mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the democrat leader, no later than thursday, september 26, the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 102, s. 1340. i further ask that the lee amendment, numbered 935, be the only amendment in order, that there be two hours of debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees, followed by a vote on adoption of the lee amendment with a 60-vote affirmative threshold for adoption. finally, following disposition of the lee amendment, the committee substitute, as amended, if amended, be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time, and the senate vote on the passage of the bill as amended with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn to then convene for pro forma sessions only with no busin

you use 70 something like right i am and so is donald trump so joe biden and bernie sanders and mr mcconnell. is there were a generational shift in american policy by the with a wall over 70 you look the best oh great well that's terrific. i'm actually tied i'm tied with mr trump for being the youngest of those efforts. do you do we have a generational shift in american politics sure i mean i can't get enough a talking to pete but a judge by the way he's a real long cool drink of water he's 37 years old. and you know he's a very impressive guy very very smart guy and measured old beyond his years but it's wonderful having people like him involved involved in the mix at the same time i don't think i would you know kick everyone over 70 out of out of the mix you know 70 is it may not be the new 50 but it's the new 60 and people wouldn't have thought twice about 60 in the old days to let so little bit about bringing up the tech giants many believe that that should happen and you're a lawyer a former hill staffer a former government you know how the government works how could government break up

mr. mcconnell to act. debbie didn' -- debbie. debbie: thank you for your leadership and for holding this today. 10 days ago, the weekend that is the most recent episode, we have now seen 253 mass shootings. it was dearborn homecoming. in the city that i live in. it's a three day festival. friday night, before the shooting, i served beer in the beer tent. all three nights. people knew where to find me. a mother came and grabbed my hand and would not let it go. she said to me, "my daughter is starting kindergarten this fall. she is five years old. i have to decide about whether i buy her the backpack that she wants or a bulletproof backpack." her daughter is on the autistic scale. to me, "she will never stay quiet in a closet. i'm scared to death. you have to do something. you have to do something." on sunday after the shooting, i was in the access tent. it's an arab american organization in my hometown. little kids know me. they know me as mr. -- ms. debbie. they said to me, why do people hate us? are we safe? our children are goi

mr. mcconnell to act. you for your leadership. thank you for holding this today. weekend that is the most recent, we've seen 253 mass shootings. it was dearborn homecoming. it's a three day festival. friday night, before the shooting, i served beer in the beer tent. a mother came and grabbed my hand and would not let it go. daughter isme, my starting kindergarten this fall. she is five years old. about whether i buy her the backpack that she wants or a bulletproof backpack. her daughter is on the autistic scale. she will never stay quiet in a closet. i'm scared to death. you have to do something. you have to do something. shooting, iter the was in the access tent. americanrab organization. little kids know me. they said to me, why do people hate us? are we safe? our children are going back to school in a couple of weeks. some before labor day, some after. i should be answering questions of mothers of kindergartners or the children themselves about whether they are safe or if they are hated. we've got to stop this partisan bickering. can't -- he was one of the foun

mr. mcconnell talking as if he will do something, he has every election next year. he is afraid. we want them afraid of the people voting against them if they do not have gun safety legislation. whether it is kentucky or other places that have to take notice because people are fed up. they are fed up enough that they may withhold votes or vote democrats. if you have a child like i do, you think about the fact your child is going to school every day, and they are less safe than they should be. people are copycats of mass shooters going into schools to make a statement. or people going into shopping malls or walmart. the only way to keep our family safer, no matter where you live, is to pass commonsense gun safety legislation. republicans are starting to feel the heat from people who have had enough of this. a lot of racism found in police forces. -- how do you change the culture in some police department? castro: whether it is customs and border patrol or police departments across united states, we see an epidemic of racism and white supremacy. the report you are talking about and

mr. mcconnell and i am asking to help the american people to move forward. he is doing everything in his power to block it. i asked him, humbly, to move away from the door. >> before he got on a said a lot very much , --appening >> i think we really need to be when listening to talk about what they're going to do. let me be clear. have a lot of talk but in the end, nothing happens. hook, ier after sandy joined with the congressman of republican, to get some meaningful legislation back. after sandy hook. nothing happened. the question is either you do it or you don't. isaac would play a little game here -- i think we play a little game here. when i was a kid, you shuffle things and put them under stuff. i think what is happening is the republicans, listen to me carefully, they make all of these glorious statements, they will make a lot of statements love gun safety but i guarantee you, people want action. the people simply want action. they will makedo glorious statements and they will know they can make these statements without any figure thens in the presid

mr. mcconnell, the senator may have opinions that they disagree with.dy getting killed as a result of it. and that's to change the larger environment that we are in here which can trigger all kinds of thoughts and people aren't very strong minded. >> laura: the internet inflames all the worst, people who are isolated and lonely. it's devastating isolation in the world of connectivity. but what happened over the last 24 hours since the president did exactly what they said, you are not welcome in el paso. implicitly threatening the vis visit. they are trying to stop him from going to chicago. this is where we are. >> they can't give us a commencement, and stuck in the rose garden. it was a time when john f. kennedy, there was a time when ted kennedy could work with orrin hatch and they didn't hate each other, they liked each other and gave each of their personal advice. we did have to get to the point where we could disagree with someone. i bet i disagree with dennis and you disagree with me on almost every big issue. but we like each other and kind of th

mr. mcconnell. am asking him to allow the many phenomenal people of the legislation that we have passed in the house to help the american people move forward. that he opens the door. right now, he is blocking and doing everything in his power to do that. i asked him humbly to move away from the door. jeff: do you think the president could move the along? before you got on the helicopter, he very much said that he thinks there is a lot of momentum happening, converging around a background check legislation making it to his desk. rep. cummings: i am so glad you asked that question. i think we really need to be careful when listening to politicians talk about what they gon' do. [laughter] rep. cummings: let me be clear. you have a lot of talk. end, in the end, nothing happens. hook, ier after sandy riegelwith congressman of virginia, a republican, to try to get some meaningful legislation passed after sandy hook. remember that? and nothing happened. i think the question has to always be the bottom line

mr. mcconnell. and i am asking him to allow the many phenomenal pieces of legislation that we have passed in the house to help the american people move forward. that he opens the door. right now, right now he is blocking and doing everything in his power to do that. , to movek him, humbly away from the door. >> do you think the president could move that along? before he got on the helicopter, he very much said -- whether you believe him or not is a different discussion, but he very much said that he thinks there is a lot of momentum emerging around background check legislation actually making it to his desk. i'm so glad you asked that question. i think we really need to be careful when listening to politicians talking about what they going to do. [laughter] let me be clear, you have a lot of talk. talk, talk.talk, but in the end, in the end, nothing happens. iremember after sandy hook joined with congressman riegle of virginia, a republican, to try to get some meaningful legislation passed. after sa

mr. mcconnell, the senator may have opinions that they disagret toning down rhetoric. it is dangerous.s you said, somebody is going to get hurt. people are already getting killed as a result of it.it isng the blame on individuals as it is changing the larger environment that we're in here which can trigger all kinds of thoughts and people aren't very strong minded. >> laura: the t internet inflames all the worst, people who are isolated, lonely.we wilt segment with ramond. it's devastating isolation in the world of connectivity.which. but what happened over the last 24 hours since the president did exactly what they said.you must. you have to act presidential. he's going to go to el paso. you are not welcome in el paso. implicitly threatening the visit.sothey want to stop him fm campaigning. i'm telling people that tonight. they're trying to stop him from going to oakland or chicago or san jose. this is where we are.er >> this is what they did at the college, he can't give a commencement, he's stuck in the rose garden. it was a time when john f. kennedy, there was a time when ted kenne

mr. mcconnell is serious at all, we'll be there to move forward. it's just hard to imagine him doing anything when there's been inactivity and cynicism to say the least. disaster after disaster. and as you just mentioned in my own city we have mass shootings virtually every weekend. five, six, up to 700 people have died a year in these shootings. and we have strong legislation here in the state of chicago, but obviously our residents can go across the street to a gun shop in the suburbs or most commonly in northwest indiana and buy assault weapons. after orlando, i went to a gun show in indiana, and that weekend after, they were raffling off an assault weapon for a dollar. obviously things have to change. >> look, i've spent a lot of time in chicago. i've been there reporting on this epidemic in the emergency rooms with the doctors in the summer when you know those numbers go way up in what they're facing every day. it is a national tragedy. congressman, thank you very much for being here to talk about that and much more this morning. >> thank you.

mr. mcconnell will bring them back. and i am very cynical about him actually giving those bills eighth air hearing in a boat. but hopefully. >> let's take a look at the whole issue of guns on the streets of america. there are those who argue that anything short of a total ban of these types of weapons, a total ban, not background checks, not clip stocks, well, clip stocks are not, you know, going around the edges, but a total ban is the answer. >> i agree with that. i'm a co-author of a bill from, with david sissel any that would do that. >> i understand it may not pass, but we don't even get that debated anymore, why not? >> i think we should. >> why aren't we? >> well, we haven't, but we should. i think what we are aiming for here in this instance, what leadership is is to get the most popular, the most effective across everything. >> get the most popular done. >> but what we are doing is are we actually attacking the issue, or are we just doing windowdressing saying we've done something. the reason i ask this is that

mr. mcconnell of his job. >> it sounds like you all think the candidates missed opportunities on messaging mayor, that leads to what changed, if anything? >> i think that's okay to debate. the debates were too long as a general matter. but they're going to get better at what they do. you saw from the first debate a lot of the candidates change. that's just the harsh race. it's okay for them to go after each other if they remember they have to think about beating donald trump. as i said, the stage is going to get smaller in september. they're going to have a little bit more time to talk about each other. all of them are going to go back and look at the tape and think about things they missed. again, from our perspective, i think just stay focused on the prize. beat president trump. and whatever you have to do to do that, that's what we should be doing. infrastructure, health care, education, how to get a job so you don't have to work three jobs and not being able to go to your kids' game and pay your mortgage, all of those things are people want across class and race and geography. diversit

. >> what about mitch mcconnell? mr. buttigieg: what about mitch mcconnell? there are so many directions we could take that. so, here's the thing. i've worked with a lot of republicans in my life, and in indiana, i would not get much done if i did not know how to work with republicans. in order to work across the aisle, there has to be good faith. and the senate majority leader is not acting in good faith. the fact that he said in 2016, on oneld never vote thing, then in 2020, he does it. there's two ways to answer the question. the second best answer is we are going to box them out because our views are popular and i will fly air force one into the home of any senator who is blocking our agenda to raise wages, to protect health care, to improve family leave and racial equality in this country, things he american people want done. gun safety. thend the voters that senators are not speaking for them, but the best answer is for mitch mcconnell to not be the majority leader anymore. it would help to nominate someone with coattails who comes from the middle of th

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mr. mcconnell's senate.n what we know about 2016 and what we are being warned about this coming 2020 election, should the u.s. take any further action to protect its democracy? we turn now to u.s. senator ron of oregon, member of the u.s. senate intelligence committee. thanks for joining me tonight. >> thank you, ari. >> what is important about these bills and what they'd accomplish and why is mitch mcconnell blocking them? >> well, first of all, mitch mcconnell can put all of this to rest by bringing this key legislation to the floor. what i will tell you having served on the intelligence committee for sometime now, as of right now, i believe foreign hostile actors are going to make what happened in 2016 look like small potatoes in 2020. i think when you look at their capacity, for example, to interfere with voter registration databases, to hack social media, we have very serious threats. and i want to make sure that american voters, not foreign hackers, decide our elections. >> when you say that it's conce

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mr. trump. not mitch mcconnell. iowa farmers. iowa families. iowans trying to make ends meet. tinues to suffer from mr. trump's ill-conceived, ill-executed, and unstrategic trade war. my mother taught me a basic truth, actions speak louder than words. she was a teacher from minnesota who taught in the public schools of new york and the brooklyn house of detention. my father was the first person in his family to go to college. he stopped his career to go into the navy in world war ii. he prosecuted the nazis at nuremberg. [applause] mr. steyer: his actions speak louder than words. i don't mean tell you what i have done. i've started one of the largest grassroots organizations in this country. i have gone toe to toe with big oil and big tobacco in the ballot box, and we have one. we closed the corporate tax loophole for billions of dollars and sent it to the public schools. and we created over five under -- 500,000 union jobs. [applause] mr. steyer: we can and we must fix the way that democracy works. that is why i called for term limits in congress. so our government works for t

mrs. mcconnell were listening to through the windows last night. >> this [bleep] about to get some rest.t get any rest. not if families are getting murdered go can't get any rest. [bleep] mitch. he is in there nursing his little broken arm. he should have broke his little wrinkled neck. if we can't get any rest because of you, you won't get no rest because of us. ainsley: i don't know why those folks were not arrested. i get it's public property. they are probably stacking on the street. you can't just stand in front of someone's front yard and yell like that when everyone is trying to go to sleep in the neighborhood. steve: louisville police say the group was peaceful. ainsley: peaceful? that lady is not peaceful. steve: no, absolutely. it's certainly noisy. apparently they were unaware of the threats on facebook live one woman can be heard talking about stabbing mcconnell in his heart. his nickname is turtle. there also is some chanting about murder turtle, murder turtle over and over and over. the cops said it was peaceful. brian: getting into politics mitch mcconnell in a statement w

mr. mcconnell says this talking about being in a major war with them. do we have that sound?ith them and they haven't given up yet. this shows you the political tilt, the left wing tilt of these big companies and how they try to suppress speech when it is inconvenient. >> julie: it is interesting. he says when it's inconvenient. when castro tweeted out the names of donors which is public information, he was doing so obviously to bring negative light to those people and negative light could potentially turn into a violent reaction from haters. is that not the same thing as mcconnell's putting out video of protestors outside his home? i think we might have lost steve scalise. >> bill: want the frame this more. julie heard the sound bite from his radio interview. here are the protestors the other night outside his home in louisville. go ahead and roll it. go for it. he is in their nursing his arm. he should have broken his neck. >> stab the [bleep] in the house. >> this is louisville kentucky [bleep]. >> bill: we just want to give more context on that, sir. go ahead. >> it's dis

mr. mcconnell. sooner or later the rest of the world will have to do what protesters are doing.aid the world's leading democratic nations have been slow to respond so far. he says though, all of this, all of this comes down to actions of beijing. he says they can step back. he is talking about beijing. beijing can step back from the chaos to pursue freer and fairer trade. greater respect for sovereignty and human rights. stuart: i don't want to make too close an association with this when we first started showing you these pictures, by the way the pictures are available worldwide, when we first started this, the dow industrial average was up over 255 points. they are now up 217. i will not draw a quick conclusion that hong kong brought it down 30 points. ashley: no. stuart: that is a foolish association to make, but this is not a plus for our stock market. ashley: it doesn't help. stuart: no. confrontation in hong kong affects the china trade talks. ashley: of course. stuart: if there is one factor which the market is looking at very closely it is china trade talks investors wou

mr. mcconnell is majority leader, they don't have a good answer. because there isn't a good answer.f he's majority leader you're not getting any real legislation through the senate. if democrats come out with 51 or 52 votes in the senate, there's a fair amount they can do. if they don't find some other way around the filibuster they're they're going to be ham strung. >> we've got to talk about the health care. i counted 39 minutes on health care the first debate and 40 minutes tonight. so that's a lot. they spent a lot of time arguing back and forth on the minutia here. was there any clarity in the 80 minutes of debate over two nights? >> yes, maybe. the way i cut it is this. you have bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are doing an excellent job at defending an unpopular part of a big policy. they both signed on to medicare for all bill. sanders wrote it. it abolishes private insurance. that will take that policy from polling at 71% to polling down at 41% and it will increase middle class taxes. it does have popular price. people like the idea of expanding medicare. they don't like

mr. trump insisting nra chief wayne lapierre and mitch mcconnell are ready to work with him >> i spoke to mitch mcconnell yesterday. he's totally on board. i think in the end wayne and the nra will either be there or maybe will be a little bit more neutral. and that would be okay too >> reporter: but tonight a spokesperson for mcconnell tells us he has not endorsed any specific gun legislation and la pierre warned mr. trump his base won't support background checks. according to a source familiar with their call. >> you expressed support for background checks after parkland why is now different >> time goes by. i don't think i'm different. but i think the senate is different. i think other people in the house are different. >> reporter: and the president pouncing on joe biden after these comments over night. biden's record on race already under scrutiny >> we have this notion that somehow if you're poor you cannot do it poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids, wealthy kids, black kids, asian kids >> i saw his comment joe biden is not playing with a full deck. >> rep

mr. trump said both he and senate majority reader mitch mcconnell one or background checks to be done for gun owners. >>> attention part writers and drivers, your commute to the east bay will take longer than usual this weekend. bart is shutting down service to replace 5000 feet of aging track. the work will also force the closure of two lanes along highway 24. bart says the delays will add up to 30 minutes to the usual drivetime. the free bus rides will likely take about 40 miles longer than a typical bart ride. this is just the first of five more weekends where train service will be stopped. >>> it really just removes those walls of what skateboarding is and isn't. >> defying expectations, a bay area camp that is teaching girls much more than skateboarding. >> plus a decision for the high school mural, at the center of a national firestorm, the san francisco school district revealing its plan for a compromise. >>> in the oakland zoo just revealed its secret sanctuary. >>> the skateboarding industry has traditionally been dominated by men these days, they are not the only one showing up

and number two mitch mcconnell is basically saying mr. president, if you want to go get republicans onbird, you've got to get republicans on board. >> the president has publicly come out and said mcconnell is for this, and it's a bit more nuanced than that. i think that's where you're seeing the distingz. the polling, yes, we're looking to see if we're talking about markets, right, what the president's base is going to support. >> the president has been pretty clear. >> yes and no, it depends on how you puts it, right? and i think they're going to see what will be supported. the president i'm told by all people involved is actually sincere and serious when he says he wants to get something done, but he was sincere and serious after parkland and then he changed his mind under pressure from the nra. and he's been warned by some of his advisers it might seem that way to you they're struggling, they're still going to be a powerful force heading into next year. >> it doesn't seem to be it should be that hard. if the president really feels he ca

press of efforts to take offense at the offers of international help mr bergen belsen our made a bizarre accusation of president mcconnell's quote hiding his intentions for the amazon behind the idea of an alliance of g 7 countries. and g. host emmanuel mccrone was at the center of another controversy over diplomacy with iran iranian foreign minister zarif made a surprise visit to the summit at the invitation of the french president european and iranian diplomats had been struggling to somehow salvage a 2015 p. plus 5 p. 5 plus one nuclear agreement with iran ever since the trumpet ministration fulfilled candidate trump's pledge to renege on the agreement and renounce u.s. obligations while iran has made good efforts made efforts to show good faith despite the u.s. pullout from the agreement they have signaled in recent months that they may no longer be willing to abide by the terms when their major adversary has universal unilaterally pulled out of the pact meanwhile the trumpet ministration has melted an all out diplomatic campaign to isolate iran making the hosting and mr zarif embarrassing for a president so visibly co

mcconnell. next we will have senator shelby will introduce mr. robert, nominee to the united states district judge the middle district of alabama. >> thank you chairman and ranking member feinstein. a distinguished colleagues. i am here today to speak on behalf of of austin, he has been nominated by the president to be the u.s. district judge for the middle district of alabama. austin is joined by his wife suzanne, children mary virginia and i'm sure he'll introduce them later in other family members who travel to be here today. i know that his mother is also probably watching this hearing. also an excellent choice for this role he is well respected among his peers and widely recognized in the legal community. from a young age he demonstrated a determination to succeed in just about everything he was involved in. he was recruited to play the ivy league football but he chose to focus on his studies and went to vanderbilt and majored in chemical engineering the law. he graduated with honors with the distinction. after graduation in chemical enginee

mr. trump. not much mcconnell. i will farmers. i will families. iowa farmers. iowa families.owans trying to make ends meet. your state continues to suffer ill-conceived,s ill executed and on strategic trade war. my mother taught me a basic truth, actions speak louder than words. she was a teacher from minnesota who taught in the public's goals of new york and the brooklyn house of detention. my father was the first person and his family to go to college. intoopped his career to go the navy in world war ii. he prosecuted the nazis at nuremberg. his actions speak louder than words mean tell you what i have done. the largest one of grassroots organizations in this country. i have gone toe to toe with big oil and big tobacco in the ballot box and we have one. we closed the corporate tax loophole for billions of dollars and sent it to the public schools. and we created over five under thousand union jobs. [applause] wayan and we must fix the that democracy works. that is why i called for term limits in congress. steyer: so our government works for the american people again. speaki

mr. trump said that both he and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell want more to be down for gun owners. >>> just monday, the cdc confirmed 10 new cases. as the school year begins many parents worry the outbreak could worsen. immunization rates as high levels but have decreased over the last two years. in the 2018, 2019 school year, 94.8% of kindergarteners were fully vaccinated. this morning our continuing coverage takes us to san jose where it is the first day of school there. jackie ward is getting us up to speed on currentte law whe come. jackie. >> good morning michelle. >>> right now the way the law stands in california it requires every student in california to be up to date on their vaccinations regardless if they go to public school or private school. parents can get a medical exemption but they can't get a personal one. we spoke to a nurse practicioner who tells us which vaccinations are required and recommended. >> does not allow religious or personal beliefs that will prevent children from getting their shots. students can only go to school unvaccinated if they are medically

mcconnell said he didn't endorse anything specific. on the campaign trail, democratic presidential candidates say mr. trump's anti- immigrant rhetoric is responsible for the shooting in el paso. some have called him a white supremacist. >> he can't keep trying to stir this up, give aid and comfort, be embraced by the white supremacists, and then say, "oh, but not me." no. he's responsible. >> reporter: today, the president rejected the label. >> first of all, i don't like it when they do it, because i am not any of those things. i think it's a disgrace. >> reporter: president trump spent the day at two fundraisers in the hamptons. stephen ross, the owner of equinox gyms and soul cycle hosted one of them, now facing serious backlash. but, major, the president says the controversy makes ross "hotter." >> garrett: the president also spoke today about the massive workplace raids this week of undocumented immigrants. let's you and i take a listen. >> i want people to know that if they come into the united states illegally, they're getting out. they're going to be brought out. and this serves as a very goo

before the account was restored, mcconnell's campaign manager sang twitter will allow the words of massacre mrtran nationally >> greg: the interesting thing from castro was when he said i had no intention but maybe people will think twice. what he's saying this could happen to you. my hands aren't on this. i've nothing to do with it but if you want to think twice. it's sinister stuff. tertiary thuggery. he wants people to do the dirty work while he is the logistics guy. he writes the addresses down on a piece of paper and slips it to the guy. this guy meets an accident, and nothing to do with me. we talked about the expanding target of demonization. it's not enough to go after trump. you have to go after his team, the supporters, the voters, and anyone not part of the resistance, anyone who breathes the same air as trump is vulnerable and that includes obviously democrats because we all share the same oxygen. i posed the question to liberals, do you want to be part of a movement that seeks to doxx or punish people because they disagree politically? that goes nowhere good. what are you going to

mcconnell and the senate to annex common sense gun safety legislation. i'm not holding my breath. kidsu said yesterday poor are just as bright as white kids. is that racist? mr. castro: i don't believe the vice president was being racist in that moment. like a lot of us when we are speaking he just got tripped up in his words. what i do believe is we need to make sure no matter what the color skin of a kid in america today, no matter where they live in a rural community in iowa or in a big city like my hometown of san antonio that they have a good education. weret to schools that grappling with segregation. thated in neighborhoods were basically still feeling the effects of segregation. i know what it's like to go to the schools and see a lot of people around you and not be able to make it out of there. we need to invest the resources and do the right policies so no matter who you are or the color of your skin you can reach your dreams in this country. do you expect president trump to attack your family? how did you prepare your family? mr. castro: my family has been standing up for civil rights longer than donald trump's family has been trying to tear those

conversely, if mitch mcconnell is the one that lets him off the hook, we're going to be able to say. mrn: secretary -- sec. castro: "well, sure, they impeached him in the house, but his friend, mitch mcconnell, moscow mitch, let him off the hook." (applause) mr. lemon: senator bennet, please respond. (applause) sen. bennet: i -- i don't disagree with that. you just said it better than i did. we have to walk and chew gum at the same time. it is incredibly unusual for members of congress to be able to do that. and i'm glad that secretary castro has the ambition. sec. castro: well, my brother can. he's here tonight. sen. bennet: ah, that's what i was going to say. it's your brother that's given you that good feeling about the congress. (laughter) that's what we should do. mr. lemon: thank you, senator. thank you, gentlemen. the debate continues, right after this. (applause) mr. tapper: welcome back to the cnn democratic presidential debate. it is time now for closing statements. you will each receive one minute. mayor de blasio, let's begin with you. mayor de blasio: thank you. for the las

mr. president, but i hate what you do. it is time for you to stop talking on this topic until you are ready to give mitch mcconnell the go aheadnd actually take on legislation. enough. stay out of this. keep your mouth just quiet unless you're ready to be a serious participant in this conversation. just stop. >> how is he using your pain? >> you know what? every time he puts himself on camera with a photo op like he did yesterday to talk about it, to say people like me love him, no we don't. now, i'm not going to speak for every family in parkland, but i'm not the only one who feels this way. and i get to meet victims of gun violence across this country. okay? don't talk about doing the right thing only to go on record as saying i said i'll do it. 90% of the families and the americans who vote want background checks, mr. president. stop talking, stop talking about love. this is not about you. don't worry about how people think about you. do the right thing. get it done. tell mitch mcconnell to open up the senate graveyard. let's get this done. enough is enough. >> david, do you have a sense of why this is happening in the coun

mr. trump made a statement disavowing hatred and white supremacy. i say talk is cheap. tell mcconnellpass gun safety legislation. the american people want it. the majority leader issued this statement, saying senate republicans are prepared to do our part. he added, partisan thee a theatd campaign trail rhetoric will take us further away are from the results the american people deserve. former president obama is also weighing in, not mentioning president trump by name but saying this in a statement. we should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred. down in texas, el paso's mayor who has not always seen eye to eye with president trump had this to say. >> he's coming out here on wednesday. i'll ask president trump to support our efforts with any and all resource that's are available. our recovery is no small task. >> reporter: as for renewed calls on gun control, cheryl and deirdre, the house passed a new background check bill back in february but it stalled in the senate. the real question is, can divided washingto

he wrote a major story for the "post" today, entitled "how a mcconnell-backed effort to lift putin sanctions boosted a kentucky project." mror being with us tonight. i really appreciate you making the time. >> thanks. good to be with you. >> i can't help but see your story in the political context in which it's breaking. the story is breaking at a time when senator mcconnell is already really chafing at democrat s teasing him with thi nickname, moscow mitch. they've been accusing him of essentially effectively helping the russian government in a number of his actions. because of how pointed this reporting is and how many questions it raises about his actions, i have to ask about what his reaction has been and what he told you and his office told you in response to this reporting. >> rachel, you're -- the phrase that you used a moment ago, "mitch mcconnell chafing" is an understatement. he is absolutely furious, livid, at the complaints -- the nickname that he's earned, moscow mitch, and the suggestions that he is compliant with vladimir putin. described him on the senate floor before the recess, putin is a thug and said hi

mcconnell and the republicans. >> you said you can't marry obama, basically, mr. president, without defending his deportation decision, his record. did he defend it today? did he get back to what he did in terms of counseling the president at the time? >> i think he needs to speak more candidly about his record. when you say, when you brag all the way up to 2015 and call these bills your bills, he said, his words not mine, every crime bill, major and minor since the 1970s has had my name on it. now by the way, i think he should call out that he was wrong, but he hasn't even done that. >> why did you choose to go after kamala harris on her record as attorney general? >> i think it's important for the american people to know what is in her record, that she is so proud of and how it has so negatively impacted people's lives in california. and when she was in a position of power to do the right thing, she failed to do so. we're not talking about a record of 50 years ago in the case of senator harris. we're talking about her recent record in the last few years. >> eliz