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Background checks the they would not have stopped any of it. so its a big problem. its a mental problem, its a big problem. >> so following saturdays mass shooting, beto orourke led fellow democratic presidential candidates in renewing calls for gun safety reform. >> dont know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them. but we do know this is [ bleep ] up. we do know -- we do know that this has to stop in this country. >> we do know that its tim...

Critical to us is the hurricane hunters. its the air force and hurricane hunters. theyre constantly running the airplane right through the center, right through the eyes. theyre dropping drop sounds into storm and feeding us information. its so critical because its helping us with the wind speeds and helping us identify that the winds are higher today. while were running from the storm, the hurricane hunters are going right toward it. theyre heroes giving us that information. >> they are, ken gr...

Hoped to make texans safer but again without providing details of what those steps mean but the status quo is no longer adequate here in the state of texas. i do -- i believe we have sound from president trump earlier this afternoon when the conversation was around federal legislation. again, congress is supposed to be coming in to session the next month. but the president has not backed anything specifically when it comes to universal background checks. i want you to hear directly from him this...

That to be cute. we have strong background checks right now. but we have sort of missing areas and areas that dont complete the whole circle. and were looking at different things and i have to tell you its a mental problem, i said it 100 times, its not the gun that pulls the trigger, its the person that pulls the trigger. these are sick people, and its also that kind of a problem. they closed up all of their mental institutions or many of them, and those people went on to the streets. they did i...

That term because it has built into it constitutional protection, you cant take someones gun unless theres a judge that makes that determination. but what our law would say is if someone is a threat to themselves or a threat to others, then you can go into court, the family can, usually the family that reports it or the police can go in and i know, bill, theres been a lot of emphasis on mental health, but the truth is that 93% of the people who have severe mental problem are not violent at all. ...

That term because it has built into it constitutional protection, you cant take someones gun unless theres a judge that makes that determination. but what our law would say is if someone is a threat to themselves or a threat to others, then you can go into court, the family can, usually the family that reports it or the police can go in and i know, bill, theres been a lot of emphasis on mental health, but the truth is that 93% of the people who have severe mental problem are not violent at all. ...

That term because it has built into it constitutional protection, you cant take someones gun unless theres a judge that makes that determination. but what our law would say is if someone is a threat to themselves or a threat to others, then you can go into court, the family can, usually the family that reports it or the police can go in and i know, bill, theres been a lot of emphasis on mental health, but the truth is that 93% of the people who have severe mental problem are not violent at all. ...

Know you did a few moments ago about the question of gun control and automatic weapons and weapons ban. clearly there is the need to deal with mental health, theres a need to deal with other issues. but if you dont talk about taking the weapons that can shoot people as this young man did, and as it was done in dayton, you still have the problem of disarming. if somebody broke into a home and was holding people at gunpoint and you were able to get the police to come, you dont want the police to c...

Clearly had some mental problem, you know, we have been ostracized by a few in our community. you wouldnt want that to happen here. thats the same thing we would ask you havent done to us. we are now becoming, in my opinion, what happened in the 1930s, in europe, to the jews, we are now that new, hated community and we shouldnt be. >> sorry you feel that way. are you afraid? >> no, im not afraid. new zealand, actually has been one of the most peaceful countries in the whole world, the most trans...

Bombs? >> well, everything ive seen points to a demented individual, and by definition, i mean when you do this sort of thing, youve got some sort of mental problem. and, yes, these are iconic democratic figures. if theres a political motive to this, then by definition it is terrorism. if there were detonators on those bombs, those bombs would be considered weapons of mass destruction. so the fbi is of course looking at this closely right now, and theyve got plenty of evidence to work with. >> c...