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Often sold to criminals without a back ground check and they cant do anything about it. so we need to fix that part of this as well. youre right, the funding is important. >> i know one of the things that you have said -- weve had this conversation before, you want to try to get, i guess, the east coast or urban america to understand the gun culture in rural america. how do you translate that to the president? >> well, the president and i have talked about this. when you look at places in middle...

Do anything about it. and these are guns that are often sold to criminals without a back ground check and they cant do anything about it. so we need to fix that part of this as well. youre right, the funding is important. >> i know one of the things that you have said -- weve had this conversation before, you want to try to get, i guess, the east coast or urban america to understand the gun cultu in rural america. how do you translate that to the president? >> well, the president and i have talk...

White house? >> this is a prelude to a major showdown at the ballot box. and i think thats also where gun issues will be resolved this november. i think the courts may speak before november. i dont think theyll resolve the issues. but clearly president obama has the support of hillary clinton and bernie sanders. especially if hillary is elected youll see them follow through and push -- continue pushing the obama agenda. on the other end youll have trump already out there and others who are sayin...

These years is the fact they know there are individuals out there selling hundreds if not thousands of guns a year and they dont have the authority to do anything about it. and these are guns that are often sold to criminals without a background check and they cant do anything about it. so we need to fix that part of this as well but youre right, the funding is important. >> what is something -- i know one of the things you have said, weve had this conversation before, you want to try to get i g...

Against muslimmuslims? >> and ben carson saying it took four days from the attack to respond and even more strange that somehow the attack on our soil is proof that his policies are working. >> the issue for marco rubio, you only have to look at donald trump right now and some of his rhetoric on muslims to understand the reason for obamas response to that type of rhetoric. obama was very challenging of republican this his address both on the rhetoric and the gun issues. and so some response from...

Keeps talking about he is from a rural state and look, there is a rural/urban divide on gun issues. there always has been. thats the real divide, the divide thats been there for decades. its turned into a red/blue divide because our politics have self-sorted, but it is rural versus urban mindset when it comes to access to guns. >> all right, chuck todd, thank you very much for sticking around for the breaking news. at the top of the hour, we saw new reaction from the president. well have much mo...

>> we know he had a gun. >> and you heard donald trump saying after paris, after chattanooga "they should have been armed." well, that is a completely different response than youre getting from democrats. >> joe, im curious. in new hampshire, it used to be democrats were a little cautious on gun issues, particularly democratic nominees for president because they wanted to continue to carry places that were rural population -- iowa, new hampshire, where the democrats are more pro-gun rights. have...

>> we know he had a gun. >> and you heard donald trump saying after paris, after chattanooga "they should have been armed." well, that is a completely different response than youre getting from democrats. >> joe, im curious. in new hampshire, it used to be democrats were a little cautious on gun issues, particularly democratic nominees for president because they wanted to continue to carry places that were rural population -- iowa, new hampshire, where the democrats are more pro-gun rights. have...

And you had donald trump saying after paris, after chattanooga, they should have been armed. well, that is a completely different response than youre getting from democrats. >> joe, im curious. in new hampshire, it used to be democrats were a little cautious on gun issues, particularly democratic nominees for president because they wanted to continue to carry places that were rural population -- iowa, new hampshire, where the democrats are more pro-gun rights. have things shifted in new hampshir...

Diverse field, jeb bush speaks spanish, marco rubio a spanish speaker. you dont have that with the democrats. interesting to see how they convince the elect terror rate that is going to play a definitive role in the election next year. >> its interesting, you have a republican field which is a lot more diverse than democratic field. its counterintuitive. >> thanks to both of you. good luck. enjoy yourself, as i know you will. also joining me now, cnn anchor don lemon live over at facebook lounge...