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With donald trump and chuck todd. take a listen. >> i can understand this very much if you have more guns you have more protection because the right people would have the gun, but it's a very, very difficult situation. when you see the mental illness problem that you have in this country and that's what it is and it's not a gun problem. >> what's your take? >> mr. trump is completely wrong. it is a gun problem. there's mental illness in the nations, similar nations across the world, but we have a gun problem. we have more than 300 million guns and we have more gun violence than any other civil...

Dance around the interview this morning made me want to throw up. >> that's andy parker, the father of slain journalist alison parker, slashing out at michael mccaul after mccall said on cnn that this country had a mental illness problem and not a gun problem. as investigators try to determine if anyone else may have known about the killer's plans, they're focusing in on blog posts that may have been written by the gunman. one portion praised the killer of those two journalists, including andy parker's daughter. the post reads, quote, a man who was now known by no one is known by everyone. his...

Because what happened in all those cases you identified in the top of your introduction is that we knew they were suffering, but we did nothing about it because mental health in our country is treated differently than if those people would suffering from a heart attack or a stroke, we would have rushed to take care of them. because their health issues are in their brain, we looked at it as a mental issue, rather than a health issue. >> the guy or woman you see on the corner who's schizoid and the person who's got an addiction problem. because every family, i tell you, i don't know which one do...

Answered, first, and, i mean, part of the dynamic -- whenever you have something like this occur, it's just so horrific, and it sort of shocks the country. what you unfortunately get sometimes is people pointing at each other to blame each other. it's the right blaming the left for the cultural dynamic, and it's the left blaming the right because of allowing guns to sort of be on the street and so have you this dynamic. ultimately the problem is how do we solve this problem, and i think the dynamic here is also we have to address a really serious problem. that is what do we do with people who ...

The treatment advocacy center and author of the "insanity offense" how america's failure it treat the seriously mentally ill is endangering its citizens. doctor torrey. welcome here. and you've written you're not against guns, but people's access. how many people are we talking about across the united states. >> it's a gun problem and a mental illness problem and 7 million at any given time, of these, half are not being treated at any given time and about 1% or 70,000 are potentially dangerous at any given time and we're not treating those people. >> paul: how do we get around to treating them...