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I think there was an important point in something he said. i mentioned the five points. the one that was really the most impressed by hes asking the department of justice to work with social media and tech companies to try to get the root of violent extremism online chatrooms that we see, to try to find out what are the root causes of this hatred. i think thats a really -- >> right, but right now if a story about what the president is saying appears on your facebook feed and the presidents comme...

Human beings, thats what it was written, about protecting human beings. what is the good of writing a law that now protects the guns as opposed to the human beings. >> the public opinion and policy on guns seem to have been misaligned for a long time. major support for gun control hasnt always moved the needle, we know that. republicans have been insulated and funded by a gun lobby, and that divide cast between party lines between for and against has hobbled this issue. take a look at this as we...

Website the department of justices office of civil rights link. what does that imply to the american people? i have no interest in pursuing civil rights issues, i have no interest in pursuing the mission of the department of justices civil rights department. secondly, he effectively killed legislation that would keep mass killing machines out of the hands of the mentally ill. that is a fact. he has gutted the department of civil rights. he has taken away essentially the division that was specifi...

Center. good to have all of you with us here as experts on these issues. i want to start with you, nancy, on that contrast. what do you think of the trump officials defense there are very few corporations charged, maybe there is some secret investigation we dont know about? >> flls the secret investigation is including the trump companies, thats why its so secret. the reality is at the end of the day its the employer. it seems to be okay to go after the workers in these places because they are p...

Happened. so you should i think acknowledge that and acknowledge that, that this was a big screw-up on the part of your department. and can no one in this administration be bothered to staff the federal bureaucracy at any level with competent people who see the holes in the system, who see deficiencies in the system, who are smart enough and experienced enough to know when you dont have, say, enough correctional guards on duty at the mcc, whatever the problem happens to be. >> you say barr uses ...

Or were going to punish you otherwise. youre really going back to something we havent seen at least since the 65 immigration act under written law which is a two-tier system. >> its still about classism. this is still about how we know the folks that are coming through, that are immigrants that dont need benefits and theyre here legally look a certain way. lets be clear about what that is. >> right. >> and so this is yet another way -- they were losing the argument about illegal immigrants, and ...

Points out is we need to extend this distinction between mental health care and physical health care and invest in mental health care so that people who have depression or bipolar disorder or something else dont suffer with the stigma of it and are able to get care. >> to go back to some of these things that you listed out, including an assault weapons ban, et cetera, frankly, washington hasnt been able to do anything at all hardly on gun safety, let alone these large he steps that youre talking...

Referenced. hes mined the midterm data. he knows exactly whats going on in all of these states. he knows theres a real threat given good enough democratic recruits to his senator in iowa, arizona, north carolina, come ko colorado, maine, georgia. hes looking at next year. its unlikely mcconnell is threatened in re-election next year but his good friend and former deputy john cornyn certainly could be in texas. hes looking at political allies and looking at the map. he knows president trump is al...

A.b. stoddard to sams point the presidents going on vacation, congress is out for several weeks. there does seem to be shifting political realities around this but is this really going to be the time when this actually tips over? >> i think imminently reasonable republicans who want the party to survive like michael steele are talking about the data that theyre seeing on the ground. what they saw when they dug out of the results of the midterms, what they see in purple states and the energy behi...

I think thats one of the reasons for instincts that they started to give this happy talk about potentially doing something on common sense gun safety legislation because they saw governor dewine in ohio get shouted down by his constituents, republicans and democrats the other day, who said do something. they told him you need to do something. theyre getting this message and i think especially the suburbs of america are abandoning the republican party so whether its texas, whether its maine, whet...