulations. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. Good morning to you. , i think any regulation is just foolhardy. You cant regulate insanity. Two thirds of the gun death according to a woman that wrote , two thirdsesterday of the casualties from gun are from suicide. Legislates kinds of wings away. You cannot legislate crazy people who want to kill a lot of people. Away, there is always a way around these. I think its unfortunate what happened during why dont you just legislate everybody goes to church on sunday western mark. That would really help i think the tied. Me of why dont you take away from cars . I dont think guns are as much of a problem as our societys the problem. Host david is on the line or republicans. Caller thank you for taking my call. I agree with the gentleman from pennsylvania. The problem goes back to criminals. Thats the problem. Laws on theough books. That aint going to help nothing you. Host what the better way of going after it . Caller i am not a police officer. In good and evil. This man was evil to do Something Like this. Host reaction from democrats on capitol hill. Says thelumenthal review is a dissent of dodge. Dissent to dodge. More than 160 members of the u. S. House are standing by my legislation. There is Chuck Schumer from new york. We want to hear from you this morning. You think goes far enough western mark you think it goes too far . And pennsylvania. Of dan i am not sure if would be effective. Print them and produce them on their own. Host what would be effective western mark effective . Caller i dont know. Thatot exactly sure how legislation would take shape. Host north carolina. I hire the span for what they can present. Stocks can be imported by people that have the money. Exotic weapons are just an advance. Automatic weapons should not be out there. There is no control over them are in. That comeher device under scrutiny this week are silencers. If a debate about whether those should be legal, the usa today Editorial Board talked about it. People will be following in the streets before they hear a shot. Once you are dead, your dad. You have a lot of people who have money enough to buy this weapon. You. A threat to everyone i think its something that cant be stopped. If for greatere elimination of people in a very crowded place. Granted out of crowded places. Those crowds. It might not help gambling industry or any place where you draw crowds, i dont want my children. Stay out of those routes. My daughter travels locally. I warned her to stay away from crowded areas. She is a global traveler. Thats why i am concerned. I am concerned about everybody out there. The world is disintegrating. We are talking about silencers on the other part of the recreational enhancement act, which was a legislative proposal which makes it easier to buy silencers and harder to restrict armor piercing bullets. Boarda today editorial right. The opposing view was written by congressman jeff duncan. He is pushing the protection act. He said they are not silencers. They reduce the muzzle blast. Most measurements will calculate 165 decibels. Back to your calls. Go ahead. Caller its just a joke that you cant stop this stuff. They banned machine guns. Crimessee any guns being done with machine guns. The deal is what are they doing out there with military weapons in the first place . If you want to restrict them to shooting ranges, maybe. I think they should restrict anything that in the changed into a machine gun. That way you eliminate the problem. You can copy these bump stocks. They really have to get to the root of the problem, highpowered semi automatic weapon allowed in the first leg area place. Host what would you tell people who say you cant legislate evil. Caller of course you can. They dont allow people to have artillery is. The example i gave was the machine guns. If you cant i those anymore. Rifles and their their shotguns, they can go hunting. The idea that you can defend yourself with a pistol from a guy that can shoot you from 1200 feet away is ridiculous and. Host go ahead. Caller i agree with the previous caller. There is no way in the world you should be able to i weapons. Style weapons, what is the point . Its nonsense. Its ludicrous. Its ridiculous. People are saying you cant take them all cars off the street grade. Thats idiotic. They change the conversation from the weapons to the bump stocks. Once those kids got killed in connecticut and Nothing Happened, nothing is going to happen. We dont need those type of weapons. If you want to be in the army, join the army and fight to the country. Host a few comments from twitter. We have a few minutes left in the segment. We are talking about the nra called or regulations on bump stocks. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Ae nra is nothing more than terrorist group. Aey have murdered over Million People since the 60s. Willis a farce that they you canece of plastic buy at an ungot regulated gun show. These guns have no reason to be on the street at all. There is very little difference between semi automatic and fully automatic. Its a farce. Host go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Suggestion isa valid. I live in pennsylvania. I live very close to a gun range. I hear gunfire all the time. They are legally owned and fired. When people Start Talking about , this idea that we are living in a hollywood movie and a silencer makes a gun go quiet is absurd. It doesnt silence anything. Its like a very weak. For the guy in texas and said the nra has killed people. The nra has not killed millions of people. This is a horrible thing. A neighbor that was at the shooting, a person lost his life. It hits close to home. They can eliminate that piece of what met as far as im concerned. Just make them illegal and confiscate them. Host that is stephen pennsylvania. One other statement on this issue from the conceal and Carry Association. Story. A fox business he will be joining us at 9 30 a. M. And we will be talking to him about conceal carry permits. Its an issue the nra had in their statement yesterday. Statement, past the part we showed you, they said in an increasingly dangerous world, the nra is focused on strengthening Second Amendment freedoms. On behalf of our 5 million members, we urge congress to pass right to carry reciprocity act which would allow americans to defend themselves from acts of violence. We will talk or about that on our 9 30 a. M. Hour. One other piece of news we wanted to date you on. Outrmation has been coming about the scandal surrounding tim murphy from pennsylvania. Yesterday we got news that he will be quitting congress early. He had originally he would serve out his term and not run again. He said yesterday he will resign this month after he had said he would not seek reelection. He is a member of the house prolife caucus. That story is in the Washington Post. Its time for a few more calls as we talk about the nra and regulations on bump stocks. Good morning. Caller it doesnt matter because we still live in the United States. We cannot be held accountable or the actions of other people. The people who are scared of the ar15, why dont you have a problem with other rifles that have a much bigger bullet. It doesnt make sense to me. Illnesses, i work at an institute. I work sidebyside with veterans every day. Some say the mentally ill and own guns. Ptsd is a mental illness. You are saying people who bought for the country shouldnt own guns just because they have a problem from service . Thats wrong. Thats all i have to day. Host good morning. Caller good morning. I think its sad that every time at terminal engages in criminal behavior vehemently jump on the bandwagon and want to punish the lawabiding. This is not right. There are plenty of laws on the book. If you look at the close restrictive like chicago, they are slaughterhouses. Armed andetter outnumber Law Enforcement. Its not right. Calling the nra terrorists is ridiculous. Have 10 a member of the nra since a teenager. I dont have a criminal record. Every place i live gives me an excellent reference to i resent aint called a terrorist just because ive enjoyed firearms. I have never been involved in any trouble. Host this is our last caller in the segment. Thise going to revisit topic again at 9 30 a. M. The house passed its budget yesterday, taking the first step toward towards tax reform. We will talk about how all that impacts the National Debt with Maya Mcguiness. Later, former equifax ceo Richard Smith appears that chapter before four congressional committees to answer questions about the data breach. Public Interest Research group about the response. We will be right back. Announcer sunday night on afterwards, radio host Charles Sykes discusses his book how the right lost its mind. He is interviewed by tammy bruce. Donald trump represented something. A bigd he represented middle finger from voters to the establishment. If you really wanted to deal with some of these issues you would have gone with marco rubio or ted cruz and they did not. In terms of communication, yes, he is a master of twitter, but he was crude and rude and a serial liar. He was thinskinned and erratic and a fraud. Relatively well known and conservative who not that long ago used to argue that character matters and at the president was a role model and they found a way to rationalize the behavior of somebody who insults women, mocks the andbled, mocks p. O. W. s paid a fine for defrauding students that wanted to get an education. Announcer watch after words on cspan2s booktv. This weekend on cspan2s booktv, saturday at 4 30 p. M. Eastern, the president of the Brennan Center for justice at Nyu Law School examines the history and debates around the Second Amendment in his book the Second Amendment a biography. At 7 00 a. M. , look at current books on reform. Servo with her book and cathy davidson, the author of the new education. 7 30, nobel prizewinning economist and author of a world of three zeros talks about how to solve the problems of global poverty, unemployment, and climate change. For the complete weekend schedule, go to booktb. Org. Booktv. Org. Washington journal continues. Maya macquineas is back at our desk. Explain where the budget goes from here and why this is important to the public and tax reform effort. Guest it is very important to the tax reform effort. Hassinger budget is important for running a country and it should be noted to anybody that we have passing the budget now after the fiscal year has begun. This is late in the process and i think that speaks to the problem that we often miss these deadlines. People hear this more than they would want to, but if you want to use the term reconciliation, thats a process that allows the senate to pass something with 51 votes instead of 60. In order to have reconciliation, you have to pass a budget. Months late, the house and the senate are passing various budgets that include reconciliation instructions that are different and the next step is they both pass them and have to reconcile them. Meaning they come up with one budget that will lay out how much you are allowed to either save through tax reform or in this case probably added to the debt through tax reform in the reconciliation instructions. Should i explained the differences . Host please. Guest right now the house has revenue neutral tax reform that requires 200 billion in savings and on paper, it would get to balance. The Senate Budget is quite different. It does not reach balance and its something republicans have wanted to do for a long time, but the budget has such a big gap in the tax numbers because it allows 1. 5 trillion dollars in revenue lost by tax reform, which would mean tax cuts. That means they cant get to the balanced budget and of all the spending in the next 10 years, the republican budget is asking for 1 billion in savings. I pointed that out because it is a pidly amount compared to what republican said they wanted to save it to save. Host can they not vote until the reconciliation process happens and when is that going to be . Guest that is right. They are developing frameworks and details of tax reform. We have been seeing that, getting a sense of what the bill would look like. They will not be able to move it forward legislatively and vote until the budget is done. They still have to work out differences between the house and the senate and during that time, people are working on tax reform and filling in the details and testing it with the public and see what they do and do not like. The ultimate vote wont take place until the budget resolution has been passed. Host a reminder for our viewers. It seems like a long time ago details of the tax plan were released. It was just last week. The key provisions it would collapse several income tax rates to 3 to 3. Increase standard reduction, the child tax credit, repeal the minimum tax and the state tax and reduce the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 . Adopt a territorial tax system. That is just the big shirt the key items from this tax reform the big picture, the key items from this tax reform plan. Host we are certainly supporting tax reform. Is this something we are supporting . We are not sure yet. The details make a difference. We are a Nonpartisan Organization that cares about fiscal responsibility and the growing economy. Tax reform, which i think is something pretty much everybody can agree the country needs. Very fewiry people that say the tax code is perfect and dont touch it. It is incredibly obligated and stands in the way of a growing economy. The distinctions the differences will be when they fill in the details. What we will be looking for and i think this is an important point about tax reform, does this make the debt wors