across oklahoma and discussed charitable giving in a bipartisan lift for charities act with senator chris coons. it would repeal section of the twentysomething tax code that requires nonprofits and churches to pay federal taxes and play benefits like parking spots. congress returns on september 9. >> tonight on "the

democratic senator chris coons joins me and called out the president for a failure of leadership on gunse president and what he is saying now versus what he said a week ago? do you believe he's shifted his position? do you believe that from his standpoint background checks are now off the table? >> well, steve, this is part of the challenge of negotiating with president trump on any difficult or controversial issue. as we've seen several times in the last two year, there will be a major incident, a mass shooting, a mass casualty, gun-related event, and he will initially sound very tough, very determined, very brave about whether it's bump stocks after the las vegas shooting orbach backs after the more recent shooting saying we need to do something about gun violence and having great conversations encouraging conversations with senators of both parties just two weeks ago, now we're seeing him walk away from that. i think it's clear only with presidential leadership, only with president trump being willing to stand up to the nra, will there be enough republicans in the senate for us to mov

and you have chris coons thing republicans want to take health care away.ell, obamacare took health care plans away from millions of people and force them onto a system that they didn't like. and people have had dozens -- five, six, seven plants since obamacare has been put in place. does that mean the republicans can't come up with some kind of solution to what's going on? of course not. but the problem with obama's record is that it was slow growth, the obamacare issue is one that pushed democrats out of power in the house, and now they are trying to move away from that. because it actually wasn't a popular program. so the other democrats are looking at it -- >> kennedy: we saw a whole new thing. >> dagen: it's more popular now, though. >> kennedy: let's ask the doctor on the pound. this affects you personally and professionally. we still don't have an answer as to what we are going to do about the aca. medicare for all and the existence of it in this conversation means that obamacare was a failure. >> nicole: listening to the democratic debate reminded m

. >>> i am joined now by democratic senator chris coons of delaware. you share the same great state of delaware. it was interesting to hear joe biden say again today this seemed to be the focus coming out of this debate that he doesn't understand why his fellow candidates are attacking president obama's legacy. from a democratic standpoint, there are some things that bear criticism or scrutiny when it comes to immigration, when it comes to deportations, but widely president obama is popular with democrats. he's feeling that he's in a pretty good space here. >> he is. he had a very strong night last night and i shared his surprise that not just democrats, but a former cabinet member of the obama/biden administration was sharply critiquing obama's record last night on the debate stage. he is not just a popular politician. former president obama is the most popular recent two-term successful president of the united states. i'll remind you something that joe biden raised last night. it was the stimulus and the way it was structured that's responsible for s

joining me now is democratic senator chris coons of delaware, he served on the judiciary and foreigno much for joining me. first question, is what is your reaction to this reporting that the president offered to pardon officials if they break the law in order to get his wall built? >> dana, this is just another in the daily cavalcade of outrages from this president. the idea that he is so determined to meet one of his campaign promises, to build a wall with mexico, and make mexico pay for it, that today, two and a half years into his presidency, he is not only diverting money from hurricane relief, and from department of defense projects, but he is offering to pardon folks in his administration, if they break the law, by seizing private land, and racing through the contracting process, in order to get it done. it's lard to know what to say, other, it's hard to know what to say other than it is wednesday, and our president has done another outrageous thing. my hope is that the american public is paying attention and there is a reason why joe biden continues to enjoy a double digit lea

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must, more on the ramifications of will hurd's surprise announcement of his leaving congress and chris coonsonversation. "morning joe," just moments away. conversation "morning joe," just moments away ♪ >>> welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder, mike allen. give it to us, mike. >> happy friday. >> there you go. >> happy summer friday. >> that's what we need, mike. >> what's axios' "1 big thing" today? >> the "1 big thing" is the impeachment slow drip. a little newsroom conversation, the impeachment tracker tally, yesterday he was saying 117 house democrats who are now four impeachment and some -- across from him who has been watching this very closely said, wait, how did it get up to be 117? this is the slow drip. a couple of house democrats a day have been coming out for impeachment. some of them get attention. some of them don't. but last month, that number was at 80. so since the mueller hearings, we have seen a real spike in the number of house democrats who are for impeachment. >> i was a little worried when you started off with a little newsr

among our guests to talk about that senator chris coons, and advocate for joe biden. comes to guns and legislation and reform, dana lash is at the forefront and here to talk about what republicans and democrats can agree on and what they should stay away from and sean hannity might not be dressed because he is calling in to talk about his battle with bill diblasio and tim kennedy says masculinity has been demonized and is here with that message and modern alcohol consumption better or worse for your health kick you is fact, what is fiction? bad habits addition coming your way but the likeliest medical physician coming up straight ahead. jillian: you have a fancy new haircut. >> the same haircut but a brand-new gel. thanks for noticing. see you in 10 minutes. in the meantime chicago's mayor slammed ivanka trump forgetting the fact on gun violence wrong but so did she. during a news conference they are lightfoot claimed judges grant bail for a repeat offender. >> with these materials, this doesn't make any sense. there is not a person who would see this and say absolute

we've been -- my staff has been working with him along with susan collins, pat toomey, chris coons. the president has reached out to everybody and was trying to find a pathway for it. i said this, mr. president, if you want to start making america sfe again, you have got to have the building blocks of a background check and especially our bill that i wrote back in 2013. it started with the premise that a law-abiding gun owner is not going to sell their gun to someone with a criminal background. we're not taught that way. don't you think we should take any commercial transaction must have a background check, any internet sell, anything commercially where you don't know somebody, that's the building block. if he can't do that, we're not going to take us serious about anything. >> let's get to the next level of this. why he would back off. what can they tell him in a phone call that would make him push back on the pressure. >> i don't know. i haven't talked to him in a week or so. last time i talked to the president, i said, mr. president, i'm a life member of the nra, a lifetime membe

take peoples private healthcare insurance in the name of medicare for all you lose a lot of folks chris coonsman ilhan omar and tlaib -- >> it has been bipartisan up until now about israel. those who want to destroy israel want to destroy us. name one radical islamic group that wants to destroy israel that does not want to destroy america. isis and al qaeda pledged to hurt israel and us. tlaib and omar calling for an economic boycott of the state of israel which will destroy the state of israel. the reason she is not visiting her grandmother is because she has embraced the destruction of israel through an economic boycott. she was offered a chance to see her grandmother. she said all i want to do is see my grandmother. they said yes and she pulled the rug out from under the offer. the bottom line here is, they are radical when it comes to israel, radical in the economy, they are weak when it comes to fighting terrorism. donald trump is going to win the election because he's been a damn good president and what they're trying to do is make america -- maria: senator stay with us we who's dog is

all right, let's bring in democratic senator chris coons of delaware who has endorsed former vice presidentjoe biden. senator, great to see you. this morning we've been joking about you don't often hear that message from the spouse of the candidate, which is basically like my husband, not your first choice but not so bad. >> that's not really what i think jill biden was saying there because i've known jill and joe for decades. one of the great things about them is how close and committed to each other and supportive of each other they really are. what jill is doing, again, is being this sort of pragmatic voice in leadership as she's so long been and saying joe has clearly locked up 30% of your primary electorate. hez the only democratic with a double digit lead poll of poll after the miami debates, the detroit debates and as we go forward to the houston debates. but she's also recognizing that the longer this primary contest goes on and the more it remains divisive and we've got 20 or 22 or 24, how many more candidates, the more that helps re-elect donald trump, the vast majority of democra

"outfront" tonight, democratic senator chris coons sits on the foreign relations committee. thank you for taking the time tonight. as you know, this is the president's third g-7 summit and clearly the u.s. remains at odds with its closest allies on virtually all of the country's major national security issues. you look at a china trade war, russia and the g-7, the iran nuclear deal, climate change. i want to ask you, is there any value to this summit for the u.s. or its allies under those conditions and those differences? >> well, jim, what was clearly problematic for our closest allies was they're trying to figure out how to work together around donald trump's erratic style. and as a visual metaphor for the ways in which donald trump and the trump administration are missing in action on the world stage, that image of the empty seat assigned to the united states at a gathering of world leaders to confront climate change and in particular, the crisis of the fires in the amazon is a tragically perfect metaph metaphor. i think president macron did a significant positive service

kaine, tim kaine, todd john-there are a couple of other cosponsors, senator mike lee and senator chris coonsave also signed on to that bill. >> that's helpful. i wanted to get to a couple of matters that were raised recently at a senate foreign relations hearing a couple weeks ago today actually led by chairman risch. there were a couple of points that i took note of from the acting legal advisor testimony, namely, the applicability of the 2001 aumf to iran. in his estimation it did not apply to date. that was an interesting caveat. likewise, a reassertion of certain administration consistencies about what would entail the in to a 2001 aumf, namely, a new aumf that would be a replacement that would come before repeal, as i understood it, and would not place any geographic or temporal boundaries on the commander-in-chief's latitude moving forward. i would if we can touch on those points and then maybe focus on what the future reform efforts might look like but i wanted to reply to this committee hearing in particular, namely the matter of whether or not the 2001 could apply some point in the

i also think that a bill with chris coons -- this is just about enforcing these laws better.mebody attempts to buy a firearm who has no legal ability to do so, saved by virtue of a prior felony conviction, that attempt is in itself usually a new crime, and it's a new crime that is almost never prosecuted. >> sandra: in addition to the red flag laws -- >> and the background checks. >> sandra: senator lindsey graham is also working on a bipartisan plan. how do you all of these recommendations as you're putting it, how did they all come together? everybody is proposing different changes to the gun laws, so what do you do as a party, how do you come to gather on this to enact change? >> so they are our processes by which we try to take these different ideas in this piece of legislation. i think that senator graham has recently indicated that as chairman of the judiciary committee, he intends to really examine and advance a proposal on the red flag laws. he has indicated to me that he is interested in pursuing the legislation that chris coons and i have introduced together, and wi

i also think my bill with chris coons which would require the fbi to notify states when someone attemptsy a firearm who is not legally entitled to by virtue of past criminal record and that is legislation that could pass. and my hope is that we can include in that broadening the background checks because i think we should have background checks for commercial sales. >> why do you think so many of your republican senate colleagues are so reluctant to support even a modest measure like this who -- that is supported by two people who before you supported this bill in 2013, you and senator manchin, i think you both had a's from the nra -- >> we did. >> because you're afraid of losing -- not you, but are they afraid of losing an election? are they afraid of the heat? you and manchin have shown you could support something like this and get re-elected. what is holding them back? >> yeah, you can get re-elected. there is a lot of heat. i assure you as well. there are a lot of folks concerned about a slippery slope. whereby first it is extending background checks and later something else that --

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one that i introduced with chris coons from delaware, which is simply about better enforcement of ourws. it's against the law for someone who has a prior felony criminal conviction to lie about that conviction and apply for a gun purchase, but yet, that happens every day across america, and they are almost never prosecuted. chris and i have a bill that would simply require the fbi when they discover that someone has lied about their criminal history in order to try to get a gun illegally, when that happens, we would require the fbi to notify the states in which the person resides so that the state law enforcement could decide whether they want to prosecute this person. if you think about it, the example we're talking about is a convicted criminal who's lying about his past on an application to buy a gun, maybe we want to keep an eye on that person. neil: the nra is even against that. the nra is even against giving a heads up, family members or friends of those who are acting strangely and pursuing that. so obviously many in your party will have to have some sort of break with the nra,

across oklahoma and discussed charitable giving in a bipartisan lift for charities act with senator chris coonsit would repeal section of the twentysomething tax code that requires nonprofits and churches to pay federal taxes and play benefits like parking spots. congress returns on september 9. >> tonight on "the communicators", daniel castro vice president at the information technology and innovation foundation on data privacy and if enough is being done to protect americans from harm. >> one thing we could do is we could make it so that it's illegal to use social security numbers for identification and verification purposes outside of social security. this is something the social security numbers were never intended to do. for a long front it even says on the card this is not for identification purpose. they stopped printing that. that something that could be done, something that could be requirement that no bank could open an account using a social scooting number. you have to prove your identity to other means. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at eight eastern on c-span2. >> weeknights

senator chris coons was on fox earlier today and said this. >> we need to find ways to legislate togetheron taking real stops on background checks will be critical. both the governor of ohio, mike dewine, the congressman from dayton, mike turner, and the republican senator from oh ohio, rob portman, have no steps forward, calling for more decisive action. there is more legislation that we can take. >> sandra: believes the big question, still, what can be done? does the question need to be political to keep the guns out of the hands of people like the killers in ohio and texas last weekend. >> i think the president is taking the right approach, that there is no single thing that can be done. we have to do and all of the above. the president has already taken strong action to close these loopholes, and more may need to be done. he is willing to have that conversation, but when you add a red flag laws, and other things like the president has done, like banning bum stocks, we can work together on this, but the mental health that has to be part of this discussion. we have to get out of this pa