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Second time, as nia said, it's the passion, the true emotion. and just the facilities that senator harris showed on bringing this issue and taking the fight to biden as well as making a larger point on a number of issues. and it wasn't just between them. i think biden failed to defend health care and the obama record. he was taking on bernie. on the issue of guns, never turned to bernie sanders and said by the way you didn't even support the brady act. he lost opportunities, but i think there is a change in the dimension of this race. if he was trying to play it cool and coast as a front runne...

The world combined, and certainly dwarfs new zealand. so australia did this when they had a mass shooting in the '80s. it's just easier to do. >> new zealand has its own when you talk to folks from there. has its own gun culture, if you will. what's been striking is how politicians there have changed their minds on this issue. deputy prime minister winston peters whose party opposed any measures of gun control said after 1:00 p.m. on the 15th of march, our world changed forever, and so will some of our laws. >> you know, everybody keeps thinking our world is going to change like that, too. aft...

To a white mother who has white sons? what do we say to a black mother with black sons, a hispanic mother with hispanic sons. >> what do we say? >> i think we want to treat them all the same. i want my daughters to have the same opportunities as everyone else, regardless of their skin color, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender. >> let me walk through a couple issues that tend to divide. let's talk about guns. >> okay, let's talk about guns. >> so, would you repeal the brady act? would you get the federal government completely out of the gun business, yes or no? should the princip...

And file. so 1977, nra annual conventions voted out leadership and installed hardliners who radically changed the organization. the group later changed tactics, using political ads to rile up the members to take action. >> from 1998 to 2017, the nra spent $144 million on outside spending. and if you are wondering if this strategy is working, consider this, last major piece of federal legislation still on the books is brady act and that was passed nearly 25 years ago. >> now, i made that video. give me some love. [ applause ] that's amazing. so i put that to you because you both seem so reasona...

Assassinations of king and kennedy, the other in 1992. that was the brady act and the crime bill. >> that's the only time i ever wrote a congressman, after bobby was shot. i just was angry. johnny carson who was not very political went on television that night and said you got to write your congressman. it was so powerful. the guy was never political. when the nonpolitical people get involved, maybe something will happen. >> the thing about both cases is the democrats controlled both houses of congress and the white house. that's the only time we've had action. right now they control nothing. ...