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Weapons be legal, what is the value that is protected by -- what is the reason why its in the national interest to have assault weapons legal to purchase? >> an assault weapon is simply a design of a semi-automatic weapon that some people refer to as an assault weapon. there is no such thing as an assault weapon. as you know they had a hard time back in the 90s when clinton passed it to define what assault weapons is. it is a semi-automatic weapon like almost every hunting rifle in america is a ...

She said, you have to pass what we want and be bipartisan about it, as opposed to, lets actually try to work together and see if we can come up with a package of things that may include some amount of gun control or red flag laws as a package of things to address this issue. i think that would have been a more, frankly, less political and more productive way of addressing the issue. >> jeff? >> rick, you know thats not true. i mean, there is no way mitch mcconnell is going to support any sort of...

Vegas shooting, bump stocks and things, you know, we had a good debate about it and things were actually being talked about to move forward and try to limit those. so i think there are opportunities on the margins, and i say on the margins because, remember, what were talking about here is a constitutional right, a individual constitutional right to possess a firearm. so what we have to do is be very cautious about how we limit that. but, look, i think talking about that, maybe there is somethin...

>> in terms of large capacity ban, there seems to be no appetite among congressional republicans for those steps. do you have any reason to believe that might change? >> no, i dont think so. i mean, again, weve got to slowly build this pressure up. and i think rallies like this happening all over the country from groups like moms demand action, theyre pulling in republicans, theyre pulling in sports men around the country. and i think its starting to build, anderson. people ask me, why is this d...

Debt defaulting. lets get it done now. i ask speaker mcconnell, leader mcconnell on the floor today, lets get it done today. there would be no democratic hold up. >> some concerned the republicans are wary about the bill because there are no spending controls. john kennedy is the republican senator from louisiana. he said he is not a know hes a hell now. they might need democratic senators who are away at the debates to come back and vote. theres only 65 house republicans who voted for it last w...

We heard from former vice president joe biden. >> you can imagine if someone would have said that when i was speaking, no, stop. outright condemn those folks. outright condemn the ku klux klan. outright condemn white supremacists. >> you heard from joe biden. thats his take. but is this the idea of trying to brand the squad? there is no democratic nominee. so the president is basically saying, hey, i dont want to talk about these guys, lets talk about these four in the absence of what a real opp...

Closely fought in michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, that this message could resonate, that he might keep his message very much the same and really work -- as 2016 and work on casting this as an out of touch extremist part. >> lets play the contrarian role. say it doesnt pass. the president runs around the country saying the democrats are hell bent on impeaching me. couldnt the democrats say no, we had a vote and didnt impeach you. we let them speak up and dont tweet them into being afraid of...

Find the burning of a flag repurepugnant, it is protected speech. its the first amendment we are talking about here. >> yes. and thats the problem is if you try to push this through. constitutional amendment, i believe in our constitution and i i dont believe it should be changed very often or very easily. say this doesnt pass, well now you give liberals a talking points that americans dont support protecting our flag when, in fact, its politics that doesnt support protecting our flag. i believe...

Item. >> its optional. >> the debt limit is need to do. you cant envision a scenario where the debt limit increase, the most popular vote a member of congress can take, short of raising their own pay, that -- you cant imagine a scenario where that doesnt pass without a large number of republicans and democrats in both houses. >> everybody has to jump together. >> how do we get there? how do we lock arms and jump together if theres this level of inane vitriol. >> trump has lauding her. but this i...

Why are we spending so much time, people will argue there is a lot of theater and gesture in this. >> why trump lost it a bit today. thats precocious, whatever you want to call it, that behavior. i dont like it. you are talking about stuff i dont like. even if i like it infrastructure. my question is this, could it be that these approaching judicial decisions on his financial papers in two courts now and in the new york legislature really are getting to him? because he know what is hes always fe...