And i dont like cheetos. Right now theres a new story about josh green. Till tomorrow, we say to you sayanora. Hard ball with Chris Matthews is next. Democrats demand action on guns. Lets play hardball. We were elected to lead, mr. Speaker. We must be highlights and not taillights. We cannot continue to stick our heads in the sand and ignore the reality of mass gun violence in our nation. Good evening. What you just heard was the start of a remarkable scene that continues to unfold at this
hour. Shortly after making those statements earlier today, georgia congressman, john lewis, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement led his democrats in a sitin. Its still going on as we speak. The goal is to force a vote on gun legislation. Just as democrats sat down, the cameras that feed cspan that provides gavel to gavel coverage were shut off. They dont televise proceedings when the house is not in session. Paul ryans press secretary depending the move. Saying the house cannot operate without members following the rules of the institution so the house has recessed to the call of the chair. Members began to tweet and live stream the unprecedented ska ee. The house was gavelled back into session. That was opened up by no bill,
no break. The proceedings of the house. House republicans are meeting to try to figure out how to respond. Here is what paul ryan said within the last hour. First, i would tell you this is nothing more than a publicity stunt. Thats point number one. Point number two, is this bill was already defeated in the United States senate. Number three, were not doing to take away a citizens due process rights. Were not going to take away a citizens institutional rights. This is not a way to try to bring up legislation. Congressman, thanks for taking a few minutes. Lets start with what the house
speaker just said. He said this is nothing more than a publicity stunt. I believe the speaker is a bit mistaken. That was not voted on by the senate. We are pursuing no fly, no by. Thats something were interested in and that was dp t defeated. Were interested in expanding the background checks. My bill is to close the charleston loophole. Those souls that lost their lives at emmanuel ame church were all murdered by someone who was not qualified to have a gun. He bought that gun because of a loophole that says if the background check is not completed in three days, the
sale can be consummated. Were saying it shouldnt be done. I would say bring my legislation to the floor. Then we dont have my legislation being dealt with. Let me just be clear on this. Is that your demands specifically, congressman jim cly burns demand or is that the demand correctively that the democrats who are sitting in right now are making to vote on the bill you just outlined in this sitthis ends or is there any other legislation. What is the specific demand. There are four different bills. No fly, tho by is one of them. Im one of the cosponsors of that bill. Thats a bipartisan bill. Mr. King is on that bill. Mr. Thompson. Im on that bill. We also want to vote on expanded background checks because we believe if we had expanded background checks, the murder in orlando would have shown up on the list and may not have been able to purchase his gun. Thats on the list. Also, my bill to close that charleston loophole, ive been talking about that since the week after those poor souls lost their lives. Yes, im concerned about that. Youve not had an effective background check. Thats what were talking about. Has there been any communication between yourself, paul ryan or democratic leadership and paul ryan. Are you aware of any direction communication . A week ago mr. Ryan shouted me down on the floor when i was trying to seek recognition to parliamentary inquiry to find out when he would allow my bill to come to the floor. I was shouted down. That was pretty direct to me. Im specifically, tonight. Since this sitin began, no direct communication between
democratic leaders and paul ryan . If so, ive not been a part of it. I am prepared just as i was with john lewis back in 1960, im prepared to stay on this floor all night and tomorrow if necessary. I did it for three days one time before. I believe my body can take two days. All right. Thanks for the time. Thank you so much for having me. Were joined by congressman jim hines from connecticut. Youre on the same page, are you, as congressman clyburn. You are here demanding with this sitin, votes on three pieces of legislation on background check, on this socalled no fly, no buy
and the charleston loophole. You want three votes . Thats where all of us are. What those three things share is dramatic public support. What youre seeing happening here led by john lewis, icon of the Civil Rights Movement, beaten almost to death on the Edmond Pettis bridge is being called a publicity stunt by the speaker. What youre seeing is us standing up and saying the house of representatives exist for one purpose and that is to work the will of the people. Here you have a package of things thats supported by a majority of republicans and democrats and gun owners. What were saying to the speaker is let the house do what it was designed by mr. Madison and mr. Jefferson and mr. Adams to do, which is to reflect the will of the American People. He says no. Is this the way, he mentioned this, we played paul ryan
reaction. He said this is no way to bring legislation up. To occupy the house floor and say the house cant do any other business. We wont move unless you do x. Youre trying to hold up the speaker here. In the ordinary course of business i would agree with the speaker. This is not a Business Model that works every single day. Theres some unique characteristics about what were fighting for here. Number someone the dramatic public support that these measures that were asking for enjoy. At bottom, its 80 of the american public. Thats point one. This is not a 50 50. This is not an Affordable Care act where people dont get it. This is the will of the people. Point two, this is not something thats really an abstraction. 50 dead people in orlando, several more shootings, including in my constituency in stanford, connecticut. Several more shootings since orlando. Americans are being cut down and bleeding in the street for ever minute of inaction that the house of representatives refuses to do something that the people want to do. I would say, we couldnt operate if every time we wanted to move something we staged a sitin. People are dying and these are measures supported by the American People. I want to press you this. Youre citing polls saying this is the will of the people. You can get into the details here, the republicans and the senate say they dont want terrorists buying guns either. They have a different way to bring that about. If youre talking about the will of the people, the people are the runs who elected this house that the Republican Party leads right now. Republicans who say they dont want this legislation. If the people didnt want republicans blocking this, why p did they put them in charge of the house . Elections happen every two years. We dont have the opportunity to speak about these issues. To examine arguments like the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. An absurdity. There was a good guy with a gun in orlando. We think its important that we have this conversation and air this for the reason youre talking about here. Constituents of all 435 of us deserve to know when were acting in their interest and when we refuse to. This is an example o where any Congressional District you look at, these measures will enjoy majority support. Its important that people know the House Majority has decided that even though that support is widespread, this conversation will not happen. All right. Congressman, thanks for joining us. Hillary clinton tweeting in solidarity with the members participating in this sitin. She wrote House Republicans may have cut the cameras but they cant cut off our voices. We have the act on gun violence. Signed by clinton with the initial h. That means she personally wrote that tweet. Trying to get there what paul ryan said. He talked specifically about this no fly, no buy provision. He said denies due process. Hoo hes saying if the proposal is to take people on this no fly list, they ended up on that list without due process. With all do respect to my friend and speaker, thats
hogwash. If this was about due process, we could sit down and get a bill to the floor. The speaker knows hes refused in regular order as he likes to point to, to bring a bill to the floor that the overwhelming majority of American People, republican, democrats, independents support. Hes forced us to take action on behalf of the American People and say we will hold up the business of the house until the speaker does the will of the people. What polls well is this idea of should terrorist, should those on the terror watch list be able the buy guns and people general lly say no to that. There was a democratic bill, a republican bill. The republican bill from john corning said nobody on that list can buy a gun if the government can prove in a court of law that they belong on that list. Would you be okay with that
being voted on in the house . Look, were not even discussing that. What i want to be very clear about is this were a point of negotiation, we could sit down leadership to leadership. This is not about due process. This is about the process of National Rifle association and the refusal of House Democrats and Senate Republicans and House Republicans with their willingness to do the low hanging fruit that the American People are calling for. Lets not get distracted by the idea of due process. Im a civil libertarian. I believe in due process. We can figure that out. Surely, terrorists on the watch list should not be able to go in and buy a gun. Domestic abusers shouldnt be able to evade the background check by getting a gun at a gun show that they couldnt get in walmart. This is absurd. Its low hanging fruit and its time for republicans to get to
the business before we continue to lose american lives. 89 of them every single day. Let me ask you about the precedent. Paul ryan saying this is no way to stage a sit in to force the agenda. Say democrats ran the house. Say its a year from now and democrats ran the house and republicans sitin and say were not going to let anything else happen in here until and less obama care is repealed. Would that be okay . You know what, heres the truth. Were in a different place where the American People are concerned about gun violence and guns getting into the hands of terrorists and felons and domestic abusers. Thats what were talking about here today. We have tried over and over again to have the speaker and democrats and republicans handle this and they have not. Now, we are going to handle it by occupying the floor until we can get a guarantee from speaker ryan that we can put these bills
on the floor and vote for them. Let them cast the vote against it so they can be accountable to their constituents. Across this country, people are telling us, dont give up this fight on behalf of the American People. All right. Congresswoman from maryland, thanks for the time. Appreciate it. Coming up, donald trump throws the kitchen sink at Hillary Clinton. He calls her corrupt and a word class liar. His words there. Trumps attacks and clintons response. A short list seems to be emerging of her possible Vice President ial picks. Which could help clinton over the top in her race for the white house. Marco rubio going back on his decision not to run for reelection. He jumps into a Reelection Campaign with a lead in the polls. Well talk to one of his potential democratic opponents. The hardball round table is coming here to talk trump and tell me something about this campaign that i dont know. Thats a very easy assignment. This is hardball, the place for politics. Life insurance automobile insurance i spent 20 years active duty they still refer to me as Gunnery Sergeant when i call being a usaa member because of my service in the military to pass that on to my kids something that makes me happy my name is roger zapata and im a usaa member for life. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. One coat, yes
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itself. In return, Hillary Clinton got rich. She gets rich making you poor. Hillary clintons try out for the presidency has produced one deadly Foreign Policy disaster after another. Shes virtually done nothing right. Shes done nothing good. Hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person, ever, to seek the presidency of the United States. This afternoon, clinton responded. Hes going afterme person me personally because he has no answers on the substance. Thats why hes attacking my faith. Sigh. And of course attacking a
philanthropic foundation that saves and improves lives around the world. Its no surprise he doesnt understand these things. The Clinton Foundation helps poor people around the world get access to life saving aids medicine. Donald trump uses poor people to produce his line of suits and ties. The idea this is a new donald trump, a little more scripted and packaged, more formal speech today. Some very intentional there. Trump 2. 0. They aring loe looking at this f
wearily that he was able to stay on message. This is deja vu. We have been here before. Trump has said something thats gotten him in hot water with fellow members of his own party. Given he has a new Campaign Infrastructure in place, will he be able to sustain this through unscripted rallies. That will be the key. There does seem to be an acknowledgement that trump does understand its time to do some things different in his campaign as he acknowledges. Its trump 2. 0, 6. 0 at this point. 9. 10. Critics pointing to a number of factual issues with trumps speech. Here is trump contrasting his views on iraq with clinton. It all started with her bad
judgment in supporting the war in iraq in the first place. I was not in government service, i was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war and, yes, even before the war ever started. The problem with that is there evidence trump criticized the war to invasion. We didnt findfully examples of trump denouncing the war until a year after the war began. Trump alleged clinton would let in refugees without any screening. No way to screen who they are, what they are, what they believe, where they come from. According to politifact thats not true. Theres a screening process in place. It includes numerous rounds of security checks. Theres that critique of the speech. The only thing i noticed him doing here, we played a clip of it. It felt like he was very intentionally taking criticisms that have been levelled at him and just, when he says, she gets rich making you poor, thats what she said about him yesterday. Thats exactly right. There was a lot of projection going on here. I think you cant minimize those types of takes when trumps makes them on Hillary Clinton. What the democrats fear most is Donald Trumps abilities to stand next to her on stage and say, this is how politics has always been done. This is business as usual. If youre happy with the direction of the country, vote for her. Ill ch