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finney and ron brownstein. great to have you guys here. lets start with the senate debate, the john fetterman and mehmet oz debate that just happened tonight, and of course crime came up. its been a big issue in that race. so lets hear their exchange. >> im the only person on this stage right now that has -- is successful about pushing back against gun violence and being the community more safe. all he has done is just put a plan up on his website in the last 24 hours. he has no experi...

Weve gotten the rhetoric on the right, has become so paranoid that a true paranoid person could be made crazy by it. i mean, look, weve gotten asymmetrical warfare out of the national rifle association in response to a nonexistent threat. because nobody has proposed any sort of confiscatory law regarding firearms. nobody has proposed to take away the second amendment, to end it, to take away anybodys right to bear arms. what people are proposing is the mildest, most meager laws for gun control. ...

Compared to what ive got planned for you. joining me now are ej deion, columnist for "the washington post" and a member of the nras enemies list. and joy reid, managing editor of the grio. i have to start with you, you are the only one among us on the nras enemy list. so you have to be, i guess, these days more careful with your mail than the rest of us do. but when you listen to that language of wayne lapierre saying that, you know, president obama just what an enemy he is to the way of life of...

And our friends on the right, some of our friends on the right, have just gone to a place where they should not be as conservatives. it is not conservative to use this style of rhetoric. >> joy reid and ej deion, thanks for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> good to be with you. coming up, just how easy is it to buy illegal guns? we will answer that question in tonights episode of "ask a criminal." a convicted felon will tell us what the illegal gun market is really like. and in new york l...

People are for background checks. they are. >> like 90%. >> yes. >> and ej, this is a former texas republican. this is no new jersey republican talking there. >> well, she is the sort of person that ted cruz would call a squish. >> yes. >> because shes in favor of this very modest measure. no, and i think whats depressing is, how few republicans crossed over on this. there was a time not so long ago, 10, 15 years ago, when you could get quite a lot of republicans voting for sane gun legislation....

"huffington post" sam stein. ej, i want to start with you, because you are the only one among us who is actually on the nras enemies list. youve earned it. others of us have tried to earn it. and apparently -- >> you dont get there -- more than earned it. >> but ej, this really is not over. when you watch whats happening to kelly ayotte up there, i found the most striking thing in that town meeting for me, as someone who is looking at the way this stuff works on the inside, was that voter saying...

Beck. and to close the convention sunday night, ted nugent will speak about, quote, repaying our debt to here owes, end quote. apparently the nra could not get an actual military veteran to speak about, quote, the ultimate sacrifices of the u.s. military warriors and their families. so they got ted nugent. joining me now are nra enemies list ej deion, columnist for the "washington post" and "huffington post" sam stein. ej, i want to start with you, because you are the only one among us who is ac...

Freshman senator ted cruz, louisiana governor bobby jindal, who has a whopping 38% approval rating in his own state. and republican presidential campaign losers rick perry and rick santorum. but the really big event is, of course, saturday night in what the nra is calling, quote, their words, the most important gathering of the year. and that, of course, can only mean a keynote speech by glenn beck. and to close the convention sunday night, ted nugent will speak about, quote, repaying our debt t...

The part about assault weapons was an amendment. the main actual bill was called the public safety and second amendment protection act. like the bill was written specifically to be all about background checks and prohibiting anything like a registry. so the way it was written, protected people like toomey, even with gun owners. so to vote against something that moderate, that compromised-laden, makes people look extreme. >> ej deion, the nras enemys list, and the last words friends list. joy rei...

Toomeys polling goes up. in the toomey polling going up, which i think is the most important thing for other republicans to watch, what that -- there seems to be something in that, that says, hey, theres something to be said for what looks like statesmanship. >> right. not just toomey, but look at mary landrieu in louisiana, always considered vulnerable, up in a state that has almost no gun laws, how conservative they are. her numbers went up too. so did kaye hagens in north carolina. by the way...