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Exploding in route, it has to be a pretty sophisticated person. >> the bombs that went off last week sat on a door step. there's an easy way to disarm them until you want them to go off. i don't want to go into too much detail. but basically something like a washing machine or egg timer. it's mechanical. you can feel and hear it tick. i don't want to assume that is what is used in these bombs shipped through fed ex-, which leads me to believe they were more electronic engineers and more sophistication. so up until this morning, there was a narrative there that these could be simply devices, bu...

Of americans supporting universal background checks on all gun purchases. do you think that just the realities that walmart is seeing and that fedex is seeing, delta is seeing and that dick's sporting goods is seeing, do you think that eventually congressman and senators will feel the same pressure to listen to what 90% of americans want? >> i hope so. let me be clear, the manchin/toomey bill is not universal. it does close gun shows and internet sales but personal transactions between friends would not be subject. we can have a discussion about how far that should go but it broadens back grou...

To on -- obsequious to the nra on this show was -- overlooked was a statement that fedex and fred smith put out which is that assault style weapons should be banned. an ar-15 should only be in the hands of the military, from fred smith himself, a vietnam war hero in the marines. i mean, donald trump is looking at all these corporate leaders and going, my gosh, do i listen to wayne lapierre or do i listen to all these people who understand the bottom line better than anybody? >> well, you look at what happened yesterday and in contrast to donald trump's -- you hear constantly oh, he's going to ...

Sporting goods said they're no longer selling assault style weapons, they're making people be 21 before getting guns. walmart followed up. that's a pretty big footprint who they stopped selling assault style weapons a few years ago after newtown. they also went up to 21. fed ex really leaned forward yesterday and said hey, wait a second, ups also, you know, ships guns. we -- we are giving the nra the same deal that we give absolutely everybody else that ships with us in bulk, no preferential treatment, but -- and then fred smith at fed ex said but you will note we were the only people to come ...

Americans wanting universal background checks, two-thirds of americans wanting a ban on assault-style weapons. the overwhelming majority of americans wanting the age for purchasing guns going up. that's in the political sphere. as we know, donald trump respects the bottom line more than anything else. he respects corporate leaders. and so yesterday what happened, he saw the largest employer in the united states of america, walmart, saying we're going to raise the age from 18 to 21. we've already taken assault style weapons off the shelves. we saw the largest boarding goods store in america say...