whether president biden will run for reelection on the sunday shows. here s something interesting, west virginia center democrat joe manchin won t too backbite and it yet. are you going to endorse joe biden if he runs for reelection? is a problem with america right now we start an election every time there s a cycle per. he is the leader of your party. the crux of the bottom line is let s see who is involved. meantime marianne williamson is officially running for the democratic nomination. she says it is obvious the dnc is rigging the system for president biden. exit dnc should not be rigging the system for they do not even pretend anymore per they are not even covid about their swaying the primary season they are very overt about it. success of the doing the rigging the system? they even admit that jon jonathan. proxy is also the incumbent so we should make note of that. charlie, going to begin with you. let s go back to center manchin here. he is in a really inter
yes a pivot towards the center because if he did vetoed this bill it would be every gop attack ad and rightly so. think about this, this bill softens the penalties for carjacking. think about what happens to you when you get carjacked. sitting at a starlight, a gas station seven points a gun in your face and takes the car s not so much the taking of a car parts once you have a gun thrown in your face that should be something a person doing it should go to jail for a very long time. this was a victory for republicans but a victory for joe biden as well because of he runs again he inoculates himself somewhat from gop attacks and gu are soft on crime you will have the d.c. bill to go through. and by the way a d.c. council member not too long ago was carjacked himself this is happening to actual lawmakers. you think they d be more vocal say maybe it s not a good idea to go soft on crime particularly when it comes to the sort of crime. you know who is not holding back the former house spe
let s talk about president johnson and what led him to pass the gun control act. well, there were a number of tragic circumstances throughout the year 1968, among which were the assassinations of martin luther king and bobby kennedy. and he exploited those tragedies in order to get laws through that he wouldn t have been able to pass otherwise, including some gun-control legislation. and so what was included in that final piece of legislation? it regulated the interstate commerce of weapons, restricted the sale of weapons to convicted felons and to mentally ill. it didn t go as far as johnson wanted the bill to go. he wanted there to be licensing and registration for anyone purchasing a firearm. but he said that the law did more good than harm even if it didn t go as far as he wanted it to. and how did the country react to it? well, there was great support, including support from folks like charlton heston, who later became the president of the nra and was very opposed to a
and basically decided to throw my hat in the ring. uh-huh. you were one of the guys who made sure that thing didn t blow up. and, you know, hundreds of people, it s been estimated. could have been killed with that. if you were elected to congress, do you want to be involved in terrorism? well, i ll tell you, absolutely, i would love to be on the homeland committee, i think representative king from long island would be someone i would love to work with in congress. i think he does a good job. absolutely. you know, the rnc has kind of labelled me as a liberal, liberal. i m more moderate and certainly very hawkish on national defense and homeland protection. what is your experience in government? have you ever felt like this motivated before to do this? well, you know, i grew up in california actually, i was in my high school student senate and my debating partner was the president of our high school so we palled around together. i used the g.i. bill to go to