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another week and more thoughts and prayers and we're told now is not the time to talk about it or is it. i'm hala cook in washington this is the big picture on our team america. i agree with that sheriff in texas let's not say the shooter's name and not just to him the notoriety that could tempt another of the disturbed misfits who walk among us but sadly because it's hard to keep track of them all can you name the shooter in a rora in sandy hook san bernadino at that g.o.p. baseball practice this past summer even last month in las vegas or are we not into rationalizing this as. the new normal for just

a couple minutes let's talk about it if you watch our t.v. or live in new york you know steve malzberg well and if you live in san francisco you know chip franklin and might think a geo radio chips dad was a cop and his mom was a district attorney steve and chip in that order if not now when should we talk about it. well we do talk about it what you're referring to of course is the president saying after a couple of these horrific shootings that day or the next day when the crowd of reporters can't wait to start shouting you know what about gun control what about this control what about limiting that what and he says now is not the time to talk about it and it's not in the immediate aftermath now people are going to say well he was willing to talk about the immigration lottery after the new york city terrorist attack two different things one is our second amendment and our second

amendment rights the other is a court to it is a lottery that lets foreigners into this country many of whom should not be here so there is a difference chip what is a figure well that is a pretty wide spectrum of topics right there let's just talk about guns and gun violence in this country if you go back and look at mass shootings from one nine hundred eighty three to two thousand and thirteen we had one hundred nineteen mass shootings in the world sixty six percent were in the united states in the united states today under federal law anyone can sell a gun they only need licenses if they're doing it for profit and only three states would prevent the kind of sales of guns that were used in texas only three states prevent that require permits that's california connecticut and hawaii it's incredibly easy to get a weapon of death today and into the hands of somebody that's mentally ill or has a grudge or as steve was mentioning a terrorist it should be a lot harder to get guns and many state many countries like canada great britain japan. we should we should have more restrictive licenses the owner should be on

the purpose of the person getting the gun to prove why they need it not to try to just give the guns to anybody and then go back and try to find out why they shouldn't have it here is presidential counselor kellyanne conway. she recently said this on a news network the rush to judgment particularly led by people who just see politics in trouble and everything they do it doesn't help the victims and it's disrespectful to the dead steve is that not politicizing it. well she's responding you had chuck schumer you had barack obama you had joe biden coming out after one of the previous shootings that the last one i believe just you know politicizing it from the get go so she's responding to it she wouldn't be bringing it up if the media wasn't asking about it in the democrats weren't politicizing it look the fact of the matter is if you want gun control if you lock people up who use guns you use a gun in the commission of

a crime ten years mandatory you fire the gun twenty years watch what happens to choice of weapon of choice but the democrats would never stand for that because they don't like locking people up. steve you know you do have a microphone you don't have to me. a lot of you live here here's the deal about the i understand i there's two hundred seventy million guns in the country and twenty percent of the gun owners own sixty five percent of the guns we're talking about a problem or people have many many guns and in many cases they can't control where these guns go they lose track of them you know the famous case here of kate stylee where this undocumented person shot or the trial's going on now that gun was in the car an agent from the federal bureau of land management was stolen out of his car because he didn't put it away properly so we don't have law enforcement doing that the f.b.i. will tell you this i want to quantico and i shot i got to go in that group and shoot a gun and when you're under duress your ability to perform to be accurate and to

maintain and make good decisions goes down by a factor of ten and that's for professionals all i'm saying is you know i don't know i understand that good americans own guns and i'm not i don't want to bang into people's homes and take them away i just think we need to reexamine how we distribute guns and how and who we let have them i think that that doesn't affect what madison intended back when by the way the second amendment was put together because the federal government could afford an army. particular as a second amendment yeah and i'm not thrown away i'm not going to. think holland what you said in the intro to this show you mentioned a bunch of events terrible horrific events every one of them gone free zone we saw in that church in texas that the gun owner stopped further carnage and wound up being responsible for the capture and killing of the mass murderer and as far as all the guns out there let you were just reading off how many millions and millions and millions of guns there are and how many people of tons of guns and what is the

percentage of shootings compared to the number of weapons these are bad people bad guys bad women and you have to lock up the criminals well we don't always rest my proposal to lock them up and we got another bad here because objectively this wasn't just another gun nut mass murder bad paperwork and they pulled this guy who had been sentenced to a year in prison and he was kicked out of the us air force following two comments of domestic abuse against his wife and baby and that should have prevented him from purchasing firearms but because the air force didn't get his record into the national criminal information center database and passed all the background checks and here's an important part about that are the brady law was an amendment to the one nine hundred sixty eight gun control act ok and it was supposed to have end and i see as stop people it's a federal law that stops people from selling guns to each other but here's the problem you can still sell a gun to anybody without

a background check if you're not doing it for profit that's the way the law reads now so i can go and i can go in a parking lot and sell a gun to somebody else and i'm not buying a leading any federal law i think most of us want to see a gun so properly through proper channels to people who are adjusted and not mentally ill i mean right steve we all agree to that right well i know what first of all why can't they do background checks like they do a credit card why does it have to take seventy two hours they can't perfect the system where you go in your swipe something and sorry rejected or. accepted well i guess i have to be that long way i'm going to ask you know what is the answer when i answer. what happened in texas shows you why why there has to be a more detailed process because i happen in texas we dotted the i's we cross the t's and still this guy got a gun and killed twenty six people senator kirsten gillibrand said learning that this senseless act of violence might have been prevented if only the proper form was filled out by military investigators was absolutely devastating and from the

other side of the aisle speaker ryan how about enforcing the laws we have on the books if you're a domestic abuser you're not supposed to own a gun he was a domestic abuser that's why i got all these questions with the air force right now about how this slipped through the cracks and do we read that there are boxes and bales of paper documents that haven't been put into the system suppose we fix that is that enough steen or mental mental health so i was going to get as they say i agree with steve i agree with paul ryan one hundred percent right we have twenty twenty thousand plus gun laws in this country let's enforce the laws we have which we're obviously not doing every shooting we point to oh this slipped through the cracks that flip through the cracks so why pass more laws before we could have the ability or show the ability to enforce the ones we already have steve is what is fixing that this air force type snafu is fixing that enough why not ascertain if

others in the household are on the no buy list straw buyers why not purchase limits chip talked about the number of guns that many gun owners own what's wrong with taking that step steve. why why restrict the number of guns people could buy we have a second amendment why you could infringe upon it for the ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent who would never think of doing anything illegal you know you know couple things there first of all the supreme court or no judiciary ever considered the second amendment as being as unlimited as steve refers to until heller in two thousand and seven and you go back and you look in the seventeen hundreds actually boston restricted firing a gun within the city limits i mean there has been gun control back all the way the history of that and then of course we talk about the math and the number of guns here but let's just talk about the human misery gun gun deaths right now is the third leading cause of death for children in this country we have to address that there has to be something done right locked up well if you're talking about gangs

and fogs who shoot in the street and kill kids and not talk about mass murderers going into school locked them up for ten or twenty years mandatory they will not use guns steve back to texas this incident also validated another rationale we hear at times like this good guys with guns are a defense against bad guy with guns and it were true it worked this time this is a. situation then we could go into it but it's a little bit soon to go into that but fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction otherwise it would have been as bad as it was it would have been much worse you mentioned you brought up earlier the shooting in aurora do you honestly believe that a person with a gun in that movie theater could have stood up in the middle of all those bullets going around and if you've ever done the state but when this happens in a situation like that your your blood pressure goes up your post is one hundred sixty and you're supposed to aim accurately professionals can't do it putting guns in the hands of individuals who aren't trained for that going to the gun range doesn't help you unless you go to the gun range people start shooting at each other

then you'll get the comics period i need when something like that in a way it's not realistic sorry about what i was having i was having trouble hearing you but i thought but look but what good don't you is it not true that that these mass shooters pick. unfree zones shopping mall schools movie theaters churches where guns are afraid prohibited and they know no one's going to be able to stop them but actually texas doesn't have a law about preventing guns in churches unless the church has a sign that specifically says that guys on last week's show a twenty three year veteran of the washington d.c. metropolitan police warned about this good guys in guns theory because when the good guys in uniform show up they have to make those split second judgments that chip talked about this is retired officer ronald hampton when you're a police officer and you respond to the scene. and you have a uniform on your colleagues a uniform too and then there's some citizen there standing there would have

a gun and pulling out his gun and then use that as a police officer i'm going to shoot him that's why i'm going to shoot because he has a good because he's now when the sun or universe on this day i'm a good guy with good. well you know this conversation isn't nearly over but it is time to have and i thank steve malzberg and chip franklin for getting it started thank you guys still shaking the political landscape after tuesday's vote will check in with new jersey and virginia and top twenty team next this is the big picture on our team america. prescribe medication is widespread on the u.s. market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was

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a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of our city of mary is the same. apparently better than. the sea they've never heard of. jack to the next president of the world bank a. seriously send us an e-mail. for many americans this past tuesday was election day and most attention was focused on new jersey and virginia where governors are term limited and i know nobody else in those two states with a better feel for street level politics than our guests you saw joe thomas on the news with ed schultz following the violent confrontations and charlottesville during which joe got pepper sprayed by both sides joe does mornings and see bill one i was seven five and i am twelve sixteen you c.h.b.

and eric scott is vice president of news for a town square meeting in new jersey he coordinates news coverage on station statewide from new jersey want to one five in trenton where each month eric host chris christie's ask the governor calling show and after tuesday you both probably just want to exhale so i appreciate your time erick in virginia the lieutenant governor won the governor's race in new jersey and yours lost how big a surprise was that. i know there was a surprise at all in that you know from the very beginning of this race the interest was incredibly low the polls had easily a twelve fourteen sixteen point gap we were told by him go down all the time a good authorial candidate at the end that that gap was closing that internal polls were showing that it was a single digit race it wasn't a single digit race turnout was less than thirty five percent the race was called two minutes after the polls closed at eight o'clock and then the night was over and

think she got slimed by being chris christie's lieutenant governor was there guilt by association i think to a certain extent there was i mean she was his lieutenant for eight years and it's hard not to be painted with that broad brush you know i had said on the air wednesday despite all of the optimism that was being exhibited by the go down no campaign chris christie was hanging like a five hundred pound millstone around her neck and she was never able to get out from under that particularly in a race nobody was paying attention to joe the glaspie northam race in virginia got nasty as anybody watching washington t.v. saw and the polls had a tiger in the north some one point when how surprised were you ill. i wasn't surprised as much about the margin as i was about the turnout halid they saw almost four hundred thousand more votes cast ed gillespie if you look at the numbers actually would have beaten terry mcauliffe bob mcdonnell and tim kaine the last

three governors that we had by his vote total it says that ralph northam drove a huge new batch of voters into the polling places are turnout was enormous here in virginia and both of these races were very expensive new jersey voters watch new york and philadelphia t.v. neither of which come cheap and it cost a bundle just a by t.v. time in state around virginia without having to buy the stations here in d.c. eric and joe in that order or these races won and lost on air or did the ground game factor in. you know this was really in new jersey you know turnout i were jealous of the virginia turnout what was it joe was almost fifty percent forty seven percent in virginia you know we had we had barely two million votes cast in a state of over eight million people you had thirty two percent turnout thirty three thirty four percent turnout based on some estimates but less than twenty percent of eligible voters turned out in new jersey and this was not

a referendum on donald trump or really a referendum on chris christie this was a lot of voter fatigue the democrats have a better ground game they've registered more voters there are more registered democrats than republicans in new jersey with just a couple of election cycles ago it was pretty much easy even rather and more voters were independent than they were affiliated with the party but nobody paid any attention to this race from the very beginning and it showed at the polls hala nigella's there in never genya air war or shoeleather shoeleather absolutely without a question and i think both new jersey and virginia are seeing some of the same thing where the urban sprawl is coming in even into the rural areas if you look at the map of virginia new york times published a great bridge in your map where counties that used to be crimson red were starting to get a little peachy around the side and up but the ground game i mean you had guys like mark warner going door to door in charlottesville you know that's that's

a ground game for a statewide race and the last time the republicans ran a statewide race like that was bob mcdonnell bill bolling and ken cuccinelli and they swept swept the state wide in two thousand and nine well about that map demographers reckon that increasingly virginia resembles the usa overall and pundits hypothesize that the virginia house of delegates results are a predict door of the twenty eight thousand u.s. house of representatives joe how purple is the old dominion now well i think some of the virginia house of delegates races have been attributed i've talked to some. insiders who have said there was a lack of shoe leather in some of them and i think some of it has to do with the trump effect but not necessarily bad things the president did but republicans not as enthusiastic about standing next to them or flinching when their opponents cast them with the same aspersions eric you probably have spent more time covering chris christie than anyone else in media because you host the ask the governor show with

him no pun intended he has a bigger than life personality who is this guy and where does he go from here. you know i honestly don't know we all expected that he was going to join the trump administration in some role and even when there was turmoil in the oval office and among the senior staff we were all taking bets on whether chris christie would be the one to ride in and be the adult in the room and bring some order to the chaos other than heading up the governor's drug task force i don't know that there is a role for him right now i think he'll go at least in the short term into the private sector he's got a book that he wants to write i don't know necessarily who's going to read it anymore but i think you're going to see him at least in italy fade from view there was talk that he was going to become a radio host on a sports talk radio station in new york that didn't pan out so even when there's been word that he might do this or e might do that he's not commented and it hasn't panned out for

a what next for terry mcauliffe joe. i think terry mcauliffe is going to start sharpening his blades for a senate run there is tim kaine's race which is next year which by all intents purposes it looks like tim kaine may be running for but i think terry mcauliffe has his eye on something in the u.s. senate if not higher than that remember there will be a presidential race in just a couple of years as a matter of fact i think the fundraising is already begun yet here i reckon joe in that order i got about a minute and a half to what extent was tuesday's vote about donald trump. in new jersey donald trump was really not a factor less than thirty percent of people to make the polls that trump was a factor chris christie was a factor and his approval rating of seventeen percent helped drag him good auto down and gel briefly i think trump was a big factor from the democrats pushing out

a voter turnout it was fear and loathing it was a vote for me or ice is coming to take your boiler back to whatever country she emigrated from whether she was illegal or not they conveniently started dropping the word illegal immigration whenever they wanted to scare people into the polls this was turned out driven by mass restoration of voters' rights that terry mcauliffe did and a fear and loathing campaign from the left basically using trump as somebody to scare you into the polling places i think the negative t.v. spots in virginia are going to be copied widely as to what a team came along because that was pretty hard boiled stuff thank you joe thomas and eric scott and here comes twenty eighteen. this week we talked about guns and politics do you remember these two and these familiar faces that's allison parker and adam ward she was the morning reporter for w d b j

t.v. in roanoke virginia and he was her videographer and just looking at them you can tell how much they enjoyed their work and working with each other and twenty fifteen allison and adam were murdered on live t.v. by a coworker the station had fired chris hearse to anchor the evening news on that station and following the tragedy chris shared with the world what their coworkers at the t.v. station already knew he and allison were a couple and they were planning to be married. chris left his job at the t.v. station and he said my career in news was fulfilling but instead of asking questions i became focused s. a democrat announced that he would run for a seat in the house of delegates he challenged a three term incumbent islands was

a big plank on his platform and on tuesday chris won guns and politics you get the big picture here every friday night at seven and ten thirty eastern and if you watch us somewhere else you can also find us on direct t.v. channel three to one or watch any of our shows anytime at youtube dot com slash the big picture r.t. and look for yourself there too i'm holland cook in washington and i am at holland cook on twitter where if you follow me i'll follow you and each week on that you tube page we feature your tweets so question more.

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