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Caving this week when after speaking with nra leader wayne lapierre the president took a different tack. >> there are things we can do but we already have serious background check, we have strong background checks, we can close up the gaps, we could do things that are very good and things that frankly gun owners want to have done but we also have to remember the gun doesnt pull the trigger, a person does and we have great mental illness. >> joining us now to analyze the coverage gail trotter, la...

Congressman, mark sanford, has expressed interest. but so far, theres only one candidate officially running. thats bill weld. he was in new hampshire on fridays, talking about immigration. he was trying to contrast between his policy position and the presidents. >> theres been a lot of contributions made. and im proud of the fact that the united states has been a melting pot. i think our current president would not agree with that. i think its un-american. >> joining me now is governor weld. tha...

Shootings in el paso and dayton just two weeks ago, sparking new urgency for something, anything to be done about gun safety in america. and the only way to describe president trump on this is all over the place. after saying that he wanted stronger background checks, reports then are of the president telling the head of the nra universal background checks are off the table. and at the same time the president then denied that that conversation happened, but also said that there already are tough...

Democrats, we should modulate our values or try to triangulate our policy position based upon what some pundits say is electability. >> harris: frightening! jason meister, trump 2020 campaign advisory board member. brad gerstman, former consultant to former new york governor eliot spitzer. brad, i will start with you. frightening? thats an interesting way to describe joe biden. >> it may be frightening to cory booker, but the reality is we have to talk about enthusiasm. if you dont really love w...

They have used. >> dana: they probably feel the same. i dont know where that is going. they gave that press conference last night. we are going to have president trump in just a moment. one of the things well try to get to is the fact that the business round table changed its policy position, right? it is saying no longer is it just a purpose of a corporation to be just for share holders. quick thought on that? >> every business has an ethical responsibility to the common good. but at the same t...

Positions. her response to that question she shifted again to a policy position. i think thats where shes comfortable and i dont know that she feels fully comfortable yet in terms of how to answer these questions that even democrats have about whether her judgment on race might be off. >> the test of all candidates but especially one that is growing is to learn the lesson so you can keep growing. learn how to get comfortable in the areas where you may have a weakness or blind spot or where youve...

Kind of success that youre having, whether it makes -- i mean, you know, the issues of native americans in the country are im sure very incorporatmpot i dont know that the democratic party is clamoring for a massive policy position on it and she could well have decided why poke the bear, right? why be -- why put this so out front that president trump can come in and raise this again and shes going to have more interviews like the one where she wasnt very comfortable. maybe they have a strategy a...

Targets the state of israel. they say it is an existential threat to the state of israel and by doing so they cant support it. it goes beyond the issue of free speech for them. it has been challenged in american courts. we are going way deep into the nuances but it is important to understand because the way a lot of people are positioning this is it is about free speech. you have two american members of congress who are saying they take a certain policy position to try to end an ongoing conflict...

That not perjoratively. how do you know hes serious this time? john, there is something that can clear this up, and thats leadership. mitch mcconnell would flat out come and say this is background check measure i would support. donald trump could come out with specifics. im not even convinced he fully understands the nuances of what background checks are because hes never spoken about them. he could come out and say this is background check. >> yeah, i wouldnt hold your breath from specifics fro...

Dangerous given what you are describing? >> those are his choices, not mine. >> mark: she is what tucker calls a zombie candidate. theres nothing inside there, essentially. >> lisa: her bigger candidate is that she has just flipped her policy position. she will say whatever she needs to say. but even beyond some of these other things that we addressed tonight, you always have an msnbc, who called people to show up with pitchforks, when he held a fund-raiser for donald trump over the weekend. her...