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>> the day we unite from one coast to another to seek, to request, to implore. an armistice. >> hundreds and hundreds of thousands in cities from new york, to dubois, wyoming, seek to impress upon the president their opposition to the war. >> more than 40,000 of our men have given their lives as sacrificial lambs to a godless cause. when will it cease? when does the moratorium on death to our sons begin by the united states government? >> it just seems to all of us who observe politics that something has changed since richard nixon has come in. what caused that? >> well, i think one must say t...

Four months away from the first votes being cast in iowa. it's going to suck up a lot of political capital and resources and attention. and, look, i have an internal struggle with this, right? just me personally. on the one hand, i'd like to see donald trump held accountable, but i know republicans are not going to do it. their silence on this issue is so telling but for people like mitt romney. and i also know it's not going to end up in anything like you say. but on the other hand, there's the principle of the issue of the constitution being violated, of there being abuses of power, of donal...

Co-equal government, in a government like the united states. and you know what? what i am going to do is implore with republicans, elected republicans particularly in the senate, to for once during this administration put your damn country over your damn party. you know, we're talking about the ukraine. this is -- this is a country where republicans invested so much. i remember all the times that john mccain went there. there's a street named for him because the u.s. was with the ukrainian people, against the invasion of russia and crimea because the u.s. was such an integral part of wanting t...

The nra's president, wayne lapierre that his base will not like background checks. the president is running for reelection on a base strategy. how does he square that circle? >> jim, there's no question that the president has talked a lot about guns. you didn't hear a lot of urgency in his marks this morning, not saying that the senate should come back early. but one big wild card in this long-running gun debate, we have seen this play out in washington shooting after shooting, a different equation is donald trump. if he would make the decision to essentially order or implore mitch mcconnell t...

But have them trapped and must have passed a dozen on his way driving here. what do you think their responsibility is and what do you think the right thing for them to do? >> i think the question is more what is the right thing for the country to do and what's the right thing to do out of washington and with something like this we need to have both sides come together and have a conversation about this and find a reasonable solution to these killings. and if you do some of the things we've talked about or that walmart has done will it eliminate all of these shootings, no but i've always felt i...