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>> gun reform could be a defining issue in the u.s. senate race in texas where democrats are hoping for a blue wave this november. republican incumbent ted cruz will face democratic candidate beto orourke. joining me now, jim moore and sarah slayman. thank you both for being here. jim, i want to talk to you about old ted cruz. ted cruz, a lot of people may forget, came to the countrys attention when he was the solicitor general of texas, a position he held for five years, and was constantly weig...

Right to gun ownership to serve the duty of being in the militia. our question to the founding fathers would make no sense, just like their answer to us makes no sense. but when you look at the -- when they were debating the second amendment and writing it up on the floor of the house of representatives, it was about this issue of military service. they were very concerned about the public good. >> the practical consideration, from the gun advocates perspective. waldman, youre killing me with re...

Murder behavior. and here, too, we have to take a hard look at lowering the threshold for allowing someone to have access to a gun. i keep going back to your question from last week, what is the responsibility of the gun seller? i dont think we can overburden this person because theres lawful transactions, but it does bare in mind, why are you buying the weapon? why do you want three rifles? whats going on? how do you look? how do you appear? theres no question that we make these assessments eve...

America. it will benefit s.t.e.m. disneys ce oo says it is thrilling to inspire the young children with technology. >> 700 million for context. guardians of the galaxy made $703 million in five months. >> thanks for joining us. im i really believe i would run into even if i didnt have a weapon. >> its ridiculous. >> he was stating he would step in and try to help. >> its common sense. >> i dont think he should be backing away from this issue. >> i dont care if congress does it or not. im writi...

Second amendment. i dont want to get into that battle. were going to say you want the second amendment the most. >> but repealing the second amendment part of the bill of rights laid out by the founders is not easy. heres a reminder. it takes support from two-thirds of the house and senate, needs approval from three quarters of the states and we can add one more there, is not going to happen. now lets talk about the nra. it wasnt always this way. the supreme court only clarified the gun rights i...

Theyre going to argue they have the right to exercise their free speech in charlottesville. why do you think what they did in charlottesville, that goes beyond free speech and free assembly, both of which are protected by constitution? >> the reason we think that and why we think the activity were seeking to enjoy is not protected by the first amendment is because it was violent conduct. and the supreme court has said over and over again that violent conduct is not protected by the first amendme...

Violent conduct is not protected by the first amendment. this paramilitary activity, this insightment of violence, provoking of violence and engaging of violence is not free speech. speech, expression, assembling together to express views without violence, thats protective, but what we saw there -- >> armed groups that showed up, theres right to bear arms in the second amendment. >> second amendment as supreme court recently as the heller case in 2008-2009 protects an individual right to bear ar...

Thats all going to be done. some have seen some of the photos. they have different judgments they can make about that. lets get the facts and you can deal with that in due time. i think what people are really focused on, the people i talked to here -- a lot of people just have the question of why did he do this and what could he have done? could there be anything to be done to prevent something like this? some of the other cases, we knew he was radicalwe when he lookedt his social media before s...

Thing. when i first started covering the courts, one of the craziest things, you run out and try to figure out what it says. and to tell everyone in ten seconds. we had this big gun case back in 2008. as i looked down, running out of the court, i could see it was authored by justice antonin scalia.in to tell me everything about the heller case. back inab 2008, it took a very important step same. basically there is an individual right for you to own guns. d.c. is where the case came from. they ha...

The islamic state claims credit for this immediately after it happened. they are obviously on the ropes. you cant trustth everything thy say but i can tell you on our committee when we look at these attacks, when they do claim it, it tends to be the case. thereveen been one or two where it wasnt the case. his brother had not talked to him in six months. what happened over the last six months? thats the question they are trying to answer. they have not answered it yet. >> brian: so, they got to h...