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About the same as mitt romney. so are there some cross currents there that democrats need to be aware of? >> well, the first thing i think and we all know that hispanic voters aren't really monolithic. they run the gamut, especially by age from conservative to really progressive. and polling kind of has a limitation inherently dealing with hispanic voters because of that. what the research and this poll tells us is that more and more latino voters are gravitating towards progressive issues. they are very likely to support sort of the $1 major. and i think i also cite in the piece, a the lee ti...

The conclusion, and those issues that are still open must be made public not only to congress, but to the american public and congress must take that, whatever there is and hopefully it's complete, take all of that information and conduct public hearings on it, calling in witnesses and doing whatever is necessary and think about the watergate period and it was those public hearings by congress that illuminated the issues that nixon had and similarly it will illuminate the issues of donald trump and his obstruction of justice collusion or whatever else is in that report. >> all right, congressm...

To make their own moral choices, their own health care choices. when you're trying to say the politicians in washington and the president of the united states should make that decision for you, i think they're going to disagree. >> so senator jilet's talk abou elections. in your home state, you have a big development in the congressional primary. a newcomer. a 28-year-old puerto rican, alexandria ocasio-cortez. she won against a ten-term congressman, joe crowley. she had words for you. she put out a tweet about it. disappointing that she didn't even bother to talk more consider me before endor...

>> so let's talk about elections. in your home state, you have a big development in the congressional primary. a newcomer. a 28-year-old puerto rican, alexandria ocasio-cortez. she won against a ten-term congressman, joe crowley. she had words for you. she put out a tweet about it. if we have if for the audience. disappointing that she didn't even bother to talk more consider me before endorsing. you'd think a progressive leader would at least be interested in how a no corporate money bronx person progressed on progressive issues. what do you make of her point? >> the issues she ran on are fan...

Actively to deal with the issues that seem to invariably surround these shootings? we know what the states are doing. but on the federal level, is there anything to give any hope for any kind of momentum? >> well, congress is certainly broke and has done nothing to end gun crime. i have hope. i believe the fact that this movement has become more led by kids, led my students that it's intersectional. it applies to all communities and all kinds of gun violence. that momentum that's being created by the kids marching out of school, and on washington is making a difference. to have young women cal...