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Massive potential wave of latino voters across the country who voted almost half of their vote share at this point when you have the president building his tv show literally on the bodies of brown people, scaring his base and saying theyre ms-13, theyre animals. using this language and doing it so explicitly, something we havent seen in american politics in a long time, is that what makes this a voting issue that gets young people to the polls. >> trump was a voting issue in 2016. lets be clear,...

I mean, we have more guns than almost every other country. if the issue was more firearms and more places, which is what ollie north and the nra advocates for, we would live in the safest country on the planet. >> chris: i want to ask you one final question. gun control has generally not been a big -- pro gun control has not been a big voting issue in elections. oliver north said he is on a campaign to try to reassure politicians that being part or associated with the nra is a plus, not a knew m...

Almost every other country. if the issue was more firearms and more places, which is what ollie north and the nra advocates for, we would live in the safest country on the planet. >> chris: i want to ask you one final question. gun control has generally not been a big -- pro gun control has not been a big voting issue in elections. oliver north said he is on a campaign to try to reassure politicians that being part or associated with the nra is a plus, not a knew minus. he wants to add a million...

Its still not a voting issue in the way that it is for republicans. in that dynamic, you cant get any change in the terms of tighter restrictions. >> almost two months to that day in march and it feels like forgotten progress. well be right back. ♪[upbeat music]

And after columbine in april of 1999, there was a lot of talk about the politics of guns changing in the direction of more regulation, more gun control. i just dont see it myself. i dont see the numbers on intensity changing. since parkland where we were told all of this is changing, republicans have done better than they were doing back before then. i just dont see that the fundamental stalemate we have on the gun regulation thing changing. >> look, im going to go to connor lamb in pennsylvania...

We have mitch mcconnell and paul ryan who sit on their you know what and have no spine and wont even talk about this and it keeps happening. okay. the citizens of this country -- heres what i predict. this november, this will be the number one voting issue, okay. and if youre wrong on this issue, were going to fire you because enough is enough is enough. >> let me read you someone who agrees with you and someone who i think may be in the small club that you had no wish to be a part of. gaby giff...

Voting issue for millennials? we have not necessarily seen that be the case. >> it has every bit of potential. 25% of the 77% say its the most important issue. what is interesting about this issue is we have been tracking this now for over a decade. a lot of the attitudinal shift has been happening already. we saw a 20-point across the board attitudinal shift in democrats and republicans on issues related to gun control and assault weapon ban. republicans start in the 20s, theyre now in the 40s....

Bernie ran on democrats secretly wanted to say, bernie said them out loud. he said free college? well say free college. thats what got millennials excited about bernie. >> one issue that stuck out in particular to me, john, is your polling on gun laws. 77% of millennials said they thought that this was an important issue. 64% of them want stricter gun laws. over -- almost 60% support an assault weapons ban. did you get the sense this does have the potential to become a voting issue for millennia...

Control issues in it. we talked about the one that basically streamlines and improves the background system, but thats really as far as this congress goes. its really whether the gun control of activists can mobilize in these districts and make it anie l electoral issue, they span out saying this is going to be a voting issue. >> weve seen this in the past decade where every time there is an effort or the sense there might be an effort in washington to restrict gun rights and the ability to get ...

Including this despicable issue where youre tarring an entire people on this rape issue and the voting issue which is absurd. hes created this alternative universe. hes looking to the fall election. hes been told. there was another election in wisconsin this week for the state supreme court that went badly for the republicans. there are all kinds of signs that there isnt a lot of republican enthusiasm out there and now hes trying to pump up the balloon with this gas that he peddled in the past. ...