senator toomey joins me now. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, chuck. >> my title is moderator and i'd like to be mediator. i heard senator murphy seem to indicate movement here. youca yourself have expressed se optimism that you think there are nineti other republican colleagues of yours. i'm curious. senator murphy's last comment there which i'm sure you heard that this could be a way to sort of stop this filibuster talk and prove that, hey, you know what? it isn't the impediment that people think it is. is that helpful in your efforts to find nine republicans? >> chuck, i've got a lot of respect for senator murphy. some are making a shameful attempt to really ruin what remains of the functioning of the senate and will do long-term damage to the country.ma two years ago the democrats pretty much universally supported keeping the filibuster. barack obama was in favor of the filibuster. now when the different party's infe control, suddenly it's bece a racist tool? how ridiculous. the fact is the

senator toomey joins me now. senator, welcome back to "meet the press." >> morning, chuck. >> my title is moderator, but i'd like to be mediator here. i heard senator murphy indicate movement on this, and optimism that ten republicans would be found. you have expressed optimism you think there are nine other republican colleagues of yours. i'm curious, senator murphy's last comment which i'm sure you heard, this could be a way to sort of stop this fihey, you kn what, it isn't the embedment that people think it is. is that helpful in your efforts to find nine republicans? >> well, chuck, i've got a lot of respect for senator murphy, but i have to say, i take a different look at this. some of our democratic colleagues are simply making a shameful attempt to really ruined what remains of the functioning of the senate and do long-term damage to the country. two years ago, the democrats pretty much universally supported keeping the filibuster. barack obama was in favor of the filibuster. now when the different party i

>> yes, senator toomey, that is. sen.f a company, a business, a publicly traded company spends a financially insignificant amount of money on, let's say electricity, is it material whether that electricity came from her noble sources were not -- came from renewable sources were not? >> i think materiality, as the supreme court has said, it's got to be significant to the mix of information to a reasonable investor, and i think that will ground our economic analysis and how we move forward. in your hypothetical, it may not be material or it may be material depending upon the mixed information. sen. toomey: so even though it is financially insignificant in my hypothetical, you think it's could still be material? >> i think that materiality is the total mix of information, and often a small piece of information is not material. you are right about that. but i would have to take it into context of the entire mix of information. >> i would just suggest that if it is financially insignificant, i don't see how it could be materia

thank you, senator toomey. senator warnock of georgia.nized for five minutes. >> thank you so very much, chairman brown. it's great to be here with you. and let me say how excited i am to be named chairman of this committee subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer protection. >> as we are, too. thank you. >> thank you. i look forward to working with you and ranking member toomey and the subcommittee ranking member senator tillis to ensure stability in our financial markets and to protect consumers. commissioner chopra, thank you so much for appearing before this committee today. as i travel across georgia, i'm hearing a lot and i heard a lot during my campaign from student loan borrowers. and that's a story i know personally, the first college graduate in my family. and i wouldn't be here were it not for pell grants and low interest student loans. but students who are borrowing money now are just getting crushed under the debt. and the student loan burden has real implications not only for the borrowers but for our economy. peo

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one, pat toomey has put his name on legislation that would expand background checks. democrats are basically all in line on this. they were not in line when manchin/toomey first came up, but they are now, and the nra is in shambles, the organization is dealing with legal bills, legal dramas. they may be moving their location. they are not the entity, the force on the hill they once were. that is a landscape that's optimistic version of it. and yet still, you come back to the fact that you need ten republican senators if you want to move legislation, and i don't see where you get those types of numbers in the current landscape. if there is one lesson, after the shooting at sandy hook, joe biden led the obama task force on gun control legislation. they put together sweeping executive actions and legislative proposals, they moved fairly fast. but the cw at the end, they don't move fast enough. if anything is going to happen, it has to happen instantaneously to capitalize in perverse way of using that word on this tragedy happening twice now in a week. >> thank you, gentl

pat toomey.is convenient pat toomey is doing the drive by hit on his own state on his way out the door. what do you make of the fact that he's not even getting reelected? i don't know what the political incentives were, but he just said no to this? >> let me say we're going to miss pat. we are. and you said it's a liberal wish list. there is a lot of liberal wish list on that. imagine that. people who can't pay rent are going to be able to stay in their homes and people that haven't had enough food to eat during the pandemic are going to get help and a stimulus check for those that have been unemployed. it is -- if you call a wish list, i call that reality. pennsylvania showed up big for joe biden, and joe biden showed up big for pennsylvania today. this is a game-changing piece of legislation. to quote joe biden, this is a bfd. obviously i can't say it, but when that was said about obama care. this is one of the most monumental pieces of legislation in the 21st century, and i'm grateful pennsylv

thank you, senator toomey. senator from -- senator warnock from georgia for five minutes. >> thank you, how honored i am to be named the committee, subcommittee on financial and consumer protection. >> we are, too, thank you. >> thank you, i look forward to working with you and ranking member tumor -- toomey, i'm sorry. and ranking member tillis to ensure stability in our financial markets and to protect consumers. commissioner chopra, thank you so much for appearing before this committee today. as i travel across georgia, i'm hearing a lot of-- i've heard a lot during my campaign from student loan borrowers and that's a story i know personally. i'm the first college graduate in my family and i wouldn't be here were it not for pell grants and low interest student loans. but students who are borrowing money now are just getting crushed under the debt and the student loan burden has new implications not only for the borrowers, but for our economy. people are not able to buy homes, start small businesses, the kind

joe manchin and pat toomey were convinced that they had magic gravitas on this issue to show that the legislative process in the united states senate can be trusted to work to do the smallest imaginable thing in an issue of overwhelming public concern. they were wrong. they could not even do that one pitiful thing. not in the united states senate. not with filibuster rules in place that say a majority vote doesn't count. so nothing happened in american law. no law change. nothing made it through congress. in the final year of his presidency, president obama was still not just expressing regret about that, still not just exhibiting a rare for him show of anger about that. in the final year of his presidency, he was still actively emotional about that years later. >> 2nd amendment rights are important. there are other rights we care about as well. we have to be able to balance them. because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina, and that was denied jews and sikhs in oak creek. they had rights, too. [ applause ] our righ

only two of those republicans remain in the senate, senator susan collins and senator pat toomey. so democrats have said -- democratic leader schumer has said he plans, regardless of where republicans stand, regardless of where senator manchin stands, he's going to bring the two house bills, gun bills up for a vote on the senate floor to see where people stand. so that is not an exercise to get them to the president's desk. it's an exercise in getting people on the record, and that's also a big signal that schumer and democrats think the public is on their side, not only on the policy but politically on these gun issues, kasie. >> and that's exactly what i wanted to ask you about, because the reality is, and i remember i covered the newtown shootings extensively. i sat in rooms while there were pictures taken of weeping parents with small children talking about senators with what to do, we all know they ultimately did nothing after that. since then we went through parkland, which saw these young people step out into the spotlight, talk about their own experiences going to school,

ranking member toomey is recognize. sec. toomey: if you pick up any newspaper, a prominent story has been occurring across the state, and that is the story of mayors and township commissioners and county commissioners meeting to try and figure out what in the world they are going to do with this mountain of cash that got dropped on them after having collected all the revenue they expected last year, and in some cases it is 50% of their budget. my question, i will start with chairman powell, and what i would like to do is follow up on a conversation that we had last week. i want to understand how the recent fed projections fit together because in some ways there are some apparent outliers or it appears that way to me. what i am referring to is the recent revision, the economic forecast revision has a very significant upward revision in gdp growth, 6.5% is the real gdp number for this year, not inconsistent where a lot of private economists are, but that is a 2.3% increase. the unemployment rate that you project is only a decl

to get the latest on this with pat toomey.ocess and the price tag on it thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: can they force that wage issue in there? some are trying -- >> i don't think so. bernie sanders offered an amendment that puts the nash name mandate to $15 and it failed. a number of democrats joined every republican and voted against it. so i think that is dead. even though that may not have closed out the vote. that's because they're wrapped around the axle over a different issue, which has to do with unemployment benefits. it's a mess over there on the democratic caucus. >> neil: i'm wondering though, a lot of the democrats with whom i've been speaking, senator toomey and i was just talking with john thune, the republican, that says that this is a very pricey package. i pointed out what the democrats have pointed out was donald trump embracing what was a much more expensive package that had gotten over $2 trillion. when that was dialled back, he was arguing to go big a lot of benefits were dial ba

>> toomey said he's going to join. i'm not sure what he's proposing and we want strong legislation, but they're feeling the heat, they're feeling the heat. the reason mcconnell was never going to bring bills to the floor was because he knew a lot of them didn't want that heat. now they're going to get it. let's see what the outcome is, and again, we will figure out the best way to move forward, but move forward we must. >> on to infrastructure now. you know it's a top priority for president biden and we're hearing white house advisers are expected to present a $2 trillion bill to infrastructure proposal soon. how is a mass sive spending pla like this going to get done? >> again, it's the same old story. we prefer republicans join us, but if they don't, we'll figure out how to move forward. infrastructure is in all kinds of places. the biden plan has three sort of pillars, all of which i think are great. one is strong on infrastructure, two is strong on climate, three is strong on jobs and particularly jobs for the unde

and thank you, ranking member toomey. >> chairman brown, ranking member toomey and of the members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to discuss measures we have taken to address the hardship brought by the pandemic. i would like to start by noting the upcoming one-year anniversary of the cares act. with unanimous approval congress provided by the fastest and largest response to any postwar economic downturn, offering fiscal support for households, businesses can healthcare providers and state and local governments. this legislation provide critical support in our nation's hour of need. as a virus arrived in force our immediate challenge was to limit the severity and duration of the fallout to avoid longer run damage. at the fed would also active with unprecedented speed and force using the full range of policy tools at our disposal. today the situation is much improved. while the economic fallout has been real and widespread, the worst was avoided by swift and vigorous action from congress and the federal reserve, from across government and cities and towns, and from indi

but you are talking about -- >> toomey should know that. know that. >> you are talking about democrats and you said it's a much-different senate than what he was talking about. but they like the way things are right now. and they simply can do nothing. they don't have to do anything. they can just sit, and do nothing. like now. so how -- what are you going to do about that? >> no, they were able to sit and do nothing under mcconnell because he -- even though he promised, he totally backed off on that promise and never put any of this legislation on the floor for either debates or votes. there is going to be gun legislation on the floor, with debates, with votes. we will see. our republican colleagues, many of them know that they are on the wrong side of the issue. they're not going to be able to hide. maybe, they will join us, in legislation. maybe, they won't. and then, again, we'll have to figure out -- >> do you actually think there is a chance a republican will join you on gun legislation? >> well, toomey says he's going to join. i don'

so, dan, you have -- you heard senator toomey. make of the prospects here for the democrats overcoming, blowing up the filibuster? do you think it'll happen? >> you know, i'm a little bit more pessimistic than senator toomey. i think the chances are are very good that they're going to blow up the filibuster or at least adjust it in a way that allows them to push through this legislation. and the reason for that, paul, is the democratic party as we've discovered here has really moved quite smartly left. of nothing like the moderation or normalcy that joe biden campaigned on. at the same time, i'm not sure that the progressives are all that confident in being able to sustain their majority. they're not that confident that these ideas are that popular across the country. they see this as a rare, once in a lifetime window of opportunity to push through these ideas. and keep in mind they would become laws. laws are very difficult to reverse, especially the election laws, federalized minimum wage, nationalized energy policy. these are t

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conservative joe manchin and pat toomey said they wouldn't pursue, they wouldn't allow the pursuit of a simple rule that there ought to be a background check to buy a gun. instead, they had their own idea and said they could get it done. they had their own way. they had something that they said they could pass. we wouldn't do more than what 90% of the country wanted to do. but instead do a tiny piece of it, because they said so. so instead of that simple thing, saying you have to have a background check, full shot, manchin and toomey said no, no, we think that's a terrible idea. we're against that. we know that more than 90% of the people are for it, we're against it. but our idea is that the law will change to just say you have to have a background check if you buy a gun at a gun show or on the internet. we will only extend background checks that far. gun show purchases, internet purchases, that's it. it is hard to imagine a smaller reform. but that is what they said they would do. that is what they said they could do. and so the rest of the country, more than 90% just want friggin'

one, pat toomey has put his name on legislation that would expand background checks.in line on this. they were not line when pat -- toomey first came up. they are now, and the nra is in shambling. the organization is dealing with legal bills, legal dramas. they may be moving their location. they are not the entity, the force on the hill they wouns were. you come back to the fact that you need ten republican senators if you want to move legislation, and i don't see where you get the numbers in the current landscape. if there is one lesson, after the shooting at sandy hook, joe biden less the obama task force on gun control legislation. they put together sweeping action. they moved fairly fast. but the cw at the end, they don't move fast enough. if anything is going to happen, it has to happen instantaneously, and a you have a tragedy happening twice now in a week. >> thank you, gentlemen, for raising terrific points in a terrible hour for our country. sam stein, tim miller, our thanks. again, we will be going live in the next hour, and live coverage continues at the to

toomey: i'll now introduce today's witnesses. in the owner in which they will testify pretty the president ceo of baltimore community lending, she has more than 30 years and experience in making finance and economic development and affordable housing. welcome. and the founder and ceo taking over a popular restaurant that started it is a pop-up window in neighborhood and syllabus and expanded to westerville, westlake in northeast ohio. he will expand in other places as well. it and both of my daughter elisabeth and young men in my office by the name of andy, and jessica a small business majority in senior advisory pretty she fears today their personal capacity. she previously served as a deputy assistant secretary for small business community development housing policy department of treasury. and as a senior advisor to the administration of u.s. small business administration. mr. joe griffith the research fellow and an institute of the heritage foundation and previously worked as a director for state fiscal reform at the american

. >> manchin, toomey, why not lead with that. why not force the issue? let's see if you're serious about bipartisanship. this is manager that hits the 80% mark on public support, which would imply bipartisanship. seems like they want to go bigger than that. i understand when comes to talking with your base but the question is what can you get done. >> reporter: i asked senator murphy, why not start with man manchin and toomey and he said it's too moderate. he argues the political environment is much different now than it was in 2013, 2015 when manchin and toomey failed. they point to the problems with nra and gun politics has changed. >> kelly, that brings me back to, do you get a sense of how joe biden wants to manage congress? he's got to pursue what he wants to do if congressional democrats will he wait till they prove they can make something happen and we'll come in. they don't want to see three or four months wasted debating bills they know they can't pass. >> i think the president is saying to us and telegraphing to us a lot of his influence intera

that had the backing of some republican senators, including pat toomey.d expand background checks on commercial gun sales, close off the so-called gun show, a loophole to deal with internet sales to ensure that people who purchase the fire arms will go through a background check. that is narrower than the bill that passed the house this month. one of those bills would expand background checks for private transactions as well but manchin does not want to go that far, neither do a majority of most republicans, if not all republicans who oppose going as far as the house wants to go. and virtually all republicans oppose what pat toomey is proposing, the narrow proposal with joe manchin. but nevertheless pat toomey told me moments ago he is looking to see if he can make modifications to his bill to get republican support. i can tell you in surveying the republican conference up and down from rank and file to leadership there is not the appetite for that bill. they contend it would not solve the problem, as you heard from ted cruz there, they say there are othe

only two of those remain in the senate so are manchin and toomey on board? can you talk a little about the process? >> i just think we're living in a different world than 2013. so much has changed. the politics around us are fundamentally different. i think you know, senator blumenthal i should leave it to senator schumer to talk about the floor schedule. i just think that you can't compare 2013 to 2021. i think there are a lot of republican senators that are thinking about voting for a proposal that allows them to get right on this issue. >> i'm going to ask our colleagues of congresswoman mcbath to close this out, please. >> well, i am just completely grateful for the-- all of the hard work and for all of the effort that has been placed into making this happen today and i would just like to take my hat off for a moment, the hat that i wear as a member of the united states house of representatives, and to thank each and every one of my colleagues and leadership. as a mother who lost her child to the very gun violence that every one of us has been fighting f

you'll hear it from pat toomey. it's there. the real question, is there ten republicans.hat's the real unknown in all of this. >> another important topic, the attacks and robberies on people of the aapi community, it's a big deal here in the bay area. you have representative judy chu, who is the chair of the congressional asian-pacific american caucus. yesterday was a national day of action. was there any discussion about what can really be done to stop this violence? >> well, we got two issues that she honed in on and i think they're both very salient here. look, in the state of georgia, they have a hate crimes law but it's how it's being interpreted, and this isn't for instance these attacks are not being right now not being classified as a hate crime. that's a case where you have a law, but it's how it's being interpreted, right, how it's being implemented. same when it comes to reporting of hate crimes. we have a system, it's hodgepodge at best. there is no formalized system. it isn't mandatory that law enforcement rele hate crimes an that hodgepodge system which fran

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toomey: thank you.tory has been picking up, trying to figure out what we are going to do with this mountain of cash that just got dropped on them after having collected all of the revenue they expected last year. in some cases, it is 15% of their entire budget, just extraordinary. i will start with chairman powell. what i would like to do, mr. chairman, his follow-up on the conversation we had last week. i want to understand how the recent fed projections fit together. because in some ways, there are some apparent outliers to me. what i am referring to is the fed's recent economic forecasting revisions have a very significant upward revision in gdp growth. 6.5% i think is your real gdp number for this year, not inconsistent with where a lot of private economists are, but that is a 2.3 percentage point increase. the unemployment rate you project is only a decline of 0.5%, and the inflation rate over the course of the full year , you guys are projecting that it will come in lower than it has been for the

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we take the manchin toomey bill from a few years ago and see if we can move that.he president the best i've seen at. we were negotiating we sent joe biden to the hill because he could have conversations with both parties to figure out if there's space to get something done. this is his superpower. i think he's going to have a bunch of quiet conversations. he's going to see if he can take the temperature down and see if there's anything we can do here. meanwhile, the country as got to put the temperature up only some of these elected sfwofficials a say, hey, we have to get something done. people are dying. let's act. >> appreciate your time. >> apply pleasure, don, thanks. >>> sidney powell spent weeks, just over and over, spreading the big lie. now that she's facing legal pressure, she's trying to completely rewrite history. start your day with crest 3d white and from mochaccinos to merlot, your smile will always be brilliant. crest 3d white brilliance. 100% stain removal, 24 hour stain resistance to lock in your whitest smile. crest. the #1 toothpaste brand in ame

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support for a narrower bill, one which was attempted in the it aftereffects of the sandy hook -- the toomeyl would have commercial sales over the internet and gun sales, would not apply to private transfers, but that manchin/toomey plan does not have the 60 votes itself. i've talked to a number of republicans. they just philosophically are opposed to moving forward. so the question now becomes, will ds do anything like change the rules to advance legislation, to expanse background checks, something that a lot of folks on the left are pushing. there's just not the support to even do that. joe manchin, i spoke to today, virtually every day of the last few weeks, he's not moving off his position. so brianna, the short an to your question is no, despite these mass shootings we have seen over the last week or so, that has not changed the math they're on capitol hill. >> it's astounding. manu, thank you. jeff, thank you so much. >>> a year of war with the coronavirus has left hospitals in shambles. a new report reveals the realities on the ground. we'll have more, next. i'm a verizon engineer, pa

pat toomey has had a silver spoon in his mouth so long that all he can taste is metal.ring with every single day. we have to go in a different direction. >> as you know, i'm a native of pennsylvania. fracking is a big issue there. you talked about previously your support of a moratorium on new fracking. are you concerned, do you have fears that might hurt you in a general election if you make it there? >> what i have fears about is that pennsylvania won't meet this moment in terms of being ground zero for clean energy jobs. i saw that commercial at the super bowl, will ferrell and celebrities going to norway where they would build batteries for the electric vehicles. we can do that in pittsburgh where i am right now. we can do that in altoona, in scranton. we need to meet the moment and get honest with people. these are good, sustainable union jobs. if we don't produce them here in pennsylvania at a rate that allows us to really own and corner the market on clean energy, other places will. i don't have anything against norway. i don't want norway to get these jobs. i wa

i do think senator toomey is a good place to start. he is someone who has expressed interest in passing gun reform, considering he was one of the sponsors of the bill in 2013 that -- that the obama administration failed to pass. he has expressed interest in passing a version of his bill that he sponsored with joe manchin. but he's definitely someone i think you can target. you know, the issue here is the -- the republican obstructionism that democrats are arguing is getting in the way, and i do think, you know, it is going to be an issue on gun reform that's been a long running debate. this isn't a new issue. it's something that both parties have bickered over for -- for many administrations. and it's just going to be an uphill battle for the biden white house and democrats despite their optimism about what the landscape looks like now. it's quite divided so i think it's going to be tricky moving forward. >> and phil, to your beat, we have a pandemic, we have an economic collapse, and the basis of a recovery. we have a fight over votin

toomey is like, i got my tax cut, i'm rich, i'm out. richard burr, i'm out, rob portman, roy blunt.y're not fighting for the republican party. they're just like, let the trumpies have it. are we basically going to have john birch society 2.0? >> you'll get more republican senate if the democrats don't pick up those seats. the old school senators came there to legislate, to debate, to legislate, to compromise. what you're seeing now is basically the senate republicans have dominated people who want the sound bite. why does ted cruz say the things that he says, because he knows that's going to be played on fox news. that is the -- that's the mean, that's the narrative that's going to play in conservative media and the fact check won't catch up with the fact that he's waving that bloody shirt. it is trump 2.0. you have that $1.9 trillion piece of legislation and they're focusing on the bogus the aliens will get it. one big question, how is this going to be different than 2009? republicans just think that by voting no that they're going to be able to run against this big spending packag

they have voted twice and counting pat toomey twice wasn't enough. when is it going to stop?> that's the question. a lot of people are asking that. you talked about president biden's aagenda. we will hear more about that. i'm told he will bring up his infrastructure plan when he heads to pittsburgh late they are week, reportedly $3 trillion. they got this massive covid relief plan pushed through congress. what is the appetite here, do you think, for this infrastructure plan to make it through given the issues you talked about and the various other choke points in d.c.? >> the fact that he will talk infrastructure and not guns tells you he has his priorities on what he said, what's possible. there's a perception that gun regulation is not as possible as infrastructure. it's interesting on the price tag for this. i brought up the price tag to somebody close to the president. they said, hey, hey, hey, you know, this is not $3 trillion in one year. yes, it was $2 trillion of covid relief. this is $300 billion over ten -- times ten, over a ten-year period, it's $3 trillion. look,

take a listen to what republican senator pat toomey told chuck todd this morning on "meet the press." >> there is a completely false narrative about so-called voter suppression. look at the georgia law. there's no voter suppression. sunday voting still allowed. an expansion of in-person voting. there's no requirement you have a reason for a mail-in ballot. all you need is some verification of i.d., and so does every department of transportation in america, in order to drive. so does every airline if you get on a plane. >> so, chairman, to your point about leadership, how difficult to move legislation through the senate when you have republicans denying there's even a problem? >> that's extremely problematic. but i charged democrats. i can't control the republicans. they need to do what they need to do. you would hope this issue making sure the most sacred right was a bipartisan issue, one thing we learn in politics. it's like a pendulum. swings back and forth. odds are it's going to hit you back down the road. but this is the thing we have to focus on as democrats. we have to make sur

senator pat toomey warned him not to go too far down the activist lane. back to you. liz: edward lawrence, all of this matters to anybody who trades stocks, buys them, sells them online. >>> all right, one day after their best session of the year, the nasdaq looks to be in retreat mode while the s&p is trying to battle back from a 29-point deficit. kind of almost there. i mean, you're looking at the nasdaq down 118, but the s&p 500 looking decent here. could a bull market be brewing in one sector that up until recently hasn't gotten to participate in the runup? according to goldman sachs, we are at the beginning of a bull market in commodities. the firm recently lifted its oil, metal and grain forecasts for 2021 saying it expects the group to return 15.5% over the next 12 months. has goldman been watching charles payne, "the claman countdown" and super trader phil flynn on our floor show? watch. you have this, what charles payne just called maybe it's the start of a commodities super-cycle. you were ahead of that, certainly, on that call. >> most people would say we'r

just in pennsylvania last wednesday, there was a vote to censure pat toomey, they're tabulating the votes. i'm not suggesting there was voter voter fraud. they can't get a count on that. this is a mess. that trump fest in florida didn't settle anything. they have the meaningless straw poles, but the party is divided. it's fractured, no matter how much they want to say it's unified. >> because you said it's the tinfoil hat brigade, should trump run in 2024. that's the question. 68% of that crowd, the tinfoil hat brigade as you called them said yes. more than 30% said no or they're unsure. and in terms of would he be the chase, 55% of that crowd said donald trump is their top choice. so wouldn't you expect it to be higher among that crowd? >> yeah, it actually would. it would be higher, you would think it would be higher, so that would be of some concern to donald trump. also remember, too, these straw polls have ron and rand paul leading or winning the nomination as well. i take that with a grain of salt. there's clearly reticence by that crowd that donald trump might not be an ideal candi

lisa murkowski, pat toomey. kennedy: pat toomey at that you knew me. trump is not here to stay and is it the recipe to beat the democrats in 202010 beyond let's meet tonight and panel and talk it out with at the coast of fox and friends weaken the author of the brand-new book modern wires. pete hegseth is back on with vice president candidates microphone entering : a fan favorite and host of the richard fowler show on fox news, is also fox news contributor richard fowler is back, welcome everyone what an exciting night. this is the only time on earth these three people will be assembled in the same place. [laughter] let's rejoice. it will never happen again maybe in the show again. so, pete, do you still have the vapors of the president's speech? did you love it? >> sure, of course per die was there in the hall part there is one take away need to have them cpac, the republican party is still remains unequivocably the party of donald trump. and the agenda that he advanced america first, is front and center for the agenda of republicans. anyone who wants

we saw senator manchin and senator toomey come together, democrat and republican, propose legislationn background checks that at the time, fif i remembe correctly, was supported, poll after poll by 80%, 90% of americans and yet they could not overcome the 60-vote threshold in the senate that the filibuster requires. it's good to hear that there's some republicans that are open to considering the legislation that is house has passed, which is similar, basically universal background checks, closing loopholes that can be deadly as we saw in charleston. the question is, can washington actually work, or do we need to get rid of that filibuster? i actually think this is going to be another indictment of the filibuster. how do you not call something strongly bipartisan in this country when almost 90% of americans support it? and yet, mainly one political party stands completely against it. it doesn't make any sense, and this is one more example of why, in the least, we need significant filibuster reform that makes it possible for effective, meaningful legislation like this to actually get en

joining us to discuss is senator pat toomey. here we are more than 20 years after columbine and other awful mass shootings and we're sitting here again talking about two more mass shootings in the u.s. if we define the problem as we need to keep guns out of the wrong hands, what do we need to do? what will work? >> well, jake, thanks for having me. let's be honest. there's nocisming, single measure that's going to permanently prevent criminals from finding a way to get guys from deranged people. my rue is we can at least make it more difficult so i like to be very candid. the legislation that i've supported is not a panacea, but on the margins if we do a pc ground check on all commercial sales, we would make it more difficult for even criminals and deranged individuals, make it more difficult for them to get a gun. you know, in pennsylvania we have universal background checks on all handgun sales. if i want to sell a handgun to my wife we need a background check done, no exceptions. the legislation that senator manchin and i hav

the departures of richard burr, pat toomey, rob portman and now roy blunt.alled the governing wing or the legislating wing of the republican party, the senators that would still try to cut a deal even if they didn't like what was happening. and it wasn't long before president trump urged supporters to donate to him over the so called republicans in name only and at this point the deem identified as rinos in the republican party are anybody that donald trump doesn't like. it may -- any republican that's hesitant about fully embracing trump and trumpism. former missouri governor greitens says he may -- in ohio former state treasurer and trump loyalist josh mandel became the first republican to enter the race in portman's seat and he's fighting to be the most trump supporting candidate and in north carolina trump's name nay be on the ballot, trump's daughter-in-law is running. how does the party govern without its governing wing? where is this party headed? we're going to take a closer look at all of this when we come back. their only friend? the open road. i h

pat toomey, of course, retiring, leaving the senate.e question -- i really do think is what republicans are going to do? they're going to have to find -- to do any kind of registration, even smaller legislation, they're going to have to find some allies on the right to come forward. i do think that one thing that really has changed also i would just note is the fact that the parents and the actual gun control activists are very organized and very motivated. i've been speaking to some of them over the past couple weeks. and they feel like now is their moment and they continue to kind of just try to do as much as they can. so i think you're going to see them try to put immense amount of pressure on the senate to try to do something. >> thank you both for all of that reporting. we really appreciate it. >>> so now to this story, the u.s. health officials have released a highly unusual statement overnight. they're questioning the results from that astrazeneca vaccine trial that we reported on yesterday. so we'll explain why next. we started

pat murphy and toomey will join him and also where the debate of gun safety stands right now. >> a teams is headed to colorado to help support the community. they're deploying from new jersey to boulder this weekend. the non-profit's founder said she started the organization back in 2015 after seeing the emotional and mental health benefits of bonding with a dog. the team is made up of five counselors and three dogs. they'll work to provide comfort for the people of boulder as well as for the first responders. >>> it is number one. still ahead, the bay area city topping the list of safest cities in california. emergency planning for kids. we can't predict when an emergency will happen. so that's why it's important to make a plan with your parents. here are a few tips to stay safe. know how to get in touch with your family. write down phone numbers for your parents, siblings and neighbors. pick a place to meet your family if you are not together and can't go home. remind your parents to pack an emergency supply kit. making a plan might feel like homework, but it will help you and ur fami

we had senator murphy and senator toomey there.ecall very distinctly in the wake of the tragedy at sandy hook we had the manchin/toomey bill, a bipartisan bill that was trying to restrict the kinds of assault weapons and the ammunition for those, try to bring that down, try to get universal background checks. do you think we're at a point where maybe if lawmakers take the linda beagle schulman approach and say, let's just talk, do you think something can get done? >> i know something can get done. i don't just think it, i know it. people can stand their ground. you know, senator ted cruz or congresswoman boburt, they say the pro be is people with mental illness or we should enforce the laws we have on the books. well, if the case is mental illness, why are you, i say you to both those people, allowing people with mental illness to obtain or own or possess guns? and if it's a matter of should we enforce the laws on the books, well, let's face it, the laws on the books are not helping us right now save people. you know, i assume the

i talked to toomey moments ago, telling me he's going to have discussions to see the reprise that bill more support but even that would either be incremental, not go far enough in the eyes of many democrats or question whether or not republicans would break rank. skepticism anything could get done despite what we're seeing across the country, kate. >> and abby, as we wait to hear joe biden now, from joe biden now, what is the -- i mean, manu lays out the challenge, but what is the pressure and the challenge that he is really facing here, he has a unique perspective in history with trying to stick a deal when it comes to gun reform. >> right. i mean, joe biden is an example of actually, frankly, how far we've come as a country on the issue of guns that the idea that we could have a so-called assault weapons ban in this country like joe biden was able to sort of be a part of that negotiation decades ago seems really unlikely now. you have lawmakers in washington now pushing back hard against the idea of universal background checks. background checks for anyone who wants to purchase a wea

to announce plans to retire, joining senators richard shelby of alabama, rob portman of ohio, pat toomey of pennsylvania, and richard burr of north carolina. so far, no democratic senators have announced plans to retire in 2022. and one thing that ties all the these men together is that they are in the pre-trump mold of the governing republican party, not the post-trump era. it's going to make a lot of space, potentially, for more candidates, more senators who mold themselves in the way that trump has envisioned the republican party. it could change things quite a bit in the senate. >>> meanwhile, the "washington post" is reporting that the republican national committee is moving part of its spring donor retreat next month to former president trump's mar-a-lago club in palm beach. the move highlights trump's continued grip over the gop as top republicans debate the future of the party post trump. the "post" notes that the decision to move part of the event to mar-a-lago comes mit a spat over the rnc and other republican organizations' use of trump's likeness and image in fund-raising as