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18-year-old, walk in, a 20-year-old, and buy an ar-15. that's why back in 1994, i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years, mass shootings were down. ten years in a row since i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004, republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. tripled. it's time to ban these. it's time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] time to hold every elected official's feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if t...

Cities and municipalities, and one of the things we urged them to do is to use that money to beef up law enforcement, to do community violence intervention, to think out the box in terms of after school programs, summer job programs, that we could fight crime in a comp henrehens manner. today the president is going to lay out what cities are doing where it's working and things he's encouraging people to do with the $10 million that's out there to make communities safer. >> there's billions more going to these cities and states throughout the year, and it's flex money. the white house can't tel...

We've heard politicians say over and over again over the years that they're serious about combatting gun violence only for the american people to see little change actually happen in washington. tell any viewers who might be skeptical why they should believe this time is going to be different. >> because most of the time when you hear politicians talk about it, they're only talking about the end of a system where the police are involved or a prosecutor is involved. the unique thing about this proposal and why the biden plan, i think, is the right solution is that it looks at the root cause and...

I mean, the british tabloids have been having these problems for a long time. maybe it's harder now. they can't tap phones as much as they used to. but, you know, i think this kind of back and forth, we are seeing celebrities step up more than they used to, right? we're seeing -- they had to ignore it, they'll get a lot of negative attention if they push back a lot on this stuff but now it seems to be what you're supposed to do is turn and say this is not -- >> that said, everything george clooney does is absolutely correct. >> what is novel to me is britain has much stronger libel laws than t...

Reportedly said hispanics are already republican. they just don't know it. and his point being that as immigrants assimilate and get older they'll turn more conservative. yet president obama has won an overwhelming majority of the latino vote. so the question is, what should republicans take away from this? what's the real lesson for them going forward with this part of the electorate? >> i think there are two possible stories here. one that republicans used to say a lot was hispanics are socially conservative. they have family values we share. and that will draw them to us in the end. when yo...