. >> dickerson: ramesh, part of matt politically happened is, as they pointed out at 538 there is no better predictor of your position, not gender, not race, than if you own a gun, in terms of whether you are a republican or democrat that this has become cultural beyond the specifics of, you know, bump fire stocks. >> well, it is a polarizing issue but it is also an issue on which all of the intense intensity is on one side of the debate that is there are a lot more people who vote solely on the basis of guns who are pro gun and skeptical of regulation than are on the other se. and one of the reasons you have that lack of intensity on the side of people who want the regulations is that so few of the regulations would plausibly make any difference. so, you know, as jeff was suggesting, the types of things that we can think about doing, like an assault weapons ban won't make much of a difference in the things that, and the things that might make a difference would be really extreme things like gun confiscation that would present tremendous practical problems and tha that leaves us at a

i think we have lost joshua ramesh our guest in. there but we were nearly at the end of that interview so let's move on. to other news now and brazil's lower house of congress has voted to reject corruption charges against president michel tema the seventy seven year old has been released from hospital after being treated for you obstruction he's accused of taking bribes which he's always denied the lower house had voted in his favor and decided he was a lot face trial of the supreme court on charges of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice let's get more on this knowledge on by correspondent daniel his life arrived in buenos aires how did the voyage to unfold daniel. well it was a mother dramatic day elizabeth in brasilia they're becoming quite used to them now each of the deputies who attended the congress was invited by the speaker of the house to take to the microphone they had fifteen seconds to speak before the microphone was cut off to cast their vote in favor of president or against him some of them a short speeches

. >> ramesh, there seems to be you have some republicans that want to go on the record with a vote and some that want to see this banned but don't want to go on record with this vote because this won't be the only thing they have to vote on. once this goes to the senate, there is amendment after amendment to make maybe people in swing states have to take tough votes. >> well, i don't know whether it is just republicans who are going to want to avoid some of the votes. >> that is right. they'll be some rural democrats too. both of them. >> in 2013 we had a democratic senate and a vote on the assault weapons ban and 40 votes. only 40 votes for this position. so there are a lot of democrats in states who are worried about the politics of gun control as well. i think part of what is happening here is the nra has enough confidence in the position that it could afford to relax about the slippery slope because it knows in this congress and with this white house and given where public opinion is, it doesn't have that much to fear in terms of gun regulation. >> would the democrats see this as a