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The gun violence, again, that we saw last week with so many people killed at the hands of weapons that some people in your party are calling for now bans on. what do you want to see happen? i know the house has already passed measures. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is not taking up the measures passed by the house. what's your reaction to that? >> the first thing is that the pressure has to be on the senate and on mitch mcconnell in particular to take up the four different measures we have already sent him that are sitting on his desk that can be voted on right away. in fact, we'r...

Ohio mayor, the republican governor of ohio joining me earlier in the week saying that they think in the wake of these tragic shootings democrats and republicans can come together on gun legislation, some sort of legislation. they've attempted before. what happens now? democratic congressman al green with us right now. congressman, do you agree, a democrat and republican who say they're optimistic progress can be made this go-round, are you? >> i'm optimistic with a certain degree of pessimism. i think that we can make some progress, but i do want to be assured that the progress is not limited...

Legislation immediately. what drove you to write this letter? do you think anything is going to come of it? >> well, specifically, we really want the senate to come back and consider hr-8 and hr-1112 really focused on background checks and giving law enforcement the ability to track guns that have been involved in crimes. we think as mayors certainly the united states congress of mayors and mayors in general have been leaders in this space for a long time. these are really common sense solutions. we know in this topic there are folks on either end of the spectrum that aren't going to be happy ...

Bipartisan background checks after 2019 passed the house. 241 votes to 90. hr-1112, bipartisan background checks, again passed the house but didn't go anywhere in the senate. so how does mitch mcconnell answer these questions when this issue of background checks has 90% of republican support? >> certainly. this mab has been an issue for long time where the politics and our political representative system has been out of touch and undemocratic with what the will of the people is. if this went up for a national will tomorrow, all of these things would pass. but the reality is because of the way ...

To enter ukraine's parliament you've got the pro russian party run by one of. personal friends on just over 1112 percent then you go next prime minister to machine co-ax president poroshenko and another showbiz transplant politics sets of a cut ukraine's most famous rock musician who has agents parliament on about 6 percent potentially a coalition partner if you need it nick what is it the details about selenski and his party that resonates so much with so many voters. i think this is a story about deep disappointment with ukraine's existing political class the people like to have been in char...