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Fact that hatred is the foundation for it. to compare mayor bloomberg to hitler, when there's an overwhelming population of jewish people in new york city and, of course, throughout the country, it's so offensive and it brings back unnecessary memories of a genocide that happened under hitler's watch. to restrict gun violence, to ensure people are safe in their homes and their communities, actually flies in the face of everything hitler stood for. this is a mayor who's fighting to ensure communities throughout the country, whether rural or urban, and his organization that he's created, are wor...

Semiautomatic ak-47. angela rye, professor bob shrum. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you, martin. coming up, the gop and fox news with benghazi on the brain. stay with us. >> it's not the gun. it is the individual. a gun has power for good or evil. depending on whose hands that gun is in. it is merely a reflection of what is in those hands. lindsey! i just discovered these new triscuit are baked with brown rice and sweet potato! triscuit has a new snack? no way. way. and the worst part is they're delicious. mmm, you're right. maybe we should give other new things a chance. no way....

Words, uncanny similarity to the president. what would possess someone to make a product like that, professor shrum? >> angela's right. it's hatred. there's a huge amount of the kind of fear mongering and hatred of barack obama that's out there. we see it in a lot of different ways. we've seen him, for example, put with a nazi, with a swastika, put on things held up at tea party rallies. look, the nra can remove that grotesque thing. you know what they can't do? they can't bring back the 3,900 americans covered in blood killed by gun violence since the newtown massacre. they're profiting off t...

Swastika props than the history channel. >> let them be damned. >> let's get to our panel. angela rye, political strategist, principal of impact strategies. bob shrum, democratic strategist and professor the atat nyu. welcome to you, both. let me show you a picture taken by a "bloomberg news" reporter. an attendee at the nra conventions, his shirt reads "shove gun control up your --" then shows a symbol of your party. there were no democratic speakers this year at the convention. can you explain how we got here? >> look, the nra over time, and really this goes back for decades, they opposed re...

Opportunities, will drive us forward in the 21st century. >> let's get to our guest, democratic strategist bob shrum, and karen finney. the president is expected to use the speech as a way to frame the debate over the so-called sequester which would mean $85 billion in cuts that republicans claim are entirely his fault. take a listen to this. >> you know, the president, he's the one who proposed the sequester in the first place. >> it's what president obama proposed in 2011. >> it is inevitable quite frankly. now these cuts are coming by law and it's law the president signed and advocated. >> ...