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Bigger heart than all of them, much more competent and then said this. >> when you talk about george bush, say what you want, the world trade center came down during his time -- >> hold on. you cant blame george bush for that. >> he was president, okay? dont blame him or dont blame him but he was president. the world trade center came down during his reign. >> george bush jeb bush said ho for donald trump to criticize the president for 9/11. we were attacked and my brother kept us safe. jeffrey ...

See you then. >> can i have a gun? >> yep. >> reporter: taking on controversy with comedy. >> from first loves to new beginnings. wherever life takes you, guns. were here to stay. >> that was nbcs natalie morales on that report. joining us is shannon watts, founders of mom demand action for gun sense in america. good to have you here. obviously we all know the timing of this with the parody coming on the heels of schumers recent commitment to anti-gun legislation. we saw it in natalies piece. do...

Guns. you look at those numbers. to erics point, our children are 14 times more likely to be shot and killed by a gun in this country than in any other industrialized country in the nation. and there are examples of ways we can go. australia, canada, great britain. we dont have to do everything they do, but we can take those as examples and move forward and cut down many experts say by a third the number of our children shot and killed. >> jeanne just laid out sensibly a path to do this. >> than...

Frantically for the train to stop. fortunately, the conductor pulls the emergency brake near the station entrance as the man staggers to his feet. >> my concern was not the train anymore. my concern was him falling backwards. those train tracks are only about four feet apart. and a six-foot man could easily hit the third rail and electrocute himself. and thats when i just said oh, the hell with it. >> pinzon jumps down and heads to the other side, carefully avoiding the dangerous third rail. the...

Government makes possible child care? and family leave. >> ill give you a long and short answer, the short answer is no. heres why. when you look at the national opinion polls, im not a mom or a parent, so i cant -- i completely understand, but i cant relate, right, but when look at the polls this doesnt resonate. when it comes to what americans want their government to focus on. heres what we know. we know that oftentimes the private sector kind of leads first and then the federal government ki...

Rate in your state. talk about the road problem, the deficit problem. hes got it all ready to spit out. there is no trump to attack. what are you going to go after him for? >> i think what really gets traction probably in the debate are liberal positions. >> thats right. like youre really -- >> thats how they got rubio -- whats his name, got rudy giuliani. got gay roommates? what they got on him? >> hillary clinton was at his wedding. you can go issue by issue. theres a pretty fat dossier of thi...

They cant figure what wine to watch or bark at the moon. >> the ross perot thing i think is fascinating. because when you look at the numbers, he drew evenly from the democratic side and the republican side. there is a lot of interesting data in terms of exit polls, republicans, you are absolutely right, believed that poppy bush would have been reelected if it werent for him. he was convinced hed never make it on his own. there is all this fear around the donald trump presidency. heres the quest...

Wrestling. >> lets get ethnic here. if youre hispanic american and youre a voter, as 13% of voters are hispanic in your background, youre going to notice that the republican party was going head stands over this guy. look, he was leading the poll among that party. would you want those voters to set your future and say anybody whoever voted for donald trump in a poll, i dont want them calling the shot who the next president. and a lot of republicans have been saying yes to donald trump. >> thats ...

Around most of them are hispanics. >> joining me now is chuck todd, moderator of meet the press on nbc. but with a welcome to you, chuck, how angry are republicans at the attention that trump is commanding? >> look theyre very angry. all the campaigns are. some of them have thrown up their hands at what to do. the rnc feels like their hands are tied a little bit here at the end of the day. they dont have rules in their party to say youre out youre in, things like that. you know, this happens. i ...

His father, dimas, senior, worked for the new york subway system and would often bring his young son to work. >> my dad taught me a lot about the workings of the subway system and where to walk, where not to walk. he would say, dont ever touch that third rail, thats very dangerous, dont ever touch it. >> down on the tracks in the metro station the childhood lessons come rushing back. >> it was just okay, jump, you know where you are going. had i made the wrong step, i would not be here today. yo...