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There's some chance of a compromise >> here is what we know, andrea. we know the attorney general bill barr and the white house legislative affairs director were here on the hill yesterday, meeting with key republican lawmakers over this measure that would expand background checks consistent with the manchin/toomey bill. right now most americans live in states where anybody, even people with a violent background, a criminal background, can purchase a gun from an unlicensed seller whether at a gun show or an unlicensed sale. at the moment there is general consensus, i don't want to oversell it,...

If you're going to take on china, it has to be multilateral. >> reporter: right now the u.s. is running point on this while our european trade a partners and others around the globe are saying, go get 'em, usa, because ultimately this may work out as a a template for other economies around the globe. the chinese have hit us with another $75 billion worth of tariffs, that means the fight will likely continue for some time to come. kristin: yeah, indeed it does. ken cork, thank so much. kevin corke, thank you so much. we are just moments away, we believe, from this press conference in texas th...

Them in contempt should help us in court. that's part of speaker pelosi's strategy. 59 democrats who want to launch impeachment inquiry proceedings which the speaker has so far side no to. what they'll try to do this week is address some of those concerns. will it work? we'll have to wait and see. >> we also know important meeting tomorrow with the white house team, the president's negotiating team. this one with senate republicans. what are they talking about? >> reporter: one of the big things as we focus on mueller or whatever the crisis, self-imposed or otherwise of the day, lurking behind...

Its board, i doubt you would see a board member making 100,000 times more than its average worker. and if the police are involved in a deadly altercation, the police should not be the ones leading the investigation, rather an independent entity should be running point. that is a big shift toward the former attorney general. when she had that job, she fought to keep authorities in charge of that. harris, along with everybody else, is just trying to catch joe biden, whose campaign finally kicked off in philadelphia even though he's already visited mull. states. as biden spoke, the campaign raise...

You have already done great harm in 2020 and you have zero credibility and you should, in my opinion, resign. >> since its early days, the trump administration has been trying to rig the 2020 census to consolidate republican power. and today the man whose running point on that plan commerce secretary wilbur ross came beor the democrat house to talk about his own tracks in the endeavor. the trump administration talks about its decision to add a citizenship question, one that critics warn will depress response rates, making data less accurate and giving the communities fewer federal funds and fe...