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Chris's point, is to find people who can make pushing gun control laws one of their top issues. this has always bp one of the problems when this issue comes up is that on the pro-gun side, you have people who vote on this issue, who go to the polls because of this issue. and on the gun control side, this isn't always at the top of their list. what he's trying to do is make this the number one issue for women, in particular, and say, in your state, in local races, you have to get out to the polls, because of this issue. >> one of the things that has evolved, though, is that he's going right up ...

Has will have legalized recreational use of marijuana. big year for marijuana. >> huge year. colorado and washington state both have legalized it now. this one i don't know what the trajectory is. i think you're going to see red states moving in one direction and blue states in another direction on this. . we're going to have a bit of a patchwork of legalization and crackdowns on it. until the federal government steps up and congress loosens the laws and i think on the republican side there's not really much debate on this yet despite the libertarian wing and people like rand paul who want to ...

They've made in some states. is that a fairway to read as a success or no? >> it's a trend in most of these social issues we're talking about. we're going in two different directions as a country out in the states. the red states are getting redder and more conservative on some of these issues and the blue states getting more liberal on some of these issues. with gun control, 80s one of those issues where all the passion is on one side and on the pro gun side and on the gun control side, it doesn't have the ability to produce votes or influence congress but you're right. at the state level and...

Discussed. not only around the state, but during the debates. so we saw some success there as well. >> captain, is it true that you are focusing more now on the mental health side of this and the gun control side, both better treatment and also more effective reporting of people who have mental health problems to the federal background check? >> well, chris, this is a complicated issue. there isn't one reason why we have such a horrendous rate of death from gun violence. it needs to be approached in a bunch of different ways. i still strongly believe that the first thing we should do is requir...

I know that sounds harsh to say, but politically they can't seem to have mental health and it seemed as if that's where the momentum was lot of. >> exactly. that never happened and turned into a gun control where you had bloomberg versus the nra. you look at the numbers and you have two americans with gun control. two americas and with voting rights where it's easier than others. >> america is on medicaid. we go on and on. you look at northeast gun control, more gun control all the time. more partisan than most. >> what is striking, robert and some will say it's not fair to compare michael blo...