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We need more law enforcement and need to have prosecutors that are serious about prosecuting, not letting people off. these are issues that will be debated early on in a new republican majority. >> speaking of the republican majority. if kevin mccarthy cant get 218 votes for speaker, who can? i know youre a supporter of kevin mccarthy. what are you telling your colleagues who are denying him their support right now? >> well, i think we have a lot of time between now and january 3rd. im of the op...

Expired. and then of course in the obama administration as vice president as we really saw mass shootings start to rise, you know, he was part of that effort with obama that just was desperate to get gun safety legislation, and didnt accomplish too much in those eight years. you know, hes had one of the rare victories on this issue, on the democratic side as president last year. i think the assault weapons ban, a lot will depend, just to throw out crude politics of this, is what people think it ...

Credit. >> yeah, it is a big disconcerting and weird to see all of this bipartisan activity after about a decade after decade of none of it. lets switch gears a little bit. the supreme court and congress went this complete opposite directions on gun rights yesterday. what can you tell us about the state of play of gun policy in america? >> so we netted out yesterday with probably less gun control in america. that the supreme court decision in the morning is likely to have more influence across t...

Thing, jim, that is going to address this. i think thats one of the arguments being made by people saying, well, what youre doing in rhode island is not going to solve the problem. of course it is not. but it does reduce the risk. mental health issues, we know, reduce the risk. maybe thats the common bond we find between the two sides of this argument that we can, you know, make sure that we regulate the way that the guns are sold, and theyre owned and as well as bring in the mental health aspec...

Point. i also think unfortunately, gun issues there ever gonna go away, i think theres gonna be more mass shootings, theres certainly gonna be more crime in our streets of our cities, and even now you see crime increase in the rural areas of this country. this will continue to grow. it does go back to how we end up in the situation, we ended up in this situation because were stuck with this old acronyms jack rule, that basically discourages compromise. if we didnt have the filibuster, we actuall...

They have concrete evidence that some of these more limited measures would have stopped some of these shooters from getting a gun and killing dozens of people, more than dozens of people, so, even though it is limited, it will save lives if they are able to get it done. mathew mcconaughey, the actor from uvalde was going to run for texas governor, flirting with the idea, has come out and talked about gun issues, however, not so explicitly in the aftermath of valid. he will be with jean-pierre at...

About for assault style weapons in their country. >> i want to consider how a real democracy actually handles gun issues and changes toes gun laws. consider what canadian prime minister justin trudeau had to say about guns in canada cant look down on america.ks inform the rachel maddow impersonators on msnbc. they used to brag with the indian health care system. its so great.. g g why dont we emulate it? youuem havent heardulat that recently. entlwhy is that ?us canadians flee here for serious o...

Country. >> i want to consider how a real democracy actually handles gun issues and changes to gun laws. consider what canadian prime minister justin trudeau had to say about guns in canada. >> tucker: [laughs] canada looks down on america! informs the rachel maddow impersonators on msnbc. notice they use to brag about the canadian health care system. it is so great, why dont we emulate it? youre not her that recently. why is that? because canadians flee here for serious operation. the truth is,...

Needed to pass? >> theres a lot of good mood music coming out of it now, a lot of good words of cooperation and constructive conversations from capitol hill. weve seen this movie so many times before. its easy to be cynical. its easy to say, if it didnt happen after sandy hook or orlando or parkland, why is it going to happen now? washington is kind of a calcified place when it comes to gun issues. democrats are for more aggressive law and republicans are not. the question is whether with the sh...

The business of simply self preservation more than the business of influence since their influence over republicans seem to have been, now, internalized by the republican party? >> thats a really good point. i think that there is a lot of effort, you, know its really hard to say but a lot of time is spent at an area headquarters in virginia. thinking more about how do we keep our decorative simply, its how do we fight the lawsuits, how do we fight investigation. and much less time is spent on ho...