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>> were gonna take your ar-15s? i am here to say hell no, youre not. >> ed: beto orourke getting confronted by a gun owner in colorado. all taking flack from members of his own party like chuck shumer after saying he favors a mandatory buy back program for assault style weapons. for his part the former texas congressman is ripping into chuck shumer, accusing the democratic leader of coming up empty on gun reform. john locke, good afternoon. >> hello. >> i want to go straight to this democratic i...

Other democrat who agrees with beto roarke. orourke responded with this tweet. i was asked about chuck shumers criticism of my plan to buy back assault weapons. my response is, what has he been able to get done? the american people are with us on this. theyre just waiting on congress to do the right thing. so igor, is this hurting the cause of gun control for the left when youve got these two leaders of the democratic party not on the same page? >> ed, i think the american people agree there are...

Me now. its been quite a last 90 minutes. we dont have a national security adviser but we know from the president, a new one, a fourth one of his presidency, is coming. >> right. look, this is an issue that, for most voters, national security, unless something really bad or really good is happening, for most voters this isnt a determinative thing. the president gets a lot of leeway on the subject, again, as long as we are substantially at peace. on the other hand, when you see what were trying t...

This, or put this out. how does this play from democrats across the aisle? >> democrats have a problem with donald trump on national security and on foreign policy issues, which they substantially agree with him on a lot of thins. trumps disagreement is with his own party about hawkishness. with his own party on international trade. chuck shumer agrees with the president about not liking where john bolton was going and disagreed with bolton and other hawks inside the republican party. so what do...

Have a lot of background checks right now. >> dana: now, luke, the public opinion strategy, gun laws among suburban women, 72% say they want to see stricter gun laws. that number sort of born out not just in this poll, but across the poll. does this mean were seeing anything happen this year? >> were not getting gun control this year. there is pressure on suburban republican members of the house as we see more suburban women push for greater gun control. the reality is if we were gonna have gun ...

See the grandmother, now its not going to happen, even though that would be allowed, but an of politics. >> for two people who have been in congress for a short time, they have amassed a series of unsettling comments towards israel. president trump knows this, republicans know this. any time were talking about any members of the squad, its a good day for the republican party. for years the democrats were much better than the republicans at taking the extreme elments of their base. people like ch...

Hit their targets? >> so, i dont know. thats inexplicable to me. my advice would be for the whole team, including president trump, is to take your time about making these decisions. i commanded in combat. i know what its like to make these weighty decisions. take your time about making your call and then stick with it when you get it. part of that process means getting all the information, including casualty estimates. >> julie: theres been an on going debate on how to handle iran. democratic se...

Stumbling into war, war that nobody wants, is to have a robust open debate and for congress to have a real say. >> julie: first of all, i dont think the president would ever bumble into war. the presidents intentions are to send a strong message to iran, which he did last night, by imposing sanctions. how el do you do so without military conflict? >> well, look. senator schumers statement is clearly political in nature here. president trump doesnt want to stumble into war. what he wants to do is...

On changes to the supreme court, senator mcconnell addressed that as well. listen to that. >> i think theyre a genuine threat. its important to remind people that the number of supreme court justices is set by statue. that could be done by simple statue. oh, by the way, they plan to make d.c. a state and puerto rico a state. they need to be stoped. thats why i call myself the grim reaper. as long as im majority leader of the senate, this stuff is not going to pass. >> dana: he also has a race th...

Infrastructure renewal. when nancy pelosi came out this morning and said what she said about the president engaging in a cover-up, the president outloud -- first, he knew there was going to be no possibility for an infrastructure meeting but he allowed them to come over to the white house and then gave them a piece of his mind. listen to what the president said. >> i walked into the room and i told senator schumer, speaker pelosi, i want to do infrastructure. i want to do it more than you want t...