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We need more law enforcement and need to have prosecutors that are serious about prosecuting, not letting people off. these are issues that will be debated early on in a new republican majority. >> speaking of the republican majority. if kevin mccarthy can't get 218 votes for speaker, who can? i know you're a supporter of kevin mccarthy. what are you telling your colleagues who are denying him their support right now? >> well, i think we have a lot of time between now and january 3rd. i'm of the opinion that on january 3rd, we'll come together as a conference and elect kevin mccarthy to be spe...

Expired. and then of course in the obama administration as vice president as we really saw mass shootings start to rise, you know, he was part of that effort with obama that just was desperate to get gun safety legislation, and didn't accomplish too much in those eight years. you know, he's had one of the rare victories on this issue, on the democratic side as president last year. i think the assault weapons ban, a lot will depend, just to throw out crude politics of this, is what people think it will do to the chances of raphael warnock in the georgia runoff on december 3rd. warnock has beat ...

Credit. >> yeah, it is a big disconcerting and weird to see all of this bipartisan activity after about a decade after decade of none of it. let's switch gears a little bit. the supreme court and congress went this complete opposite directions on gun rights yesterday. what can you tell us about the state of play of gun policy in america? >> so we netted out yesterday with probably less gun control in america. that the supreme court decision in the morning is likely to have more influence across the cup, more actual real-world impact than the vote 12 hours later by the senate, which we expect t...

Thing, jim, that is going to address this. i think that's one of the arguments being made by people saying, well, what you're doing in rhode island is not going to solve the problem. of course it is not. but it does reduce the risk. mental health issues, we know, reduce the risk. maybe that's the common bond we find between the two sides of this argument that we can, you know, make sure that we regulate the way that the guns are sold, and they're owned and as well as bring in the mental health aspect into the mix. >> but, do you -- when we speak to mental health experts, they'll tell us it a s...

Point. i also think unfortunately, gun issues there ever gonna go away, i think there's gonna be more mass shootings, there's certainly gonna be more crime in our streets of our cities, and even now you see crime increase in the rural areas of this country. this will continue to grow. it does go back to how we end up in the situation, we ended up in this situation because we're stuck with this old acronyms jack rule, that basically discourages compromise. if we didn't have the filibuster, we actually see a very, very bold and compromising, compromise bill when it comes to gun safety legislatio...