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The question is do you need these magazines that hold 30 or more? >> so whats a constructive solution here, senator? if you dont believe the weapons should be banned, if the background system was in place and failed the people in texas, whats something you can offer this morning as we try to have a conversation about how to prevent these things? >> well, i think there are a couple of things. one, we can continue to refine and improve the background check. we found a gap in it in this case. lets ...

The supreme court says it is, which they in heller say said you have a right to keep and bear arms in your home, and no state can take that away from you. beyond that, the states can regulate how they want. >> thats exactly right as a statement of the current law. there are common sense measures. connecticut implemented them. they have reduced gun violence. the laws work. common sense steps like background checks. a ban on assault weapons, the bump stocks that enabled semi automatic to be turned...

Paragra parrotting the nr a-line, this background system doesnt work which, again, thats why we need a better background check system. all of your arguments are circular. for instance, a couple of people have talked about assault weapons. i know what youre saying. assault weapons were banned in 1933. then they say semi automatic weapons. oh, really, the pistol i have is a semi automatic. now youre coming for my pistols? theyre circular arguments. you all say it to yourself while the rest of amer...

First responders came very quickly like within minutes there was fire trucks and ambulances and air life was headed this way and we just kept seeing more and more and more of that and that continued that continued on for about two hours, i guess. and right now im looking at texas officers coming in, entering the scene. very still, very much a perimeter around the area. i think they found the guy, or i guess they killed him. but this is still a very chaotic scene. everybody is still basically in ...

Of touch. >> why did we have a man show up with a semi automatic and try to shoot up a pizza restaurant in washington d.c.? that was because of fake news. we cant quantify the impact, but to say it doesnt have an impact is crazy. and we also have studies showing that a lot of, for instance, trump voters, maybe its their distrust in the mainstream media. they get a lot of their news off facebook where a lot of people cant tell the difference between a real news story and an ad. >> one in two amer...

Experts warned over the weekend, it was a category one. it wont be the wind or the rain, it will be the storm surge and sure enough, thats what happened. fortunately most people did heed the warnings and evacuated from low lying and flood prone areas. in this hurricane not a single death and no reported injuries at this point. >> bill: thats the best news of all. thank you, phil. phil keating live in biloxi, mississippi. >> we dont believe that bans have worked on anything. what weve said has be...

Agree with them. i think theyre crazy. >> how about the atf? theyre pointing fingers saying the atf needs to do their job. its illegal to convert a semi automatic to a fully automatic. atf needs to do its job. >> thats a tactic saying we want to keep it out of congress. >> it is bigger than guns. you can show the bulk of these shootings happen at the hands of handguns. a guy took two handguns and killed 32 people in virginia. i had friends who went to the university of virginia at the time. this...

That would have been consolation, that would be consolation to many of the families victims who would have their loved ones still alive. maybe he would have never walk ed into that hotel if he only had a pistol, didnt have all of these complicated tactical semi-automatic and automatic weapons. >> senator, stand by. more to talk about this morning including explosive new sexual assault allegations against big time hollywood producer harvey weinstein. president trump said hes not at all surprised....

>> sometimes it is hard to draw the line sharply here. fully automatic machine gun and fully automatic machine gun. it is illegal for him to have that. whether it is the bump stock or firing off the semi automatic to turn it antonio a machine gun or a fully automatic on my judgment puts the gun into an illegal category. now, if i am wrong on that, i will certainly express that. the fully automatic machine gun without a perm is illegal noper illegal now. >> the report of volusia, the gentleman me...

Semi automatic into automatic. this raises the question and i think what he is getting at is if you put a ban on the floor that bans a device that turns something into an automatic weapon, even the initial question is why not a full ban on all automatic weapons which is not the case. i think made after 85 is legal. its a slippery slope here. this is exactly what the nra is worried about and how the republican party became an anti-gun control party. we have already seen tom massey on twitter say ...