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Biden selects Merrick Garland for AG! This is who Garland is! The Wall Street Journal reports: “President-elect Joe Biden intends to tap Merrick Garland as his nominee for attorney general, selecting a widely respected jurist and experienced prosecutor to steady a Justice Department rocked by years of political storms, people familiar with the matter said.” Yeah, he’s great. A brilliant Harvard graduate, Garland is friends with Barack Obama and John Roberts and he has clerked for the outspoken Progressive Justice Brennan. Senator Lee of Utah, who has clerked in the Supreme Court, descri...

Up at the kind of elected official level. we saw this in 1994. in 1993 the congress passed the brady act which was broadly popular. then in 1994 they passed the crime bill that included the assault weapons ban. it turns out that the nra had a lot more power than democrats then really understood and that was part of what washed them out of the majority in 1994 and it probably hurt al gore in 2000. i think the opposite is happening now, where the public to your point has shifted back towards support for gun safety and the politicians, at least in the senate, haven't gotten the memo yet and they'...

The brady act, like, five times. in 2016, he had to be called into account for the fact he was in good standing with the nra. he had a lot of excuses around it. here we are now, fast-forward three years later, and he is very clear about where he stands on gun safety and gun reform. and so, the politics have shiflteshiflt shiflted. we are in an interesting place, where this may be important. but you have to contend with the senate. they're not losing their seats over this issue just yet. the democrats in the house, the tides have changed for sure. you're seeing fewer democrats that are saying, ...

Stronger. they could also be streamlined. talking about universal background check. do you think if they were strengthened, they could have helped in any of the situations that we've been talking about over the last few weeks? >> well, they obviously could have. i don't know about in the last few weeks, but if you look back historically over the most significant, the most deadly mass shootings we've had, certainly right there in texas at sutherland springs, devon kelly was a prohibited person under the brady act. devon kelly should not have had the firearm that he used to slaughter 26 innocent...

Authority and he's using it to convey strongly how we feel about the gun culture and gun laws. >> as we look at the president when it comes to guns, the president choosing not to act. there may be polling that opponents out that a number of americans want something done. he's choosing to ignore that. that plays well with his base if we know. stay with me on this analogy as i go down this road. the tariffs over the weekend, there's not a clear strategy for the taerve in terms of one the white house can articulate but those can play well to the president's base. he can say i'm being tough on chi...