are you going to leave that? you re afraid of the nra, right? this is not a popular thing to say in terms of the nra, but i m saying it anyway. it doesn t make sense that i have to wait until i m 21 to get a handgun but i can get this weapon at 18. i don t know. i like taking the guns early. take the guns first, go through due process second. if you add concealed carry to this, you ll never get it, guys. here s the good news about this. you don t have to be a lawyer to understand how scary that proposition is. not that you don t need to do something about guns. applaud the president for trying to figure on out what to do even though he is not talking about things not politically popular. for sure. check that box. however, let s take your stuff and then we ll work it out later. figure out the legal stuff later. due process.
didn t have congressional authority to do that. so i think it is going to take congressional authority. but i welcome anything this president is willing to do or any president is willing to do to save lives. i m helping to support that. the subject of mental health came up several times. here is the president. to go to court would have taken a long time. you could do exactly what you say but take the guns first, go through due process second. were you surprised to hear the president say that, that the president has been taking a great deal of heat over that from the base on the right. well the fact you do need due process. i m one of the co-authors of a bill just introduced that would have one of the gun violence restraining orders, gvros, that in extreme cases like in florida, would empower local officials to actually remove weapons before anybody hurts somebody. well that s really important. they don t have that law in florida. every state should have that
white house on possible gun legislation and shocking members of his own party by sounding more like a democrat. back with me, peter beinart, angela rye, and alice stewart. i stumped you guys before the break, and now i m going to explain to you what i meant. i want to pay this clip of the president in a bipartisan white house meeting about guns today. to go to court would have taken a long time. so you could do exactly what you re saying but take the guns first. go through due process second. what was that face you were making? okay. the president just said he is in favor of taking guns away from americans without due process, an extraordinary statement coming from a republican president. what s your reaction? if barack obama said that, all hell would be breaking loose. i think we have to take this with a grain of salt. remember what he did m that bipartisan meeting about the dreamers. democrats were there. he said, i love them so much. i m going to take care of them. oftentimes
transparen transparency. it s great to see the sausage being made. let s review some of the things the president said out loud as the whole world was watching yesterday. i m going to write the bum stock essentially write it out. it doesn t make sense i have to wait until 21 to get a handgun, but i can get this weapon at 18. i like taking the guns early, take the guns first, go through due process second. so all of those things, david gergen, against a traditional stance of the nra and most republicans. the last one, taking guns without due process, against the law, also. that s a separate issue. does this represent change, david gergen, or are we in a position where nothing matters, nothing that was said yesterday when we were watching matters? he s certainly changed. toughened his stance about guns, to me, more power to him.
procedures, you could do exactly what you re saying, take the guns first, go through due process second. is that something you support, taking the guns first, going through due process second? every american deserves to have due process. there are a lot of common sense gun safety measures that we can implement without violating an american s right to due process. and i think we have to work really hard together to try to find a way to keep dangerous battlefield weapons out of the hands of people who intend to do harm without violating law abiding american citizens rights. i think it is interesting that you re encouraged by the president s statements yesterday. he encourages one thing, but do you trust them? you know, we all are public servants and so we have to take each other at our word. and he gave us his word that he s committed to seeing some common sense gun safety measures advanced in this country. i think it is incumbent on us as elected officials to enact on