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good morning and welcome to your new day. we appreciate you starting your weekend with us. it is saturday, may 28th. i'm boris sanchez, joining you this morning live from uvalde, texas. >> and i'm christi paul. and boris, i cannot get over the scene behind you and the conversations you are having with people as we just try to reconcile what's happened in the last ten days. >> it is incredibly heart breaking, christi. yet at this point, utterly predictable. we begin with the nation reeling from two mass shootings in just ten days. the nation coping with dual, senseless tragedies that ...

Senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate gave his blessing to senator john cornyn, the senior senator from texas to start these discussions with democrats. democrats of course being very eager to pass some sort of bill in the senate, but they need at least ten republicans to sign on to any legislation to break that 60-vote threshold for the filibuster. other than that, if they don't have the ten republicans to sign on with every democrat signing on, no bill can pass. now, i do want to reference that there is such a contrast between what senator john cornyn is do...

>> it would also bolster their creds if they gault anything done this year. the president likes to say he's had a whole bunch of achievements since he came in office, but on the legislative side, that isn't the case. he wasn't able to get health care reform done, and tax reform is one of the major promises he made as a candidate. the stock markets, traders, are watching this in particular. he's very proud of the fact that stocks have done so well. and so having that kind of a victory this year or early next year would be huge for him politically, but as far as the timeline is concerned, the pr...