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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...

And people thought how competent he was over the fact there were potential red flags in his back ground that later came to light. regardless of how he feels with hope hicks, weve seen with it a number of staffers the. we know it is true of hope hicks. he didnt like her sit go outside the presidents office and not having a well defined portfolio. that was one of many staffers that he tried limit down exactly what they were doing. but certainly he was very dismissive of hope hicks, of ivanka trump...

Not necessarily have a back ground in it. >> not everybody on television is an expert. and larry kudlow, as was mentioned earlier, he plays an economist very well on tv. hes not trained as an economist. and if you look at what he has done over the years, hes not just been wrong, but hes been wrong so consistently and so spectacularly, so much so, that if people had followed his advice, say, six weeks before the economic crash, when he says he sees the beginning of a recovery, you would have lost...

Into real trouble. thats when sessions recused himself. and the other thing is as imprecise as trump is, hes always very careful when he talks about russia. i dont think its an accident that when he talked about it today in the oval office, he purposely did not bring up -- purposely did not tie the sanctions to the campaign and did not criticize putin directly. >> do you agree with that? >> i do. >> do you want to turn to the other story in the news? >> i do. >> so, today andrew mccabe, deputy f...

Keeping the president happy. >> what about the presidents joyce of gina haspel to become next cia director? >> i think with respect to miss haswell, in particular, the trump administration is engaged in an out and out cover-up to keep the american people from knowing about her professional back ground. as you know, there are many public stories linking her to torture. im a john mccain guy on these issues. he points out it is not right morally and he points out it is not effective. the cia has ac...

Legal back ground. >> none. there was no plan how would we discuss this with allies and alert congress. john kelly wasnt aware how they would do this. if it is your responsibility to lead this process and its going absolutely bonkers, how can you put your name next to it? gary is saying you stood with the president of charlottesville but money is the issue? thats what you wont stand with him over? after charlottesville, fair point, he did say im not happy with this but he would make the argument...

10 for aluminum. you reported that there were no prepared remarks for him. >> no. >> no position paper and no legal back ground. >> none. there was no plan how would we discuss this with allies and alert congress. john kelly wasnt aware how they would do this. if it is your responsibility to lead the process and going bonkers, how can you put your name next to it? gary is saying you stood with the president of charlottesville but money is the issue? thats what you wont stand with him over? after...

Spark that would cause that revolt. but were seeing things settle down into business as usual. >> okay. but is -- do you -- how about this issue. which is it does feel like there are some people that look at the proposals, whether it is governor scott in tallahassee or senator tomby or cornyn and they say that is such a small thing. it doesnt matter. but is the good the enemy -- is the perfect enemy of the good. is this one of those cases? >> well, certainly it is not perfect if you do toomeys b...

Them feel better that the president didnt directly intervene. jared kushners security clearance was going to be complicated for a lot of xeens. it was going to be complicated even if he mild them correctly. hes done so much business and has had so many different foreign contacts and he was coming from a nonpolitical world. so this is a more complicated back ground than would you normally see. now you have the mueller investigation still ongoing. there are questions being asked about the meetings...

And falling to the ground and knowing people inside -- if they had known people inside the towers who had died hed say you have no ragt to talk about that because you have -- you dont have the back ground to underst why those buildings crashed. we could do all the numbers but it is -- more people die from guns than -- per year, easily than died at 9/11. it took place, everything stopped. the city stopped, the country stopped. everybody stopped and bush and cheney implemented the 1% solution, did...