with all due respect. go on. do you want to finish? ken, look, nobody is talking confiscating guns. nobody is talking about canceling freedom. what we re talking is stopping deranged, crazed lone wolves or domestic terrorists from getting assault weapons and bringing them into a church and if your argument is that it is more important to respect the rights of this deranged individual yesterday to slaughter people in a church than it is to pass common sense measurements. of course not. while you finish being outrageous. that s it, ken. i was giving you a chance to respond. hey, look, i agree that we should have fixed the problem here. all right. everybody agrees to that. so we leave in agreement. the problem was that this guy who shouldn t have had a gun didn t get in the system to catch his purchases. we all agree on that so we can
rhetoric? yeah. i didn t start there seven minutes ago when we started, but when i hear him blame everything on republicans, then i go there. and, look, the same kind of he said a republican led congress. republicans don t lead congress? who takes responsibility? look, first of all, there is a trade off here and it s very painful to talk about in the context of a mass shooting. but the right to keep and bear arms is a personal individual right, and that right has costs. and we re seeing, because we have a system that doesn t work very well, skril justice, mental health, you can put all these pieces in together, those costs are higher than they ought to be. but the alternative is and let s face it for what it is, it is to reduce freedom in this country. and that s the trade off. ken, it s rhetoric. it s a talking point. freedom is a talking point. i understand you think freedom is a talking point. no, no, no. one at a time, please.
600, it just really brings it home, andrea. mariana and pete williams, thank you both so much. turning now back to politics. it s of course the hottest race in the country, virginia. pitting former republican national party ed gillespie against the state s lieutenant governor ralph northam. viewed as a major test of where donald trump stands in a swing state one year into his presidency. joining me, house senator and political analyst for the cook political report. and michael steel, msnbc political analyst. david, first to you, what are you hearing, turnout, northern virginia? we don t know how to read it of course. democrats have a right to be nervous because this race is tighter than the state s democratic trend line would suggest. gill helps yip does have real support that trump and ken kuch nelly four years ago did not have in northern virginia. if you look at the history of off-year elections in the state, polling has tended to underestimate republican support. in 09, mcdona
their own constituents. if you re ready quickly, ken, because i ve got to get to the break. fundamental rights, then say what you want to say. get rid of the second amendment nobody is saying that, ken. you know that. bull honky. you re avoiding saying it because that s what you want. we do have a mental health crisis in this country. no, ken. it s a substantial can i ask you an honest question, just take it down. why is it that when people talk about at least having a discussion about what is sensible when it comes to who should be able to have guns in this country, how many and all of that, why take it to the extreme that people who want to discuss that is anti-second amendment? why would you say that he is anti-second amendment just because he wants to stop or figure out how to stop or preclude it from happening again? why go to the extreme with that particular talking point or
coming on this morning. up next, virginia attorney general ken kuch nelly is probably feeling a little bit better this morning. it s not because of his poll numbers. we ll tell you why. speaking of poll numbers, we ve got a new look at where anthony weiner stands in the race for new york city mayor. we know at least 9 million of you care somewhere in that fair city. first, today s trivia question. who was elected vice president while serving as new york city s comptroller? or new york comptroller. first person to tweet the correct answer. new york comptroller, my apologies. the answer and more coming up on the daily rundown. is like hammering.