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Right now. you go in to buy a gun, you have to sign up. there are a lot approved over the years. i'll have to see what it is. congress is meeting bipartisan, a lot of people want to see something happen but just remember this, big mental problem and we do have a lot of background checks right now. >> so basically we need background checks, two weeks ago, meaningful ones, there is plenty of them. joining me is jeff merckly that would expand background checks and the author of a brand-new book called america is better than this, trump's war against migrant families that goes on sale tomorrow. on...

Senate don't want to touch it and yet it is so much needed on every aspect but it comes down to this. the president wants this as a political issue. he's not about to start solving the problem. >> i mean, you in the book america is better than that, you write you have a lot of different solution, a lot of propels, a lot of ideas. to you, how much of this stems from say political decision by the president and backed by, you know, steven miller who is a top advisor according to a bunch of "new york times" washington post both had big things about him this weekend? >> just 13 days in was the firs...

Found i think 31 instances of perhaps voter fraud, of somebody voting who was not legally allowed to vote in that election. and it's an infinite testable number. the non-partisan number associate with nyu has stated that you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be involved in voter fraud. it's so, so rare and the problem is that people use that as an excuse, they start talking about voter fraud and then citizens get scared about it and afraid it's happening and legislators use that as an excuse to adopt measures to make it harder to vote. so the end result is that it becomes harde...

Across much of the rest of the country and particularly down on wall street, anderson? >> jim acosta, thanks very much. joining us somebody like jerome powell the president hooired bu tired of. anthony scaramucci working to defeat his old boss. thanks for joining us. i'm wondering what you make of the washington post story. three sources, white house saying not true that they are looking at in early stages according to the post a cut in the payroll tax and i'm wondering a, what you make of that and the fact they are denying it. would that be significant to you? >> well, you know, look, on the ...

Sold without background checks. >> private sales. >> private sales, online sales, gun shows. we have a big problem with straw purchasers. we have our background check system is anyone who wants to by pass it can. so therefore we need an effective background check system. >> i want to talk about this book because it's very easy to lose focus on this issue as the president is masterful at just sort of keeping everybody jumping with another issue or another outrage. you -- i mean, you have spent a lot of time looking at the border, looking at immigration. overall the politics of it, is it possibl...