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We start the gun debate, non-debate. the one reason its a non-debate, we debate what piece of legislation could have stopped this incident? you can never put your finger on it, and therefore, you cant talk about any piece of legislation that might have stopped the last one or might stop the next one. meanwhile, there are 300 million guns in this country. and so a real gun debate has to look at that fact. 300 million guns. we need to, you know, look at what was done in a place like australia wher...

There was a clear contrast. donald trump was supportive of gun rights and hillary clinton wanted to limit gun rights. >> do you feel as if this issue of mass shootings is a problem that the federal government has to figure out how to solve? >> i think over the years, youve seen congress address different components of it. one of the things that weve seen in some of the past shootings is that there was serious problems in the mental health community throughout our country. we didnt do a good job ...

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Go to gary, indiana. you go across state lines and you can have the toughest gun laws you want in the world, but if you go across state lines, thats why they want federal. >> i think what doesnt get focused on enough is the amount of people over the country who over the course of a day or a week or a month use guns to protect themselves against criminals. >> is the right to bear arms unlimited or is there a limit? >> the second amendment really predates the bill of rights. our founding fathers b...

Healthy economy, and were trying to get back to that. >> in sandy relief, as congressman, you were for the relief but you wanted some cuts with it. why should hurricane relief for harvey, irma, maria, now nate be handled the same way? >> were not there yet. keep in mind there are a couple different ways we address disaster relief funding in this country, and right now were sort of in the emergency, making sure people have drinking water and electricity -- >> is this something thats changed for y...

When theres not an incident. >> exactly, theres never a good time to have the debate. you dont have the debate when nothing happens, then when the worst mass shooting in modern american history happens, if you dont talk about it then, when are you going to talk about it? >> a lot of people feel the debate ended after newton when you had 20 children killed, and there was no legislation, no action in the wake of that. what is different this time? it is the worst mass shooting, but the politics hav...

Thats a fact of life. >> are you okay if this ends up being a regulatory change by atf, or does this have to be caudified by congress, if your view? >> in my view, it has to be caudified by congress. it can be changed any time. look, how many events do we want to have happen with these devices now before we do something about it? >> the california republican party has been calling on you to return or donate to charity campaign contributions youve received in the past from harvey weinstein, the m...

Welcome back. earlier we mentioned the wash, rinse, repeat feeling we got watching the trump administration this week. nbc news ran a multiple sourced story that secretary of state rex tillerson called president trump a moron and that tillerson had to be talked out of quitting. the state department denied parts of story, tillerson denied only the quitting part. is mike pompeo being considered as tillersons replacement? is john kelly really talking about leaving? the white house dismisses all of ...

Gun out of two broken hotel windows. every american should look at those pictures and say, do we want more of this? this is one simple thing that stops the making of a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun. >> let me ask you this. give me the slate of laws that if you could wave your wand and have enacted that could have prevented vegas. >> well, i dont know. i would have to take a good look at that and really study it. im not sure there is any set of laws that could have prevented it. i do kn...

Theyre used properly. but what i have seen over the decades is a growth of substantial improper use of weapons, beginning with the texas bell tower. youve seen law offices, youve seen businesses, youve seen movie theaters, youve seen high schools, youve seen colleges, youve seen a primary school with first graders in it, 20 of them killed, and now you see a great american classic, which is country music, people by the thousands out in a safe place with a big hotel in the background, and somebody...