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Congress with recent experience in enacting a solution to the problem of gun violence. you signed a sweeping gun reform bill into law when you were governor after the parkland shooting. is gun reform legislation doable this month when you all come back to work in washington? >> i'm hopeful. i think they ought to do what we did. what i did as soon as parkland happened is i got law enforcement together within two or three days, mental health counselors and educators. i said, what would you do? we can't have this happen again, we all have kids, i have kids, we don't want this to happen. the bigge...

Want background checks. 80% want at least some registration. over 60% say they want the removal of assault weapons which these young men carry to carry out these mass shootings. we don't need these cartridges, we don't need these weapons of mass destruction. 38 mass shootings in 2019. 51 people killed right here in this month, august, we just had -- >> wait. real quick. el paso shooting, august -- what, 4th, was it, four weeks ago. >> now we have odessa. governor greg abbott of texas, nra praised him because he passed pro-nra legislation in july. >> let me follow up on what you said. starting ...

You were in congress ten months ago. is anything going to get done? >> i don't think anything's going to get done. there's going to be discussions. i really doubt anything will get done. anything that gets done in the house, you have to get it through the senate and it has to be signed by the president. and so everything is so incredibly partisan right now that nothing is going to get done. i had my daughter approach me, she was in school and she said she had an experience where the teacher was asking, what are you going to do after this, what do you guys want to be when you grow up? and every...

Those are the type of things that you have to start, you start paying attention to and watching. and members of congress, really, they need to stay as close to home as possible so they know that these things are actually happening in school. but i highly doubt that anything substantive is going to get done. >> let's talk about where the american people actually stand on the gun issue. this is according to the quinnipiac poll most recently. 93% support universal background checks. 82% support requiring licenses to buy guns. 80% back red flag laws. 60%, assault weapons ban. 46% back mandatory as...

Than any other country on the face of the earth with like 37th. that is from -- you know, we have 13 schools in baltimore, not one kid is proficient in math or reading. not one. how is that possible? >> right paid you are absolutely right. this is bigger than our college campuses. it is our education system but it's even bigger than that. if this is an epidemic that's been going on in the younger generations of what i like to call 20 narcissism where sacrifice is boring and selfishness at school. we are a generation that has been told to be obsessed with self love come with health care, was se...