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good day. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. the senate has taken the first step toward the most significant federal gun safety legislation in nearly three decades. voting last night to move ahead with a compromise bill by 64-34. notably with 14 republicans, including mitch mcconnell, voting to proceed. in a few minutes, i will be joined by senator and lead negotiator chris murphy to break down what's in the bill and what's not. in uvalde, texas, a shocking time line from the state's top public official that local police did make it into the robb elementary school with protective shields and rifles within minutes of the gunman arriving while children and one teacher was alive and calling for help, they waited more than an hour before border police breached the rooms. the doors apparently were not locked as previously claimed.

>> there's compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at robb elementary was an abject failure to everything we learned over the last two decades we have learned since columbine. >> president biden will ask congress to suspend the federal gas tax holiday for three months, drawing skepticism. we will look ahead to a critical hearing for the january 6th committee tomorrow afternoon with the focus shifting to how the president tried to corrupt the justice department by installing an acting attorney general who would help him steal the election. we will talk about why wisconsin republican senator ron johnson agreed to give mike pence a list of fake electors for michigan and wisconsin on january 6, now claiming his staff told him to do it. >> how much did you know about

what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? >> i'm on the phone right now. >> no, you are not. i can see your screen. >> we begin with the bipartisan breakthrough on gun safety reform with correspondent ali vitali. when do we expect a final vote? >> they are hoping to do that by the end of the week. yesterday was the first step to moving on to this bill. the next thing that we expect them to do -- this could come as early as thursday or friday, is voting to bypass the filibuster. this vote passed with 64 votes last night, 14 republicans and 50 democrats, we know that they're going to be able to hit that magic number of 60 to bypass the filibuster. which means based on yesterday, this senate package is all but likely to pass the senate, making it one of the most significant pieces of legislation in 30 years. of course, this was a tumultuous road. at the end of last week, we

heard from john cornyn, he was leaving town voicing frustration. there were hangups on key points. but ultimately over the weekend and into monday, they were able to hammer out the finer points of the bill. i know you have an interview coming up next. he will explain how they did that. after it hit, after it passes the senate potentially by the end of the week, potentially early next, it will move to the house. pelosi voicing support for that. it's expected to pass there as well. >> it has to be done before -- they are hoping to get it done before the recess, right? >> that's exactly right, before the july 4th holiday when they get out of town for two weeks. >> thanks so much, ali vitali. joining us now is connecticut democratic senator chris murphy, the architect of the legislation that's now on the floor. senator murphy, congratulations for all of your efforts. i know there is still some disappointment. "the washington post" had an analysis on how much these

components of the bill would have prevented a number of terrible mass shootings over the years. tell us what you think you achieved. >> your reporting is right. this is going to be the most significant anti-gun violence bill that will pass the congress in 30 years. for the last 30 years, we have done nothing. mass shooting after mass shooting, murder after murder, suicide after suicide. we have finally broken the logjam. what i believe is that the provisions of this bill are going to save lives. i think we are going to show to republicans there's political benefit in supporting gun safety measures that 90% of your constituents support. i think this will allow us to do more in the future. even if we weren't to pass a single additional gun safety bill, i would still advise my colleagues to vote for this. it will save thousands of lives, in my opinion.

we are going to help states pass red flag laws which allow for authorities to take guns away from people that are threatening harm. just last week in connecticut, we used our red flag law to take guns away from an individual who threatened to shoot up schools. we are closing the boyfriend loophole. no domestic abusers, boyfriends or husbands, are going to be able to own or purchase guns if they are convicted of any domestic violence crimes. we are making it a little bit harder for under 21-year-olds to buy guns, by putting an enhanced background check and a call to local police to make sure that that's not a kid in crisis. we are spending $15 billion in mental health. that's a historic amount of money to expand mental health services in underserved areas. that's going to save lives. i'm proud that we finally have been able to overcome the hump and get republicans to support measures that their constituents support. i think there's a lot of future

legislation that becomes possible after we get this to the president's desk. >> do you think there's future legislation this year? is that too much to wish for? >> i wouldn't expect that we will be able to do anything immediately on the heels of this legislation. what you will find, i think, is that republicans will be more willing to engage, because they will recognize that the sky doesn't fall when you support these common sense measures. you get a lot of support from unlikely places back home. i also want to celebrate this achievement. i know there's going to be a lot of folkfolks who will focus on what's not there. i'm telling you the five provisions, the billions of dollars to build out mental health services in this bill are worth celebrating. it's not everything i want. there's no question that this is going to make our communities safer. >> mitch mcconnell, who is

supporting the bill, voted to let it proceed on the floor, of course. this is what he had to say about the process today. >> throughout recent years, our democratic colleagues have indicated they were not interested in substantial legislation to create safer communities if they didn't get to take massive bites out of the second amendment in the process. this time is different. this time the democrats came our way and agreed to advance some common sense solutions without rolling back rights for law abiding citizens. >> he is putting a political spin on it to make it more palatable. >> no surprise the nra is in opposition to this measure. it shows you how much politics have changed in this country in the last ten years that even

given strong nra opposition to this bill, we're able to win broad republican support for it, including the support of the minority leader. i actually agree with mitch mcconnell. there's nothing in this bill that compromises second amendment rights. we are under this bill going to take guns away from individuals who beat up their girlfriend. that is not a violation of the second amendment. justice scalia, when he wrote the last major gun decision said so. i think senator mcconnell and i definitely have different views on guns. we are in agreement nothing we are doing in this bill compromises second amendment rights. >> i want to ask you about something that a republican candidate, former governor who was removed from office because of accusations of sexual harassment and impropriety, so he has an ad up on the web. we are not playing it.

it's creating scrutiny about the politics of violence and guns. in this ad -- we have stills from it that i think we can show. he has a shotgun and a gun holstered on his hip, but he is breaking into a house presumably with these guys in tactical gear saying on camera later that he is hunting rinos, republicans in name only. glorifying violence and politics -- in politics, i should say. what do you think of that? >> it's a disgusting ad. he is frankly rooting for us to talk about it. he thinks that will help him get votes in a republican primary. i can tell that you there's a broader celebration of violence in this country that is deeply worrying to those of us who want our democracy to survive.

that story etch ten extends fro 6 to the ad that you are referencing. the reason why i thought it was so important this time for republicans and democrats to come together around some simple principles, keeping dangerous people from having weapons, tamping down on gun violence, is that as more fringe elements begin to celebrate violence, begin to explain it as a way to settle our differences, this week democrats and republicans are coming together for the first time in 30 years in the united states senate to condemn violence, to take guns away from dangerous people. my hope is that that will have a downward affect on this rising celebration of physical aggression and violence in this country that you see in that political ad and in other forms. >> back to the mass killings in uvalde. the shocking testimony by the top public safety official in

texas yesterday that police -- local police with rifles and with shields were there within minutes while children and at least one teacher were pleading for their lives, making calls, were still alive. the door apparently was not even locked, the doors to the classroom. they waited for an hour and 14 minutes before the border patrol barged in. by then, everyone was dead. or most people were dead. isn't that inexcusable policing? >> it is. as the parent of a fourth grader, who is about to go to his last day of school, it's horrifying that those kids didn't get to enjoy their last day of school, in part, because of a failure of law enforcement. let's also be honest. that moment should have never arrived. we should never be in a position

where you have a young man in crisis with multiple dangerous weapons, including military-style assault weapons inside a classroom, demanding law enforcement response. yes, this was a failure of law enforcement. our job as policymakers should be to make it harder for that crisis to ever occur in the first place. this legislation in several ways, had it been in effect, might have stopped the shooting in uvalde. a good red flag law could have taken his guns away. a call to the local police department when he went to buy those assault weapons on his 18th birthday could have flagged that a kid in crisis, that they knew through multiple interactions, was going to buy these weapons. good public policy could have stopped that crisis from ever occurring in the first place. yes, it's a failure of law enforcement but it's also a failure of public policy. >> indeed. thank you, chris murphy. it's not often we have compromise on really tough

issues. it has taken 30 years. a job well done. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. for more on the details emerging from uvalde and what happened in the moments following that horrific shooting, i want to bring in state senator roland gutierrez. senator, thank you very much. i want to talk about your lawsuit. first, your reaction to what you heard the head of the texas public safety say and what you learned about the time line and the mistakes that were made according to his time line. >> first off, thank you so much. a lot of concern. we have seen a lot of finger pointing over the last few weeks on this situation. a lot coming from steven. law enforcement that was there at the scene failed. dps was there within 16 minutes and they failed. what i don't like in all of this

is all of the finger pointing where we say, this cop failed. let's be clear, we learned yesterday that there was no radio communication. how this person makes himself the commander, i don't know. the abject failure should be spread across the board for all law enforcement. it's not that i want to cast blame. we need to get all of the information. what we got yesterday was snippets of bodycams. we asked for all of that information going forward. so we can figure out what happened here so it never happens again. how is it that there wasn't one radio in any particulacement en in that building? it's disturbing. >> to go through the things, the fact that the husband of one of the teachers came in with a weapon and was trying to rescue her because she called to say that she was wounded and dying

and to help, and the weapon was taken away from him and he was escorted off the campus. >> the weapon was taken away from him. we heard dps for a week blame a teacher for leaving a door open when she had to hire a lawyer to look at the video and show that she did not leave a rock to prop open the door. it's where you get into the back and forth that breaks down the credibility, it breaks down transparency. it's a breakdown in democratic issues and information that we need. if you don't have transparency, you don't have democracy. >> we have this -- a copy of your lawsuit here that i've been mashing up. a lawsuit against the department of public safety. what records don't you have? i don't think you have any records yet. what do you need? what do you want? why did you have to file suit?

>> initially, what was shut down as of june 2, the information i was promised i was going to get was where each law enforcement unit for the department of public safety was in and around that building. that information was curtailed on june 2. i was told i was no longer going to get it. yesterday a cross examination of the colonel, i was able to ascertain there was 91 troopers on site. all from the governor's operation lone star task force. clearly, we can see that's a failure to these kids. 12 of them were in and out of that hallway. we heard -- we learned yesterday that those people weren't taking orders from anybody. i honestly don't know who they were taking orders from. we still don't know that. we were given bodycam information yesterday, snippets of audio from bodycam from arredondo and a few others. i want all of the bodycam information. i think that's important. the parents in uvalde want to

hear it. you heard yesterday from the mayor of uvalde who said, i'm tired of all of the lies. i'm tired of dps telling you little bit here and a little bit over here and not telling us all of the information that we and our citizens should have. it's time to pull off this band-aid. let this community begin to heal. try to rebuild credibility with their own local law enforcement, build community policing and the things they need to do going forward. you have this other law enforcement unit that was there throwing bombs every day in the media, it does not help. >> what about pete arredondo? he is a city council member now. he still has not spoken out. should he step down? >> you know, absolutely. i think that's up to -- he doesn't work for me, for the state of texas. what mr. arredondo -- i know what i would have done. i don't think i would have taken

my position. i probably would have resigned my job just out of a sense of honor. i will have -- mr. arredondo can answer for himself and to his god as to what he needs to do. i think law enforcement as a whole failed. if we don't know how they failed, we will never be able to fix this going forward and ensure that it doesn't happen to another community in texas. >> senator gutierrez, thank you so much. we are grateful to you for speaking for community. >> thank you, andrea. targeted by the president of the united states. devastating testimony at the january 6th hearings raising new concerns about the safety of election workers around the nation. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. appe. but weekends are still all about grilling. and walmart always keeps prices low

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donald trump's campaign to overturn his loss has been laid bare. on tuesday, rusty bowers detailing trump involvement. and ruby freeman and daughter shaye moss testifying their lives have been turned upside down after being targeted because of the former president's lies. >> i've lost my name and i lost my reputation.

i've lost my sense of security. >> i don't go to the grocery store at all. i haven't been anywhere at all. i gained about 60 pounds. it has affected my life in a major way, in every way, all because of lies. >> do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? he targeted me, lady ruby, a small businessowner, a mother, a proud american citizen, who stood up to help fulton county run an election in the middle of the pandemic. >> it's so heartbreaking. joining us law professor barbara mcquade and eugene daniels. welcome both. i rewatched it last night,

eugene, and could barely stand watching those two women and how their lives were turned upside down as they testified to. the spirit with which shaye taking on the job of being an election worker and helping old people and college kids and making sure people could vote, because she had been taught that by her grandmother, the importance of voting. how she lost her sense of self and mission. eugene? >> it was hard for all of us to watch. that's what this committee wanted to do is put forth the emotional aspect of what this concocted plan was doing and the pressure that president trump -- then president trump was putting on these people saying their names, calling them -- saying that they are scammers, i think that's what he called lady ruby. i think for a lot of black people watching yesterday,

hearing the fact that someone said -- sent a message that said you are lucky it's 2020 and not 1920, we know what that means. this is racism. it was scary to hear that that is -- we all know what's happening. but to hear that from her yesterday, hearing about the trauma she and her grandmother went through, her mother went through. her mother having to leave her home because the fbi said that she should until inauguration because of what the president did. hearing all of that i think was chilling for most people. >> the president of the united states, barbara, called lady ruby a hustler. think about that. >> i mean, certainly, trying to trigger the worst in people's sensibilities, trying to smear her broadly in broad terms. as she said so powerfully, do you have any idea what it's like to have the president of the united states call you these names? i think one of the things that

was so important about that testimony yesterday was, yes, it's important to hear what happened in the oval office in private meetings to determine president trump's intent, but this was the other end. this is the result of these bullying tactics that donald trump uses, using people as pawns with disregard to what regard these words have on people. these are patriotic people working at the polls to try to help people vote during a pan dick. this is the thanks they get. i think it outraged all of us who watched. it should outrage any american. >> arizona republican house speaker rusty bowers, a committed trump supporter, elected official, testifying that rudy giuliani admitted all they had were theories and no evidence. he spoke about standing up to donald trump and john eastman stressing his allegiance to the constitution. >> it's my faith that the

constitution is divinely inspired. i said, you are asking me to do something that's never been done in history, the history of the united states, without sufficient proof. and that's going to be good enough with me? that i would put us through that, my state, that i swore to uphold both in constitution and in law? no, sir. >> barbara, there's new revelations now about ron johnson. he is running for office. he is running for re-election. he is a very powerful senator. take a look at what happened when he was asked about why he accept accepted, he says, staff advice. he claims it was staff advice telling him to hand something to the vice president on january 6.

defies belief he would take a staff recommendation to hand fake electors, false electors in wisconsin and "andrea mitchell reports," -- michigan to the vice president as he was about to vote. >> how much did you note about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates? >> i'm on the phone right now. >> no, you are not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. >> this was a staff to staff exchange. i was basically unaware of it. the chief staff contacted the vice president's staff, said do you want this? we didn't deliver it. that's the end of the story. >> frank thorpe called him out on being on the phone. >> i think that's really telling into his mindset here. regardless, i think that ron johnson has immediately become a subject of this investigation. of course, what will be

important is whether he had knowledge, whether he had intent to help with this fraudulent elector scheme. he is not going to be able to explain away using the mob boss excuse, i'm too big a deal, i rely on staff. i think further investigation is required to figure that out. >> eugene, do you think there's political price to pay? >> it's hard to see any political price because of what we know. this republican party has put their arounds around donald trump and the big lie. 70% of the party believes it. that's 30% of americans. there's probably not a political price to pay for these folks. that's why democrats, people who care about democracy, are looking to these legal avenues that may be available through the department of justice and their investigation. >> eugene and barbara, thank you both so much. stalled out. president biden expecting to propose a gas tax holiday. could it kick the economy into

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to do about inflation and gas prices this afternoon, president biden is going to call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months trying to lower the price at the pump. it would reduce it by 18 cents a gallon for gas and 28 for diesel. nancy pelosi has called the idea very show biz, saying in march, there's no guarantee those savings would be passed on to consumers. joining us, the former chairman of the council of economic what's your reaction to the proposal? is pelosi right? will this benefit consumers? >> i think the benefit to the consumers is going to be perhaps a fair bit smaller than what they want it to be.

le fundamentals of the economics say that when you are in a time of supply shortage like what we have now, a lot of the tax cut is probably just going to go to the oil companies, the refineries. i think they need to be a little careful when they're doing this. >> to dan, what about the effects on the energy supply, on consumers? isn't part of the gas tax reasoning to get people to use fossil fuels? >> first of all, this is very small. it will reduce the gasoline price by about 4%. maybe over three months, that would save the average consumer $25. clearly, the administration needs to be doing something. this is something to do. it's a message. but i don't think actually it will have much impact. it shows they're doing something. what we do see is that gasoline

demand has been declining compared to 2019, down about 7%. i think it's partly price. but it's also partly people working at home and not driving to work. >> the economic impact. you are trying to deal with inflation. gas is a component. only one component of the big historic rise in inflation. will this have a big impact on the inflation piece? >> i don't think so. i kind of think as dan said, this is not very big. $10 billion in a multi-trillion-dollar economy is not going to add on top of it. if the money doesn't get passed to the consumers, the impact is smaller. i don't think the way to evaluate that is to at the macro

level of if you provide this it's an increase in demand and drive up inflation. i think the way to think of it is, it's a modest impact on taxes and a lot of it might not get passed through. overall, will consumers even notice and give them any credit? >> dan, the energy -- >> if i could jump in. i think the thing is that this is so minor. what matters is what's happening in the overall world in which we have a disrupted global oil market. we have had demand pushing right up against supply. we have the supply lines change because europe's no longer importing -- it's reducing imports from europe. that means europe is sending less gasoline to the east coast. the east coast gets a lot of gas from europe these days. this gets lost in the larger drama. what has the biggest impact on what happens to energy prices is

what the central banks do and whether we get into a recession, which is an ugly way to solve a problem. >> just to follow up also, the energy secretary is supposed to meet with oil refining executives this week. the white house is accusing the oil industry of windfall profits, of not passing on any of the things. how fair is that? >> i don't think it's very useful. i think we're recycling old sound bites. it doesn't solve the problem. we have seen in germany where they are getting off russian oil because the government, the environmentalists are working with the industry that understands the flow. we need a close cooperation, dialogue and continuing exchange of information that had in previous crises. we don't have that right now. we have to anticipate what could happen next. if we have a hurricane that hits -- takes out part of our refining sector, the problem is

worse. we need cooperation and collaboration. for time being, rather than pause the gas tax, we ought to pause the sound bites. >> i think the two of you might agree on that. thank you both very much. breaking news in afghanistan. 1,000 people are believed dead, hundreds more hurt or missing after a powerful 5.9 earthquake. the death toll is expected to climb as rescue workers dig through the rubble. reports that villages are destroyed. the taliban asking for international help. most humanitarian aid has been suspended since the u.s. withdrawal less than a year ago. usaid is assessing options. the region near the pakistan border desperate for help. the u.n. says it does not have rescue capabilities in that region. we will be right back.

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donald trump's fake elector scheme played out in several key swing states in 2020, including pennsylvania, where trump-backed senate candidate dr. oz is trying to distance himself from the former president. an election denier, who was at the riot on january 6, is now running for governor. joining me now is his opponent for that race, democratic attorney general josh shapiro. it's good to see you. thank you very much. "the washington post" is reporting that in the past 24 hours there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the house select committee investigating january 6. we heard about from adam kinzinger about the threats against him. now against more of the public servants. what can we do about that? >> that is a sad truth of what occurs when people pedal the big lie. when they continue to put forth lies, they put people's lives at risk.

while certainly, these threats are not acceptable against public officials, like those on the committee, or myself who have experienced these threats, i think the real story of what came out yesterday is the good women and men, republican and democrat, across the countries, the clerks who want to help make sure that our democracy is able to survive by ensuring people have access to the ballot box, the fact that they were threatened, the fact that the actions of the former president and his enablers, including those here in pennsylvania, led to threats against those poll workers is absolutely unacceptable. we have seen the impact of those threats. lehigh valley in pennsylvania, we have seen a 93% decrease in the number of people just willing to go work at the polls. that's unacceptable. we have to make sure that we reclaim our democracy from those who are pushing the big lie, like my opponent, and those who

are pedaling these threats to undermine people's confidence. >> last week, i was interviewing a well-known republican attorney, election expert, ben ginsburg. he banded together with democratic former white house counsel to president obama, bob bower, to try to provide protection and work on this whole issue for election workers. it's a nationwide problem. >> it is. as i said, we're seeing decreases in the number of people willing to serve as poll workers in the lehigh valley, philadelphia, and across pennsylvania. it's important to note that in 2020, we had a free and fair, safe and secure election here in pennsylvania. if law enforcement and the community do its job and push back on the big lie, we will have another fear and fair, safe and secure election in 2022. the reality is, there has to be accountability for those who

continue to push the big lie. understand, here in pennsylvania and across this country, but especially here in pennsylvania, those who have embraced the big lie have been rewarded with victories in republican primaries for governor, senate and for other races. now it's important that we come out in full force to defend our democracy. we work the polls. showing up in voting. ensuring that this 245-year experiment born a few blocks from where i sit today continues. the way we do that is by making sure that we have people participate in our process. understand what the other side is trying to do is make people not want to vote, not want to participate. it's important that we show up and that we fight back and that we push to defend our democracy. if we're going to make progress on reducing costs for pennsylvania families, if we're going to make progress on dealing with crime, in dealing with so many other issues that

are important for us to address, we have to make sure that the foundation upon which we do that work, our democracy, is protected. the way we do that is by participating. >> the current governor, who is term limited, tom wolf, has repeatedly blocked attempts by the republican legislature to curtail abortion rights in pennsylvania. if roe versus wade is struck down, what if you are elected, could you do as the democratic governor with a republican legislature? to try to reinstate some abortion rights for women -- the families of pennsylvania. >> assuming the draft opinion ultimately turns out to be the opinion -- and i think that's what most expect. in effect what the decision means is that we're going to revert to state law. here in pennsylvania, our state law says that a woman can have an abortion up to 23 weeks.

post 23 weeks if her life is at risk. we are dealing with playing defense against a legislature that wants to pass bills to restrict abortion rights. we can never lose the veto pen of the governor if we're going to protect our state abortion rights. understand the person i'm running against, he is so extreme, he believes there should be no abortion at any time. there should be no carveout for exception like rape and incest and he said doctors should be jailed if they perform abortions. the only thing standing in the way of eviscerating abortion rights in pennsylvania is this governor's race. i will veto those bills. he will sign it. he said it's his number one priority. that's a clear contrast. >> josh shapiro, thank you very much. of course, doug has an open invitation to come on here as

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now let's take a look at that crowded senate race in missouri we referred to it earlier where disgraced former republican governor rinos a disparaging term that republicans call republicans in name only. he appears carrying a shotgun announcing, quote, get a rino. no tagging limit and it doesn't expire. a campaign finance felony charge was later dropped. he's now accused by his former wife of abusing her and their child. he has called her allegations

baseless. joining me is a candidate for democratic nomination in missouri. nice to meet you. tell me your reaction to the ad. we're not playing it. it's on the web. but a number of the tech companies have refused to play it as well because of fears of what it might inspire. there's enough political violence out there, i would assume you would agree with that. >> absolutely. here's the thing. this guy, you read off his crimes, right? he is a criminal. this ad is no surprise. the guy has assaulted people, including his wife and kids, and he's stolen from his veterans charity. this is him showing his true colors. what we need to make sure we do is we cannot let them own the discussion. he is a literal criminal and we have to fight back. when i was in the marine corps, we were not trained to look the other way when there was a threat. we faced that threat head on and we eliminate it. we have done a response against him. we're going to continue to do that and fight back against this

guy because that is what the working people of this state absolutely deserve. >> now, i know that you're a candidate and you can say a lot of things that i can't. so let me just say what i posited what he was charged with, it has been dropped, so he's not a convicted criminal. what message do you think this ad is sending about glorifying political violence? >> i think the message that this and his entire campaign send is that if you're funded by a couple billionaires, you can do whatever you want. if you're a politician who has power -- like, the reason he's not convicted is because he was a politician who had power and he was able to make a deal to get out of it . that double standard is why people don't trust the government anymore. it's why they don't trust our institutions. and it's 100% what i'm running against. like, if i'm in the u.s. senate, i am ending that double standard immediately because people like this, they shouldn't be allowed

to run for office or own weapons. like, we need to make sure this guy is not a threat to our safety or our public anymore. >> now, this is a pretty crowded race. there are more than three dozens contenders for missouri's open seat. former senator jack dan worth is urging john wood to run, republican, the leading gop lawyer. we saw him at the january 6th select committee. he was asking questions. if he runs as an independent, how could that affect this race? >> it doesn't change anything with my race. what we're running to do is to fundamentally change who has power in this country. a lot of people in power right now don't understand what it's like to grow up as a normal person. they sell themselves out for campaign contributions, they strip our communities for parts. missouri has been absolutely devastated. and so whatever we run against, we are running against the power and the machine and everyone who doesn't do things for normal everyday people. i suspect this guy is going to

be right up that alley, and we're going to continue to run our campaign exactly how we do it. no corporate pac money or federal lobbyist money, make sure we only represent everyday americans and everyday missourians. >> we have invited him on the show and we're awaiting a response. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." thanks for being with us. follow us online on facebook and twitter. remember to be with us tomorrow when hallie jackson and katy tur co-anchor more january 6th hearings. "chris jansing reports" starts right after this. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. research shows people who take h-i-v treatment every day

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