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Gun safety laws. >> he failed to pass any firearms legislation. by the time it became a priority, he simply did not have the political capital. >> i think a president has to figure out what priorities hes going to have a chance of getting through, like gun control. he might have felt, if i go for that, then i may lose this. because youre building up capital or youre losing capital. >> lets be honest here. there havent been the votes in the congress for gun control. make no mistake about it. >> k...

>> they had to show results. bear in mind president obama has been in the white house for eight years and that has not stopped democrats from beating george w. bush and what have you. i dont doubt there will be plenty of opportunities, things were going wrong to point to the other side and say that. republicans need to make sure given this incredible opportunity they have to advance conservative ideals as they take the opportunity, they show results. they are less ideological than most political...

By the time it became a priority, he simply did not have the political capital. >> i think a president has to figure out what priorities hes going to have a chance of getting through, like gun control. he might have felt, if i go for that, then i may lose this. because youre building up capital or youre losing capital. >> lets be honest here. there havent been the votes in the congress for gun control. make no mistake about it. >> kill the bill. kill the bill. >> the midterm election of 2010 had...

Make no mistake about it. >> kill the bill. kill the bill. >> the midterm election of 2010 had been a disaster for the democrats. >> some election nights are more fun than others. >> they lost the house and the senate and with them any chance of getting major legislation passed. still, when it came to guns, obama would finally find a way to act without congress and make the first move on gun control in decades. but now it could all easily be reversed. president-elect donald trump has vowed that ...

Congress. the democrats have won the popular vote in six of the last seven elections, which no party in american history has ever done, but did it behind a coalition on three gripes -- noirts, millennial and college will have educated white voters. theres two strurls problems with that. the two groups dont show up in the midterm as the presidential, and the second is they are geographically concentrated in a way that makes -- they cannot compete effectively for large numbers of smaller rural, so...

Assessment, it wasnt simply that russian got engaged or involved in hacking the election, but did so to favor trump. russias actions make sense if they thought they wouldnt get caught. their motivation may have been to help trump and they assumed maybe they would not have gotten caught. i think obama here is taking the long view, which is important to all of us, whether theyre democrats or republicans, theres a midterm in 2018, another presidential election in 2020. theres governors and senators...

>> he failed to pass any firearms legislation. by the time it became a priority, he simply did not have the political capital. >> i think a president has to figure out what priorities hes going to have a chance of getting through, like gun control. he might have felt, if i go for that, then i may lose this. because youre building up capital or youre losing capital. >> lets be honest here. there havent been the votes in the congress for gun control. make no mistake about it. >> kill the bill. kil...

That the united states of america is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense, gun safety laws. >> he failed to pass any firearms legislation. by the time it became a priority, he simply did not have the political capital. >> well, i think a president has to figure out what priorities hes going to have a chance of getting through like gun control. he might have felt if i go for that, then i may lose this, because youre building capital or youre losing capi...

Firearms legislation. by the time it became a priority, he simply did not have the political capital. >> i think a president has to figure out what priorities hes going to have a chance of getting through, like gun control, he might have felt if i go for that, then i may lose this because youre building up capital or youre losing capital. >> lets be honest here, there havent been the votes in the congress for gun control. make no mistake about it. >> the midterm election of 2010 had been a disas...

Its own populous strain and real questions with how it lost touch with working class voters and all of this is on display here. >> for her to be challenged in this way is unique. youll see a lot of bad things happen in the midterm. >> thanks, guys. news of these raging wildfires in tennessee. theyre still going and now theyve turned deadly. wait until you see the trail of destruction. thousands are being forced to flee their homes. others are missing. were at the zone, next.