‘He’s there as a decoy’: Michael Steele busts John Cornyn's ‘stall and delay tactics’ in response to Uvalde

MSNBC's Michael Steele expressed doubt that Republicans intended to negotiate gun safety legislation in good faith. The former chairman of the Republican National Committee told "Morning Joe" that Republicans had no intention of passing serious legislation in response to the deadly Uvalde massacre, and he said Sen. John Cornyn was not nearly as "rational" as President Joe Biden seems to think. "What you're looking at is a political party and a political leadership that values the fight over inflation, the 'own-the-libs' narrative, you know, the insurrectionist, you know, efforts by Democrats, you know, to 'groom' our children over the lives of those very same children, and I think -- I was struck by the comment of, you know, someone on Capitol Hill saying that, you know, this is really something interesting that, you know, Sen. Cornyn's at the table," Steele said, "and why is that so interesting? IN OTHER NEWS: Peter Navarro subpoena specifically names Donald Trump: report "More kids will be killed this year than all of the other statistics combined that you showed because of his lack of concern about the fact that more kids would be killed," Steele added. "It's not like we don't know somewhere the sweet spot is to move the needle here," Steele said.