Manchin: “Good Dialogue” With The President on Background Checks

By Cam Edwards

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) told CBS’ “Face The Nation” host Margaret Brennan that there’s been “good dialogue” between President Trump and lawmakers hoping to craft legislation dealing with “red flag” laws and expanded mandates for background checks, calling the moment a “golden opportunity to start making America safe again by starting with this basic building block of background checks.”

“It’s been very encouraging with the dialogue going back and forth and all the people meeting and all of the staffs working together trying to find a pathway forward. I can’t tell you the end result, I can’t tell you what the final product will be, but we’re working in a most common sense procedure of what we can get the votes for to do something that truly starts making America safe again. We have a responsibility. People are afraid to go out in their communities or let their children go to different types of things that would be a gathering of more than a couple people and they’re concerned about this and we shouldn’t be living in fear in America. America should be safe and we can do that.”

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