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I thought the evening began with calls for unity. im not intending to be present for half the american people but all the american people. it was a pushback against hard ideaiology from the democratic left. certainly medicare for all, no more private insurance. bernie and her competed on paying off all the student loans. also a sort of purity test, beto said he is going to not just buy back, but demand that they sell them back. i noticed that -- this would be an extraordinary ruling by the supre...

>> there are nowadays far more controls than there used to be in the past. >> everyone who buys a gun must pass a background check. automatic weapons are banned. gun purchases must be registered with the government. over time, swiss voters have even tightened these controls to comply with eu standards. the nra, killias says, would not be very happy. >> others would say its a communist country. definitely. >> in the militia, soldiers can take home their weapons but not their ammunition. after a s...

Been emphasizing that more and more and maybe de-emphasizing the background check piece of that. critics will say thats an nra talking point and does not get to the crux of the matter, but it is certainly one of the issues that he is looking at and the white house is looking at in terms of a broad bill or a broader bill of some kind to address this. mike: presidential candidate beto to courage -- beto orourke, a texan, defending his call for mandatory buyback of automatic weapons. take a listen ...

Its own foreign policy agenda was it a state within a state a so-called deep state. used to refer sums up his findings. is trying to honor the go cart there was a very bureaucratic organization that operated but a great deal of vanity and weakness in highly complex circumstances and that is what the weapons deals were probably known to just a small group within the b.m.d. so i dont think it was a deep state system as such but it had some of its characteristics i was into martyr stuff. mehrtens w...

But says sanders legacy has become a personal issue in his own fight for gun legislation. >> you could say i change my mind, you could say ive evolved but your votes and what youve done are still there. im thankful that he has evolved, but he has to answer for it. >> reporter: sanders did vote for instant background checks, voted to ban certain a.m. automatic weapons and voted to eliminate the loophole of no background checks in private gun sales. and on the campaign trail recently hes been urgi...

Buying body armor. you dont use it when youre hunting. so maybe we ought to look at that as well. >> it does seem like the big anomaly here in terms of america having so many of these mass shootings, i mean, hundreds compared to other countries that have one or two, if that. many countries have had zero for year after year, is the fact that the united states with 5% of the worlds population has 50% of the worlds firearms. and, you know, i presume we have the same number of mentally disturbed peo...

Shootings, i mean, hundreds compared to other countries that have one or two, if that. many countries have had zero for year after year, is the fact that the united states with 5% of the worlds population has 50% of the worlds firearms. and, you know, i presume we have the same number of mentally disturbed people as in europe. we have the same number of -- we play the same violent video games as places like japan. the big difference does seem the easy availability of particularly lethal weaponry...

Hasnt been coming out in recent years but is more likely to come out, inspired potentially by a candidate who would be the best person not only to beat trump but also pull together a coalition even bigger than the one that obama ran on and won with in 08 and 12. >> shermichael, we also have not heard this president address automatic weapons. he talked in his statement that we must be against hatred and white supremacy but he never said what they were going to do about it and he talked about ment...

That might keep you from doing more than these two things. >> theres a sense in the state of wisconsin, we need to accomplish something. lets get things done for the people of wisconsin. thats where were at right now. at the end of the day, we will have changing in the background checks and the red flags -- we have something about domestic abuse already. we have that building block in place. for other things, such as, you know, restricting some purchases on automatic weapons, thats down the road...

Not only includes background checks for all gun sales but also to get the assault weapons out of the hands of civilians. >> many democrats focusing their attention, therefore, on one man, and its not the president. now its mitch mcconnell. the self-prescribed grim reaper, rather, self-described, has been a consistent blockade against gun control legislation. a reputation not lost on voters in his home state of kentucky. >> background checks are very reasonable because you, you know, dont know wh...