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A gun openly in texas and harder to smoke in hawaii where the legal smoking age is now 21. virginia improved access to voting for students but in north carolina where i live, 2016 is the year when it becomes harder to vote. here's one other thing we can be sure of in 2016. you, the viewers of nerd land will be letting us know what you think about our show in tweets, posts and snail mail. no doubt that you will let us know when you think we have succeeded or failed. and we hear at mhp will keep working together to make a show worthy of your engagement. as hnic -- head nerd in charge -- i have t...

>> we'll take a break but i'm going to make you an offer. >> yes, ma'am. >> i actually think the question of having a big national conversation is an important one. just don't know if the president does in this moment. i on the other hand have a talk show and if you want to work with me to do some bipartisan week on this show over the course of the next year to talk about violence in a broader sense, i'm giving you the forum of "nerdland." up next, the president's accomplishments on 2015. we'll talk about president obama riding with jerry seinfeld. >> i do really well with the zero to 8 demo...

State officials were e-mailing each other over the summer about knowing lead rates in the water were rising. at the same time that they were assuring folks there was nothing wrong with the water. so there's a lot of stuff -- just a lot of stuff that's still coming to light here it the governor has appointed a task force to sort out some of this campability, figure out what happened. there's other efforts to look into it. i think this is all going to be part of a long process of figuring out who's to blame. >> thankfully there's also an independent set of journalists and media looking into it a...

Marie hancock. thanks to all of you for being here for my l.a. debut of "nerd land." talk to me a little bit, what is it about california that allows it to be kind of a laboratory for these kinds of policies, not always progressive but recently quite progressive? >> well, first of all, it is not a new if he none that. this has been happening for a long time, and particularly in the '90s when we had a democratic majority and a democratic governor. toughest assault weapons ban. i was the author. healthy families. health care for children. 750,000 children had health care. we were focused on many...

Contributing writer for the nation. so nice to have you all here. >> i now know why we're here. great. i get it now. >> honestly, you know, we have been obsessed with this video in nerd land. we actually thought your take on it was the most perfect of all the many takes. so i just want to read this one part. in this video, you're seeing the confidence of someone who has been going to the same bar every other weekend for three years. it's post-posturing. it's when you show up in sweats at 1:00 a.m. because you can. it's how you dance when a public space becomes your living room. you're beyond n...