right after newtown state ledge slachers were predominantly passing laws to reduce. haven't had the break through, but last election in 2018, 18 nraa-rated incumbent republicans lost their seats, all replaced by candidates who support universal back ground checks. so we are making enormous progress. state laws are passing. and ultimately i think 90% of americans who want stronger gun laws are going to get their away. but it is a political process, because the gun lobby was so strong in 2012 when newtown happen happened. >> final question. as you know the supreme court will consider the right to extend the right to carry firearms in public nationally. i wonder if you're concerned that given the conservative majority in the supreme court, that the supreme court will derail or sideline or even prevent legislative measures like the ones you've mentioned here. >> so i am. one of the reasons that i voted against brett cavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court is very likely holds a radical view of the second amendment. we can get into a long discussion about what the sec

newtown returns to amman jordan.n germany he'd already suspected that visiting his family in gaza wouldn't be easy. but he wasn't prepared for how upset he. was is that a fox in israel so afraid of the. bus is what is so dangerous about. me but i'm not allowed to go to my own territory. i've been in germany for years i'm just coming back to visit my family and i should be able to do that freely i can't understand. from israel's point of view they have good reason for their stance. show you a clip of it she was the former head of the civilian branch of coke at an i.d.f. unit that's responsible for issuing travel permits the palestinians through israel . let's not forget the gaza strip is controlled by a terror organization hamas ok it changes all the reality for us other israelis and for palestinians also understand that the people are caught in between. forcibly at the end they are the ones who are paying the price of terror all on one hand and israeli policy against dato entity if he is inside his travel in gaza do

but there's also a vigil every year around the newtown anniversary in dc. where a lot of these families and unfortunately, new members of the club come in. >> every time there's a new shooting, some of the people who suffer through this go to lend support. >> yeah, yeah. >> do you think people who want something done, making calls to their states and federal representatives. maybe once a week or months, do think that helps gets laws passed? >> it does help but i can tell you what helps even more is that a lot of times, what we are seeing that we are preaching - - we want to thank our friends supporting us that we are preaching to the choir. it's great to reach out. it's what we call in the book, go f yourself tour. we would give them - - republicans, a card and say we are not going away. they would never meet with us. we need to go after the people that are section is the à obstructionist. in virginia and wherever we have an opportunity in a close harace, even if it's not in our district. we need to help that candidate. the deal is in virginia and some of t

. >> newtown you know, this now belongs to us.hink this has to be conversations that we have to start having with each other. >> mm-hmm. >> so let's move onto something not -- i don't even know how to say this. so the battle over baltimore has been raging all weekend. it started with a tweet from you know who, who said congressman elijah cummings should spend less time yelling at people over conditions at the border, and worry about his, quote, rat and rodent-infested district where no human would want to live. after the tweet was slammed as racist, he fired back that cummings is the racist, and al sharpton is too. that's what he said. so is this the new -- so is this all the stuff we're supposed to be paying attention to while people are trying to figure out what the mueller report actually said? >> mm-hmm. >> oh, is it a distraction you mean? >> i mean, you know, i should point out that he has never been to baltimore. >> jared kushner has. >> yes, but the man who is talking about rat-infested -- and this is, you know, this is wh

underway in india after a bus accident that's killed at least $29.00 people the accident happened in newtown pradesh in the north of the country and the us was on its way to new delhi government officials says most of the passengers were asleep when the crash happened. and some sports news for you know the usa has won the women's world cup for a record 4th time defending their time so against the netherlands like in rypien open the scoring with the 2nd half penalty to see her top the score scoring sheets for the goal beats awards and rolls lavelle scored the winning goal to make the usa the most successful team in the tournaments history well that same as it's a cut above the competition through right that's her immense which started with a 13 no defeats against thailand's but it's also in the middle of assuming its own soccer federation for gender discrimination the players want the same pay as the u.s. men's team. well known as a fans back in the u.s. force their team's latest triumph for estimates hearing figures for the entire tournament top 1000000000 the scene will be honored with a pa

protests like one in a new term society in the new territories is sunday and another you know another newtown jump when all in the following sunday apparently the program are proceeding movement and especially the young people are dissatisfied with this kind of attitude going to say too little concessions to feel concessions to lay and b is he's been pressured again civil maybe a little concession i think this kind of strategy gets this kind of ad gets it's kind of technical it's are counterproductive you don't handle the crisis display now has to simply win the trust of the people and apparently you see has failed to do so counting on ages support and it in support of the establishment will have to support both all right we'll leave it there we thank you very much address of chang for speaking to us from hong kong. thank you. france is sending its top diplomatic adviser to iran on tuesday to try to deescalate tension between the han and washington it comes after iran announced a has breached a limit on uranium enrichment that was agreed on the 2050 nuclear deal our diplomatic editor james ba

on the mitchell link, looking at a huge great stretch of newtown way which will link up to the malverner who does with more than powerhouse rail what we did for crossrail in london. today, i'm going to deliver on my commitment with that pledge to fund the manchester to leeds route. mr meier, i note that is the bit you critically want but i want to stress it is up to local people what comes next. as far as i'm concerned, that is just the next. as far as i'm concerned, that isjust the beginning of next. as far as i'm concerned, that is just the beginning of our commitment and investment. we want to see this whole thing done and i have asked officials to accelerate their work on these plans so that we are ready to do a deal in autumn. feel free to applaud, if you were to... applause. that lease but it! that the spirit! it's the right thing to do, time we put some substance into the idea of malvern powerhouse rail, that is why we are here this morning. we want to inject some pace into this so that we can unlock jobs inject some pace into this so that we can unlockjobs and boost growth. i k

and jay newtown—small is still with us.wd that is going to be there. this is being set up a little bit like a political rally but this is the washing things that, they are liberal crowd and they could pose some problems. —— washington. liberal crowd and they could pose some problems. -- washington. the city ftc actually voted by far the most liberal and always the most liberal, 97% democratic in every presidential election in recent history. activists are calling on people to boycott the fireworks and the event to show donald trump that he has no support here. it might be pretty empty. we will have to wait and see. the point about the money, let's be honest, we are not talking about some say, how symbolic uncomfortable is it for americans to see good us dollars being spent on what i suppose many would say a moment of grandeur for donald trump if he does go bay? it splits the party very much so, his base, they love the pomp and circumstance of it. this is actually pretty typical for re—election campaigns, not typical but i w

they saw what happened at newport -- newtown and they knew that we needed to be cautious about these weapons. if the administration's proposal goes through, it would be the first time that the commerce department was put in charge for licensing for lethal weapons designed to kill, to kill people. this is not business as usual. voting yes on this amendment will prevent this amendment strad -- prevent this administration from going beyond what the obama administration chose to do by ensuring that experts of firearms and ammunition remain under the jurisdiction of the state department with congressional oversight. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. zeldin: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california. -- the gentlewoman from california is recognized. mrs. torres: i will yield one minute to chairman smith. the chair: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, madam chair. this is actually a very importa