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Polling, monmouth poll from august just last month, 56% of the public supports banning future sale of assault weapons. of course that's different from taking away existing ones. npr pbs poll, should congress create mandatory buyback program of assault weapons, there it's split down the middle. there is a difference. on the bigger picture here, do democrats overestimate the fear but not leaning more into gun control measures? >> it's an interesting question, jim. my own feeling is that in general -- the general direction of what the democrats are proposing this election are very mainstream and ...

Do you think he is changing the conversation or helping about how and how often democrats are going to be discussing guns, between now and election day? >> i think, chris, he certainly is contributing to that change in the conversation. one of the reasons you see democrats so impassioned about this issue is because it is such a stark contrast, their beliefs with what the trump administration and the republicans in the senate are doing on guns which at this point is not really anything. i imagine, as long as this democratic presidential primary continues, gun control, gun safety, gun violence, ...

Policies. >> meanwhile, this polling we're talking about, doug, on the issue, it shows, once again, that americans want something done, overwhelming majority there. this is "the washington post" abc news poll, overwhelming majority want to see expanded background checks, so-called red flag laws, the majority also want to see a ban on high capacity ammunition clips and assault weapons ban, a buyback program for those weapons. again, if you look at some of these numbers, 89%, 86%. at what point does intransigence either by republicans at large or the white house in general, a what point does the...

Consideration. the details of the plan are people's rights not only to own unclear for the moment. a gun, but privacy rights are for democrats, well, 2020 honored in them, nonetheless, candidates are taking a much different approach when it comes that is one way to give law enforcement and even family to gun control. >> the idea that we don't have members the ability to get a elimination of assault type gun, 17 states with them now, get a gun out of a hand of weapons, magazines that can hold somebody who is a threat to them. but to emily's point, -- they multiple roles in them is mindless. lik...

Selling them to the government. what do you do with those people? >> that's a good question. look, i think if you get to the point which we have to where we ban assault weapons, we have seen a horrifying impact and won't let me make a very human for you, i run the biggest school system in america, we are doing active shooting drills regularly now and i hear from parents all the time now and they are more worried now about their kids than i've ever seen because i think an active shooting situation could happen in because it's become a norm in this country and it almost always involves assault w...