is all in with senator cornyn-murphy? when do you think he will make an outright decision like this is my plan, go bass it? >> look, the president has already expressed support for senator cornyn's legislation u h. he has also supported the stop gun violence act. those are two pieces of legislation in their current form that the president supports. the toomey bill he has not fully gotten on board with. they are still kind of working out some of the final pieces of that legislation. until it gets into its final stage, we're not going to weigh in. but we're continuing to closely watch that. and engage with a number of members of congress to help improve the system. some of the things that he would like to see improving on how the background snl works. largely done through senator cornyn's bill and that's one of the big reasons he supports that again, he is looking for ways that we can improve the mental health system. so that we can take guns away from people that shouldn't have them. these are all the types of things that

grassley, senators lindsey graham, john cornyn and thom tillis. joining us is a congressional report eliza collins. do you think this demand will get any traction? >> i think the demand is the highest level in congress that has come so far. up until now, we have seen a lot of house members calling for this. these tend to be sort of the more pro trump, further right house members, with this group of four senators, you are getting john cornyn as the number two republican, chuck grassley is chairman of judiciary, you are getting some of the top republicans, that being said, there is already an investigation going on over how they handled the investigation. so we're not quite sure if they will appoint a special counsel to do another investigation. not quite clear right now what is going to happen, but it is noteworthy because these four are the highest so far in the republican party. eric: should they wait do you think for the horowitz ig report to potentially come out, let's say? we are told we are going to see that. >> that sounds like that is

question is presented treasurer senator cornyn. of if i'm of the commission misconduct into banking, commissioner kenneth payne expressed his frustration that big banks article is about the misconduct. indicatedt of the that this wasn't time to comply. this was not a good look, especially in the short time , this can be a mickey mouse will commission. if so, will you, the prime minister of the treasurer express your anger to the banks to get the information in on time? much i will very not provide a running commentary. it has only just started. that is a royal commission, that is all the power. it is independent. he has all the powers he needs and of course, if the commission were to provide advice of the government at the appropriate time, we would consider it but i'm not going to interfere in the proper conduct of it will commission about independent will commission which was set up that way. we will report in due course. >> thank you, i answer this question. this is delaying tactics. submissions will get a hearing to the time of

he told me last night there are elements of the toomey-manchin bill and elements of the cornyn-murphy bill he is support i have at this of. he made that very clear. that shows bipartisan impulses. >> steve: right. >> he is very respectful of the second amendment and law-abiding citizens who own and possess their firearms in a peaceful way. they have their rights and he knows that. steve: kellyanne, the nra said after the meeting, well the meeting was great tv, the gun control proposals discussed would make bad policy that would not keep our children safe. you can see the people around that table coming together but how does the nra fit into this equation? because it seems like the american people really want to get something done this time and the nra has to be at the table as well? >> they were at the table. they were at the table, private table with the president over the weekend. he made that very clear to the governors. said it including to fox news on monday when he met with the governors he had lunch, shared a meal with the executive members, three of them from the nra or so. th

senator cornyn: mr. president, can i respectfully recommend that -- president trump: yes. steve. senator cornyn: steve scalise, the vote counter in the house, is going to be at a key role in all this, and he's had a personal, near-tragic experience with one of these mass shootings himself. representative scalise: well, i appreciate, mr. president, you convening everybody. thank you, senator cornyn, my whip counterpart. the house did pass a bill -- the bill dealing with fixing problems with our background check system. we also combined with it a bill that advanced concealed carry reciprocity. in other words, people that have concealed carry permits in one state being able to have that same ability in another state with concealed carry laws that are on the books. and before that's immediately discounted -- because i know when we passed our bill, there was -- number one, i did have to whip that bill. it wasn't a bill that just automatically passed. and there were a lot of our members that said, look, we wan

so i'm'm supportive of the bill senator cornyn and i worked on. i hope that he can become the foundation of a much more comprehensive set of measures that we take a look at in the coming days. you've got to pay attention to what the american public is on this issue. i understand polls shouldn't dictate all the decisions that we make here. we pay attention to public opinion. we respond to it more often than doesn't guide every single decision that we make because public opinion changes. issue it's been a slow and steady build. the number of americans saying that the united states congress bears responsible for the epidemic of mass slaughter in this country because we've not change a single gun law, except to make them weaker. since sandy hook. when younl become the only thing this body has done on guns since sandy hook is to allow hundreds of thousands of seriously mentally ill people to get weapons, past that law last year, signed by the president. nothing to actually strengthen gun laws. record numbers of americans want us to take action. 97% of

john cornyn: thank you, mr. president for getting us and expressing your sincere concern about this and trying to get us to a solution. i agree with you that leaving this and going home empty-handed is not acceptable. the public demands that we act. we know how hard it is to get people together on a bipartisan basis. believe it or not in one case, senator murphy and i, we have a 46 cosponsors to the fix nics bill in the house has passed its version of it. i believe this is a good place for us to start. as you know, sutherland springs, we lost 26 people when a guy, convicted felon, he was convicted of domestic violence, less than honorable discharge ed from the military, none of which was uploaded into the background check system maintained by the fbi. that's only as good as the data that is put into it. so senator murphy and i and 46 senate colleagues on the bipartisan basis have what we think is a start. it's not the end all be all. there are other things that people want to add to it. we talked about the bump

cornyn, my whip counterpart. the house did pass a bill dealing with fixing problems with our background check system. we also combined with it a bill that advanced concealed carry reciprocity. in other words, people having concealed carry in one state being able to have that same ability in another state. before that's immediately discounted because i know when we passed our bill, number one, i did have the bill. it wasn't a bill that automatically passed. there were a lot of our members who said, look, we want to close these problems and fix these problems with the background check system and we came together and actually passed a bill. but we also felt if you look at the concealed carry population, these are people, by and large, helping us top crimes, go out there and help prevent crimes. i would hope that's not immediately dismissed because there is a lot of talk of putting that on the side. president trump: i think that maybe that bill will some day pass but it should pass as a separate. if you're going to p

one is a bill introduced by senators cornyn and murphy. a background check system is only as good as the data in the system. we have inconsistent quality of data. some states will provide excellent comprehensive up-to-date data. other states not so much. the corner murphy bill will have better data and that means we'd have a better system. i introduced a bill one they nickname for this was lie and try. what are legislation does this make it possible for more states to prosecute people who commit a felony when attempting to purchase it for our. those people who live out their own criminal background in their own criminal history deny that criminal history in the hope that they will be able to circumvent by a firearm. it happens every day that convicted felons who know they are convicted felons deny that in an attempt to buy a firearm. i legislation would require the up you will discover several lives to inform the law enforcement in the state from which a person comes so the state could prosecute if they choose to. it's only about enforcing

senator cornyn indicated that they might have to be here saturday. are you confident this will be wrapped up friday night and are you concerned about having members here on saturday on your side of the aisle when there is this a done protest out front? >> my focus is on finis t

and i hope senator cornyn will realize we need to work this due process matter out. there is not an issue of whether you like this or not, it is a question of constitutional rights and protecting the people -- >> brennan: so you are blocking the bill for now? >> and making sure we are protecting people from harm and making sure we get this right and if there is a constitutional issue at stake, then that should be worked out. >> brennan: but to clarify from your answer there, are you blocking this bill from the floor? >> this bill can come to the floor and we will continue to work through an amendment process and i hope we can fix those amendments. >> brennan: after you fix this bill you will allow it to go to the floor but not before this? >> well, i think if we can have an amendment process that works, to fix due process concerns, real constitutional issues, then i hope that is something we can do. i hope that people who support this bill are interested like all of us in making sure we are protecting the american people from harm. >> brennan: all right f senator gar

senator grassley: senator cornyn. senator cornyn: since it's on everybody's mind and ask about you about rape kits and housing but talk to you about what the national coalition against domestic violence reports as a significant, even very strong correlation between gun violence and domestic or intimate partners. in your experience as a rosecutor and as a judge presiding over domestic cases, did you find there is a strong correlation between gun violence and domestic violence. ms. sullivan: i don't know if i can answer that from necessarily my personal experience only going through -- i'm trying to catalog the cases that i did see and worked on. o.b.w. does sponsor the national resource center on domestic violence and firearms. and safer families, safer communities is a fabulous website that was created and they have a myriad of information about the intersection of firearms and domestic violence and we sponsor d this gets to your question of the national domestic violence homicide prevention initiative. and through th

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. cornyn: i'd ask unanimous consent that the conform call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: two days ago the president of the united states announced his decision to replace secretary of state rex tillerson with c.i.a. director mike pompeo. i respect both of these men immensely but want to talk about secretary tillerson's public service. i know it was quite a transition, but he provided able leadership to the department of state during a period of transition from one presidency to the next and a period of diplomatic turbulence. he worked hard to strengthen and in some cases repair our global alliances. i've known secretary tillerson for a long time. he is a man of character who has led the boy scouts, which continues to be one of his abiding passions, developing young men as persons of character. and i respect that. at the same time he advanced his own career as the head of one

but the reason i think there might be something to this is because cornyn signed off. grassley and graham were doing this. cornyn has been wanting to protect mueller. >> former judge. >> i think you are right. i had never thought about it that way. and this is me giving some credit to republicans. if this is truly what the end out come is, then good for them. >> trudeau. how significant is it when a president is caught basically trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the fellow world leader? >> it is not great. but i think the firing of tillerson, if i were a leader -- >> president of crystal -- >> i wouldn't be president of that. but i think i would be more freaked out by the firing of tillerson and the way it was done. it was so unbelievable when you think about it. told to hurry back from his trip and given the impression that he would have to get to meet with the president to make his case. he knew he was in trouble and landing at 4:00 a.m. coming back from africa and he finds out at 8:00 he's fire and never sees the president. the kind of -- his own a -- appoint

cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: madam president, i'd ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam president, i'd like to start my comments by paying tribute to the senior senator from mississippi, senator thad cochran. last night the appropriations committee which senator cochran chairs released the 2018 omnibus appropriation bill. it includes a proposal that i feel very strongly about, and i'm grateful to him and all of our colleagues for their support, but i particularly want to acknowledge the advocacy of the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, to make sure this provision is included in the omnibus bill. the house will soon vote on the omnibus and then i hope we can quickly follow suit here in the senate. the provision i'm referring to is called fix nics, short hand. nics of course is the national criminal instant background check system, and it's a response, i think a reasoned and reasonable response to the shootings that have appalling occ

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i have listened to the remarks from our distinguished colleague from illinois who is the democratic whip, and i agree with a number of things he says and disagree with some others, but i do think we need to keep this in appropriate context. we are, in fact, talking about a provision of the bill of rights, the second amendment to the united states constitution, and i hope we would never treat any of those essential guarantees of american rights that precede the creation of our government casually. it is important that we protect all of our rights, the right to worship according to the dictates of our conscience, the right to petition our government for the redress of just grievances, the freedom of association, the freedom of the press. those are also part of the bill of rights, just like the second amendment to the united states constitution. but there are a number of things that we can agree on, and i have been talking about one of them for some time now, the so-called fix

and thanks to the dogged efforts of senator cornyn, the fix nics provision to repair and improve firearm background checks is also included. both of these bipartisan accomplishments are the direct result of tireless work by those most tragically affected by violence in america's schools. here's how mark borden, a cofounder of sandy hook promise described this legislation, this legislation will save lives, he said. likewise the parkland, florida families wrote all four congressional leaders to include these two particular measures in this piece of legislation. i'm proud that we can deliver for them and for the safety of schools around our country. mr. president, let's take one more look at just a few of the good things this bill will accomplish. number one, the largest year-on-year funding increase of our war fighters in 15 years. next, new resources for the fight against opioids and border security and the president's wall. major enhancements for law enforcement and school safety. these provisions, and the entirety of this omnibus represent months of bipartisan work. i look forward to co

john cornyn of texas said he was not comfortable with that comment. >> no. i'm not.usly the president feels strongly about the mental health factor in many of these mass shootings. i think that's an appropriate focus. but i do think it's important to maintain our due process, protections for citizens against arbitrary government action. >> florida senator marco rubio spoke at length on the senate floor floating ideas about how to improve our schools and make them safer and gun control. he floated gun violence restraining orders. >> something that will give law enforcement and close family members the option of obtaining a court order to prevent gun sales or remove guns from individuals that pose a threat. to be clear, the due process in such a situation would be on the front end, not on the back end. >> due process on the front end. that comment hit a nerve with lawmakers. >> shepard: that get together was during this hour yesterday. when the president said these things, the republicans were looking at him shell shocked. dianne feinstein was giggling with glee. >> an

cornyn: mr. president, is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: the senate is. mr. cornyn: i'd ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i have eight requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have been approved by both the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i be authorized to sign duly-enrolled bills or joint resolutions on tuesday, march 13, 2018. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, just two years -- excuse me. just two days ago, the white house announced its plans to reduce gun violence in our nation's schools. this is an important, important issue and the white house's recommendations should be taken seriously. and i certainly do. the president's blueprints attempts to address this pervasive problem from multiple angles during what has been a

. >> texas senator john cornyn .alked about his bill the measure is cosponsored by senator chris murphy of connecticut. madam president, on another note, i want to emphasize another point and talk about a new milestone reached. we have reached 64 federal cosponsors for a bill i produced with senator murphy called the fix nics which is a background sponsoredrm bill we together. it is pretty recent -- remarkable that in an institute ,ike this at polarized times you have republicans and democrats coming together saying yes, we have a problem and yes, to fix to work together it. this is the kind of legislation the nation has been waiting for as people continue to be frustrated and depressed about random acts of violence that have broken out in our cities and schools. shootings like the one that occurred in texas outside of san andnio, and then las vegas, in florida. we are saying the status quo is not acceptable. to hear the democratic leader, senator schumer, say there are other things he and his colleagues would like to do. but i would quote some ancient wisdom that the journey of 1000 mi

you know, john cornyn as a bill with the same problem. take gun rights away from veterans, then do the due process later. the second amendment is later, but due process is foundational to our country. >> when the president said, police should take guns away from people without due process, he was talking about the mentally ill, obviously. you did slam it on twitter. you said he said police should take guns away from police. is anyone okay with this because i'm sure as hell not. >> look, you are not afraid to take him on. that was pretty direct. you didn't mince your words. doesn't sound like you have confidence in what he's saying. now the nra says the opposite. do you have confidence you know what he believes in? >> well, you know, the president won my congressional district by 40 points, but if he's wrong, i'm going to call him out on it. obama was wrong, too. people's rights to own a gun are taken away without judicial process. john cornyn's bill called fix nics. due process, you have a day in court. you can't have your rights segregat

and on my side it comes in the order of kennedy, cornyn, crapo. i'm told by senator feinstein it comes in the order of -- do you want leahy to go ahead of you? >> yes, that would be fine. he can go ahead of me. that's fine. >> no, think i misinterpreted your night. feinstein, leahy, klobuchar and booker. >> i know my place. >> congress in 1994 authorized a grant program that encourages jurisdiction to adopt pro-arrest and mandatory arrest policies. for many years it's been known as the grants to -- recently the office of violence against women began referring to this same program by a different name. improving criminal justice responses to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking grant program. could you explain the reason for the name change? >> i can tell you, though, however, i can tell you that the improving criminal justice -- to the four crimes is part of the real backbone of vawa, and that is to approach these crimes in a collaborative community manner. so that we are bringing in law enforcement, prosecutor and judges

senators chris murphy and john cornyn talk about the policy and discuss trying to make changes to the national background check system. i hope we rise to the moment before us and get something done to try to make the country safer over the course of the next week or two. i will be glad to go and join the president in a few hours to hear more about this thought on how we can put the safety of our kids ahead of any political considerations to make sure parkland is the last. in newtown connecticut that place has been fundamentally changed when you lose that many young lives in a short period of time there is no true recovery and unfortunately they will find that as charleston did in orlando and so many before them. we need to remember while the country can pay attention to the epidemic of gun violence and when there is a mass shooting this is an epidemic that does not take a day off. yesterday likely b to 90 people died from gunshot wound is. that is an epidemic in and of itself. another chunk of them were homicide i. it is 20 times higher than the average. you are more likely to die fro

john cornyn did not sound excited about it.now, even though we have seen the polls as high as 97% support for universal background checks, the reality the nra came out strongly against that billiards ago and you don't know viewed and get a certain kind of racing. >> all of this online at c-span.org. the house is gaveling back in for votes on bills they debated earlier. ofhe lesor filingnder the re. thclerk: rert to accompany usresoluti, resoluon oving foconsideration of the .r. 1119 to aplish the ronmenl prottion en s ee rtain sionsnocations for estg electric uy pridg fo cer thbl h.7,allow for judicial rw

john cornyn everybody, now, they didn't put his name up, but that's okay.s the first time that's ever happened. >> seth: do you mean that's the first time that's never happened? [ laughter ] you just said his name. do you not remember. you looked right at him. [ laughter ] makes sense trump has the memory of a goldfish since he also has the mouth of one. [ cheers and applause ] this is starting to feel like the last season of a long-running tv show where the writers decide to have the main character fall off a horse, and get amnesia. hi, i'm donald. hi donald, i'm john. who's donald? [ laughter ] trump, of course, was there to crow about his state of the union address, and bask in the adoration of his fellow republicans. trump even suggested that after a slow first few months in office he's gone above, and beyond what he promised voters on the campaign trail. >> i was there four months, you know this paul, and they were saying he didn't fulfill a promise, but now we fulfilled far more promises than we promised. [ laughter ] and they're having a hard time wi

both were introduced by my friend and colleague from texas, senator cornyn. senator thune has been a leader on these issues in the last couple of years passing the no human trafficking on our roads act and combating human trafficking in commercial vehicles act which focused on the big problem that we've seen in terms of the transportation system in america being used for human trafficking. senator grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee, we passed his bill, the trafficking victims protection and reauthorization act which brought more services to victims of these heinous crimes. so, mr. president, we're making progress, no doubt about it. but this is a very important point. despite the strong record of addressing human trafficking, when it comes to these crimes, one of the biggest things we need more of in america to address them, because they are growing, is resources -- resources. to put it bluntly, there's too many cases, too many of this happening -- too much of this happening, and not enough resources, money, or prosecutors to put the bad indivi

today senators chuck grassley, lindsey graham, john cornyn and tom tillis are now demanding a second special council be appointed to investigate rampart pant fisa abuses, f.b.i. bias and clinton e-mail investigation and so much more this needs to happen immediately. tonight, all indications are this will, in fact, happen, as now evidence is building that crimes have been committed. also brand-new tonight, disgraced deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccade begging to keep his big, fat government pension all while the pension may be the least of his worries as they're talk tonight of possible criminal charges against the former deputy f.b.i. director. this is behind significant. for him to lose his retirement means he did something very wrong. and sources are telling us he could face charges. sara carter is here with all the explosive details coming up. and also breaking tonight, the destroy trump media has a new method for spreading their fake news. they just recycle old stories to try to damage the trump administration. we have the evidence "new york times" is claiming special council ro

listen to john cornyn from last night. >> we are actively soliciting the support for our bill. there are several republican senators who voted against it in 2013 who have told me they are reconsidering. so i'm hopeful about that. i think the president is very aggressive. >> i wouldn't confuse with what he said with what can actually pass. >> what did you do next? >> i think everybody is trying to absorb what they just heard. >> that was pat toomey and an echo of skrjohn cornyn there. but i'm told that the white house fielded some pretty irritated calls from members of congress on the republican side who are going what just happened. >> reporter: i can't imagine why. no, look, this is the president scrambled this gun debate. and quite frankly, he is not where they are used to being. they are used to tracking very closely what the national rifle association is willing to assume support or not support and never been reluctant to cross them. and the president clearly made a decision yesterday that he was going to at least present himself in opposition to a congress that he accused

by john cornyn, the number two republican in the senate. there is the sutherland springs baptist church shooting last year and that's what inspired this, it expands background checks and essentially tells agencies, state and federal to report -- follow the law. the report -- report cases of criminality and mental health illness to net disaster -- to the fbi database. that was a loophole that allowed the sutherland springs guy to purchase his firearm. host: why attach it to the omnibus? does it not have enough support to stand on its own? guest 1: it's always tough to get these kind of bills passed. the bill itself is modest. it just requires federal agencies and states to be sure they are complying with existing background checks -- the existing background check system. it's not the expanded background check. it's a very modest bill and it passed the house, but it did have this extra provision which is an expansion of gun rights. it allows folks to have -- who have concealed carry permits -- states would have to honor those across state lin

and senator cornyn for introducing the bill with me. can you talk about why it is important that law enforcement rely on trauma in responding to sexual assault crimes? >> i want to make one thing clear. the departments position on the bill hasn't been cleared yet so i cannot talk about that in particular. except for the fact that he did in fact read it and it came on my desk very shortly after i began a couple of months ago. i have had the opportunity to see how trauma with a victim centered approach particularly with law enforcement is effective. that was from my personal experience. and scenes and dedicated dockets and specialized training for certain law enforcement officers. they have a terrific program that was a neighboring county to me in colorado. and in which they had trauma informed law enforcement officers. one thing it really can do, this was again just my personal experience. >> which is helpful. >> law enforcement prosecutors, it is no statement in terms of the department position. i was able to see that it is a de-escalat

. >> now, some of the senate debate on gun policy including john cornyn, ten carried program pool. it begins with ben cardin. this is one hour. >> on friday visited bob a chi school in columbia. it's located in maryland between washington and baltimore. i wanted to talk about the tragic valentine's day shooting in florida. it left 17 students and faculty members dead. the deadliest high school shooting in american history. i went there because one of their own teachers was shot to death in september 2017 and her former boyfriend is a trial for her murder. i was impressed by the passion of the students. they had interest in the subject matter they were articulate and ask great questions. i found it extremely encouraging for maryland in this nation. for rightfully concern for their safety. this was two weeks since the young man invaded the high school. the reaction seems like clockwork after the shooting. bipartisan shock, anger, and more. then the question comes out, will this time be different. the answer for the republican leaders has been no as the average falls back to nra talki

that was the word by john cornyn who sat in the meeting in the white house more than an hour long. frankly, it is the best word to describe what everyone was thinking after they walked out of the meeting. a meeting in which the republican president, president backed by the nra throughout the campaign. saying how much he loves the nra and the republican viewpoints when it comes to guns. sided with democrats on the policy issues than the republicans around the table. it raised questions as to where he actually stands on the gun deba debate. you talk to democrats and they were pleased where the president ended up during that meeting. they don't also have a lot of confidence. you hear is it tuesday trump or thursday trump? that is referring to immigration. the president had a wide ranging meeting where he was agreeable to everybody on tuesday when it came to immigration. 48 hours later, he retracted just about everything he said. daca still hasn't moved on capitol hill. democrats skeptical this may be the same thing. where are republicans on this issue? furious. i can say that after ta

for instance, again, reiterating the support for the cornyn bill as well as the stop gun violence act. those are two pieces of legislation that the president supports. we'll continue some of the discussions that have been ongoing, continue to engage with congress as we lay out some more details of what we'd like to see. including the meeting that will take place on thursday with some of the leaders in the video game industry. reporter: moving the embassy to jerusalem, the president said it would cost $250,000 to build the u.s. embassy there. what was he referring to? sarah: more specific, the point he's making he will do it faster and far less expensive than a billion-dollar project thought. reporter: the trade wars are good, easy to win. can you explain what he meant by that? sarah: the president is confident if that's where we ended up we'd certainly win. that's not the goal. the goal is to get free, fair, and reciprocal trade and hope other countries will join him. reporter: paul ryan is practically pleading with the president to reverse course on this. are you saying there's no wa

senator cornyn of texas being the republican.toomey is going to join us background checks bill put together. steve: he said some of you people in this room are petrified of the nra. the nra came out with a statement while the meeting made for great tv the gun control proposal discussed would make bad policy that would not keep our children safe. senator toomey will talk about that and so much more with brian in about 10 members u. brian: two minutes after the top of the hour. we are goin looking at. yesterday we had the acting director of ice on our show. obviously he was upset and who wouldn't be. he is trying to get illegals out of this country and broken the law in many respects, not just coming here. overstaying visas and committing crimes. he had a list of 800 people to pick up in california. well then the oakland mayor, libby schaaf decides to give a warning about the raids. and, therefore, he had 150 pickups instead of 800. here's the mayor not backing down. she is not sorry about this. >> i continue to feel confident that

john cornyn talks about government to/in. that will be followed by a look at the student rally at the capitol. at a directive fund school safety under president obama should be removed. hosted by the heritage foundation, this is about one hour. >> thank you to everyone for being here today to discuss this important issue. in 2014, the obama department of education issued a colleague letter notifying schools that differences in ascension rates would because for a federal investigation. overhaul their discipline policies, that throne alone catalyzed many schools across the country.

that's john cornyn, you know john, your great senator. that's ted cruz right there.ou are well represented today. but i want to thank senator cornyn and senator cruz, representative kevin brady. where's kevin? are we going for an additional tax cut, i understand? he is the king of those tax cuts. they's two, i'm hearing that. you hear that? face to go. we are very serious about that, kevin. kevin brady is a spectacular person and did an incredible job with the tax cuts. to all the members of the texas congressional delegation, a delegation of great people, thank you all for being here. it's a big delegation, you will show up for the houston astros, that's great. jim crane, president, skipper a.j. hinch. a.j., you become very famous, i have to tell you. that was a great job of scampering. congratulations on your incredible victory, it was indeed. after the devastating hurricane harvey, incredible what you went through, that you are the champions with what you went through with harvey. it was a really be a fitting tribute. what was really a show of world spirit and hou

i want you to listen to senator cornyn about the background check bill. we just got our 78th bipartisan co-sponsor, senator mccaskill join. i'm thankful to her and everybody that supported it. it's a common sense bill that does enjoy broad bipartisan support and will save lives. we haven't gotten final word but i remain hopeful. i don't know why anybody would want to oppose it in the omni bus. >> dana: it's hard to get 78 members of the senate to sign on to a mother's day resolution. there's big bipartisan support. matt, there's rumor out there that the bill that the house republicans wanted, the reciprocity bill might not be here. how will that go over? >> the president talked about that in the roundtable he had at the white house. obviously there's a lot of focus on what we do with our regulations on who can buy a gun in this country. i don't think the omnibus will end that conversation. it will keep going. that's a good thing. reciprocity, the right to carry, is an important issue as we talk about security in our communities. we'll keep having that con

now senate debate on gun policy including senators john cornyn, tim kain. this is an hour. >> mr. president, on friday i visited league high school in colombia which is located in howard county, maryland which is washington and c baltimore. ica wanted to talk to students about the tragic valentine's day shooting at marjoi stoneman douglas who left 17 faculty members. this is the deadliest high school shooting in american history. i went to wild lick because one of their own teacher laura was shot to dead in september 2017 and former7, boyfriend is now in trial for her murder. int was impressed by passion ate of students and great deal of interest in subject matter and articulate and asked great questions. students are rightfully concerned about safety and safety of classmates. it's been two weeks since a disturbed young man invaded marjori stoneman douglas high school, the reactions seemed to bek like clock work after each shooting, there's bipartisan shock, anger, horror, particularly the question comes out, will this time be different, the answer for the republican leaders shift

john cornyn did not sound excited about it.now, even though we have seen the polls as high as 97% support for universal background checks, the reality the nra came out strongly against that billiards ago and you don't know viewed and get a certain kind of racing. a lot of senate democrats my not necessarily want to have a huge number of gun votes as well, likes like jon tester he anchin but he is not in love with the idea of the 21 year age limit the present trump been talking about. this is uncomfortable territory for a lot of his moderate democrats who won in states where trump did well. also rural states where people have guns and it's a gun culture does not same as new jersey. a lot of the proposals discussed by republicans go beyond the closing of loopholes for background checks. it three and the limited by certain kind of guns and what their approval of rick scott is. you can prohibit people from buying weapons of they have a history of domestic violence. they have long-term appeal down the road. have one of the issues we

senator cornyn and i introduce the bill. is focused on something you are talking about which was law-enforcement centered training. so when there is a rape victim law-enforcement has to do the job and follow the rules but they look at their interaction with the victim the simple concept and has been introduced in the house. can you talk about the general concept of how law-enforcement interacts with victims? >> thank you for your question. it's so critical in the aftermath of an assault that survivors are treated and met with people who have trauma training. knowledge is power. trauma has the ability has many medical reports have shown to distort things. i was very lucky to have a rape crisis counselor with me who is trauma informed. but i think there are needs for the criminal justice system to be trauma trained. i look for to working with your office and others to make sure it's a reality. >> senator grassley and senator feinstein have been good about looking at this bill. >> in addition to the trauma informed care it's so

. >> john cornyn spoke about it and here is what he said. >> i am concerned who the president will turn. i think mr. cohn is an outstanding public servant and he has credentials to help the president. >> sarah sanders responding to cornyn. a source close to the president yesterday told me that gary cohn was the last good guy standing. does the president have enough smart capable people around him to do the job? >> he needs not only smart people, he needs adults. people who can stand up to him and tell him when he is wrong and why he is wrong. the president has said he likes conflict and i take that to mean he likes conflicting advice and that is not bad. a lot of presidents do like conflicting advice to make the right decision. conflict is different than conflicting advice. to have chaos in a presidency and in a white house serves none of our interest. "outfront" next, jeanne moos and president denison. get an extra day by the pool get to spend more time together get more moments to remember there are some things you can only get when you book with us. get more from your spring break ge

senators mccaskill cornyn heitkamp and senator portman and senator mccain has been a passionate advocate for addressing this issue for so many years and do wish that he could be here to participate and be able to vote for its passage but we know his work over the years has played an incredibly important role in getting us to where wedada are today. this group led the effort to conduct investigatory oversight. last year senator portman pointed out a chair to commerce committee hearing on his bill where we heard testimony from experts on both sides of the issue. listen carefully to what her witnesses had to say and at the hearing we work together to make targeted changes to the legislation in the bill that ultimately advanced there are committee and a senator appointment at pointed out that support from the community. the bill was strongly supported by members of both parties. we racked up by portion support 58 out of 100 senators are now co-sponsors of this bill. the bill supported by the white house we know as soon as it leaves a senator will land on the president's does world the presid

john cornyn's face tells it all. he looks like this half the time.ike that -- did i hear that right? that's just the reality, and that's what trump -- the great opportunity trump represented in some ways. the break with the ways in which things used to be. >> in words, but not necessarily in policies. >> the difference is -- >> but wait a minute, don, he says he wants to deal with bump stucks, he says he wants to deal with bump stocks, he's going to write some executive order to deal with bump stocks. he wants them to deal with everything else. i'm not taking up for him, he says he wants to deal with the issue of bump stocks, the rest of it, the congressional leaders can handle. he doesn't understand a lot of the legislation, but he wants some action. we'll see if that happens. >> i'm going to get bumped out of here, if you guys don't hold your horses. >>> how does the administration get anything done? is their agenda on the line? we're going to ask mark mckinnon after this. stay with me, mr. parker. when a critical patient is far from the hospital,

that's interesting stuff given that for example, john cornyn, according to your reporting had no ideaeah, that's right. tom was the first republican out of the gate with any kind of statement on this, praising pompeo and haspel, almost probably within the half hour of the news break. his name was floated for a long time of being a good fit. he has military background, a very close ally of the president on issues up here. he may have had a confirmation problem up here, not because of his positions necessarily but because of the math. most of please people are going to have to get 50 votes. runs have a 51 majority vote right now and john mccain has not been up here casting votes. i'm sure tom could not have voted for himself for con frj. that means they'll need democratic support in a rearview charged position. with a senator who does not have a very good will built up. there was potential political road block for them. he also was in a safe seat from arkansas. he could be the senator from arkansas about so long he want to be, halle. >> garrett you've also talked with orr lawmakers ther

john cornyn, to your point, is republican orthodoxy 101. he's from texas.nd amendment supporter. and you have the president of the united states being like we can do comprehensive. i mean, it's just like the immigration one. now, if you are a gun rights supporter, you should take comfort that it looked like the immigration meeting. two days after the immigration meeting where he said we will do comprehensive immigration reform, he vetoed all of it. >> i think this is president trump at his best. >> you said that during the last meeting. >> and i feel this way. he throws it out. he breaks the mold. he is unpredictable. it gets people back on their heels. it starts with his negotiation. he starts in a more, dream position and gets people all riled up and confused. then you don't know what he is going to do next, but he generally backs off. >> this is the best reality show out of the west wing. there is a sieve you can value to this. let's open the doors. let's put the cameras in real-time. let's hear all of these great statesmen articulate. there is a real vi