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An ak -- with an assault weapon or semi-automatic weapon. without a background check. they want to end the so-called straw man provision where you can buy guns legally and sell them to criminals. i happen to believe and i believe for 30 years we should buona salt weapons. there is a smaller majority of the american people who support that. but be that as it may, gun owners, nongun owners understand that the status quo is untenable. we've got to do something. i hope that we will do it. and again, one of the things i am upset about is that this banking bill is built for big banks is now on the f...

Gun show loophole where you could walk in and without any background check, come out with an ak -- with an assault weapon or a semiautomatic weapon. no background check. they want to end the so-called strawman provision where you can buy guns legally and sell them to criminals. i happen to believe and i've believed for 30 years that we should ban assault weapons. there's a smaller majority of american people who support that. be that as it may, non-gun owners understand that the status quo is untenable. we've got to do something. i hope we'll do it. one of the things that i am upset about is t...

The more liberal person in the race? >> as i said, i would have done it differently but what i think is most important and what i see all across the country and we've had a lot of contested primaries across the country and what we saw in virginia after the primary there last year, people came together. they understood that donald trump is most dangerous president in american history. people in texas understand that ted cruz is not fighting for their values and we need a democratic congress so that we can grow this economy so that we can make sure that people across texas have access to health ...

Then you have moderate democrats who are willing to vote for this. where are you on this banking bill? >> well, again, someone who served in the obama administration, i had a front row seat to a lot of the abuses on wall street. i had one ceo of a prominent bank who said, when there's no common sense legislation it becomes a race to the bottom. i see the point of the american people, fooled you once, shame on you, fooled you twice, shame on me. we have to protect consumers and i'm fearful that there should be short memories and we'll again have a bubble and won't have any -- >> do you support ...

>> gary cohn is one of my contacts at the white house. we're working on a banking bill to figure out ways to get it across the finish line. on that side of the equation, i'm sad. he's not a point of contact for me. he's going to be replaced by somebody. we'll have to figure out who that is and develop a relationship with the next person that comes in. >> trish: so business as usual. >> yep. >> trish: okay. there's been a lot made of all of these departures in the white house. your sense of how things are going there. >> well, i mean, i think predictability and memory of things that have transp...