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Stat of how many people own gins, and this is sort of it critically to the point that you are making. you cant have this conversation without convincing gun owners, because americans are highly armed and talking about 300 million guns in a population of 312 million people. and so that is not one gun per person, and we get that, but it is a lot of guns relative to the population. when we come back, we are going to ask another question about power, and we know that he gets to pick them, but congre...

Presidency, so if we are on a pathway of how armed we are are as a nation, we are on a pathway in terms of the presidential power, so what can the president do? what can the vice president do in this moment on the issue of guns? >> well, it is really interesting, because we can see the ways in which the public is hungry for something to happen. and gun control is an incredibly complicated issue, so this is a moment where executive action would make people feel like we are doing something here. s...

Those issues, so can he or will he come back to earth? democrats in the state think he will and the glow will wear off, and really, it is hard to point to what did he do substantively and result he got that someone else would not have? a lot of it is theater and i have talked for so long that i have forgotten the question. >> well, michael, that is a good point, and your point that he did the number one thing that any politician must do, and that is that he kept himself from having a challenger,...

Pete skronic, they dont just walk in with blank slate, but come in on somebody elses terrain. so he comes in with right wing ideological rule essentially, and so his appointments are in that ideological left, and barely left and more center. so that is the concern that this is the second term and how can you push further to the left with the ideologically and not just black or women or latino. >> and you assume that the left comes wrapped in a certain body and not a central question that way. >>...

So what is the most effective way to do that? and to give people insurance is a much more cost effective way than to keep people paying to go to the emergency room without insurance. it is helpful to remind people to pay for entitlements to medicare and this is a life and death issue, and we have to ask the question how many more people will die, 4 million? 5 million? if we increase the age to 67 or cut the funding? people will die in this country without this access to medicare. so it is helpfu...

It is framed as we must do something, because of doom, and you know the doom coming before us. i think that this is a question of political will and choices, and it is not something objectively that we will run out of money. if we wanted to find the money to keep them solvent, we would do it. if we wanted to go the war tomorrow, we would. if we wanted to make sure that the elderly were not the most vulnerable like they were in the first two centuries, we would. >> and mark, looking at the recent...

Where we are going to go in the future and after that fight over the fiscal cliff, one of the issues of po s of politics is t people are saying, we taxed the rich and done there. so he has to keep pushing on the bloated military and the welfare, and part of the argument, we gave you that, we gave you tax breaks for the rich, and taxing the rich now sh, and so now it is all about entitlements and he has to shift the debate thein the coming yea or he is going to be in trouble around this question,...

Question in terms of the difference of governors and the leeway we give them and presidents. one of the things that go back to an erl ler poiarlier point oe bully pulpit, and we saw it on the issue of marriage equality by the president and it shifted attitudes. we are at a similar moment where unlike any governor single-handedly, the president can use the power of persuasion to lead us in a conversation about gun control and the second amendment and not shift everybody, but shift to the center a...

Politics is a different question. even questions around obama, and a man of color and a literal man, and he has done more deportations in one term than george w. bush did in two. and i think that the reaction will change with reform, but when it comes to the pollices the of race and diversity, it is about pressuring people and the political and the george w. bush administration taught us serious lessons around diverse bodies and progressive politics, and that is what we are trying to figure out ...