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Trading. yet people still do all of those things. what we're talking about is changing the environment in which guns are produced and purchased. what i mean is really cracking down on the kind of lethal weapons the gun industry can produce. they are not entitled to profit off the carnage. number two, it's ensuring if you want to own a gun, which is your constitutional right to do so, you get a license and register that weapon and we know then the nine states that already have gun licensing, they have lower rates of gun suicide, they have lower rates of gun homicide, these laws work. we need th...

That comes with the office, which is to be a leader on every level, including encouraging, challenging us to be or besur b selves. we have an occupant in the white house who consistently goes to the lowest denominator, so yes, i believe there's consequences. cory booker said he was frustrated that some of his fellow candidates do not support gun licensing, and calling on his opponents to support it. you said you agree with lots of your competitors' ideas. is that one of them? >> yeah, i think it's a great idea. i think it's a great idea, but again, jake, my issue is -- i do, i think it's a g...

Throwing themselves out windows, dying to their death in those sweat shops. we were a nation that overcame filibusters in the senate when four girls were killed in a bombing. we responded. and so now here we are, in a moral moment again. and it's not for girls or the horrific deaths of women. this is mass shooting after mass shooting, before we could even bury our dead, another one happens. and so you want to know about a president that will take responsibility? don't tell me what can't get done. the senate is replete with a history of things that could not pass but then did. what we need is a...

Officials will do their job and their job is to stand with the american people and stand up for public health and public safety in a better society. and as i said, i will say again, how important it is that mitch mcconnell call the senate back on monday. we could pass the background check bill in an afternoon and people could get back on a plane and go back to their homes and their children and grandchildren and whatever else they're doing in august in the evening. we could do it that fast and we would all then -- we do a resounding vote and the president of the united states perhaps would fee...

The problem. do you support gun licensing and if not, how do you respond to senator booker? >> i think that we do need to know who has these guns when they're sold, who they change hands to. cory booker has good information about who has these gun bus we also have to combine that with things like red flag laws that give the ability to take guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them in the first place. people who represent a danger to themselves or somebody else. >> secretary castro, thank you for joining us on this horrible sunday. appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you. much m...