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He has this position today for this audience, this position tomorrow for that audience. we have seen it on a number of issues. other than trade and a few other things, he really only has a few strongly held personally held views and so when we get to these issues that he doesnt have one, you get this sort of weathe weathervane effect and hes all over the place. >> what specifically do you think a piece of legislation might look like that passes through both chambers? >> well, i think we have see...

Guns. >> can you imagine if these guns got in the wrong hands through a burglary? >> reporter: californias department of justice recovered 18,000 firearms since the program began. more than 10,000 people are on the list statewide. as the country is, again, embroiled in the gun control debate, some point out that this program would not have caught mass shooters in california. there are people out there who say with all the shootings we have seen across the country, that none of this, that the app...

And there is a federal data base where they report criminal history for when individuals try to purchase a weapon. that data base is checked. the only legislation at this point that has much light of day before this meeting on wednesday is that legislation which would add incentives to enforcing the law that is already in the books. there is another piece of lation -- legislation mansion tomby and that would cluz the background check loopholes for online sales as well as gun showsism ju shows, i...

Those are the things he should be doing. >> you should ban handguns too? they are semi-automatic. whats the difference. >> mass killings. >> the big rallying cry for nra is enforce the laws on the book. three big holes. background checks. only required for federally licensed gun dealers. 60% of gun transfers go to people with no background check. the second that states have to voluntarily provide information to be included in nix. the data base that the background check is run against. 13 states...

Because if they did, youd have to say look you need a universal background check system, no gun show loophole, et cetera. you need a real data base that has the information that states like new york put together. you need a reporting system where teachers can call in and say someone should investigate this person we think he may be mentally ill and then you have to have the courage to look at the american people and say, look, assault weapons are too high a risk for the reward. you dont need the...

To this is multifaceted. the problem with the debate is if you talk about anything other than gun control, you are called complicit and a child murderer and making excuses on that front. thats not the case. you have to do several things, and when you do, gun control stuff like fixing the system as we did in 2007 post virginia tech, you end up is state governments not compelled to put things in the data base, people who are not putting mental health flags into the data base, creating a data base ...

Again. we have a sheriff right here in florida, sheriff grady judd who has created a program in polk county which models how to train administrator and volunteers going through vigorous training for the sole purpose of plooef -- preventing lethal attacks in schools. this is how you protect people. >> let me ask you this. you and i probably -- none of us have the perfect solution. but what is wrong with an all of the above approach? >> all of the above including a gun ban? >> meaning -- extend th...

Data base to prevent somebody fr -- from buying a gun. >> any tip has to be received and understand in totality. the fbi had just cause to take action against this man and they did not. >> i want to go back, though. what information that a school system gets on a student and in this case they expelled him, should that information, should it be mandated that that information be put into the data base so that when he stepped in to go buy a gun, that popped up in the data base as a yellow flag or a...

Months, recovering tweets that twitter deleted. all these confirmed russian troll accounts, twitter suspended. when they do that, the tweets are also gone from the internet which means regular people, citizens, researchers, legislators, cant see what they were. >> got it. you used some methodology and got a lot of these back. >> right. we worked with a few different sources who are familiar with twitter systems. we have to protect those sources but we were able to get the tweets and put them in ...

Group in america and filled them up with divisive language. however, as we can see by looking at our data base, there was a clear preference for trump. thats what the intel community has also determined, in pushing trump, but they were pushing divisive stuff for bernie, for hillary clinton, for jill stein, everyone. >> where can our viewers go to read up on all this? >> nbcnews.com. its right there. >> thanks very much, ben. it is really interesting, its worth reading so you understand what has ...