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It expands background checks to include online. at gun shows and at home. it exempts transfers between law enforcement officers. it exempts temporarily loning guns for sporting events, transferring through inheritance and transferring a gun for immediate self-defense. do you think there is a willingness to get something like that passed? >> there should be. joe and pat came together. a-rated nra members. this spoke to people like you

Enough. >> we actually have a moment. i spoke to mike over the weekend and we spoke specifically about that. >> in 2018, we had an election. there were 24 candidates we supported that were good on guns and the environment. 21 of them won and they won against nra, a-ranked members. a-rated members. so the gun debate has shifted. the public really says, enough is enough. you got to stop this craziness. and thats true if you ask nra members, gun owners. they all want you to stop this craziness. >> ...

Last election cycle win for office on a platform that highlights their position on gun safety. so were seeing the shift is in the actual election results themselves. the shift is in politicians being able to talk about this. and really theres a dramatic change in energy amongst the american people and i think were seeing that across the board, even up to president trump making comments about the need for progress on this issue. >> mike bloomberg talked about that very momentum and how youre seei...

Public wants, and the time has come. >> well, the nra gives directly to members of congress. do you see yourself directly challenging those contributions with your own money? >> well, i gave $100 million, stephanie, in 2018 to elect the 21 candidates who were good on guns and the environment, and basically replaced nra a-rated republicans. im not sure what im going to do this time, but i certainly think ive shown my capabilities and my interests, and were here to des moines to pull together all ...

Gun control. should they be more afraid of not doing something than of acquiescing to the demands of wayne lapierre and the nra? >> ana in 2018 i spoerpted 24 congressional candidates who were good by my definition good on guns and cloimt. 21 of them one and beat almost in every case a o an a rated republican, a-rated by the nra. that that goes so show you the nra does not vermont power. and not everybody is running from them. now you see more and more republican congressman and senators saying ...

About everything else like the 2018. >> i supported 24 congressional candidates who were good by my definition good on guns and good on climate. 21 of them won and beat in almost every case an a-rated republican -- an a-rated by the nra. so that just goes to show you that the nra does not have the power and not everybody is running away from them, and now youre starting to see more and more republican congressmen and senators saying i dont want to be on the wrong side of this issue. if you surve...

Support a ban on assault weapons. when we talk also about how the nra has so much power over the president and others who may be afraid of their political future for acting in, you know, some capacity on gun control, should they be more afraid of not doing something than of acquiescing to the nra. >> i supported congressional candidates who were good on guns and climate. 21 of them won and beat almost in every case an a-rated republican -- a-rated by the nra. that goes to show you that the nra d...

Common sense background checks -- and let me explain here my experience with the president on this. because i am the lead on a bill involving domestic violence and stalking, i was invited to the white house for the meeting he had on guns right after parkland. remember that? and i sat right across from him. you can see the video. and i counted nine times he said he wanted to see universal background checks, to close that gun show loophole. nine times. and then the next day he met with the nra and...

Very patient as we have been waiting to get to her, and thats shannon watts, founder of moms demand for action and gun sense in america. shannon, because youve been listening to our coverage, what strikes you? what do you want our viewers to hear? >> i think its bizarre that we have so many a-rated nra lawmakers who are telling us that laws wont work to solve this problem. in fact, we know they do work. when you look at states with strong gun laws, you see fewer gun deaths. these lawmakers are c...