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Urgently. >> that was president clinton in 1993 one day after the long island railroad massacre calling for stronger action on guns. 20 years later, its incredible how much has changed. back in 1993, 70% of americans believed our gun laws needed to be more strict, only 28% said they needed to be maintained or lessened. now its almost the complete reverse. majority, 55% feel gun laws should be less strict for kept the same. those who want stronger laws, 43%. two decades ago democrats running on g...

David, author of nonbeliever nation the rise of secular americans. first, clear up terminology, briefly. you throw a lot of words out there, secular, nonbelievers, atheists, who are you really talking about here? >> well, were talking about nonreligious americans, s.e., people who probably dont go to church and are at least apathetic about their religious belief, not on board with all of the religious -- >> wait, are they believers? do they believe in god? >> most are not, although its really wo...

Even when a democrat is making efforts to appeal to gun owners and those who oppose gun control, krystal it raises the question for democrats you spent the last 12 years youre not a gun control party but still thinking youre the gun control party, why not be the gun control part. >> though you may have in the democratic coalition certainly if you polled democrats they would say theyre in support of gun control broadly. its not the animating issue on left as it is on the rooeft right. its not for...

>> it it can go both way. people will fall into a sort of group mentality if everyones doing nothing, they follow the group, there are other people who see themselves more as individuals and decide they want to take a stand and do something unique. there isnt one set of characteristics that would describe all heroes. everybody sort of almost has that seed of promise to do something great within them. certainly people more empathetic, able to take anothers perspective and you know thinking about ...

Of your patients survived. you credit a big part of your response to how you handled columbine victims 13 years ago and what youve learned since then. explain that. >> well, i think we have learned certainly from major events that have happened columbine being one of them, weve learned to better prepare for a major event where you get multiple victims and get out of the mode where we will typically have when we have a gunshot wound victim that comes in, say, most evenings, and focus all of our r...

Theres obama in front of your camera talking to you it talks to you a little bit more. that bain stuff is so interesting to me. im quickly coming around to the idea i have been saying we will know on election day whether bain works or not. im coming around to the idea we may never know if bain works or not. >> if we find the black box well know. >> if it works, it works. its a mike scopic level, moves 1 or 2% away. but theres a lot of things out there that could do that. >> you read a campaign i...

Couldnt be bigger. im barack obama, and i approve this message. >> steve, i found that ad presidential. hes taking the high ground. hes playing on his likability and hes changing the tone which is what a leader does. hes setting the direction. weve had a lot of negative ads and a lot of complaining about the negative ads. this is entirely different than that tone weve been seeing. >> it is. whats most striking to me is the calendar. sitting here in july and watching an incumbent president appear...

Harder for mentally disturbed psychopaths to get their hands on dangerous weapons, not broad and indiscriminating but targeted responses. institutional responses dont solve men like sandusky and holmes because evil cant be prevented by committees and weapons bans. in these moments we demonstrate an incredibly inspiring optimism in human nature in asking what can we do. the cynical truth is evil finds a way. sometimes there are tragedies too senseless to make sense of. more on this in my daily ne...

But what were finding, as we move forward as human beings that we can fill in most of those gaps without supernaturalism. >> david i appreciated a lot of what i read in your book, especially the idea the religious right, which tried to shape the discussion to say that they are the true americans and the others, the rest of us, are not i appreciated that idea of reclaiming its not un-american to be a nonbeliever, to be nonreligious but i wondered, would it be possible for a nonreligious person to...

Inside saying no, we have to come back inside bus baus hes going to shoot people trying to escape and he did. >> i remember thinking made go and i grabbed him and i remember thinking, im not going to die in here, me and my kids, we are not going to die in here we need to get out. and all i could think was if i stand up hes going to shoot, because thats what he was doing and i was just trying to think, how i was going to get my kids out of there. >> our cops went through a lot. as i told you this...