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And david good friend, and former deputy staff secretary to president bill clinton. thanks to both of you for being here. david. you just heard that from the nra. essentially bans don't work. you are hearing some agreement from democrats on that. your thoughts. >> well, first of all i think the nra is doing something that what us old washington hands know is a containment strategy. they know there is a lot of pressure to do something. what they've done is chosen something that could be done at an administrative level at the atf without an act of congress. they're worried about it moving to con...

Realize how big the problem is, that they decide that they are going to do the best they can and give in. >> joining us now lisa booth a contributor to the washington examiner and founder of high noon tragedies and david good friend, a former staffer for president clinton. newt gingrich was asked and he said they will lose their nerve and give in. what do you make of that? >> it speaks to a larger dynamic going on. the republican party is not monolithic. there are degrees and differences of opinion. donald trump was an outsider who crashed the party during the primaries. in 48 hours we'll see ...

Matter what you do the far left wing of the party will never be happy. they will say you didn't go far enough. an exact parallel on the republican side. no matter what donald trump does there will be people on the far right who say you didn't go far enough because i guess the government still exists or it wasn't small enough to be drowned in a bathtub. there is always going to be somebody who is purist who says i'm sorry, this was not enough. and look, there -- this is a big country that has more than two centuries of history. no one president completely dismantles or builds the federal govern...

He said he was going to change the education system and selected betsy devos to make fundamental changes. same on energy. you can see in the cabinet selections and some of the decisions he's made so far of how those changes he said were coming are going to come. >> gingrich said he worries when they realize how big the problem is they'll do the best they can. david, he made some very specific examples talking about environmental and education issues as we heard. is there any middle ground on some of those issues? >> well, no, on some of the issues there isn't. i found it interesting what he wa...

>> time now for the happier part of our show. friend zone. we brought a friend from the building here on the show. joined by an actual friend of mine dana perino famous for many things including co-host of the five and former white house press secretary. great to see. >> you glad to be on the same planet with you let alone the friend zone amazing snrl we have always been on the same planet. a lot of people didn't like your former boss, former president bush. >> they like him now. >> they like him now for sure. >> in the election. so what did you make of the response from some, not all but some...