10:30 eastern here on c-span. following that, live remarks from federal reserve vice chair. she's part the panel discussion on updating the community reinvestment act which ensures that banks meet the credit needs of our nation's communities. it is hosted by the urban institute, also expected to begin at 10:30 eastern, and we'll join it in progress after president biden. coming up a little later today, vice president kamala harris will be speaking at the u.s. conference of mayors meeting in reno, nevada. she is expected to talk about the administration's efforts to curb inflation. look for live coverage of her remarks starting at about 3:40 p.m. eastern. and this evening, it's the recent national cannabis policy summit. chuck schumer and dave joyce expressed their support for cannabis legislation and reform. they spoke during the event along with journalists, industry stakeholders and cannabis activists, criminal justice

reform and the environmental impact of the cannabis industry you can see that at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. and a reminder that all these programs and more are available on the go with c-span now, our free video app. all on your phone on c-span now. >> more from the president last night the laid out the proposals that he would like to see enacted to prevent gun violence in this country. here's what he had to say. president biden: we need to ban assault weapons in high capacity magazines. and if we can't ban as a result weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21. stressing background check and enact red flag laws. repeal the immunities of liability. address the mental health

crisis, seeping into the trauma of gun violence and as consequence of that violence. the measures. here's what it all means, we should reinstate the assault weapons ban on high-capacity magazines that we passed in 1994 with bipartisan support. nine categories of semiautomatic weapons were included like ak-47s and did the 10 years that it was law, mass shootings went down. after republicans let the law expire and those weapons were allowed to be sold again, mass shootings tripled. those are the facts. a few years ago, the family of the inventor of the ar-15 said he would have been horrified to

know that his design was being used two massacre children as opposed to being used on the battlefield. enough, enough. we should limit how many rounds a weapon can hold. why in god's name shouldn't ordinary citizen be able to purchase an assault weapon that holds 30 round magazines and let mash shooters fire hundreds of bullets in a matter of minutes? the damages sewed devastating, terrence had to do dna swabs to identify the remains of their children. enough. we should expand background checks to keep guns out of the hands of felons, fugitives and those under restraining orders. stronger background checks are something that the vast majority

of americans agree on. i also believe that we should have safe storage laws and personal liability for not locking up your god. the shooter from sandy hook came from a home full of guns. that is where he got his weapons, the weapon he used to kill 21st graders. if you have a weapon you have the responsibility to secure it. to make sure no one else has access to it, it to lock it up. to have trigger locks and if you doubt, you should be held responsible. we should also have national red flag laws so that a teacher, parent, a patient, if someone is exhibiting violent tendencies or

suicidal thoughts or makes themselves in danger to themselves or others. host: many republicans arguing that the president and drama kratz want to infringe on gun owners rights and the second amendment. this morning we want to get your reaction to this. the nra put out a response to the address and this is what they said. the nra supports substantive policies that will make a difference. policies that will not only address these tragic and evil acts but also the catastrophic loss of life that happens as a direct consequence of the crime epidemic the plagues the nation. america does have a mental health crisis. confused people -- too few people are able to get help, but

instead of enacting real solutions, all the president proposes infringes on law-abiding people. it is not what america needs and that is a shame. it is your turn to tell washington what you think. mike, a republican in washington. caller: i have a few things to say. i am wondering if joe biden, that tyrannical fascist. i wonder if he will go after his son for throwing his pistol away at an elementary school. the only thing joe biden is going to do is restore the gas

to oil company and take people's guns. host: melissa and montana, a democratic collar. caller: thank you so much for everything you do. you are a bright light in the midst of darkness. one thing i would like to say to america, before we put joe biden down, with his leadership we are talking about issues instead of trying to destroy the press. host: when it comes to gun legislation, what do you want to see? caller: one thing i would relay her -- really like to see. all of these games that people play where they shoot people. would someone do a study where

if the shooters play these violent games? it seems to me that they are programming young people's minds to go around and shoot people. thank you so much for c-span and president biden. at least we are talking about the issues instead of putting each other down. host: daniel in kentucky, and independent. caller: for that previous collar , there is no facts between violent video games and shooters. my main thoughts on the current thing is, you will not see

republicans in power do anything because they live behind gates and walls and have security guards. they don't have to worry about seeing down the barrel of a gun or that this special report is going to come from their school that it was shot. they won't budge because they don't care. the thing is, you have all these people like that first collar that their rights won't be infringed. the thing about the second amendment is that it is well regulated. they did not intend for all people to have all kinds of guns. you have to have background checks, you have to have an eye out for people who might take guns and shoot up the place.

host: so daniel, you are on board with everything the president laid out? caller: at least the common sense part. red flags, taking away the immunity causes and stuff like that. host: lindsey graham, the republican senator from south carolina tweeting out after the president spoke to the country, i am ready to vote on all the republicans and ever for the republicans to ring them to vote. i will work across the aisle. there is a bipartisan group of senators that have been meeting, exchanging ideas and could come forward with their framework of gun legislation that could pass in the senate.

the president called on congress last night in his address to act. here is what he had to say. >> i just told you what i would do. the question now is what will the congress do? the house already passed key things that we need. getting rid of the loopholes allows the gun sales to go through in three days even if the background check has not been completed. safe storage requirements and banning high-capacity magazines. raising the age for assault rifles to 21. banning ghost guns they don't have serial numbers and cannot be traced. tougher laws on gun trafficking.

this time we have to take the time to do something and this time it is time for the senate to do something. but as we know, in order to get anything done in the senate we need a minimum of 10 republican senators. i support the bipartisan efforts , but the fact that the majority of republican senators don't even want these issues to come up for a vote, i find it unconscionable. we can't fail the american people again. uvalde, there have been 20 shootings. including yesterday at a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. the shooter targeted the surgeon

using an assault profile -- rifle he had bought just hours earlier. that doesn't count the carnage we see every single day that does not make the headlines. i have been in this fight for a long time. i know how hard it is but i will never give up. if congress fails, a majority of the american people will not give up either. they will make their outrage on this issue central to their vote. enough, enough, enough. host: we are getting your reaction to what he had to say. today, the headline reads, the nation is caught in a grim cycle. ryan miller reporting that there

have been a dozen mass killings in the united states which has left 76 people dead according to the associated press. since 2006 30 mass killings a year. yesterday, before the president spoke, there was another shooting that left three people dead in the church parking lot and aims, iowa. here is the headline from the des moines register, a man killed two church members and himself outside of an teams, iowa church. caller: here is the thing.

we need to disabuse ourselves that passing another gun control law will make everyone with criminal intent say i should not do whatever i considered doing. we should do what they do in israel. every school with 100 students or more has a guard. as far as legislation is concerned, all of these different laws that improve background checks. background checks have been a failure. we have seen that over and over again partly because human beings are involved in the process or the process itself doesn't work properly and crimes and mental health issues aren't

being reported to the authorities. lastly i would say what jeff cooper said, criminals don't fear the courts or police, they need to be taught to fear their victim. host: before you go, what about the proposal that is raising the age from 18 to 21 to get in an assault style weapon, would you be in favor of that? caller: you go into the military when you are 18 years old and they will put a real assault rifle in your hands. in assault rifle is a specific type of military rifle which is select fire. it has the ability to file one shot per trigger pull or

multiple shots per trigger pull. host: let me ask you to respond to the president. he said that these 18 years old that go into the military are trained and supervised. caller: when you buy a long gun, you have to pass a background check. but as i pointed out, the background check system is not working and people who otherwise have no reportable crimes or mental health issues are able to pass a background check. so either we change the background check issues so that arrests for violent threats or a 70 hour hold our reported to the fbi are in our system or it's not going to work. host: richard is a democrat in

new jersey. caller: i find it interesting that in the republican states they will pass laws, but for breathing children, they don't want take the ability of gun collectors to collect guns. the second amendment does not give you the right to own any weapon you please. you can read the heller decision

i believe that is what it says. host: what do you support? caller: most people want to do is get rid of the ar-15's. one guy killed 54 people before he could get shot. you are letting these children get killed, for what? every other country in the world realizes it is insane. we are sacrificing our children to the gun nuts. i hope it can change. we get rid of the ar-15's and

protect the right to an abortion. those are the two things that can shift the election. host: patricia is a republican from circleville, ohio. caller: these gun restrictions, the bodyguards will not be affected by them. host: as we said, house speaker

nancy pelosi will bring up several pieces of legislation. one of them includes the protect our kids act which comes before the house committee yesterday. they spent nearly 10 hours marking up a package that will come up in this protect your kids act. one legislator displayed his guns while arguing against these proposals. >> they want to take law-abiding citizens ability to purchase handguns.

last year, the glock 19 was the highest sold handgun in the united states. it comes with the 15 round magazine. that gun would be banned. i have a six-hour --sig hauer, it would be banned under this current bill. this gun would be banned under this bill. here is a sig hauer 620. this gun would be banned under the this bill. this is a gun i carry every day. it comes with a 15 round

magazine. here is a seven round magazine which would be less, it doesn't fit so this gun would be banned. >> i hope that dan is not loaded. >> i am at my house, i can do whatever i want with my gun. host: if you missed it and you are interested you can go to our website. you will see key moments, points of interest to out the 10 hours. you can click through the gold stars to see some of those key moments from the debates. it was passed with the democratic majority and it is headed for the floor next week. included in that bill, and protect our children act, it

raises the age for automatic weapons from 18 to 21. it outlaws high-capacity magazines. it also cracks down on non-trafficking and straw purchases. john in temple hills, maryland. than

caller: 40 years ago, streets are flooded with ak-47s. they go through bullet-proof vest's. they go through cars. there were other machine guns, fully automatic, in the streets. there were shooting into schools. he did not make the news because i guess there was just so many

of them. they harden the schools. they had metal detectors. they would take knives from kids at the metal detector. they would check their bags. and there were young men with machine guns running the streets. ak-47s, which make ak 15's -- ar-15 slick like a joke. these young men, who wanted to kill people, other it be gangs or some rivalry -- they began shooting them at football gangs outside of the school. there was a shooting recently between two white gangs. this is the same violence. we have young men that are frustrated and angry. we have other men -- it is all men -- that are angry and frustrated, and they want to strike and strike quickly. our nation right now is flooded with guns. they are not the ar-15, but it was uzis, ak-47s.

the first instance of gun control in american history was at the ok corral. wyatt earp and his friends had a shootout with men who would not give up their guns in a western town. that is where the gun-control movement began for america. host: ryan miller in usa today writes a front-page story. the title is that paralysis has a grip on the united states, and he writes this. in the united states since 1900, 700 -- had occurred in the past 10 years, including the attack at an orlando nightclub and a massacre in concert in las vegas las vegas in 2017. at schools, more people have died in mass killings in the past five years than in the prior 12 years combined. that is according to the associated press, usa today, and

northeastern university. the data set defined a mass killing as an instance in which four or more people, not including the attacker, a been killed, and includes forms of violence beyond only guns. overall, gun deaths are increasing. 2020 saw a record high of 45,222 gun deaths. according to johns hopkins university, that was a 15% increase from 2019. it was driven largely by gun homicides, which rose faster. while mass killing's have remained roughly level, all mass shootings, including those were people have been shot but not killed, have been steadily increasing in recent years. according to the gun violence archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are injured or killed in a shooting, 2021 so the highest number of mass shootings of any year since 2014, at 692. there were 610 mass shootings the year before, in 2020, and

417 in 2019. from 2014 to 2018, there were an average of more than 334 mass shootings in a given year. let's hear from howard, texas, they republican. good morning. caller: how you doing? ill doing all right? host: yes, sir. what do you think about what the president was asking congress to do? would any of this be ok with you? caller: yes, i think he probably needs to say something about the mass killings of rabies. how many happen every day? i guarantee you, has every weapon in the united states killed somebody? abortions are a guaranteed kill, right? host: bob, tyler, texas, independent. bob: i am a researcher here in smith county.

long before we declared war on england, william blackstone said that no human laws shall be suffered to contradict these. the two laws he was talking about are the laws of nature and nature's god's. the very first two laws are put there because our founders did not want human laws to contradict the law of nature and nature's god, creation and battles. almost everything we are squabbling about on tv is a result of the violations of the entirety of u.s. law look at the law library, go to

the first page, and there it is. we are violating it with gun-control, with abortion, with property rights, with everything. we need to go back to the origin , the first sentence of u.s. law -- william blackstone and thomas jefferson -- and reacquaint ourselves with the limits of what man's laws may not infringe. thank you very much. host: mary, jacksonville, florida. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i agree with the earlier caller from new jersey, with everything you said. i have to wonder. my idea that i thought of, and probably others, is that every single person who refuses to vote for doing away with automatic and semiautomatic weapons should have to look at

videos of what really happens when someone is shot by one of those weapons. and i have to question the mental -- the mental state of the people who think that this is acceptable. i don't even know what else to say. i was so upset. it has consumed my life right now. and i am in the state of florida, which is just insane with guns. every day, there is a shooting in the city i live in. every morning i wake up and it is ridiculous. that is all. thank you for taking my call. host: headline from axios.com. senator john cornyn, republican from texas, willing to discuss red flag laws with democrats. you will recall that the minority leader, the republican leader, mitch mcconnell of kentucky, appointed senator

cornyn to have discussions with democrats about legislation that could possibly garner partisan support in the senate. yesterday, over on the house side, republican congressman matt gaetz of florida mourned his colleagues in the senate, his republican colleagues, about supporting red flag laws. >> let the message to republican senators be astonishingly clear. if you back red flag laws as some reflexive response to some emotion that you have, you betray your voters. you are a traitor to the constitution, the second amendment, the fifth amendment. you do nothing to make mass shootings less likely. and you put a target on the backs of your constituents. to be subject to bizarre

proceedings that you would not see in any other type of circumstance that has a profound impact on your rights, and these will be abused. they are being abused. i think it would probably red flag some of your colleagues in the senate. how long until the conversations about kicking senator hawley often aircraft coming conversation about taking his guns away? this is not just about guns. it is about power. with the democrats want is to ensure that the government has the power to take your guns away without giving you due process. shame on any republican in the senate who would pave the way to that type of deprivation of our liberty and our constitutional rights. host: republican congressman matt gaetz in yesterday's house judiciary committee market. the red flag law he is opposing is one that is likely to come to the floor in the house in the coming weeks.

the protecting our children act, which the house committee was marking up yesterday, is on the agenda, as well as the risk protection order act. that would implement a nationwide extreme risk or red flag law, encouraging states to enact their own extreme risk laws. then there is the active shooter alert act. a vote expected in the weeks ahead would create an amber alert style notification during a mass shooting. house speaker nancy pelosi announcing that she will put gun legislation on the floor next week and in the coming weeks. this morning -- actually, let me go back to that house judiciary committee and show you the reaction from democratic congressman david cicilline to congressman gates's argument. >> this is a radical position being offered by our friend on the others of the aisle. they claim that we should support ensuring that people who

are in imminent danger to themselves and others -- that they might commit mass murder -- have a constitutional right to a firearm, and that to deny that would trample on due process and second amendment rights. you know who didn't have due process? you know who didn't have their constitutional right to life respected? the kids at parkland and sandy hook, and uvalde, and buffalo. the list goes on and on. so spare me the bowl -- bu llshit, and i'm not going to yield for my entire five minutes, so don't ask again. these risk protections ensure that people who are a great danger to themselves or others do not have access to a firearm. this is an idea that the four republican presidents said -- we must make sure those judged to pose a grave risk to others

safety do not have access to firearms, and if they do so, those firearms can be taken through rapid due process. that is why i called for red flag laws. the former republican president, the bill introduced by senator lindsey graham. the republicans on this committee -- no matter how dangerous you are, no matter how much you have exhibited intention to kill others or tell yourself, you should have unfair access to a firearm because the second amendment guarantees it? that is not true. host: david cicilline is a democratic congressman from rhode island, yesterday arguing for so-called red flag laws. do you agree with that proposal, pushed by the president last night in his primetime address, along with other actions he wants to see happen here in washington? susan in new york, and independent. good morning. caller: good morning, greta. thank you for taking my call. i am just -- we keep going round

and round in this country. i don't expect that anything is going to be resolved. matt gaetz is right about one thing. it is about power. but it is about the power of the nra to throw in so much money for campaigns that the republicans just -- that's how they vote. it is no longer about what the people want. the polls all say that 88% of the country wants tighter background checks. all of these things are important. one of your callers from california spoke about israel. israel is the size of new jersey. israel has been attacked for 70 something years by some of their neighboring countries. that is a different kind of security. and i challenge anyone who does not even want to consider gun laws to look at the data in

every other country -- the united kingdom, australia, new zealand, canada -- who have tighter controls. there are a minimal number of these kinds of mass shootings. how do you explain that? it's guns. the only way we are going to change this is that every person needs to get out and vote this coming november, if this issue is important enough for you, and that is all i have to say. thank you, greta. host: mark in montana. independent. mark, you with us? caller: i listened to the congress, jerry nadler and jim jordan, talking about gun control. it is true there are 400 million handguns. i think we are well armed.

jim jordan answered, what is all this happening? it has to be some kind of mental illness. there was a caller yesterday from virginia, i believe an african-american woman, whose daughter sadly died in drug violence in chicago. think she had more insight than just about anybody. what she said -- she said that it is related to drugs. drugs in america, we are awash in drugs. we have so many drugs and so many gangs. we have more than a million gang members. if you add up the number of independent dealers, it is probably 1.4 million, which is the size of the active u.s. army . that is why there is so much shootings. this lady also had wonderful insight into the mind effects of drugs. she mentioned narrow-induced psychosis, which is affecting the mind, and makes people think different. victor cruz, the shooter in parkland, florida told us.

nobody listens. he says he experienced auditory hallucinations of demons that prompted him to go out and kill. the same story happens over and over again. dylan roof, the boston marathon bombers -- those were daily smokers of marijuana. marijuana has a powerful effect on the minds of people who are already vulnerable. our violence stands from childhood, and stress. certain people are more vulnerable to the effect of marijuana on the mind. this woman from virginia encapsulates everything we need to know, i believe. if we want to solve this problem, of course we need gun control. we're are not worried about you" government. but we also have to address the drug flow that is not stopping at the border.

we also have to address addiction, because addiction is a primary driver of the demand for drugs. most of the drugs, by the way -- the lady from florida pointed out that her values started in the 1960 and accreted a mess, a holocaust in latin america, hundreds of thousands of latinos slaughtered, many innocents, because of drugs. white caucasian liberals supplied all the money since the 1960's. we did not realize the damage we were doing. host: the previous caller about how the united states compares to other countries -- this is a piece from the new york times. other countries had mass shootings. then, they change their gun laws -- britain, australia, canada, new zealand, norway. all had a culture of gun ownership and tightened

restrictions anyway. their violent statistics now divert sharply from those of the united states. max fisher writes, after a british gunman killed people in 1987, the country band semi automatic weapons. it now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world. one million firearms were melted into flag. the rate of mass shootings plummeted from once every 18 months to so far only one in the 26 years since. canada also tightened gun laws after a 1989 mass shooting. so did germany, new zealand, in norway last year. only the united states, whose rate and severity of mass shootings is without parallel. pres. biden: with today's excellent jobs