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The president is both praising and warning the nra saying he will fight the powerful gun lobbyists, who spent millions, tens of millions of dollars on his 2016 presidential bid. how could it play out come the mid-terms for the republicans as a whole? the president said he is willing to come up against the nra. he has also in the last couple of days toned down rhetoric when it comes to raising the age limit for purchasing some weapons after he had lunch with several nra leaders. that said, the mid-terms are coming up very, very quickly. republicans want to be able to run on a platform that says look, they ve accomplished things and proven they are able to govern. running in a lot of these districts on the pro-gun control agenda is not something that would be extremely popular. what we re seeing here is the party really wants to get something done so that they can move on, so they can start campaigning and talking again ....
Those private communications. and your experience with russia as we have the s.t.a.r.t. treaty on the senate floor right now and the debate. today, mitch mcconnell, the republican leaders complained about being jammed or rushed. i ll play a little bit of that for you. we had to rush this treaty, according to the logic of the administration because it had become an important component in the effort to reset the bilateral relationship with the russian federation. it was brought up for debate prematurely because it was the first step in a predetermined arms control agenda. the senate s constitutional role of advice and consent became an inconvenient impediment. what about the argument that, you know, why rush? let s go back and renegotiate it with russia and why should russian complaints dictate the senate s constitutional responsibility of advising and consent? this isn t about russia. this is about what s in our national security interest. this is a way to verify russia s ....