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Every student, background checks would stop some shootings. if you look at the disconnect there, overwhelming majority support all three of these measures, including renewing the ban on assault-style weapons. fewer than one in five in your pole say they think congress and the white house will actually pass any of these laws despite the support that is there for that. >> bret: fox poll, rather work within a country where its legal to own guns or where guns are banned and you look at legal or own ...

Not obstruct reform measures. in this moment of national tragedy after three mass shootings, if a democratic controlled house of representatives cannot pass an assault weapons ban, forget about it. >> thats not even a question. >> why not? then why not? >> i think now they could come back and already have plans to. they have work in place. they could actually bring together a really strong package of gun reform. >> im sure they will. >> and send them to the senate. im convinced they will. the qu...

Win majority support in this country. >> certainly its also starting to have jeremy peters real world consequences as you point out in a story that helps us explore even further this thesis that ashley and phil have in "the washington post." you found a real connection between the words that are being used among the presidents supporters particularly and conservative media and what showed up in that manifesto that is linked to the alleged gunman in the el paso shooting. we pulled together, or i ...

Graham seize on that and theyre going to be trying to pass bipartisan legislation which is a far more modest proposal like a background checks bill. but think the politics are complicated. on the one hand you have these suburban districts where the landscape is shifting and support is in favor of universal background checks. in fact, you had a number of swing district democrats running on gun control for the first time and they ended up winning, like lucy mcbath in georgia. but on the other hand...

Background checks, a majority support red flag provision and to pull this all together its part of the perversity around this language of invasion that the president uses to talk about the southern border. its supposed to make us feel as though we are unsafe as though the threat is coming from outside. when really if you look at these numbers around right wing extremism the threat is coming from inside. so it is interesting to me that in the wake of el paso, you have the congressional hispanic c...

Are the people who need a guaranteed health care system for them. >> yep. >> their employment is so erratic. the benefits that they get vary from company to company. a lot of them dont work for companies, a lot of them are independents. and so, those are exactly the type of people that are going to want to listen to what you have to say about what can you guarantee me? what can you guarantee me between jobs? and so, the democrats are speaking to that. if you look at the polling on issues, the de...

>> i think it hurts the democrats. i think its like the schroeder and the cat situation. impeachment is kind of dead, but alive at the same time. >> but the inquiry is alive but the articles are dead. i think -- >> if they start an inquiry at the end of the day there are no articles? i think pelosis instincts have been right to stop this and stand in the way of it from the beginning. look at the pbs poll last week theres a swath of democratic issues that have majority support. why would they foc...

Taboo almost. this goes back to the situation where self-described progressives are the only folks out of all the voters in america, self identified progressives of the only one to give this idea, health care for illegal immigrants, majority support. moderate democrats, more moderate than progressive and at some point in six months, moderates will go to the polls and show their opinions. right now self-described progressives are driving the debate and its toxic in a general election. >> laura: r...

Backed and supported are now taboo almost. this goes back to the situation where self-described progressives are the only folks out of all the voters in america, self identified progressives of the only one to give this idea, health care for illegal immigrants, majority support. moderate democrats, more moderate than progressive and at some point in six months moderates will go to the polls and show their opinions.th right now self-described progressives are driving the debate and its toxic in a...

[inaudible] that went to the house of representatives. it had majority support. it never came to the fork because republicans would not let on the floor to be voted on. if we could get back to that and get the rhetoric out. >> okay, you talk about the rhetoric and lisa mentioned the rhetoric were hearing, the question was about is it not reasonable to deport people who have been through the proper process, who had their day in court, literally had their due process, the rule of law and have been...