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To sit well with those who support second amendment rights. there are single-issue voters out there. >> alice, i know that. im not blaming you, but that is -- that argument makes no sense because every single right you have in this country comes with a limitation. and it comes with a limitation. just because you have the second amendment, it doesnt mean that you should be able to carry a machine gun. we cant carry machine guns, okay? >> right. it comes with limitations. >> and responsibility. >>...

Enough, mitch mcconnell. get off your ass and get something done. get your -- get your -- okay, grab them and do something because the american people are fed up with you. were fed up with you stonewalling everything. >> peter, do you think mcconnell will be forced to act? >> no. no, i dont. mitch mcconnells been around for a long time. hes been criticized by a lot of people. he has a sense of what he wants to do and congressman, democrat running for president bringing a caravan to his district ...

Conversation about magazine capacity and semiautomatic so-called assault rifles. i voted for an assault rifle ban back when i was in the state legislature in 1994. thats a separate question. hes got to stand up and lead. hes got to state precisely what hes for. >> peter, weve seen some movement from republicans on gun control in the aftermath of el paso and dayton. is this an inflection point, do you think? do you sense a change in the party? >> no, id say the opposite, actually. id be shocked i...

For no other reason than to give some of his members in these swing states, whether its susan collins or corey gardner or tom tillis, give them an opportunity to vote on these things. i remember when republicans were in the house, we had a majority and harry reid was in charge of the senate. harry reid would block all sorts of things, it would infuriate us from time to time. and, frankly, that ended up hurting his own democratic majority in 2014 because his members were never able to vote to sep...

Its mildly now with bill clinton with the whole monica lewinsky scandal and had an impact on teenagers, and what the meaning of this is. im not going to relive it. this is different. theres a lack of care about any core here, and is it possible that this presidency is impacting the evangelical community and taking away their core values. >> absolutely. and peter makes a very important point. youll see that millennials and well see soon, generation z are disconnecting from conservative communitie...

Other faiths and the religiously unaffiliated. in the atlantic, peter waner writes in a piece called the deepening crisis in evangelical christianity. there is a very high cost in politics for celebrating the trump style, what is most personally painful to me as a person of the christian faith is the cost to the christian witness, nonchalantly, in favor of a political leader, strong should rule over the weak, justice has no intrinsic worth. moral values are socially constructed and subjective is...

After trump" so good to have all of you on. peter, why dont i start with you. you worked in three republican administrations, and your latest op-ed in "the new york times" says, "trump is betting that anger can still be power" and you write this. you said, "his imprint on the republican party is at least as large as that of ronald reagans at a comparable point in his presidency. the republican party has been transformed by mr. trump." expand on this for me please, peter. >> sure. i mean, it was ...

Four years ago president trump was an outsider and political novice at odds with much of the republican establishment. well, today it is a much different story. it looks like the gops now fully embracing trumps angry rhetoric, which was front and center at his re-election kickoff rally in florida last night. lets discuss now with alice stewart and peter waner. by the way, peter is the author of "the death of politics: how to heal our frayed republic after trump." so good to have all of you on. p...

And he has a way of pulling almost who is involved in politics into it with him. and we cant let that happen, because politics is about a lot of things, but politics finally and fundamentally is about justice. and promoting the human good. and the common good. and we cant allow this kind of cynicism and this kind of triviality to take over. we need people to defend politics and embody what it can be. and jump is the an thit sis of that. the trick for the critics is how you can make a case agains...

At that time he he was fired and turned out a lot of things that he said were untrue. as a prosecutor i was told that many times, can you give the man a break. >> just a reminder here in the former fbi directors memos comey claims the president said quote i hope you can let this go. lets talk to peter waner. he served in three republican administrations, reagan, bush 41 and bush 43. nice to have you on. first up, jewel july saying one thing one week and another thing another week on a central pi...