guest: the effort was organized by chris murphy from connecticut who many people might recognize as a strong voice on the gun control issue, especially since hook,12 shooting in sandy which was in his home state that spurred his interest in the issue. he put together the list of people who spoke last night and -- patonse, basically -- and rightso now, senators are in a waiting game. mitch mcconnell has said he would not put anything on the floor that the president has not .aid he would sign that means right now everyone is waiting and as part of waiting, these democrats last night decided they needed to raise the issue on a louder scale and speak about the impact of gun violence on their communities, fears their communities are experiencing and also proposing solutions. they were talking about potential legislative fixes. host: what do the democratic senators, which piece of legislation do they want majority leader mcconnell to bring to the floor? differentre are a few variations. senate minority leader chuck schumer spoke with trump over the weekend along with nancy pelosi and urged

senator chris murphy says zelensky was concerned that the money was for not investigating the bidens. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. >> trump did not specify what biden said or did. >> it's regrettable that house intelligence committee schiff. >> i would like to have the whistleblower come and talk to me so we know what the story is. >> i believe that president trump will blow you away with his willingness to disclose and be transparent about this phone call because i think he did nothing wrong. >> i don't think he should have done it. we don't know what is fact. >> house democrats will discuss the investigation in a members-only meeting this afternoon. it's reaching a tipping point, as the investigation blocks the release over the ukraine call. 139 democrats are in favor of an impeachment probe. during a flight from new york to washington, nancy pelosi read an op- op-ed. >> the speaker sharpened her rhetoric over the weekend. she is

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i know there have been conversations, chris murphy has talked to the president even. so there is a package that's being discussed. but is this going to be any different? >> you couldn't feel the fierce and urgency there? i almost fell asleep during that interview. there was not a -- it's not news that republicans have never felt a sense of urgency about passing gun control legislation. but what stands out about this instance, at least from our reporting is that they're not dismissive of it. if you're a gun control advocate that's a victory in some respects. remember, there was a moment a

senator chris murphy of connecticut is here. he's calling for impeachment now.n "andrea mitchell reports." >> i don't know how i live in a country, i help lead a country that allows a president of the united states to openly admit to this kind of corruption and get away with it. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that's why we're working on ways to improve it. so plants... can be a little more... like plants. ♪ big dreams start with small steps... ♪ ...but dedication can get you there. easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. chase. make more of what's yours®. >>> democratic senator chris murphy is a leading member of the foreign relations committee who met with the president of you ukraine earlier this month. he is now calling on the house to begin an impeachment inquiry into president trump. in a statement murphy, former house member, writes to use amer

and chris murphy who i've been dealing with on guns, so nice. he's always, no, we want to work it out, we want to work it out. but they're too busy wasting their time on the witch hunt. so senator chris murphy, literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have democrat support in congress. so you can look all of this up. one other thing, i'm just going off certain notes and elements of what we've been doing over the last three days. but this just came up a few minutes ago. >> we hate to do this really. but the president isn't telling the truth. these allegations against joe biden and hunter biden that he's repeating have been investigated by the ukrainians, none other than the "wall street journal" included in their report on friday that the ukrainians view this issue as having been investigated and adjudicated. what's amazing is that what trump appears to be trying to do is to turn his own impeachment into a big deflection. >> yeah. he's trying to change the story. first of all the question on the

that. >> won't have democrat support in congress. >> senator chris murphy sits on the foreign relations me now. senator murphy, the idea that you literally threatened the president of ukraine, how do you respond? >> yeah, well, it's typical standard fare for the president that when he is backed into a corner, he starts making things up. i did meet with president zelensky. i was there with republican ron johnson of wisconsin. this was about three weeks ago before we had the transcript of the phone call in which the president is trying to pressure zelensky personally to intervene in the 2020 election. when i was with zelensky three weeks ago, what i knew was that rudy giuliani and perhaps others in and around the trump campaign were pressuring zelensky and his team to start trying to go through an effort to destroy the president's political opponents. what i told zelensky was pretty simple. it was common sense. i said listen, don't get involved in the 2020 election. when you're dealing with the united states of america, deal with the state department. talk to our ambassador. don't talk to

the presidency to try to do something to smear me. >> and joining me now is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, who actually recently met with president zielinski in ukraine. senator murphy, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning. >> so tell me what your conversation was like with the president, because i believe you met with him before the aid was released. and it was during this time that the aid passed by congress but for some reason was being held up by the administration. you were -- tell me, was this meeting in kiev, and what were the circumstanced? >> i went because i had heard the concerns from my friends there, that the government and zielinski was worried about theovertures he was getting in particular from rudy giuliani. he didn't understand whether this was an official government position, these requests to investigate the former environment. so i went there to make it clear to him that the worst thing he could do for the u.s./ukraine relationship was to get involved in an election here in the united states. i will say, it was interesting to me that he dis

sarah westwood, the lawmakers weighing in on this particularly, senator chris murphy, he called it anrresponsible simplification and it's how we get into dumb wars. referring to secretary of state pompeo's tweet. what is the president saying about this criticism? >> reporter: well, president trump saying that his administration will continue to provide stability to the world oil market. energy secretary rick perry also has been briefed on this saying the u.s. stands ready to use its reserve supply of petroleum if need it to be to stabilize the global economy in the event that all of this energy, all of this oil resources that saudi arabia has, has been knocked out by these missiles. we saw the stock market take a little bit of a dive. we have seen the markets react to the news that all of this oil has been taken out. but asbestos nick mentioned there has been a mixed reaction from lawmakers about the trump administration's aggressive and very own immediate response to point the fingers at the houthi rebels in yemen. you mentioned senator chris murphy, a democrat, one of those calling

connecticut democratic senator chris murphy joins me now.n on the phone with the president just now. >> just got off the phone from 40 minutes worth of talks with the president and his advisers. >> 40 minutes? >> myself, senator manchin and senator toomey and, you know, i can say that it's good news that the president is still personally engaged on the question of expanding background checks. the bad news is we don't have an agreement and i think it is another day or two until we know whether the white house really does want to come to the table and expand background checks. at least all commercial sales, sales done at gun shows and online, obviously i want universal background checks and make sure every gun sold in this country comes with a check. >> what is your bottom line on background checks? >> i think commercial sales which represent all of these sales done at gun shows, many sales online, would be an important development. if we can get republicans and democrats on record to come with a background check that's an important -- >> not

does that sound familiar doesn't it sound familiar and chris murphy who i've been dealing with on guns in are so nice and so is oh no we want to work it out we want to work it out but they're too busy wasting their time on on the witch hunt so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine. that if he does do things right they won't have democrat support in congress are you going to look at all of this. one other thing i'm just going off certain. notes in. elements of what we've been doing over the last 3 days but this just came up few minutes ago the amazon washington post just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire who i've gotten to know and he's a tough cookie and i was surprised i was shocked to hear this was going to quit blaming the white house for something that they would let him talk openly freely and i was shocked because i know joe is a tough tough guy and i was really surprised to hear he was going to quit before i could even either talk to him or talk to anybody else he put out a statement i didn't speak to

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and chris murphy dealing with on guns, so nice, oh, no, we want to work it out. we want to work it out. but they're too busy wasting their time on the witch hunt. so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right they won't have democrat support in congress. so you can look all of this up. one other thing, i'm just going off certain notes and elements of what we've been doing over the last three days, but this just came up a few minutes ago, the amazon washington post just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire who i've gotten to know and he's a tough cookie and i was surprised, i was shocked to hear this, was going to quit. blaming the white house for something that they wouldn't let him talk openly, freely. and i was shocked because i know joe and he's tough. tough guy. and i was really surprised to hear he was going to quit before i could even either talk to him or talk to anybody else. he put out a statement, i didn't speak to joe yet, but he said at no time ha

chris murphy who i've been dealing with handguns, you know, so nice. we want to work it out. we want to work it out. they are so busy wasting their time on the witch hunt. senator chris murphy literally threatened a the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have democrats support in congress. you know, you're going to look all of this up. one other thing, just going off certain notes and elements of what we been doing over the last three days but this just came up a few minutes ago. the amazon "washington post" just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire, who i have gotten to know and he's a tough cookie and i was surprised. i was shocked to hear this. was going to quit. blaming the white house for something that they wouldn't let him talk openly, freely. i was shocked because i know joe and he's tough. tough guy. i was really surprised to hear he was going to quit. before i could even talk to him or talk to anybody else, he put out a statement. i didn't speak to joe yet. but he said at no time have i

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members who tried to negotiate this, chris murphy has been saying there is hope for a deal with republicans. they could be something on the smaller scale. perhaps there is an ability to --ow states more access from from background checks. the states that run the own checks are not getting that from the in syria system. they will be in -- an attempt to address that. -- you tweeted this that house democrats were told on a call that the usmca talks are still going. no time for a vote. is that a top priority for leadership, republicans and democrats in the house and senate? >> that trump administration wanted it voted in done in the summer. that did not happen. were exchanging some kind of negotiations. it did not go quite as expected, it was much slower than it had been hoped. there are four main issues, labor, environment, enforcement divisions and drug patent protection. those are outstanding and richard neal told house democrats that he is waiting to lighthizer, the u.s. trade representative come back with full written counterproposals for the democratic demand. that may be delivered in the

joined now by democratic senator chris murphy.t do you make of all this, scepter in. >> i think you are exposing a conflict that is in inherent in intelligence gathering. the most important intelligence often ultimately does need to be made public in a way that allows for public policy makers to be able to make decisions. and so in this case it may be that this intelligence about the ways in which russia affected the 2016 election was so important that it ultimately did have to be disclosed in order to move the public and policy makers to action. that is something that happens often. and often leads to intelligence sources having to be withdrawn or channels shutdown. but i also think it stands to reason that the president's loose lips about intelligence likely chills our ability to gather this intel abroad as well. and what the president has a problem with is not human intelligence, it's just any intelligence that contradicts what he wants to believe. and so it especially puts in jeopardy those that are collecting intelligence abr

i have been proud to stand with my colleague, chris murphy, in our partnership as a team that harought together so many of our colleagues who are speaking tonight. the only question before us now is how long will it take? how many more children and lives will be lost? how many more communities have to be added to that dreaded list of mass shootings? how many more suicides, including veteran suicides? 20 every day. not all from gun violence, but many of them due to firearms. how many more grieving families? how many more lives lost needlessly and senselessly? i thank my colleagues for being here tonight. we all hope the answer is fewer. we all hope that lives will be saved, as many lives as possible as quickly as possible, and that is why i have been willing to engage in discussions with the white house as well as my colleagues, along with my colleague chris murphy and others who are here, senator manchin and senator toomey. that is why we have spared no effort and left no stone unturned. how many more days will go by before we fulfill our duty? the answer really should be none , and we

at the same time, while this is going on -- and chris murphy i see as the linchpin to this. obviously joe manchin is from a conservative state, but for chris murphy, it's deeply personal frame. the fact that he is involved and has worked with senator toomey is wonderful, on this. i'm concerned about the nra on this. i was glad to see governor abbott -- >> melissa: but they are weak right now. >> jessica: they are getting weaker. the but after the shootings we often have a conversation that goes away. after las vegas president trump wanted to raise the age that you can get bumped socks. suddenly -- >> melissa: it doesn't feel like it's going away. >> jessica: i've been accused of being a pollyanna before, but i'm the most hopeful that i have been and i think when the states continue to be affected and when walgreens and that kroger and wegmans lead to, you see they will fill that moral void congress is leaving. >> lisa: we also don't want empty symbolism. i think that's what we're seeing from walmart and walgreens. does anyone think that banning open carry in these businesses

thanks for helping us understand it in advance tonight. >> thank you. >> joining us now is senator chris murphyconnecticut, sits on the foreign relations committee. i wanted to speak with senator murphy because he met with the ukrainian president and visited with ukrainian government officials in ukraine and has some unique insight here. senator, thank you for making time to be with us tonight. >> thanks a lot. >> tell us where you're at right now on this story, given your sort of unique subject matter expertise in this area and what has unfolded over the course of this last 48 hours. what do you make of this moment that we are in? >> well, way back in the spring i started to hear these concerns raised to me by my ukrainian contacts that the trump administration through rudy giuliani and perhaps others were engaged in a pretty substantial pressure campaign to get the new president to turn his administration into a vehicle for the president's political advancement in an attempt to try to destroy the president's political opponents. and so i think what we've seen in this transcript this morning i

chris murphy says this is about a specific conflict in the region. this was the senator's tweet saying this was simplification and this is how we get into dumb wars of choice. the saudis say they are ready and able to protect their property. our cameras captured president trump after he returned to the white house after spending the day at his golf club in virginia. members of congress called for the inspector general report to be made public. >> fbi agents and justice department officials have a right to their own political beliefs but they can't act on them. if somebody in the 2016 campaign did and tried to hurt president trump or hurt secretary clinton, the american people need to know. they need to be dismissed from the justice department and the fbi. reporter: president trump will be heading to new mexico monday for a campaign rally and making other stops out in california. rick: we'll have more on that fisa abuse throughout the hour. the president ising hosting a continue -- is hosting a dinner with the parents of otto warmbier. he was held cap

democrats met with him, i think it was senator chris murphy and others. can you give me your take on that? >> yes, the president is echoing something guilliani said on "fox news" last night. he said that the democrats or chris murphy who met with zelensky should be impeached. senator chris murphy met with zelensky and was joined by a republican, senator ron johnson. the president is leaving out the fact that a republican was part of the meeting because, kate, ukraine has been an issue where there's been bipartisan support in terms of russian aggression. in responding to jamil's point, we provided assistance to ukraine after russia invaded crimea and started the conflict in eastern ukraine. president trump likes to spin the fact obama didn't provide military assistance. he said yesterday obama provided blankets and pillows. we provided significant assistance to ukraine, just not lethal assistance as president trump has done up until now. >> so much and more. great to see you. kaitlan, this all -- exactly what sam is talking about. >> wow, yes. >> leads me

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connecticut democratic senator chris murphy and wisconsin g.o.p.enator ron johnson met ntf with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. he was baffled as to why the trump administration put a hold on $391 million in military aid and wanted to reach a resolution to keep the money flowing. he also conceded that he and a zelensky did not talk in depth and the ukrainian president never brought up anything about a request from president trump. on september 20th, last friday, the whistle-blower story went public and on monday senator murphy's narrative about his meeting with zelensky changed with murphy saying the entire new ukrainian administration was concerned that the aid that was being cut off the president was a consequence for their unwillingness at the time to investigate the bidens. the conservative free beacon and others when murphy said the entire administration, he meant present zelensky as well but now murphy says his comments were "unclear." he's adjusting his statement to clarify that president zelensky never drew a connection between the

and chris murphy, so nice and we want to work it out, but they are too busy wasting time on the witch hunt. so senator chris murphy literally threatened the resident of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have democrat support in congress. you have to look all of this p. one other thing, i'm just going off certain notes and elements of what we have been doing over the last three days. but this just came a few minutes ago. the amazon-"washington post" just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire, who i have gotten to know and he is a tough cookie, was going to uit, blaming the white house for something that they wouldn't let him talk openly and freely. and i was shocked because i know joe and he's tough, tough guy and i was surprised he was going to quit before i could even talk to him or talk to anybody else. he put out a statement. i didn't speak to joe yet. he said at no time have i considered resigning my position. in other words, the story in the "washington post" was a fake. at no time have i considered resigning my p

senator chris murphy says zelensky was concerned that the money was for not investigating the bidens. monday, the president kept it up, accusing the vice president and his son, hunter, of wrongdoing, without offering any proof. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. >> trump did not specify what biden said or did. senate republicans, meanwhile, offering a variety of responses. >> it's regrettable that house intelligence committee schiff and schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. >> i would like to have the whistleblower come and talk to me so we know what the story is. >> i believe that president trump will blow you away with his willingness to disclose and be transparent about this phone call because i think he did nothing wrong and he has nothing to hide. >> i don't think he should have done it. but that's a far cry from what people are claiming is fact, that we don't know is fact. >> house democrats will discuss the investigation in

and i was pleased also with my colleague chris murphy to introduce a safe storage law, named after ethan of guilford, connecticut, who was killed while playing with a weapon in his friend's home. this legislation would enact federal requirements for safe storage, penalties for violators and a grant program to help states establish their own safe storage law. the secure firearms storage act would require firearms, importers, manufacturers and dealers to safely store their entries and as well as individual gun owners to use standards that in fact have been endorsed by the n.r.a. safely securing firearms prevents theft and unintended use of lawfully acquired and possessed owned guns. in 2016 alone, 238,000 firearms were reported stolen in the united states. these kinds of laws are championed by michael and christen song because they know these laws work. their child, their young son was accidentally killed by a gun stored in a friend's closet, accessible to those two teens without any impediment. and in many cases, including sandy hook, safe gun storage could have prevented mountains of gri

september 5th, connecticut democratic senator chris murphy and wisconsin g.o.p. nator ron johnson met him he had with ukrainian president vladimir zelinski. on september 11th, senator murphy was back in the u.s. and brief report is about meeting saying that president zelensky was baffled as to why the trump administration put a hold on $391 million in military aid and wanted to reach a resolution to keep the money flowing. murphy also conceded that he and zelinski did not talk in depth in the ukrainian president never brought up anything about a request fromut president trump. on september 20th, last friday,, the whistle-blower story went public and on monday, senator murphy's narrative about his meeting with zelinski changed. withth murphy saying the entire new ukrainian of an administration concerned, "that the aid that was being cut off to ukraine by the president as a consequence for theirun unwillingness, at the time, to investigate the biden burlesque." the conservative free beacon others assumed what murphy said the entire administration he meant president

there need to be more european buy-ins to this but there are some of your colleagues, senator chris murphy, democrat who has met with president zelinski who think the timing is questionable. here's what he said. >> as soon as we sat down at the table at the presidential palace he asked us what was going on with aid, why was it being withheld. pressure was mounting on the president from republicans but obviously the timing of this looks really terrible. >> we are to the place where this is being used as potential addition to launching formal impeachment inquiry on the house side. chuck schumer said tonight after he viewed the whistleblower complaint in a secure setting i'm even more worried than when i read the memorandum of the conversation. very troubling. where are you in the conversation of impeachment and the strategist who said there would be gop senators who would vote? >> i don't see the quid pro quo democrats are claiming. i actually believe speaker pelosi and the democrats had taken another 24 hours to make their decision and look at the facts which is the transcript itself they m

then chris murphy is like, well, i've got to get into the details. background checks? >> amy klobuchar has been struggling in the polls. on a blue wall trip right now. amy klobuchar says she could flip them back. >> i think it's really important that we make the case to them in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin and all over this country that he's not keeping his promises to them and he is not keeping the promises to make their lives better by doing things like increasing the minimum wage or making it easier to get child care. >> it's an interesting play but iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina come before them, right? >> this is clearly klobuchar's pitch to voters that she is the one who can win back those states. we saw a different candidate try that approach kristin gillibrand before she dropped out. >> brianna keilar starts right now. have a good afternoon. ♪ >>> live from cnn's washington headquarters, underway right now the drum beat grows louder after the saudis present evidence they say links iran to the oil attacks and president trump

chris murphy joins us now from capitol hill. thank you very much. we wanted to talk to you because you met with out crathe ukrania president and you specifically spoke to him about matters of corruption. what did he tell you? >> i went to ukraine because i was hearing from my friends in ukraine that president zalensky was very confused about what to do with these overtures from the trump political operative, rudy giuliani, and whether it was connected to official american policy. so i went to ukraine with senator ron johnson, a republican. i raised with the president this issue and said the worst thing for ukraine would be for them to have any perception of interfering in an american election, doing the bidding of the president's political operation. the president did assure me that was not their intent, nor did they have any plans to be involved in an american election. but he also raised concerns at that same meeting about this aide being suspended, and he wanted to know why that was. and, of course, there was no way for people in ukraine to not d

guest: the effort was organized by chris murphy from connecticut who many people might recognize as atrong voice on the gun control issue, especially since hook,12 shooting in sandy which was in his home state that spurred his interest in the issue. he put together the list of people who spoke last night and -- patonse, basically -- and rightso now, senators are in a waiting game. mitch mcconnell has said he would not put anything on the floor that the president has not .aid he would sign that means right now everyone is waiting and as part of waiting, these democrats last night decided they needed to raise the issue on a louder scale and speak about the impact of gun violence on their communities, fears their communities are experiencing and also proposing solutions. they were talking about potential legislative fixes. host: what do the democratic senators, which piece of legislation do they want majority leader mcconnell to bring to the floor? differentre are a few variations. senate minority leader chuck schumer spoke with trump over the weekend along with nancy pelosi and urged th

guns because we are beginning to hear from lindsey graham and after the interview we had with chris murphynversations with the white house, there seems to be some cement cracking around the opposition to background checks. let me play a little bit of lindsey graham just moments ago out in the hallway. >> i don't know how you get around the idea that a man who was adjudicated mentally ill was denied a gun purchase when he went to a gun store, wound up buying a gun from a man who sells guns on the side, and there's no background check. >> [ inaudible question ] >> yes. >> the answer yes to whether his position on toomey mansion is beginning to shift. jeff? >> yeah, and i think andrea he was talking about the odessa shooter because if i have it right, that's how the odessa gunman got that gun. so, yes, the you sissue here is expanded federal background checks, failed to pass the senate twice. the reason why you have these senators pointing to the white house and saying it's president trump who has to give us cover is because you have roughly, i think 29 senators here in 2013, republicans who

the conversation that president zelinski had with senator chris murphy of connecticut will come into this because chris murphy of connecticut said don't do what the president asked each of you and president zelinski said, don't worry, we are going to do it. >> shepard: often it's difficult to see the forest from the trees. how big of a day is this? we know about that when we hear from mrs. pelosi and just a little bit. >> shepard: i just got information that mrs. pelosi is in conference at the moment behind closed doors with adam schiff, chairman of the intelligence committee and jerry nadler who would be overseeing matters of this sort through chairmanship of the judiciary committee. they are behind closed doors discussing future actions at 5:00 this afternoon. we are expecting some sort of announcement from speaker pelosi after she meets with the full leadership caucus at the top of the 4:00 hour. the next two hours are important for all of us. judge, very good of you, thank you. a lot of history and historic news. any moment we are expecting to hear from joe biden. he was schedule

the white house has been talking to a trio of lawmakers: democrats chris murphy and joe manchin, and republican pat toomey. they all support tougher background checks. >> we have to have meaningful baground chntmahootings inidaten and el paso, president trump called forllation >> i amin meangful-- add that word-- meaningful background checks. >> reporter: but mr. trump never defined what "meaningful" means and quickly backed off after talking to the national rifle association. since then the president has called mass shootings a mental health issue and criticized what he sees an overzealous democrats. >> democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens. >> reporter: beto o'rourke reinforced the president's argument at this week's debate. >> hell, yes, we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. we're not going to allow it to be used against americans anymore. >> reporter: some of his fellow democrats now fear o'rourke's words will be used against their efforts to paz new gun laws. >> i, frankly, think that that clip will be played for years at second amendment rallies with

and chris murphy who i've been dealing with on guns in are so nice and so is oh no we want to work it out we want to work it out but they're too busy wasting their time on on the witch hunt so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he does do things right they want have democrat support in congress are you going to look at all of this. one other thing i'm just going off certain. notes in. elements of what we've been doing over the last 3 days but this just came up few minutes ago the amazon washington post just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire who i've gotten to know and he's a tough cookie and i was surprised i was shocked to hear this was going to quit blaming the white house for something that they would let him talk openly freely and i was shocked because i know joe is a tough tough guy and i was really surprised to hear he was going to quit before it could even. be the talk him or talk to anybody else he put out a statement i didn't speak to joe yet. but he said at no time have i considered res

some of your colleagues, senator chris murphy, democrat who has met with the president zelensky, who says he thinks the timing is questionable. here's what he said. >> as soon as we sat down at the table in the presidential palace, he asked us what was going on with the aid, why was it being withheld. there are likely a bunch of different explanations, the political map pressure was mounting on the president from republicans, but obviously the timing of this looks really terrible. >> shannon: so now we are to the place where this is being used as a potential addition to launching formal impeachment inquiry on the house side. senate minority leader chuck schumer said tonight after he viewed the whistle-blower complaint in a secure setting, he said i'm even more worried about what happened then when i read the memorandum as a conversation, it's very troubling. where are you on this conversation if impeachment? you saw the one g.o.p. strategist there who said there would be g.o.p. senators who would vote. >> i don't see the quid pro quo that the democrats are claiming. in fact, i actual

floor and has been one of the senators who stalled talks with the white house over gun control, chris murphy what do you hope to accomplish tonight? >> listen, we're using every lever that we have to try to shame our republican colleagues into doing something on an issue that is frankly not controversial anywhere but inside the united states congress, right? background checks is supported by 90% of americans, 80% of gun owners, 70% of nra members think that you should get a background check to prove that you're not a dangerous criminal before you buy a gun. and so, you know, by being on the floor tonight, i think we're speaking to a lot of our republican colleagues who maybe for a long time have known what the right thing to do was, but didn't think that they would the police space from the gun lobby to do it. i have a lot of my republican colleagues over the last week or so who have come to me and said, you know what, if president trump ends up supporting something on universal background checks or expanded background checks, i think i might be able to vote for it this time. now, i wish the

i need a cell phone to stay in touch with my mom >> joining me connecticut democratic senator chris murphyor, that ad is difficult. you are working on legislation with a couple of your colleagues you have been in touch with the white house. what's happening >> reporter: that's the first time i've seen that ad you know every single parent that send their kids off to school knowing if kids today are often fearing for their lives know something's got to change let me try to compose myself after watching that, katy. we had a chance to do something here because of this movement and all these parents and these kids all around the country who have stood up and said enough is enough we foipally have the white house starting to -- we finally have the white house to starting to move closer to background checks and covering gun sales in this country. we're not close to there yet as reported, the white house is circulating new language today and the fact that we have still talking is good news, i don't know if we will get there, but our movement to command this country to action is stronger than ever

and chris murphy, who i have been dealing with on guns, so nice, oh, no, we want to work it out, we wanto work it out, but they're too busy wasting their time on the witch-hunt. so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right they won't have democrat support in congress. so you will look all of this up. one other thing, just going off certain notes and element of what we've been doing over the last three days but this just came up a few minutes ago. the amazon "washington post" just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph act aguirre, i gotten know, was going to quit, blaming the white house for something that they wouldn't let him talk openly, freely. i was shocked because i know joe. he is tough. tough guy. i was really surprised to hear he was going to quit before i could even either talk to him or talk to anybody else. he put out a statement. i didn't speak to joe yet but he said at no time have i considered resigning my position. in other words the story in "the washington post" was a fake.

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