the president gets credit for convening these meetings and talking about hard issues i'm not sure much changes in washington we will we are seeing some changes in states though there's a lot of gun laws that states might consider we're seeing that in florida which is held by deeply conservative republicans again nothing will go far enough in my opinion to confront these mass casualty event but at least we're having a national conversation and republicans are participating in that conversation as states that have banned those. eight percent less mess killings than states that don't ban them why or why we have assault weapons. listen i think a ban should be on the table it should be debated and frankly if it passed i would be supportive of that i don't know that the votes are there in the senate but i think what they could do larry is make assault weapons so functionally obsolete for the lay person and what i mean by that is make it as hard to get an assault weapon

as it is to get a security clearance in this white house make it a six month to twelve month process let's suggest perhaps you have five or six different courses you have to take and pass you have to demonstrate a competency your background check has to be so thorough that it would compare to a security clearance background check we could do that and it would ensure that the only people with access are the most responsible most trained military law enforcement and so forth make them functionally obsolete for the lay person. david stay right there will be back with more politicking after the break.

a party divided in with out a clear message democrats face a fundamental dilemma move to the left and reach out to progressive. and in the process alienate its donor base for continued fizzing this is usual for the democrats tired of losing. fifty years ago pregnant women to come together as a sleeping pill and dusty's with the named as a doctor does said this thought the scientific sweat terrible but not on the road

is shown in dutch one troubled love more to hear not the warm welcome of across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the constant mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there's been a couple of. back to politicking i'm talking with david jolly for the u.s. representative the federal law seems is from tampa you spec'd any meaningful action on the gun issue. i think we will see the laws change but the question is will they change in the direction far enough to really accomplish any prevention so what we are seeing at the state level is for instance

that debate also happening nationally do we raise the age we're also seeing do we harden schools are there additional restrictions on assault weapons but at the end of the day larry the answers are pretty straightforward we need comprehensive and universal background checks and that means every single gun transaction should be subjected to a deep background check that doesn't exist and really is unlikely to pass even in the current debate that would include the moment you go to purchase a firearm your mental health records do have to be evaluated if that's there that's a change in conversation for americans to have i think we need to address an assault weapons ban or whether or not we make them so difficult to get and we also need to address and forstmann president trump has suggested through his immigration policy and he has shown that he is going into people's homes and workplaces and removing people because they have violated our immigration laws he should put the same level of them foresman into enforcing gun laws and going after the people that

illegally trade in these arms they can do that david during congress to be n.r.a. contribute to campaigns. in my very first campaign and congress was the first office i had run for so i didn't have a voting record and my very first campaign i believe they gave five or ten thousand dollars to my candidate committee and then they came in with about one hundred thousand dollars of negative independent ads against my opponent and coordinated with myself but certainly i knew they were spending money where once i got to congress and started voting they weren't very happy with my voting record and after the polls nightclub shooting in orlando i went out on a limb and and offered a compromise bill to address the terror watch list i also became the only republican to co-sponsor a bill require universal background checks as a result of all that the next time i ran not only did they not support me but they supported my democratic opponent because they were so angry with the votes i had

taken that they did not agree with what i would do they have such power. so we do have to talk about the n.r.a. in two different ways first is the amount of money they have very deep pockets that they spend on races and in the united states we know it is very expensive to run a race that really is the undue influence of the n.r.a. but we also have to look at the influence that there truly is nothing wrong with and by that i mean the voters listen they have a very mobilized membership that believes deeply in second amendment issues and if you're an elected official you don't get to choose the constituents you listen to and those you ignore and so the responsibility for a member of congress is to balance the interests and concerns of the second amendment advocates with those asking for more gun control the deep pockets out of washington to distort accountability but we can't overlook the fact that there are voters who hold very deeply to the second amendment issues. the president has already announced that he's wanting to again in twenty twenty you on this program

said that you're involved in finding someone to run against him in primaries. is there anything he could do in his first term to change your mind about that. you know i don't think so but that's a very important question because republican critics of the president like myself we do always have to ask are there things he is doing that are consistent with republican orthodoxy and there are but on matters of a president who continues to undermine democratic institutions the rule of law our judiciary continue to attack free press frankly on matters of someone say moral fitness of course we're no nobody is perfect but but the way in which he represents the highest office in the land on those matters i don't think that people like myself can ever reconcile with this president's administration the attack on rule of law is something we've never seen in the likes of a republican or

a democrat or when we have we've seen it rise to impeachment charges so i think the country would be better off with somebody other than donald trump and my efforts in two thousand and twenty will be towards that end david jolly as always thanks for your time today. great to be with you thanks larry i'm now joined on set by robert c. o'brien former u.s. representative to the u.n. general assembly during the george w. bush administration he was also senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of mitt romney and scott walker it's always good having him with us ok first robert so many things happen with this administration this news every other minute the director of the national security agency admiral mike rogers recently told congress that the trumpet ministration is not doing enough to counter russia's efforts to cyber meddle in elections that i know you know mike what do you make of that. the russians have been our adversaries for

a long time you know i grew up in an age where you know we thought we'd go to war with russia someday that didn't happen which was great then the cold war ended but the russians have kept up their their efforts against the united states have never given up they were active during the obama years are going to be active during the trump years and we have to be vigilant we have to push back against vladimir putin and russian aggression against our allies in europe but also their attempts to meddle in our elections that's just something we can't we can't allow why do you think the president doesn't take among congress once sanctions he doesn't and implement them. are you concerned about that look i think president trump has done something that you know president obama didn't do and he's showing a real toughness we're rebuilding the american forces in eastern europe general mattis has been there are multiple times with government reins training in norway so you know folks can look and say he's not saying enough or you know his rhetoric isn't right but when you look at what we're doing we're reinforcing our allies we're putting american combat brigades in eastern europe and poland and estonia

latvia lithuania the russians know we're serious look we you know they've killed probably two hundred russians in syria a couple weeks ago no one's talking about that i don't think that would happen in the obama administration so i think president bush has to airbases me present trumps take a tough line on the russians but rhetorically he's maybe dialed back a little to do you know why would you guess what you know look you'd have to speculate why larry you know we don't know all the negotiations are taking place we don't know you know there are things going on in syria obviously where we need russian cooperation we need the conflict in syria we need to try and protect the civilians who are being slaughtered by bashar al assad in syria so there's a whole range of issues where we have to cooperate with the russians but there are also issues where we have to push back hard to meddle in our elections is one of those red lines where we do have to push back hard on the russians your advisor to mitt romney he's going to run for the senate in utah president's already had dorst him even though romney slammed the trump as a phony and from call romney

a loser. we'll let him do what he's a shoo in in utah right in the ring the communists are in dawson you know he's going to is going to win in utah i actually told the governor it is going to win by fifty points it's going to be so goddy it's going to look like one of the african strongman elections he's is the one very big and utah and look he's going to go on to be a great senator i think that the senate needs and i was speaking with a ranking republican senator the other day who said i'm really looking forward to having governor romney as a colleague and i think he's going to be a real breath of fresh air in the united states senate i've got a way for him to criticize trent threw out of the democrats put them on their ballot to. you know they're going to have a candidate but i think they're going to a lot of democrats in utah who probably vote for governor romney just because a they like him and they and think he would've been a good present maybe they feel guilty because it will stand does exist trump do you think when he disagrees with them i think will it look governor romney is not going

to you know go to the senate to be a rubber stamp i think here is going to agree with present from for people who think he's going to go lead some resistance in the senate that's not going to the case governor romney is a republican he's going to support a republican agenda and where we're the president and governor romney agree on things i think he's in a fine support but there are going to be times when they disagree and i think governor romney will be be forceful in those disagreements according to new york times robert united nations experts have found that north korea has been supplying the syrian government with materials for chemical weapons lending credence to the long held suspicions that syria is continuing to use the weapons against its own people but your reaction it's just terrible i mean you look at what's happening i i thought that you know after rwanda after serbia and bosnia that we wouldn't see this again we're seeing innocent men women and children slaughtered with with chlorine gas and and chemical attacks that are just the most dastardly things that

you can imagine and it's hard to watch t.v. it's hard to watch the pictures of these kids those in with us. well he's going to whatever it takes to cling to power those are you know those are hamas rules he learned that from his dad who kill your own people is dead killed fifty thousand people in a city called on the killed everybody that was in revolt against them and they literally paved over the city bulldozed down their houses and paid zero paid for their cities he watched his dad do it he's going to do the same thing and look he's backed by the iranians who you know their goal is to have a an empire that stretches from the mediterranean you know all the way to the red sea and they want to they want to have their influence in iraq they want to control syria they want to control lebanon through hezbollah alternately they'd like to circle and conquer israel if they could these are very brutal people they're very hard people and and we've got to stand up to south korea wants is to talk to north korea good or bad. look it's always worth talking there's you know i don't know her

i'm a i'm a diplomat i think you always have to talk it has to be backed up by strong policy strong sanctions policies and we've got always leave options on the table but there's no reason not to talk. the south korea says don't have preconditions now you're a veteran diplomat why are there preconditions to talks you know what you don't want to deal with some of these dictatorships is that you don't want to give them face or give them something for nothing and for them to be able to to show up at talks often allows them to go to their own people or to go to influence other people around the world and look for we're standing next to the americans or we're standing next to the american president so you want to make sure that they're coming to the table with real intent to talk about the issues that are important but in this case let the north koreans know what we want we want to end the nuclear program we're not going to ease up on sanctions and so i don't i don't see any reason not for vice president pence or for whoever else in the ministration when the you know wants to talk to north koreans i don't see a danger that as long as we don't have sanctions ahead of time president trump was

asked about the latest relay of sanctions assuming that the last course would be do you envision do we could go to war with north korea. look it's possible we want to avoid it at all cost because it would be an extraordinarily difficult war to win we would win it there's no doubt about that but it would be at the cost of significant blood and treasure and it would be very very very hard on our allies in south korea you know what i've called on in the on your show many times in the past and we're starting to see it is we've got to have crippling rhodesia style sanctions on the north koreans we really have to cut them off from the outside world so they can't get money for their nuclear program they can't get money for their elite to continue to live the high life whether people are starving and we have to pressure them so much that it no longer becomes worth it to produce a person the nuclear course now whether whether that will be successful or not i don't know but at least we're given a shot right now and we need china. it would we elect china shares

a border with north korea unless china is going to cut off the fuel to north korea unless they're going to cut off the the supply of missile components and an armaments to north korea then it's not going to work so we don't need the chinese to play ball they're going to scrap the existing presidential term limits in china they want or they want a perennial dictator you know we're seeing a very dangerous trend that sap in the world we're seeing with what amir putin and russia were seen with aragon in turkey we're seeing it with the g. it's the return in china we're seeing the return of the strongman and ultimately while in the short term it may bring stability to a country in the long term being run by a dictator is not good for a country it's not good for the chinese people and and there's actually been you know somewhat of a revolt on social media against scrapping the term limits against president and in china and the censors have been working overtime to shut down their equivalent of twitter to make sure that the chinese people can't air their grievances over this north korea china russia what keeps you up the most at night short term north korea

they've got a madman with a nuclear weapon and again we've talked on your show over the years that when he didn't win when he didn't have a delivery system when he didn't have the i.c.b.m.'s to get him to california or denver or chicago or washington d.c. it was less of a problem for us but now he has he's got the nuclear weapons and he's got a delivery system to put us in danger so short term that keeps you awake at night long term the chinese are are becoming very aggressive and now with with the g. taking this you know president for life type position we've got to be very wary of the chinese always great having the rank you serve great guests love them thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that poor people are no more afraid of the police than of a criminal as. you can see something happening in this is like i don't want to call the cops let that happen rather than call the cops in those young black men lose their lives chasing the uninformed with their fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to pull a gun out so yes unfortunately around around here we may end up killing our guns along the death toll from such precautions placed to block when the real.

right. headlines on the international media goes into a frenzy. in his state of the nation address by the u.s. state department questions from russian reporter on this issue. they say that they are you. ok enough said on this video emerges of the moments leading up to the death of a palestinian during an israeli raid in the west bank that the i.d.f.

soldiers killed him though it has changed his version of events several times. and in italy. in the polls with the general election just days away it's one town with a radical approach to migration that is made. by the entire country. that morning on friday here in moscow you're watching the international mall of us here a very warm welcome. state of the nation address the media into a frenzy accusing russia of cold war era posturing during the speech the president showcase the country's new strategic weapons which he said could all existing missile defenses. the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning he said at first reason and in the west in particular not

to mess with russia computer graphics of missiles flying over mountains and heading over oceans and he says he's not bluffing though many has told the address as a threat directed at the us moscow claims it has no intention of using its military might high tech weaponry is intended only to preserve the global balance of power as might i guess the effort. if you aren't russian in the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption and science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush hooted unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster

stronger and deadlier than any that came before the as. the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with nuclear payload it can reportedly underwater for months and months silent and detectable next to the oven god the high. michel extremely fast rockets that can actively

dog and the vader anti missile defenses to do it it is heading for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says one of these isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these serious weapons designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it enough. we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive in russia's in hands military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet for it preserve. restore parity in the world sure that there's no point in gauging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world

safe for the best part of a century or the stress has pointed the new weapons so far only to balance the world powers who didn't pointed out that us missile defense is already deployed in alaska and california and following nato expansion into the east to science have also been set up in romania and poland and new sites soon to be established in japan and south korea and apart from ground launched weapons systems the us complex also includes a naval component meaning that america currently has five navy cruisers and thirty destroy a ships stationed right along russia's eastern border. but we spoke to several defense analysts who think the russian president's speech was not intended as a threat. it was defense the terence competition and containment no aggression no thoughts of starting off initiating

a war which is reassuring the defense versus the oftens missile technology and technology has probably reach a new phase with bookies and the americans even though they have known at least in general terms that these weapon systems are in the pipeline probably react with some surprise at the advanced stage in which they were unveiled these are not designed for war fighting these are designed to send a very clear message that president putin said quite clearly which is that these three systems are basically saying if you mess with us we will nuke you and we will not hold back now that is a strategic statement it's not a statement about escalating to deescalating which is what the russians are often accused of and were accused of officially by the american government in the nuclear posture review which is indeed a dangerous. doctrine but it's not

a real doctrine that the russians have ever endorsed. well reaction to putin's revelations about russia's nuclear capabilities has come in from the pentagon as well it said it wasn't surprised adding it had actually been expecting such an announcement but tensions were pretty high the u.s. state department is ati's samir khan reports well the state department says that russia's new hypersonic missile violates international treaties and how there now it was particularly concerned about the video or imagery that was released claiming that it shows the missile targeting the u.s. and when reporters asked about this the scene turned pretty ugly and now revealed just how uncomfortable she was when she slammed the russian reporters who pressed her on this says officials of the russian government will slow to take in the united states interests new styles sent to different directions so why do you say that they are you know you ran from there shouldn't you ok ok enough said then i'll move on. which is one of the if it did happen they're not.

officials of the russian government they're just asking a question about me oh really ok well we know that. r.t. and other russian news or so-called news organizations are there i'm good and directed by the russian government so if i don't have a lot of how this should go over how they're going to assess you would think about oh my god this is my video is this video that you're talking about yes there is not excuse me and it was met with significant backlash from reporters all throughout the room but how did she respond with several doses of sarcasm of course but for the record this is her usual m.o. when she wants to avoid answering questions in the past she's referred to me and my colleagues as representatives of the russian government and then i made a berridge of questions now or shut down the entire press conference and then rejected a reporter's question which rightfully upset the reporter who then stood up from

her chair and followed an hour out of the room we've got it we've got to go on iraq i will talk to you after the no the iraqi parliament voted wednesday to call for a timetable for the iraq before and she. now it's unclear what exactly agitated now are but it could have been the continuous stream of questions regarding of the american reaction to president putin's address but journalists in the room were all defending each other so i wonder if we'll hear any complaints from the other reporters. italy is going to the polls on sunday and the public opinion seems divided with the right leaning parties gaining momentum as you can see behind me photos tell you know what a project to go on over thirty percent of the vote both parties are well known for their tough stance on immigration and this issue remains a key one as the country struggles to deal with the continuing flow of newcomers. and i see a truck in a trouble to one italian town that hopes its approach to migrants will be taken up

by the entire country. we are incest a study of on the on the outskirts of milan in the north of italy once an industrial town used to have overwhelmingly communist views dubbed the stalingrad of the country today those views have all but vanished with elections in italy just around the corner this place hopes to lead by example in tackling immigration and tolerance seems to be the last of concerns. whatever will help the situation must be done it's very important in other countries they are already doing these kinds of things and no one gets offended because it is a warranty for us and them. we need to find the best solution possible first we need to find out how many migrants we can identify through digital fingerprints and any other systems then we need to see if this works. they are human beings too but if there are hundreds of thousands coming it's in the every year.