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We are lying to ourselves as members of congress, we are lying to ourselves as american people, if we continue to recycle the old rhetoric around learning from this, and this and that, and all of those things. listen. let's tell the truth. we are a flawed nation. we have fear and hate and blood and discrimination embedded in the dna of our country. we have a gun violence problem, and we have a violence problem. they are not going to survive as a democracy if we do not address these things seriously in congress. not playing around, but seriously. we just had the first attack on a u.s. capitol s...

Experts told Yahoo News that the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, growing distrust in U.S. institutions and the rise in firearm sales are contributing to a spike in violence.

Rhetoric and talk honestly about the trade-offs. i suspect you share that view. >> 100%. thank you for having me, ali. i think that is the point. obviously, if you do not moderate content to have misinformation problems. that has direct democracy -- for democracy, for the public health and covid misinformation, there are many implications. it has implications for war propaganda. you have an incitement of violence problem. we have seen it happen over social media with the capitol riot, with the plot to kidnap and kill the governor of michigan, and over facebook. the key point is the one you jus...

Gun laws. no coincidence the president is rolling this out in new york city. >> that's correct. we have a violence problem here just like in other cities. there are 16 cities that have hit all-time highs in violence. new york is one of them. we're on our way of going the wrong way. there's a lot of uncertainty. >> mayor adams has his own plan. tying crime fighting correctly with gun violence. smart to put those two things together? >> not necessarily. it's very hard to imagine how theye going to finally get the senate to take action on some of these measures when we've heard from democratic se...

Took action. >> that's really interesting. what is the official process by which mexico would be labeled and unsafe country. who decides that? >> it would certainly be some judge, that's why this president is saying you have a violence problem in mexico, we can fix it. mexico has shown for 30 years they can't address these cartels. there's a lot of corrupt law enforcement, unfortunately there's corrupt military and politicians. we've proven we can do this. let us attack the cartels and prosecute them here in this country. we can attack their financial and transportation network. a dangerous me...