amy: fred guttenberg, thank you for being with us.hen we come back, award-winning journalist allan nairn talking about the state of the nation in these few days before the elections. as the threat from within is so strong with one white supremacist attack after another, the president looks outward and tries to talk about threatening thihis country on the southern border. we will talk about all of this and more. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: the 2018 u.s. midterm elections mark a critical point in the era of president donald trump. the potential democratic takeover of the house of representatives has unleashed a torrent of white supremacist vitriol that is without precedent in recent years. in the past week alone, a militant trump supporter was accused of mailing three pipe bomb to cnn and 12 bombs to people trump frequently criticizes, including the obamas and the clintons. two african-americans were murdered by a whi

harkey, you owe fred guttenberg an apology for that. also was funded by the national rifle association, and rating, andfetime as a member of the national -- as a member of the california assembly voted twice to have high-capacity magazines more readily available. she also voted after the sandy hook massacre in connecticut to make it easier to arm teachers and janitors. i don't think those are the solutions we need. i'm honored to be endorsed by a group called moms demand action. we are not trying to take away anyone's gone rights. we are trying to figure out why 35,000 people a year are dying because of guns, and it's not just an issue of mental health. every industrialized nation has significant issues related to mental health, but not every nation in the world has this concern with gun violence. this is a unique issue to the united states, with got to get -- united states, we have got to get to the bottom of it, we need common sense and if congress won't act, as gabby giffords said, it's time to elect a new congress. ms. harkey: i wan