and cokie is right.can party is nervous anytime trump gets involved in serious issues because he changes his mind so frequently. they don't want to end up backing something that puts them at odds with the nra. some at odds with their constituents. >> there seems to be a disconnect with the kids we're seeing. i spoke with some of them. >> you live in florida. >> exactly. i've been talking to them. and the sense of urgency that they have, we don't -- i don't see it in the political class. there's a huge disconnect with what they want and -- what they want. >> it does appear your governor has made a bit of a move. >> not necessarily. the same talk we have been having for the last 25 years. we live in a country with more guns than people. according to "the washington post" study three years ago. we have done nothing about it. the sense of urgency we see in the kids, i don't see that. translating into the political process. >> is there a danger for the republican party holding the line completely with the nra

>> congressman, cokie roberts here.ator cornyn from your state is talking about legislation with senate or murphy. that's a big change for him. do you see change in texas that he is responding to? >> yeah. senator cornyn talked about that several months back and, again, nothing became of it. he's talking about it again which is also very positive. i hope that it materializes. i hope it's true that he's willing to take action because that's not the only thing that has to happen. we also need universal background checks. we have to ban bump stocks and you have to either abandon the assault rifle or assault weapons or limit high capacity magazines so that somebody can't shoot off 30 rounds before somebody even turns around and has a chance to respond. >> michael steel. >> congressman, i want to shift gears a little bit. the immigration debate is still sort of seething in the background here. we watched the senate shoot down not one were four bills last week. the one supported by the president got the least amount of suppor

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sam and cokie really like you. >> i'm not lying my first book was through yale university of press ondean acheson and someone i knew owned a bookstore. they threw a nice party for me in their new york penthouse. i was a young kid in my first book sitting at the desk of my signing pen on dean acheson and lo and behold in a tuxedo was walter cronkite in line. i thought wow the guy watched in ohio is coming to my book signing on dean acheson. i kept an eye on him and i was talking to other people. when he got up to me he said that was a wonderful time we had sailing together. [laughter] he thought i was david's son. you are in that position to say well you know. i corrected him and i watched them slink out. >> a whole category on this i was on stage with a varied prominent person interviewing him and he kept asking me, as you wrote about your hamilton point. you think i am -- how did you handle that? >> something like this happens. how many of you have had someone walk up to an airport and they are convinced you are some other person? i used to be someone -- phil donahue. i got such grea

political commentator for abc news and npr , advisor to the american archives of public broadcasting, cokie roberts. [applause] charged withe doing is looking at how news and public affairs came into being and how it evolved in public media. jim, i'm going to start with you. you were there almost at the beginning. when you came to washington and all about watergate. what happened? the watergate hearings, that was the watershed event for news and public affairs on public television. up to that point, the distinctions in the public was generally divided over whether they needed any more news and public affairs on television beyond what was already there on commercial television. the nixon administration particularly did not think there was a need for any more public affairs on public broadcasting. the watergate hearings changed everything and the reason it changed was because -- there are several individuals who have the courage to make tough decisions. -- was not was not to broadcast gavel-to-gavel because many of the stations were not broadcast it live because they had educational tv on dur

well obviously this is not necessarily based on any statistics but we begin to go back to the twenty cokie presidential elections as well where he was only able to. win elections in the annals because of them because of making politicians with other parties but at the moment i think its popularity has been racially. deteriorating and i say that because increasingly seen the coalition that he created it when he came to power his administration or longer exists and. in human rights violation that we've seen and objects like. democracy that we've seen need to talk to say that he lost support in the country maryam thank you so much for your time do appreciate the background you're able to give us in the context there on the story mary i'm sure and it's from transparency movie it's really if you want to pick this one up mt take it yes well i mean what i found out today is that it's such a tiny little country but in the conversation it is huge it's trending if you look at our map there to see who's talking about what so earlier we spoke to is the former vice president of the maldives he served f

cokie roberts talked about a crazy clinton conspiracy theory in the '90s and she said "i need to talkbecause this is what people are talking about when i go to the beauty parlor." this is the role that people in the media have to think responsibility about behavior that's irresponsible and call it like it is. so you guys did a great job saying that the republicans are spreading disinformation, that's what we need to do, call it out. not just repeat it. >> they're gatekeepers as well. >> that's right. >> and the major gatekeepers are google, facebook, twlt a-- twitter, and for any of us who have problems with google -- and i certainly have -- i could have cured cancer, you would have typed in my name and a conspiracy theory would come up oopd that was google's responsibility because they were the publisher. now, they fixed it. >> those places can be much better regulated. >> but it's the same thing with this fake news. facebook, we had kamala harris on. she didn't want to come out and say that facebook needed to be more aggressively regulated in this is fake news area. >> joe, in germa