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Ive got a lot of people that care about me. And its going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose. You think this will get me a job as a pilot . I think theyll yeah, right. Can this thing do a back flip . Do you think . A barrel roll . If that goes good, and im just gonna nose down and call it a night. Lets try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anyone on the ground. All right. Oh, damn ...

>> what kind of background screenings are there for people who work at airports and directly with the aircraft? does this make you believe those screenings, if they do exist, should be more intense? >> yes, ryan, it goes back to you and i talked about this before, about the mental health issue. any time we deal with, you know, a mass shooting or things like that, we always look at it and we go, how did we miss those signals or how did we miss those signs? heres a 29-year-old individual. hows it ...

Weapons, and we saw that last night with senator marco rubio and others. what is your hope of how to get some kind of movement on assault weapons? >> my hope to get some kind of movement on assault weapons is to get better background screenings because if these people are not going to move on assault weapons we have to work with them to come to some sort of compromise where we ensure that nobody who is mentally unstable, has a history of domestic violence, or a criminal record is able to get the...

Youve done a lot of this and it is a burden and this is late at night and i appreciate you taking the time and continuing this discussion with us. so there you have it. youve already achieved things in a week, david, that we have never seen in the aftermath of shootings like this. you have the president moving on background checks, moving toward additional strengthening of background checks. you have other republicans doing that and possibly some other things. but no one backed by the nra has mo...

Do you want to ban assault weapons in the state of florida? >> i think thats something that we certainly can look at. i think, for instance, in florida, to buy a pistol, you have to be 21. to buy an ar-15, you have to be 18. i think something like that should be changed immediately, to raise that age to 21. there needs to be more background screenings, more background checks. i think once somebody starts to lose their mental capacity or they make violent threats, you know, their weapons need to ...