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That it impacts on the second amendment, not one thing. now, tina makes a point. there is a paranoia out there. there is a paranoia that is probably the consequence of a whole range of things relating to federal government at large and where people are in their lives right now. i get all that, but the facts are there's not a single solitary thing that we have proposed that even, for example, justice scalia, one of the most conservative justices in the case relating to the restrictions in washington, d.c. >> the heller case. >> the heller case. not one single thing. you're allowed to deny peopl...

And, again, the one thing the nra has done so well lately is the disinformation. we use the word registration. there is no registration in america. >> let me ask you a political question, because we talk about nra disinformation. they, obviously, haven't done that good of a job at it because only 7% of americans oppose universal background checks. >> well, that's true. look, joe, this is one of the cases where -- where the public is so far ahead of the elected officials. i mean, so far ahead. you saw it in immigration. you saw it in marriage issues. you are seeing it now. the public has moved ...

Dangerous, such as manage guns. and that reasonable regulation has been upheld by the heller case, the supreme court's most recent pronouncement on this issue. the question here is whether the silent majority of americans and unfortunately they've been silent for a long time, can break the stranglehold that special interests have maintained over action. for first time in a decade, maybe a generation, we have an opportunity to seize the moment, to organize and galvanize the majority so we achieve common sense common ground measures which should be bipartisan. there's nothing partisan about publ...

That makes the nra sound rather like a parasite on the host body of the republican party, doesn't it. >> it certainly has been in recent years. it used to be there were an awful lot of democrats who also had 100% nra ratings. that's no longer so much the case. look, as julian said, the world right now is bedeviled by what are called failed states. these are states where the government doesn't have enough authority to maintain security and protect people's lives. and what happens in these fails states is that you get war lords a and other groups that kill an awful lot of innocent people through...

Assumptions prevalent among the party base in report, he's going to be out of a job. there's no wiggle room on policy to expand the republican pertar to appeal to nonrepublicans because you'll be punished by republic chance in primaries. you'll lose your joobzb as a republican. >> angela, if there's no wiggle room to be in the factual universe as opposed to this kind of offensive racist stuff, where do they go? >> they better wiggle in a different direction. look at the fact edge today the president nominated tom perez as the next secretary of labor. that's his pick. then you have folks coming...