Drowning in Guns under Minority Rule (with A.B. Stoddard)
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Guest host A.B. Stoddard joins guests Tom Nichols, Yahoo News' Jon Ward, and regular Linda Chavez to discuss America's gun culture, the prospects for bipartisan gun legislation, and the Democrats' lack of confidence versus the party that's about nothing. Plus, Trump's week of humiliation.
Highlights/lowlights:
- A.B. Stoddard's: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/opinion/grief.html
- Linda Chavez's: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/george-p-bush-latino-republican-trumpism/
- Jon Ward's: https://www.amazon.com/We-Need-Build-Diverse-Democracy/dp/0807024066/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1653596224&refinements=p_27%3AEboo+Patel&s=books&sr=1-1
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| 0:49.0 | featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. I'm AB Stoddard, associate editor and |
| 0:54.7 | columnist with Real Clear Politics and I have the honor of sitting in this week for |
| 0:59.1 | Mona Sharon. I'm joined by regular panelists Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center, along with John Ward of |
| 1:05.8 | Yahoo News and Tom Nichols, contributor to the Atlantic and Professor Emeritus at the Naval War College. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome, one, and all. |
| 1:16.1 | Today, we unfortunately have to begin |
| 1:18.7 | with the biggest and most consequential news |
| 1:22.0 | riling the country right now, which is another mass shooting in fewer than 14 days |
| 1:28.2 | that took the lives of 19 children. We are despondent, no matter where you are on the political spectrum because we feel |
| 1:36.7 | heartbroken and powerless. It's really hard to have these conversations but I know |
| 1:41.5 | that I have the best people at the table today to provide a measured and fair and informative discussion about this. |
| 1:49.7 | We are in a place right now where we are not looking at a standoff between the two parties. |
| 1:56.7 | The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has decided to let some bipartisan talks proceed. There's going to be some discussion about the areas of |
| 2:06.6 | potential common ground, which are red flag laws, expanded background checks. |
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