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This is an epidemic. >> i wanna let scott respond, scott, why are republicans uncomfortable talking about the gun aspect of this epidemic? >> well, republicans, generally, and this is a long held's principle of the republican party, is that we're defenders of the second amendment. we believe in the constitutional rights that flow from the founding documents of this country. that is generally one of the longest held principles of this party. it's where a lot of legislators think that they haveli to defen. and by the way, their constituents expect him to defend. it doesn't mean you can make poli...

This bureaucracy of washington. as you know, everyone comes to d.c. saying they're going to change it. and while he certainly upended things, you know, these same rules do apply, and that's what he's bumping up against. >> alex, quickly, there is a gull iver's travels aspect to this. he comes to washington with a lot of people who aren't billionaires, they can bring him down. >> we're really going to get a sense of what this president is made of if he's going to be able to survive this because, look, this white house is in pure crisis, damage control mode. we're going to see what happens with ...

Makes you feel like those states are remotely close to winnable? >> i'm glad you brought this up. when you talk about, when i woke up last friday, after not much sleep, one of the first things you take a look at is the tracking data. what we showed coming out of thursday night. this is before we got the news there director comey, which came out around 1:00, whatever the exact time was on friday, we showed it effectily a dead heat in both new mexico and in michigan. and at that point, we had certain things that -- we had already talked about a couple of ideas, but we decided we had to get new m...

Agreement, or even a shortish term agreement on our debt and spending issues, entitlement reform, tax code reform, maybe revenue increases. it doesn't seem as though our government is built to do those sorts of things. while the deadlines certainly do, it gets us beyond these dire deadlines that you're bumping up against, they just set up another set of deadlines that come february or come january will also look dire. i don't think we've solved the fundamental disagreements between the two parties. mitch mcconnell is the ultimate operator and closer. he said this is already a disaster for our ...