morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it is thursday, may 27th. and there's a lot going on this hour. we are keeping an eye on capitol hill, where any minute now republicans unveil their infrastructure, counterproposal, expected to have a price tag of $1 trillion over the course of eight years. democratic senator elizabeth warren will be here in a few minutes to react to that proposal and talk about where lawmakers can go from here. also this hour the mother and girlfriend of officer brian sicknick, who died one day after he confronted rioters during the capitol insurrection january 6th are meeting with republican senators, urging them to back the january 6th commission. they just met with senator romney, who has said he would back the plan. but we have to start with breaking news out of the state of california. ninth person has now died of

their injuries as we learn new details about the investigation into why a gunman opened fire at a light rail yard in san jose, with victims ranging from 29 to 63. the gunman, whom we will not be naming here, took his own life yesterday and has been identified as employee of the santa clara transportation authority. >> there's a numbness i imagine some of us are feeling about this because there's a sameness to this. anywhere, usa. it feels like this happens over and over and over and over again, rinse and repeat. rinse and repeat. begs the damn question, what the hell is going on in the united states of america? >> the u.s. flag lowered to half-staff to honor those who lost their lives, as president biden renews his call for congress to act on gun safety, saying the families of those killed will never be whole again. our team of reporters is

following all of the late-breaking developments in san jose. i want to go first to lindsey reiser. what's the latest on the investigation? >> stephanie, we're learning more and more new details of the sheriff here, really painting a picture of the heart-stopping moment, devastating moment the shooting took place yesterday morning. we're learning when officers first got here to the scene, shots were still being fired. in fact they're running through the hallways yelling sheriff so the suspect would know they're encroaching on him. when they got into the room he was and confronted him, that is when the suspect took his own life. deputies did not exchange gunfire with the suspect. we're also told, by the way, we should mention the sheriff's office is in close proximity, really across the street next door and the sheriff is crediting those officers and deputies who ran into danger and say that quick action likely ended up saving lives. we should also mention the suspect was using two handguns and 11 loaded magazines.

those handguns were semiautomatic handguns and the suspect went from building to building shooting his victims. it appears he was an employee here. he knew where other employees would be, where he could inflict the most damage tragically enough. bomb-sniffing dogs were also here on the scene. we know they made a hit on a locker that investigators now believe belonged to the suspect in which they found the precursor, stephanie, to making a bomb, including detonation cords. steph? >> lindsey, what do we know about the people who died? >> we really want to highlight these people, stephanie. they range in age from 29 to 63. some, if not all, are vta employees. we know right now nine different families are mourning the lost of their loved ones. a ninth person died in the hospital overnight. we also know that this took place during shift change, so there were more people here than normal. midnight shift and day shift all here at once. we also know at least one person

was taken to the trauma center overnight when they died. stephanie, we should also mention sheriff's deputies and many local agents here did active shooter training at this facility, the valley transportation authority, the vta, this building behind me, within the last year. >> jake ward is outside the suspect's home in san jose. jake, take us there. what did you learn? >> well, the shooter here, stephanie, went through a day yesterday that turns out to have been caught on camera. surveillance footage from a doorbell camera across the street from him shows him getting into a truck at about 5:40 a.m. at that time one has to presume he had already begun the fire, which would actually destroy the home on the block behind me. by about 6:36 a.m., the fire department was on scene and the whole place was destroyed and

the events that lindsey described there. >> jake, we need to leave it there. we're going to washington, d.c., where the republicans from west virginia shelly capito is explaining the republican counterproposal infrastructure package. let's list an in. >> to try to reach somewhere near the trillion dollars over an eight-year period of time that would include our baseline spending. we have achieved that goal with this counteroffer. but we also i think have done something that has stayed true to what our believes are when we very first started this endeavor and that is sticking to core, physical infrastructure. what is the definition of infrastructure? and we have stayed within the boundaries of our original plan. i think that's what the american people think of when they think of infrastructure and that's certainly what we do too. but there's a couple of bits of good news that i think happened

since we had the meeting with the president. number one, we passed a bipartisan water infrastructure package of $35 out of my epw committee with chairman carper, bipartisan. we got 89-2 vote on the senate floor on that piece of legislation. that's one of the pieces the president had and we have like agreement on in terms of physical infrastructure. the other thing is yesterday we passed a $316 trillion five-year surface transportation bill. it adds a lot of things the president wants in there, resiliency, roads and bridges. we have connecting communities in there and we also have ed-charging infrastructure piece in there. so that passed out of our committee 20-0. we are now working on the floor right now as you all know on endless frontier. it came out of the commerce

committee along congress bipartisan. that was part of what the president initially asked us to look at as infrastructure. we don't consider that physical infrastructure, but we do think it's part of the package that the president should be able to distinguish as part of his infrastructure. so what we are looking at today is a $928 billion package over eight years. it sticks to the core infrastructure features we talked to initially. it's a serious effort to try to reach a bipartisan agreement. the president said to me and us in february that he was really agnostic as to whether we passed a bunch of small bills or one large bill. and we heard him say inaction is not an option for him. we now passed two of the smaller and actually surface transportation hasn't gone out of the full senate yet. but it is a major anchor to this piece of legislation. so i think that shows there's a

real hunger for bipartisanship in the united states senate. there's a real ability to achieve that, and we're hoping that this moves the ball forward. we believe that the alternative, which is a partisan reconciliation process, would be destructive to our future bipartisan attempts but also doesn't serve the american public and wouldn't give us to an infrastructure package such as the one we believe would serve the american interests but also contained spending to the areas of core infrastructure in this country is so important. >> and our leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill and kristin stoddard from ap politics. they seem open to what the president is offering. $920 billion is a lot of money.

republicans are saying there's a lot of covid money but the white house is saying, no, there isn't. which is it? >> that is a big sticking point, stephanie, you're right. some say let's dip into the white house counter funds that still have a purpose. the proposal from the kbds biden administration is increase taxes on wealthy americans and large corporations. a couple of significant things are happening, steph, when you think about the bipartisan talks. the fact president biden has been very clear he wants to get something done with republicans this time. remember, the initial covid relief package, which the white house says was an emergency package, was passed along party lines, over with democratic support. there's real political pressure here on president biden to try to get something done on republicans because he campaigned on a promise to work with republicans after all. the devil is in the details. i can talk to you about telling

officials behind the scenes and asking president biden questions, they expressed a willingness to negotiate. i asked president biden a week ago, steph, would he be willing to come down on his increase on the corporate tax rate and he indicated, yes, he is. there is room for negotiation. another key sticking point is on the definition of what infrastructure is. republicans are saying let's focus on traditional infrastructure. let's pass an infrastructure that deals with roads and bridges and waterways. and the biden administration expanded that definition beyond that. that's another sticking point. president biden will in ohio, the battleground state today, talking about the infrastructure and package to pass. and in fact talks are still going on as we approach memorial day. that is significant because the administration says they want to get something done by the end of the summer. >> a.b., from a political

strategy standpoint, should president biden look at almost a trillion dollar package and take the money and run? come 2022 he will be able to say this administration did an extraordinary job in terms of putting covid behind us. they will also be able to say they got a massive bipartisan infrastructure deal done and while it's not everything they want, it would be humiliating for the trump administration, who claimed infrastructure was their jam. >> yes, i think the fact the republicans have been at the table this long is a very good sign that they intend to work with president biden. there's been some criticism from some of the republicans at the table. the administration, his staff around biden, doesn't want him to get a deal. of course, there was pressure from the left to not get a deal. they're afraid this would leave out key climate initiatives that won't be done on a bipartisan basis later. but president biden wants this. it's why he stayed at the table.

certainly this could blow up. i have a feeling from talking to republicans that this is going to work out and biden wants it badly enough that both sides will give in and they will have something around a trillion dollars and joe biden will be able to say that he worked with republicans. it's very important for him to deliver on that. after this, steph, everything is partisan. the social welfare programs that are part of the, quote, human infrastructure package, which is separate from transportation projects and, of course, voting rights and all of the other priorities. i really believe biden's persistence and republicans' patients at the table really shows there's hope that would really be a stunning achievement. neither side will be happy, this will be a bill that nobody likes. but that's how compromise is made. it's rare these days. again, these things can blow up

in four days but this is remarkable that we're actually here talking about it now. >> if democrats were to go at it alone, does the president have confidence he can get his entire party on the same page, especially on the human infrastructure side? >> that's part of the work democrats have to do and they're doing it behind the scenes, massaging their members on the issues, while the bipartisan talks move forward. part of the reason they're doing this talk is show their members they tried. perhaps they work out. if they don't work out and do fall apart, they can go back to senator john manchin of west virginia, senator krysten sinema, and say we tried to work with republicans but they won't come where we want. we need you guys to move forward and we can get our democratic priorities done. all of this is happening behind

the schemes while they're moving forward in the bipartisan effort. but pay fors will be the big, big sticking point. and as far as the plan is concerned, it's nearly a trillion dollars, but they largely do that by expanding the number of years this covers from five years in their original offer to eight years. and another sweetener they put in this bill for president biden, they increased the money for rail funding. we know president biden loves amtrak. that was a little gift to the president to try to keep him at the table. >> leigh ann, let me ask you about other bipartisan conversations. as we speak, brian sicknick, the officer who died one day after the capitol insurrection, his mother and girlfriend are meeting with republican senator mitt romney. talk to us about this january 6th commission. we know republicans like susan collins are talking to the likes of krysten sinema, john manchin. are we going to see any of this working? if they can agree on a january 6th commission, if they can't

agree on that, are we all kidding ourselves on infrastructure? >> that's the big question. everything is related, even if the topics are not related. gladys sicknick is on capitol hill after sending all senators an impassioned plea in an ee mel begging them to meet with her and hear her out. she just spoke with the senators after meeting mitt romney. listen to what she said. >> is this angering for you, mrs. sicknick, to hear senators who do not confront this and why you're here today? >> this is why i'm here today. i couldn't stay quiet anymore. >> it's a very painful day for her. there are some senators who are going to meet with her but is it going to change any minds, steph? that seems unclear. there are three republican senators who are willing to vote on a procedural vote to get on the legislation but that's far

short of the ten republicans needed, and if two parties can't come together on something like this, it doesn't look good for the rest of the democrats' agenda moving forward. >> a.b., can you explain the republicans' calculation here? i get they want to put january 6th behind them, but aren't they the one keeping it in focus? when brian sicknick's mother asked to meet with them, what are they going to say, no thanks, we're all set? >> i know, i really think republicans if they wanted to be shrewd would agree to the commission and then fight each subpoena and every step of the investigation later on. the idea that they would come out and basically they've said in so many words, they've come out and said this is really messaging our midterm messaging. so they talk about moving on. of course, former president

trump will start holding rallies where all he talks about the is the past and relitigating the quote, 2020 election. they can't move on. the idea this is going to be a message for the democrats, republicans refuse it give us a proper historical record on the largest attack on the capitol since the civil war, that they are covering up likely complicity in their own rank and file. i can't believe they're willing to do this. >> but here's what i don't get, they're ready to move on from january 6th but they're not ready to move on from trump. and last i checked, in november of 2020, lindsey graham won. mitch mcconnell won. donald trump lost. why is it they're so afraid of this guy? months after hillary clinton lost in 2016, if she tried to threaten democrats, they would tell her see ya. >> oh, boy, would they. what they noticed is former

president trump managed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars off the big lie and he continues to to this day. and he will sway over primary electorates critical to them holding the majority. >> again, he lost. hold on. he raised hundreds of millions of dollars last year through rallies on top of rallies and still lost. who cares. >> and he's raised hundreds of millions of dollars since he lost. that's what scares him. and he has a very small base of people giving him dollar donations they want a cut off, and they think without his backing, they can't take back the house and senate in 2022. that's why you see all of the people that were firm on the message 1/7, back off. like mcconnell and mccarthy. >> not enough to get him elected in 2020.

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developing this morning, the mystery is deepening into where the coronavirus first came from. president biden is issuing a statement saying the intelligence community has not been able to reach a definitive conclusion over the origins of the virus and is conflicted whether it came over human contact from an infected animal or lab accident. saeshlt they are asking the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to track down the origins of the virus. dr. ashish jha, the dean of brown university public school of health is with us.

and janice, given that china is no friend of ours, how on earth does the intelligence community track this down? >> this is the golden question, i suppose, stephanie. it's one thing to order the intelligence community to come up with something. it's quite another to how to figure out how to access that data. there are obviously frayed diplomatic relations between the u.s. and china right now, during the trump, key positions were left unfilled. even now under president biden there still isn't an ambassador in place here. part of that redoubling of efforts may be continuing to lean on u.s. allies who may also want more transparency from china on covid's origin. every official or scientist that we have asked over the last year about opening up the files, opening up the data, archive, everything 2e wuhan institute of virology, has been flatly

rejected. they maintain there was no accident, no leak. they said nobody got sick there, nobody connected to the lab was sick. so it leaves the intelligence community with a very huge task, with the eyes and ears on the ground they may need. >> how about the w.h.o.? former president trump was very critical the w.h.o. should be on top of this. he didn't want to fund them anymore. president biden has taken a different stance. we recommitted to backing the w.h.o. in a really big way. where are they on this? what are they saying? >> the w.h.o. remains in the middle between china and other member nations in trying to come up with answers. the w.h.o. is only going to be able to do as much here as china is going to let them. from china's perspective after they concluded the investigation in whew han this spring, china

feels they've done their part and the w.h.o. feels they opened up the investigation, broadened the investigation to other lab facilities around the world, in particular the united states. so now it becomes a matter of fighting the lab leak theory with the ft. detrick theory. so 20 come up with some of the answers president biden is looking for in 90 days to help steer or guide this investigation into a better direction, it's still unclear. what we know at this point is there's been no indication here on the part of china they're going to be willing to allow u.s. investigators or w.h.o. investigators back on the ground here before the w.h.o. has a look elsewhere. >> dr. jha, let's talk about why it's so important to determine the origins of this. if the virus did leak from a wuhan lab, what would the potential implications of that be? >> yeah, so, stephanie, first, thank you for having me back. we need to understand what the origin is for a variety of reasons. not the least of which is we

know how to prevent these kinds of pandemics in the future. and if this did come from a lab, that totally changes our strategy for how we do lab protection, how we make sure when we study these viruses, the level of protection they need. i think most scientists remain skeptical of the lab leak theory but skeptical doesn't mean it didn't happen. president biden is right, we need a thorough investigation and need to get to the bottom of this as a goal to the pandemic. we need to understand what happens. >> dr. jha, what other questions do you want answered? >> certainly, we need to have china be much more open and transparent about this. i doubt they will do it to american investigators but they should be open to w.h.o. and other international investigators. we need to know more about what research was happening in the lab and, most importantly, what -- when did china really find out about the spread of this virus and what did they do in their own investigating? these are basic questions that

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breaking this hour, republican senators just unveiled a counteroffer to president biden's latest $1.7 trillion infrastructure plan. the new price tag, $928 billion over eight years. it comes as the president gears up for a trip to cleveland, where he will focus on manufacturing and the economy. also this morning we learned that another 406,000 americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. that is the lowest number since the pandemic began. we are on the road to economic recovery. good news. joining me now to discuss, democratic senator from the state of massachusetts, elizabeth warren. senator, always good to see you. i want to start with this new counter proposal from republicans, $928 billion. can you get on board for that? >> look, i don't think this is a serious counteroffer. first of all, they don't have

the pay for this. it's not real. they have an illusion to take money committed to other spending. and i'm not hearing about the green infrastructure, the importance when we make these investments and we're talking about moving our buses to electric, our school buses to electric, our mass transit to electric, that we're bringing down our carbon footprint and whether or not they put enough money in to do this. the third one is notice who gets left behind, the women. infrastructure is about helping people get to work and helping businesses thrive because they've got workers. rebuild roads and bridges to do that. we invest in broadband to do that. we need to invest in childcare to do that. millions of women are out of the workplace right now and one out of four says the reason i can't get childcare. we were in a crisis before the pandemic hit, it only got worse

during the pandemic. this is our chance to expand our idea of what infrastructure means. give women who want to work a real chance in the workplace. can i do one more part to that? >> sure. >> and that is remember this is called a jobs bill. it's infrastructure and jobs. so long as we're investing in roads and bridges and lots of concrete, about 90% of those jobs will be for men and they're good jobs. i support them that and i think that's great. when we're talking about childcare, those jobs are nearly all going to women and those jobs today pay far too little. we have a chance to turn those into good paying, professional jobs. and we include childcare and then we get -- moms get a chance in the workforce and daddies, and women doing the work get a chance at the workforce. >> and childcare was included in the american rescue plan back in

march, $39 billion, shoring up the childcare industry, improving wages for people who work in that industry. if you think about all that we spent, right, there's another roughly $4 trillion in spending on the table, all of this money would go to very important things. but if you put all of it together over the last year, the government will have spent, if this gets approved, $10 trillion. people need this money. but have to ask you about oversight. i know it's something that's so important to you. i don't see it happening. there still isn't even a chairperson for the c.a.r.e.s. act committee from over a year ago. does it concern you we're spending a whole lot of money and not many people are minding the store? >> you can imagine how i feel about this. >> i want to hear about it. >> my first step into public service in this way was with the congressional oversight panel, watching the t.a.r.p. spending and trying to find reins on

that. >> what about now? it's so much more money. >> no, it does not have the same kind of oversight. it turns out money went into vaccination production and had not enough oversight. it went to people, to companies that were poorly prepared, companies that ended up not able to perform on their contract. who knows what we can't see? that's the point of oversight. you have people who are committed, who are dedicated and who are watching that the money goes in the way that congress allocated it and that people are not self-dealing or wasting the money. >> should we not hit pause on more spending and first check where all of the money's gone? besides you, i really don't hear anyone talking about it. >> for me, it's not about pause the spending. we need this in the economy. we need to move on all of the pieces, including on the infrastructure piece. but the point is, we need to step up on the oversight.

we need aggressive oversight and that means we need people running that oversight and it needs to start right now today. >> here's what i really want to ask you about in terms of pay for. why hasn't your super wealthy tax poe proposal been mentioned? we can argue about $500,000 is a lot of money, little money, or high-tax states. you've got a plan for the wealthiest, wealthiest americans to be taxed more and it doesn't seem to happen. the polls show the majority of voters, even republicans, support this. can you help us understand where is the resistance? i'm down with it. >> you know, i love you're down with it because, as you say, most of the american people are down with it too. you remember what the wealth tax is, fortunes about $50 million. >> why isn't it happening? >> 2% tax. that's it. i feel so frustrated. a lot of people i talk to, i keep talking this up.

i try to talk about it on the republican and democrat phsyched in the senate and the house, and i've got a lot of partners in this. but not enough to move it forward. and here's the thing about it, the 99% in america, most of america paid about 7.2% of their total wealth in taxes last year. that top .1%, the people affected by the wealth tax, they paid 3.2%, less than half as much. a wealth tax, they'd still be getting a great deal. to me it's like we've got to get this breakthrough. we've got to persuade our elected representatives it is time not to just focus on income, where the differences are big, but to focus on wealth, where the differences enormous and where those big fortunes are out there now creating their own

weather systems. they are growing themselves. >> they're buying their own islands. i invite any lawmakers who see the other side of this argument to come on any day. i do want to ask you about the hearing you participated in yesterday. you came after bank ceos hard. i do it myself often but specifically jpmorgan's kree ceo jamie dimon. >> the regulators recommended you offer that same kind of protection to your customers. how much in fact did jpmorgan collect in overdraft fees from their customers in 2020? do you know the number? >> i don't know the number in front of me. >> i actually have the number in front of me. >> upon request -- upon request, we waive fees. >> $1.43 billion. you and your colleagues come in today to talk about how you stepped up and took care of customers during the pandemic and it's a bunch of bologna. >> so i did my homework on this

last night. the thing is, they did waive fees. they waived fees for 3 million customers, $350 million. they set up a $30 billion racial equity fund, so they now have accounts that don't even have overdraft fees. we know they handled the ppp program. there's a lot of things to go after banks on but in this, are they really the bad guys? if they feel like lawmakers are going to punch them no matter what, why would they play ball when they don't have to? >> let's remember the context here, and that is as we started into this pandemic, the fed and regulators said to those big banks, we're going to wave overdraft fees at the fed for you. so they got a huge backup, as well as a lot of other benefits during the pandemic in order to support them. and they recommended they automatically pass that same kind of benefit along to the customers. and waive overdraft fees. the reason for that, who do you think gets caught in the

overdraft fees? is it principally people of low income, it's disproportionately african-americans,dy proportionately latinos. it's people who are struggling, people who have lost their jobs. the regulators give break to the banks and say, give that sbraj to your break to your customers. what did the banks do? nope. if you can figure out how to ask for it, we will give it a little tiny bit but we will not automatically waive it the way the federal reserve waived it for the big banks. >> they did it for 3 million customers but not everyone. why wouldn't the regulators and fed not recommend it? why wouldn't they require it? i recommend my kids brush their teeth. but if i don't require it, i promise you, they would be at school right now with stinky breath. >> and that was exactly the point of my question, we cannot give benefits to these giant financial institutions and hope

as a consequence they're going to treat their customers better. what they're going to do is they're going to do a little bit and they're going to talk a lot about the good things they did but ultimately, they boosted their own profits. jpmorgan made about $28 billion last year, and a billion and a half of that came from people who were struggling with overdraft fees at the same moment the fed was waving those overdraft fees for jpmorgan. that's not right. >> i do want to ask you a little bit about compromise and bipartisanship before we go. i know we had just said the republican bill isn't enough. there should be while lot more. you want more in it. right now the senate cannot agree on the january 6th commission, police reform, gun reform. what do you say to your constituents about government dysfunction? in your and my personal lives, we have to compromise on almost

everything. why doesn't congress? >> i don't see this just as congress can't compromise. i see this as right now the democrats are trying to get things passed that makes sense, like a january 6th investigation. or some sensible gun safety protections. things that are wildly popular all across this nation. the republican response has simply been no. they've just crossed their arms and said no, we're just not going to do that. it's hard to compromise with someone who's just saying no. it's not like there's some place you meet in the middle on that. so to me, this is about what president biden did when he passed the rescue package. he said if this is something people want all across the nation, i'm going to find a way to push it through and i'm going to call that bipartisan, because republicans wanted it and

democrats wanted it across the nation. it's the republican elected officials in congress who are out of step with their own constituents, out of step with the people across this nation who want to see us make changes. >> senator, the majority of the people agree with you on an ultra wealth tax. i invite anyone on who disagrees. senator, thank you for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you. still ahead -- we're going behind the scenes on capitol hill with the bipartisan -- you heard it -- bipartisan effort to get background checks for guns that could actually pass. that is good news we want to talk about. talk about or vast mi! sustenance for mountaineering expeditions and long journeys across the world! but most importantly? they give us something to eat when we drink beer. planters. a nut above. did you know you can go to libertymutual.com to customizes yourthing to eat car insurancerink beer. so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah!

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the worse mat shootings. the shooting in colorado, san jose, the attack in indianapolis, spa shootings in atlanta, six at a birthday party and six more in south carolina. that's a teeny tiny fraction of a hundred fatal shootings just this year. while some may be getting numb to stories like this, familiar lips of victims won't have that option. they live with the pain the rest of their lives. i want to bring in shannon pettypiece from d.c. president biden named a lot of these shootings in his statement yesterday when he again called for gun reform. what is he going to do to try to make things happen? how many times have we said enough is enough? >> right. and, steph, behind me the flags at the white house are once again flying at half-staff. once again we heard the

president calling for congress to take some action. the white house is not getting heavily involved though at this point in congressional negotiations. part of that is because they do not want to upset the balance. senator chris murphy, who's been taking the lead on this for years, he's been trying to strike between republicans and democrats. while there's optimism on the hill around things like infrastructure, police reform, we're not hearing optimism about gun reform legislation. at least not in the coming months. so the white house has been trying to do things behind the scenes. there are executive actions the president passed back in april. he has the head of the atf he nominated that faces a really difficult fight in congress to get nominated. essentially the president is increasingly finding himself in the same place he was last time he was in the white house as vice president with a congress deadlocked over this issue of gun reform. >> sahil, you have new reporting, this is the only

thing i want to talk about today, an actual bipartisan effort to deal with guns. please tell us about this. >> stephanie, it's a real meaningful effort between chris murphy the democrat and john cornyn, the republican senator. they both sounded upbeat about one component of the deal, beefing clarifying an ambiguity in existing law that would expand the universe of people who have to register as a federal firearms license see and once you register as an ffl, as they call it, you have to conduct a background check. right now there are a number of people who make money selling guns who don't register as a federal firearms license see. they can sell guns as a private seller to someone without doing a background check. senator cornyn said that wasn't the intent of congress and has to be clarified. chris murphy told me that has an opportunity for agreement. that would be a major breakthrough if these two come together on that aspect which would expand background checks.

something congress has tried to do for nearly a decade. >> and why do you think closing this loophole will do something to stop the mass shoots? >> specifically because the loophole has been used by mass shooters in the past. i'm thinking of the shooter in odessa, texas. john cornyn's home state. he told me he was shaken by that. the person could not have passed a background check so they bought a gun at an unlicensed seller. this is something he said congress never intended for that to be the case and the loophole is being exploited. it's difficult to enforce given the ambiguity of the law. unlike previous efforts like manchin and toomey, this is redefining an existing piece of law. that's an easier sell for republicans and gun rights activists. that's another reason they're optimistic about this. these two have worked together on the gun. a bill from 2017, a modest piece

of legislation to expand reporting into the background check system, they got it passed into law. they know their way around this issue. >> there are have been so many mass shootings, i can barely remember the one that took place in odessa. we are not numb to this. we are furious. thank you both so much. up next, this weekend expect it to be the busiest for travel since the pandemic started. we're going to take you to one airport where passengers can get a covid vaccine before they board a plane. to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. although uncommon, up to 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences. now as you're thinking about all the vaccines your teen might need make sure you ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination.

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