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Winning the popular vote in presidential elections. we have won them five out of seven times. we have to rebuild at the state levels. they did a very good job in some of the states that they had to win. they did a good job, obviously, in michigan and wisconsin by eeking out narrow wins in those states where we -- they hadnt won previously. >> joel, let me ask you this. if the election -- i will get you one more shot. joel, if the election were the first tuesday in january and you had another six...

Point a gun at me. >> so youre prepared to die. better dead than in a cell. >> absolutely. would you like to be in a cell? no one wants to live their life in a cell. absolutely im not going to live my life in a cell. >> so youre prepared to die over what prince exactly? >> its about our country. its about federalism. its about the government closest to people governs best. what happens is the powers of the government have been -- those powers have been brought back up into a centralized governme...

Its about the government closest to people governs best. what happens is the powers of the government have been -- those powers have been brought back up into a centralized government. and so the counties and the states, those things that were dealt at county levels and state levels are now so regulated by the federal levels 245 our freedoms and our ability to have contact with the representatives on a one-on-one, face to face basis is gone. its gone. i have sat down with my county sheriff face ...

Important as what is going on at the state levels. states are enacting tighter gun control. that is also making people more nervous about their gun, clinging closer to them. and that means we may see the numbers for background checks increase even further going forward and wall street knows it. >> one of the things in the presidents proposals would be they would audit more fbi agents and more aatf agents. they want their guns faster so therefore they will be more thorough by having more people c...

Providing support for exoffenders. if we can get those bills together, im somewhat optimistic well be. able to make a difference. when you use the term mass incarceration, statistically the overwhelming majority of people incarcerated are in state prisons and state facilities for state crimes. we can only focus on federal law and federal crimes. so theres still going to be a large population of individuals who are incarcerated even for nonviolent drug crimes because this is a trend that started ...

Anchors repeatedly asking whether it could have inspired this attack? >> apart from the legal issue, which clearly it is not, it does seem like a concerted effort to morally shame republican politicians from even talking about this issue, talking about planned parenthood, talking about these controversial videos, investigating planned parenthood at the congressional and state levels. it seems a moral shaming about this very important issues that very much americans care about to say were not eve...

People out and about on this friday afternoon. stay with me, tom. pamela brown, let me bring you, another voice in, justice correspondent. and i thought i saw atf there on the scene. can you request i remember that for me? >> absolutely. i can confirm that atf agents are on the scene. atf has an office there in colorado springs. we see the law enforcement there. so among them, you have the local officials as well as federal officials. so far were being told from the homeland security division in...

Took over the congress for the first time in a generation i walk working as communication attractors for the house education work force committee and we found out there are more than 800 federal education programs that your tax dollars were going for that were doing nothing. it was throughout the federal government including, neil, money to close caption the show, bay watch, because as we all know you were watching bay watch at that time for the dialogue and the story line. so this is what happe...

Blaze was not the result of arson. this follows a series of fires at black churches in several southern states after the charleston church massacre. a ferry carrying 189 passengers and crew capsized minutes after leaving a port in the philippines. so far we know of 35 dead, 20 others missing. most by nearby fishing boats and the coast guard or even some who had to swim to safety. the president in wisconsin today speaking at this hour on the economy. and the governor of that state, scott walk...

Supreme court cases around birth control and the affordable care act, the waiver notre dame has to sign to get the religious concession and these religious laws religious of freedom, we have seen those rights rally around those that, say, five ten years ago they were rallying around gay marriage issues in the united states. its almost like to treat this bulk head. is that a fair assessment? >> i think its exactly that religious freedom protection sess the way that social conservatives, especiall...