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Serious, maybe hes been deeply moved by what hes seen like many of us have. or maybe it is all meaningless. ultimately this is the biggest question right now. is the republican party serious about bucking the nra? were about to find out. im joined by one of the most outspoken republican lawmakers on the gun debate. the congressman from florida, a u.s. army combat veteran and one of the few elected republicans currently pushing for sweeping gun reforms. congressman, thank you for being here. >> h...

Rubios point and its not incorrect is that just a few changes and one is legal and one is not legal, do you support a ban on all semi-automatic weapons? >> i support a ban on assault weapons and assault weapons are defined by state law. not a law semi-automatic weapons. there are particularly characteristics of these assault weapons, things that look like automatic weapons but are actually semi-automatic that make these killings much more easily. the bullets coming out of these guns travel at th...

Theres all the other semi-automatic weapons but rubios point and its not incorrect is that just a few changes and one is legal and one is not legal, do you support a ban on all semi-automatic weapons? >> i support a ban on assault weapons and assault weapons are defined by state law. not a law semi-automatic weapons. there are particularly characteristics of these assault weapons, things that look like automatic weapons but are actually semi-automatic that make these killings much more easily. t...

Second amendment. >> hes like -- i feel like im watching the daily shows -- his trevor noahs impression of donald trump. i feel like im watching donald trump going trevor noahs impression of hymn. explain why this is false, chris. >> first, just on the pure weirdness of the president of the united states doing an audience-sourced poll. lets leave that aside. yeah, i mean, i think there is a serious point here, don. you know, donald trump spent the previous 48 hours prior to today talking about t...

Donald trump. i feel like im watching donald trump going trevor noahs impression of hymn. explain why this is false, chris. >> first, just on the pure weirdness of the president of the united states doing an audience-sourced poll. lets leave that aside. yeah, i mean, i think there is a serious point here, don. you know, donald trump spent the previous 48 hours prior to today talking about things like raising the age to which you can purchase a rifle from 18 to 21. bump stocks, and other modifica...

Policy statements from the president on gun control, but will it lead to action. the president now says he supports stronger background checks, banning bump stocks, which essentially turns semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons, raising the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21, a move strongly opposed by the nra. how will the nra respond? we may find out any second now. were waiting to hear from the executive director of the nra, wayne lapierre, his first comments since the massacre more than...

Promise from president trump on taking action on guns, but what action remains unclear and how much the president is willing to fight for a particular decision. he hopes the congress will do something, back to the measure that the nra opposes, raising the age to purchase se semiautomatic weapons, from 18 to 21 and supports training and arming some teachers, even giving them bonuses for doing so while praising leaders of the nra as great american patriots today. left undefined as of now are pledg...

Audience youre currently talking to. we were talking on the break, one of the most interesting elements was on banning automatic weapons -- not automatic waeeapons, theyre mostly out of existence now, but banning semiautomatic weapons and mathe crowd acted like he h walked into a rake. he said, do you really want me to ban semiautomatic rifles? the crowd went crazy. but for those that marco rubio is serving from the positions he holds, thats exactly where he wants to be. >> he said that in a twe...

And heller leaves open the door to regulate and even restrict ban for automatic weapons, like ar-15s. >> part of what is being discussed. ken, to you, looking back to 1994, an example of washington jumping in on this issue, that was when president clinton signed into law the public safety and recreational weapon law. but that expired in 2004. so, talk to me a little bit more about what happened then. >> they also, if i remember my history correctly, im going back 24 years, they also instructed s...

We looked at half of the background checks we were doing. in the previous year. 133 people convicted of sexual assault. we did stop them. 1300 people convicted of felony assault where someone usually goes to the hospital. they work. i couldnt find a single republican out in the community who was against it and yet somehow the republican party made a deal with the devil that they were going to stand united against anything even the most common sense background checks. i think there are plenty of ...