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Pete talked about that, a lot of what he's talk saed about is th governing vision after donald trump. and i think that balance comes with talking about issues and solutions for some of the biggest crisis we're facing, hitting americans right at home while acknowledging this moment. so looking at recent elections we jus we just had last week. if you look at a place like kentucky where trump won by over 30 points, where democrats are winning, impeachment is not the thing that democrats are running on there but it's definitely something in the air and clearly democrats want action on. so i think ...

Patrick maloney of new york. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> you have endorsed beto o'rourke for president here in the 2020 race. and during the debate last night you heard what he said that he would enforce mandatory buybacks of assault-style weapons. do you support mandatory buybacks of assault-style weapons? >> no. i make it voluntary. but i'm so proud of my friend beto for just letting it fly on an issue that americans want action on. and they don't want the same old political calculations and they don't want people telling them what can't happen because we are this close to fall...

Republicans, independents are calling on congress to do something on guns. the president says that he's reviewing options. we don't know specifically what he supports and what he does not. but what we're hearing from sources is improving the national background check system, looking at strong man purchase, funding mental health programs, implementing capital punishment for mass murderers. overhauling terrorism law, something adam schiff proposed. any of those things you are backing that you think make a difference? >> poppy, there are a whole range of options we need to take action on. we real...

Would often see democratic presidential candidates going on, doing hunting events with people to show their willingness to work with sportsmen and groups and things like that. so the politics on this has completely changed. >> and there is no doubt about it that this is something that all democrats want to see action on. and maybe they don't see a lot of differences between some of the different candidates. but wow, you really saw beto o'rourke come out. and in fact, now his campaign is selling t-shirts that say this is f'd up. he said this is not the time to use polite language. there are som...

To take action on. so yes, i think you can say that the president is looking ahead to his reelection and whether these things are real or merely rhetoric doesn't matter that much. he does view it as a useful political issue. >> lee, on the census, the aclu is leading the legal fight against the trump administration on this as well. if he announces an executive action, it's still unclear what is going to be said when he comes to the rose garden. but if executive action is announced, what is the aclu's responses? >> we'll be back in court. obviously we want to see what he does. but we'll be back...