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Over your phone you will alert us before we are off the air. >> its charged all night, democratic strategyistic tonight. >> thats what we love. thank you. always a pleasure. nicole, lets talk about guns band the way democrats talk about guns. i know we have a former senator from the state of missouri with us. guns, red meat, ford f-150s if they are looking to get back that democratic voter that might have voted for obama and then went for donald trump the blue collar voter whos are insulted when...

Than president trump. if you look at the recent polling, even a fox news poll from last week, shows that 60% of the electorate favor an trump is against against it. >> tucker: heres what they dont favor. let me just first, joe biden, i think is a total hollow person and will say anything and has no moral beliefs, but i think his temperament is basically moderate. i think he likes other people. i like that about joe martin. im not attacking him for ideological reasons. i just think that hes flaky...

Voters care most about like health care, gun control and abortion actually all of the democratic candidates basically agree and they are more in line with that the majority of voters than tron. if you look at the recent polling, even a news poll from last week, from last week, shows that 50% of the electric favor and assault weapons ban and dros against it. >> tucker: heres what they dont favorably let me just first day biden, i think is a total hollow person and will say anything and has no mor...

Up, voters are talking about this that is before the back-to-back shootings, i dont know if there is agreement on what should be done, i suspect there is not, but things that could be done, i think that gun question is one that voters think about even p politicians dont know how to get around it. chris: is any gun control even of these semi automatic assault weapons off the table? >> i think it would be a very difficult cell for law people to say - difficult sell, to say les punish law abiding c...

Up, voters are talking about this that is before the back-to-back shootings, i dont know if there is agreement on what should be done, i suspect there is not, but things that could be done, i think that gun question is one that voters think about even p politicians dont know how to get around it. chris: is any gun control even of these semi automatic assault weapons off the table? >> i think it would be a very difficult cell for law people to say - difficult sell, to say les punish law abiding c...

Over these most sensitive issues. just one quick point on what can be done. i do think that there are -- theres no one fix, but there are things that can be done in terms of limiting access to assault weapons and especially the high capacity magazines that make mass shootings so possible. that can be done within the existing, i think, supreme court framework on gun laws that you would think people could get behind after situations hike this. chris: gillian, theres no question, i mean, just as a ...

E.r., the fact that a black job applicant is less likely to have a call back on a resumé, even an identical resumé, just if the name is considered character istically black shows part of a bigger pattern. chris: beyond those big, systemic issues, one of the specific complaints about your term as mayor in south bend is that you have failed to put more blacks on your police force. again, the statistics. when you started as mayor in 2012, there were 29 black police officers or 11% of the force. n...

Coming up. and that was before we had back to back mass shootings in one night. so i think theres a desire out in the country to have washington talk about this. i dont know if theres agreement on what should be done about it, i suspect theres not, but there are things that could be done. but i do think the gun question is one that voters are thinking about even if politicians dont quite know how to get around it. chris: guy, weve got about a minute left. your thoughts as a conservative about --...

>> well, the challenge of recruiting diverse officers, again, is a national challenge that has gotten even more difficult for mayors and police departments in the post-ferguson era. there are fewer and fewer young black men and women who could ever even picture themselves wearing the uniform. but weve got to change that. as a matter of fact, we have a recruiting window open right now in south bend, and were continuing to work to change that. now, in the areas where i have direct control like app...

The shooter is linked to statements, some are calling it a manifesto online, berating the idea of mexican immigration, calling it an invasion of our country. which raises the question, would there have been a lot a store is paso over a weekend -- el paso, and do you think that that perhaps thats why he targeted el paso, because youre right on the border with mexico? >> we are the largest u.s. city on the mexican border. were, our region is a population inclusive of what is mexico and southern ne...