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On gun violence thats plaguing our country and pleading with congress to finally do something about it, calling for a ban on assault weapons, failing that, raising the age to purchase them. also tougher back ground checks. i want to bring in democratic congressman from colorado. congressman, thank you for joining. i wish it was under better circumstances. we appreciate it. so president biden got specific tonight about what congress needs to do about guns. theres a lot of hope things will be diff...

Senator, a couple of things. we arranged as you know transit countries so any afghan coming out of afghanistan would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening. the vetting and the back ground checks. we surged customs and border protection officials to those transit points as well as other security law enforcement agencies to do these checks with biometric, biographic, other information that we have. then, as people were cleared and these transit points, they then c...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...

It is real problematic. but it is the president. you certainly have to welcome him. but you have hopes and expectations then that he would take that moment of moral leadership for our nation and be both a consoler, but also bring our country together on things like universal back ground checks. >> you had a speech today laying out gun control and you are a gun owner and lost a nephew to gun violence. what kind of legislation realistically do you think could be passed in the house and the senate ...

>> so senator santorum, i know youre a strong supporter of gun rights, take a look at poll numbers when it comes to public support for gun safety measures. these are all from a quinnipiac poll, a different poll. one of them universal back ground checks, 94% support. another one mandatory waiting period for gun purchases from 2018, 83% support. and a poll from in year may, 77% requiring individuals to obtain a license before being able to purchase a gun. that is a rather far reaching measure toug...

Responses. >> highly suspicious because these are individuals or in the country legally, and listed in the army along time ago, it seems the army got tired of processing the background checks so they came up with an excuse for kicking everybody out. >> john kasich said breaking faith with members of the armed forces is another low but the defense to permit officials told fox news 40 cases outlined in the ap story include complicated national security clearances used for recruits from china, paki...

How they screen drivers. >> if they really want to put themselves out there as the safe ride home, they should really make sure that they are putting these people out there that are going to get you home safely. >> reporter: ubers response to the problems and its background checks is the company has made significant investments in improvements and will continue to work with state and local governments to get it right in the future. to conduct its background checks, uber and lift both use a compa...

Think it was 1.8, it could be $1.6 billion in there for this purpose for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them and those excuse will have to make those, those schools will have that. the children shouldnt be worried about going to school as a place that violence can occur. that doesnt mean they shouldnt take precautions, whether it is through infrastructure or whatever else they may decide that they need. but i dont think you should consider in any way an answer to what we have to d...

Campaign statements would play big in oral arguments. >> kate, i think they did play a factor with those justices who agree that this particular ban is discriminatory, but unfrnly, there are enough justices to strike down this ban, one thing about the travel ban 3.0 and it wasnt the first one and its been given type, its given the opportunity to at least develop some evidence that this was done for national security reasons and we reached out to certain countries and they havent adequately told ...

All. so i think republicans should take heed of their critiques and perhaps attempt to do something to move the needle forward on this. >> and historically gun rights advocates have been single issue voters. it is the gun control advocates who have not been single issue voters. and if this generation looks first at your position on back ground checks and minimums to purchase, that could certainly change a lot of these seats. >> youre right. and i think republicans should already be nervous looki...