To demand the shutdown of the government, basically. But when chris murphy held the floor in the senate last night for 15 hours, he not only held the floor for that truly remarkable length of time, he also did something that is basically unheard of in the modern history of filibusters and even long speeches in the United States senate. Which is that at the end of his 15 hours, last night at 2 00 in the morning, senator chris murphy of connecticut, he won. By virtue of that filibuster, he actually got what he was asking for. I mean, overall, he was there to protest gun violence in this country r. Test. In the specific what he was asking for were senate votes on two things. Senate vote on blocking people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy guns. A senate vote on closing that loophole for background chen checks. That that loophole that says you can avoid a background check if you buy a gun online or at a gun show. Thats what he was asking for in speck, votes on those two things in the United States senate. Thanks to his 15 hours on the floor he actually got it. They scheduled those votes are. Republican and Democratic Leaders while he was on the floor were able to come to agreement there will be votes on those two measures and probably two others that are going to be put forward by republicans. It looks like those votes will happen as soon as monday. So he did it. He actually got something done with that surprise brave stand. And senator chris murphy is therefore the man of the hour in u. S. Politics. He did something almost nobody ever does. And even when other people do it they never win but he just won. Just remarkable. I have no idea how much he has slept since his achievement last night but well find out soon because hes going to be here tonight for the interview in just a couple of minutes. In orlando, florida, today president obama and Vice President joe biden traveled to orlando. They met privately with survivors of the nightclub attack in orlando that claimed 49 lives and injured more than 50 other people. This was, of course, the worst mass shooting in american history. And the scale of the death toll from this attack is just almost logistically impossible to imagine on top of Everything Else horrible about it. The county medical Examiners Office has now announced that they have completed their autopsies on all 49 of the victims. All 49 of the bodies that were brought into their county morgue. All of those bodies have now been autopsied, theyve all been now turned around and delivered out to local funeral homes. Now the county and the city of orlando, theyre looking to find burial plots for that many people. Funeral homes say they are having a hard time finding venues for what they expect to be a lot of largescale, crowded funeral services. When you have 49 people dead all at once who all need to be prayed over, who all need to be mourned, who all need to be buried all at once, honestly, the big churches in town fill up. They cant handle the demand for that many funerals. Theyre not sure where theyre going to be able to hold all of these Memorial Services and funeral services. The first two funerals for the 49 victims were held today. But there will be more than 40 more in days ahead. And of course the other physical body that they have to concern themselves with is the body of the killer who also died that night in a shootout with the orlando pd s. W. A. T. Team. The medical examiner made this remarkable Statement Today about his body, because of course the same medical examiner is also responsible for his autopsy and for the handling of his remains. The chief medical examiner for orange county, florida, announced if a formal Statement Today that the body of the killer was kept physically apart from the bodies of the 49 people who he killed. Even though the same morgue had to process all of them and the same medical examiners had to do the examinations and the autopsies and process all those remains, they took care to conduct the killers autopsy in a totally separate building so his body would not be near his victims bodies. This is not a law or requirement but was rather done out of respect for the victims and their families so that the shooter may never be near these 49 beautiful souls again. So orlandos just coping with what will be a huge wave of grief and upset and emotion that will be different than even what theyve gone through in these last few days in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Theyve just started going through the first of what will be 49 different funerals for all these people who died. And that kind of scale of tragedy is just not something and that kind of scale of tragedy is just not something were used to seeing all in one place all at once in this country. In terms of the political response and the policy response and whether our country will do anything substantive in the wake of this attack to try to stop the next thing like this, honestly, that part of it is very, very hard to predict right now. And i mean that not hyperbolcally. I think things are hard to predict right now. I dont know whats going to happen next. Nobody knew until it started that senator chris murphy would hold his 15hour filibust over the floor of the senate yesterday, that was a surprise. Even once he started i dont think anybody predicted it would go on for 15 hours, and zero people predicted it would work, that he would actually get the votes he was demanding. So i cant tell you exactly whats going to happen. But the senate, because of chris murphy, is going to go on record again on monday, apparently, whether or not they want people on the terrorist watch list to be able to buy guns, whether anyone should be able to buy a gun without any sort of background check, no questions asked, as long as they do it at a gun show. Both those measures have been voted on in the u. S. Senate before, both of them have failed with almost every republican senator voting against them. But right now, in the wake of orlando, i cant tell you exactly how its going to go this time. I dont think anybody can tell you what the chain of events is going to be. In washington or around the country. In the wake of orlando, i have to say, i sort of know what democrats want if not what theyre going to do. I dont know what republican elected officials doctoring to do or what they want. Republican electeds right now seem a little disorganized, a little confused, maybe a little rattled about what they believe and what they plan to do on the subject of guns in particular after orlando. And i think part of it is the polling. We saw it in swing state polling out of virginia last night with these policy changes that theyre going to vote on on monday about the terrorist watch list and background checks. These are the kinds of policy changes that are among the least controversial and most popular policies of any kind that you could suggest to the american public. Well over 80 of even Republican Voters like both of these ideas. And so that alone rattles republicans in congress, republican in the senate, every time democrats force them to vote on things like this. And republican orthodoxy tells them theyve got to vote no when almost every republican voter in the country would tell them they better vote yes. To add further to the disorganization and i think the unpredictability on the right right now, interestingly and surprisingly, a couple of the conservative tv hosts over at the Fox News Channel have also in the last couple of days voiced concern, since orlando, about the ease with which civilians can buy militarygrade firepower in this country. I dont want to overstate this its not like the Fox News Channel has veered left radically on this issue. But when their most highly rated primetime cable host, mr. Bill oreilly on your right, and other onair talent, when they start voicing concerns about the availability of assault rifles on fox news, that has got to be a little unsettling to republican elected officials, right . They know theyre against Public Opinion on this subject but they count on republican tv, they count on Fox News Channel to tell them what to think what to say about it, how to vote on this issue, assuming conservative media will have their back. If fox news gets a little wobbly on this issue, thats going to put republican elected officials under even more strain. And frankly, with all of those things going on, i think the strain is starting to show. This was john mccain speaking with reporters today about specifically the orlando shooting and who bears responsibility for it. Barack obama is directly responsible for it. John mccain told reporters today that president obama is directly responsible for the shooting in orlando. And reporters reacted somewhat incredulously. Reporters asked him immediately if he was sure about that, did he mean to say the president was directly responsible for it . This was mr. Mccains response. How do you say hes directly responsible . Directly responsible, because he pulled everybody out of iraq, and i predicted at the time that isis would go unchecked and there would be attacks on the United States of america. Its a matter of record. So he is directly responsible. For the shooting in orlando . Thats what hes directly responsible for the shooting in orlando . Senator john mccain, hes up for reelection in arizona right now, he tried to make the case to reporters today that president obama is responsible for isis and therefore you can track orlando. But on the way toward making that point, he accidentally i think said that barack obama is basically the one who did the orlando shooting. He reiterated it several times as reporters became increasingly incredulous that thats really what he meant, he insisted, yes, thats really what he meant, directly responsible, the president is directly responsible. Later on this afternoon senator mccains office had to put on it a written statement saying the senator misspoke on the subject, he didnt mean to say the president is directly responsible. Oh. So i think the strain is showing. A little bit on republican leaked officials in terms of what theyre going to propose in response to orlando and whether theyre going to be able to retain their traditional republican stance that nothing should happen in this country in response to any mass shooting, let alone a terrorist mass shooting. The republican elected officials dilemma is exacerbated i think this time around because after this particular mass shooting theyve got a republican president ial candidate who theoretically they should all be following as their ports lead over this issue, he should be their partys leader on every issue, hes the standardbearer of their party, hes the head of the republican party. If when the country needs leadership, republicans should be following him. But republicans dont quite know what to make of him on this issue. Especially after mr. Trump said he would meet with the nra to talk with them about keeping people on the terrorist watch lists from being able to buy guns. The nra has endorsed donald trump for president. Donald trump in turn maybe wants to push the nra on the terrorist watch list thing . Possibly . Dont know . But the idea that theres going to be some sort of trump nra meeting on that, let alone a vote on that policy on monday, amid these off the charts poll numbers in favor of blocking people on the terrorist watch list from buying guns, all of those things together, all of those things put republican elected officials in a very uncertain position right now. And that its happening to them on guns right now. But honestly, it is likely to happen to them on other issues of republican orthodoxy as well as long as donald trump is their nominee. Today marks one year since donald trump started his president ial campaign. Hillary Clintons Campaign marked that anniversary today with a sort of roundup of all of the trump greatest hits from the past year since he announced. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. Maybe syria should be a free zone for isis. Hes not a war hero. Ill use the word anchor baby. Youre going to have a deportation force. A total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Knock the crap out of them, would you . Im speaking with myself, number one, because i have a very good brain. We need some global warming. Its freezing. Were building a wall. Hes a mexican. Clinton campaign putting out a video that cut together all of those and some other donald trump greatest hits from the past year since he has been running for president. Their final slate on that video reads like this. 12 months of donald trump is enough. We cant afford four years. As he gets to the oneyear anniversary of his campaign, i think arguably donald trump has just in the last 24 hours added another one to that list of sort of greatest hits things he said in his first year. Last night on the eve of his oneyear anniversary, declaring for president , he told an atlanta rally he would welcome the leader of north korea, kim jongun, to come visit the United States. One of the papers called the other day and they said, would you speak to the leader of north korea . I said, absolutely. Why not . Why not . They come out, trump would speak to him who the hell cares . Ill speak to anybody. Who knows . I wouldnt go there. That i can tell you. If he came here, id accept him. But i wouldnt give him a state dinner like we do for china so thats the hardline with north korea. The leader of north korea, the dictator, the leader of north korea welcome to visit the United States to come meet with president trump. Welcome to the United States. But no state dinner to be clear, the mayor of london will be banned from visiting the United States. Under a donald trump presidency. Because hes a muslim. But the leader of north korea can come any time he wants. Not a muslim. Not a mexican. So no problem, right . But there are some problems for donald trump tonight with and from his fellow republicans. Including a very famous one of his fellow republicans from beyond the grave who apparently has a very big problem with donald trump and thats storys next. Clear for take off. Se when youre living with diabetes. Steady is exciting. Oh this is living by only glucerna has carbsteady, to help minimize blood sugar spikes. And try new glucerna hunger smart to help you feel full. No, youre not yogonna watch it tch it we cant let you download on the goooooo youll just have to miss it yeah, youll just have to miss it we cant let you download. Uh, no thanks. I have x1 from xfinity so. Dont fall for directv. Xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. I used to like that song. There are new reports Corporate America is having trouble stomaching donald trump as the republican partys president ial candidate. Bloomberg news got commit manies from wells fargo, u. P. S. , motorola, jpmorgan, ford, and walgreens that none of those companies will sponsor this years republican convention. There was new reporting from politico. Com the Republican NationalCommittee Just as an organization is haing a little trouble with their relationship with the Trump Campaign and mr. Trump himself. Although the rnc is supposed to be doing much of the nuts and bolts organizing work, much of the daytoday stuff that campaigns usually do to try to get their candidate elected, even though that stuff is supposedly getting delegated to the rnc as an organization for this years election, donald trump apparently cant be persuaded to do even the basic stuff a candidate needs to do on a daytoday basis in order to run the fundamentals of a campaign. Quoting from politico. Com, trump promised chairman Reince Priebus he would call two dozen republican top donors. But when the rnc chief of staff recently presented trump with that list of more than 20 republican donors to call, mr. Trump called only three of them before stopping. Thats according to two sources familiar with the situation. Its unclear whether he resume the donor calls later. He was supposed to call 24 donors, he pooped out after three. I wouldnt ever want to call donors for anything. But if youre running for something, thats a lot of what you do. At this time in the 2012 president ial campaign, mitt romney said he was raising something on the order of 1 million per day. Donald trump apparently calls three people and then says, nah, im done, screw it, lets go do a rally. Donald trump is in texas of all places tonight doing a rally. Following a dallas fundraiser. Hes doing a rally, this started about 8 00 p. M. Eastern. A pretty good turnout body in terms of supporters and in terms of protesters outside. If you think about the geography here, you wouldnt necessarily expect a republican candidate for president to waste time doing a rally in a place like texas, right . Texas is not a swing state. Democrats desperately want texas to be a swing state but texas in all likelihood is going to be a red state no matter what happens between now and november. But donald trump is there doing a rally tonight. And this is all part of his unorthodox and apparently quite strained schedule that hes maintaining both as a fundraiser and a campaigner. Hes doing this red state texas event because he wanted to do a rally in the place where he went to go raise money, then the next event hes also doing is also going to be in another red state in arizona, on saturday in arizona he is due to hold a fundraiser a the former home of 1964 republican president ial candidate Barry Goldwater. Donald trump is actually going to be doing a fundraiser at the house in arizona where Barry Goldwater announced his president ial bid in 1964. So its interestingly, right . Symbolic resonance. Symbolic resonance for mr. Trumps next big event. Its interesting resonance because Barry Goldwater lost the president ial race really bad. He lost 44 states in the 1964 president ial election. And theres also the issue that Barry Goldwaters family says theyre voting for Hillary Clinton this year. And they say Barry Gol