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Candidate for governor. i doubt he is going to say that much even though he's a moderate. he may have a primary though against a very liberal member of that county commission. i bet she will say something about this eventually. >> well, whether you have a real debate or not, i have a feeling the issue will certainly be involved in many, a television ad. john, i see you have gone full beard. you are a real newspaper man. no more goatees. that's too bad. people mistaken you for my younger brother. >> i kept getting mistaken as todd. that's why i did it. >> john ralston, check out his work at the...

Gun control and the second amendment. 47% of americans in swing states said the issue to the supreme court was extremely important. and the issue of the supreme court was the proxy. >> you think supreme court is a proksy. more about guns than abortion. >> it was in 2016. president trump, those people who said it was extremely important, that half of the country, he won them by 14 points. we had a gun debate in the election and the public came out clearly on it. >> if you ask the public about specific gun measures there is overwhelming support each among gun owners for things like expanded back...

We don't like his staff that gets up in front of him. >> another issue -- >> do you see it as a missed opportunity some. >> well, i think, of course i think it is a missed opportunity. i think he's given high marks for how he handled florida and texas and high marks on the virgin islands. hurricane recovery doesn't happen in two days or two weeks. >> here's the problem for me with puerto rico and how it is a missed opportunity. when you talk to puerto ricans and people of latino descent, the way the people talked about puerto rico as if they were not citizens, it is an othering. it is a contin...

Response on that one side of the aisle. >> i hate to be cynical you about it but it is a politicalcal tactic. it is a an evident to push a conversation beyond a news cycle or two. that's what it is. i do think there is -- there are a lot of people who very sincerely want to mourn the victims, want to support first responders. you can do both of those things at the same time. it seems very clear that what we are dealing with is a political tactic in that moment because it's not necessarily the moment that some folks want to engage on this issue. >> like i said, you are not afraid to engage on t...

It is a hard core partisan divide. if you go back, they were asking whether it was more important to protect begun rights or more important to protect violence from guns. out a 50/50 divide, even in the republican side. you do have a hard core partisan divide even on issues of gun restrictions where you have democrats and independents, a majority for more gun restrictions. you don't have that majority among republicans. and it goes back to what chuck you and i always talk about here, a lot of it is really gerrymandering, when you look at republicans where their number one challenge is, within ...