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You get a sense that john brown must have planted a seed in john wilkes booth head that one man using an act of violence can shape history. brian: shows you how abhorrent to so many people that slavery was and they were willing to die for it and john brown was the first example. >> and killed for it interesting dynamic is john brown's relationship with frederick douglass. just as committed obviously to the anti-slave cause. he didn't take that step farther into initiating silence against civilians in order to pursue justice. ainsley: thank you so much for bringing history to loaf for us. can y...

Face that don't fix these problems, they only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun. >> joining us now is a colleague of congressman scalise, michigan congressman. it's great to have you with us. >> thank you. >> being on the democratic side of things, there have been democrats up front and outspoken dating back not only to what we witnessed in sandy hook, but before that about trying to come up with stronger gun control measures in this country. here we have a republican colleague who is a victim of gun violence and we know that gabby giffords was almost assassinated at a congr...

An advocate in someone like scalise? >> well, you know, again, we welcome steve back. we're so just thankful that he's fine and he's going to be back to work. but that doesn't mean i agree with him on this subject or many, many other perspectives that he brings to the house. he and i differ on a lot of things. this is one of them. but i will say this, i have been talking to a lot of republican members of congress, democrats and republicans. i have been working directly with other members of congress, democrats and republicans. i have been working, for example, with congressman brian fitzpatric...

There are still laws that we can put on the books. we need to close this bunk stock loophole so we don't see the kind of mass carnage that we saw in las vegas. we perhaps could have prevented it, had those bump stocks not been legal. so i think there is a legitimate debate. there is room for a dejit mat debate. i disagree with steve. i think the majority of the working people do. i am working with drapts and republicans crafting our own legislation to address this one specific question. but there are other things we can do as well. >> but if there is someone like a steve scalise who is a power...

You know, i remember the day jennifer and i saw you in a coma and to see steve scalise standing right here, it is really a miracle and it is really good to have steve back. and so we just feel so blessed. you know, i also know we're all just reeling from this horror that we witnessed in las vegas. as we speak we have a lot of people in the hospital right now fighting for their lives. parents are grieving for their children. this is just awful. we cannot let the actions of a single person define us as a country. it is not who we are. instead what truly defines us are the acts of heroism we witn...