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Who last month pulled out more than 100 celebrities who are pushing clinton further left. shes come out against keystone, pushed further left than sanders on guns and this week she flipped on the trans pacific partnership, the tpp. biden thought he could make a play to clintons left as if the current front-runner has infectively boxed him out. before hes even had a chance to step on the court. i mean katy perry and john lewis? is she now unbeetable? >> thats a lovely combination. its a 1-2 punch...

On to is the fact that there has been dramatic shift in number of shootings weve had in this country, mass shootings since 2008. gun issues will be hot topic in the debate. putting it so, negotiation is also a big theme. which candidate can actually make the other side of the aisle negotiate. positioning nra as non-negotiating black and white. interesting strategy. martha: lets listen to another sound bite from this event. lets play that. >> nra tries to keep gun owners, the ones who are members...

Party. and well see if he can sort of get through this fire that you have to walk through if you are actually going to carry that mantle for the party. >> if you take away the over the top rhetoric and look at the reaction politically to what happened in oregon you find candidates on the democratic side coming down on the side of some kind of legislation to address gun issues. nobody on the republican side saying that. how do you think that plays out? >> i think the democrats have the edge. ben ...

Worry about anymore. also, what hillary clinton has just done -- this is fascinating -- she has just specifically put the obama white house in a really interesting position. because, yes, martin omalley put forward specific policies he wants. thats interesting. bernie sanders has this record he comes from the left. not particularly on gun issues. so he has stuff to answer. what hillary clinton has done, its fascinating because how it sets her up vis-a-vis the president. with these new policy pro...

Against bernie sanders. >> who historically has had some issues because he represents rural vermont. >> exactly. but what she doesnt want to do, at least looking back on history, her husband has blamed gun issues for costing al gore the 2000 election. and i think she doesnt want to get so far into, you know, the other side of the territory -- pro gun control that, a, it would cause her problems in the general election, but two, that it would be something that is just completely unrealistic for a...

Unveiled her own series of actions she says she could take on guns a. series of actions she says she could take on the guns issue with or without congress. hmm. these new proposals from secretary clinton today significantly ramp up her aggressiveness on this issue. she seems to be very well aware, by saying i can do this without congress. she seems very well aware she is inviting the hysteria the gun lobby is known for. shes not explicitly saying, bring it on. its clear that democrats, including...

Against bernie sanders. >> who historically has had some issues because he represents rural vermont. >> exactly. but what she doesnt want to do, at least looking back on history, her husband has blamed gun issues for costing al gore the 2000 election. and i think she doesnt want to get so far into, you know, the other side of the territory -- pro gun control that, a, it would cause her problems in the general election, but two, that it would be something that is just completely unrealistic for a...

>> thats how god made me. i have no problem with it. >> its those cuban babies. >> i dont know about how much. >> reporter: in recent days, his close friend jeb bush has been lacking in executive experience. rubio absolutely refuses to criticize bush directly. but between bites of pizza in cedar rapids, he took a glancing swipe at the former governor saying, even without executive experience, hes the better man for the job. >> the world has changed a lot in 15 years. the issues we confronted in ...

But, secretary clinton has long ties with many of the democrats in congress, so it should not be a surprising. but i think what is equally interesting is the fact that all over this country, order near people, working people, elderly people, are moving in our direction because they do want a candidate to take on the establishment. so i think we will get some congressional support, as this campaign progresses. but one should not be surprised that much of the establishment is not with me at this p...

Establishment. as you know, i am the longest serving independent in the history of the united states congress. i am running for the democratic nomination to be president. secretary clinton has long ties with many of the democrats in congress so it should not be surprising. what is equally interesting is the fact that all over this country, ordinary working people and elderly people are moving in our direction because they do want a candidate to take on the establishment. i think we will get cong...