do whatever they tried to kill richard feldman got a point there surely your freedoms as in trying to new constitution do not and should never be built on your right to kill someone else with either a gun that you bought at some and are a comic con type get together or that you've printed off in the basement well that all depends on what you're using the gun for if it's a self-defense shooting i might very well be using a gun to kill someone coming at me with a knife but if i'm the aggressor clearly i'm in the wrong it's not the gun that's the issue the issue in america and everywhere else in the world is never the gun per se but always in whose hands are the guns and for what purpose they're being used and if we focused on more attention in the media on that aspect of the problem and less than the particular gun being used how it was manufactured for what purpose it was made we'd be going a lot further and having a safer world ok the very very very briefly richard because we are running out of time it's talking there about guns being used to stop bad people in effect whether they are

printing guns may be an attractive revolver locks are all criminals in the future richard feldman in washington the trumpet ministration notoriously is gun friendly it's n.r.a. friendly can you run me through the trump reaction to this well i don't always understand everything that the trumpet ministration is doing but you know when you have an internet and you have a public library system all the information that we're talking about is available already in books online it may not all be in the same spot it may not all bees are easily available but it's out there so you know when we start talking about banning parts of the internet really folks this is what it's come to you can't ban technology you can go after the people who misuse it but to think about banning it is just to force aaron so rigid does that mean that you if you were president would you ban three d. printed guns or not i wouldn't ban them they're already out there and unless you plan on banning three d. printers or banning the internet banning computers banning libraries i mean let's focus on where the problem is. not

island of feldman, washington bureau chief of the christian science monitor. our guest today is richard trumka, president of the largest federation of labor unions in america. we usually have mr. trumka in right before labor day, so we are doing labor day about a month early, getting a start on things. this is his 10th appearance at a monitor breakfast.

island of feldman, washington bureau chief of the christian science monitor. our guest today is richard trumka, president of the largest federation of labor unions in america. we usually have mr. trumka in right before labor day, so we are doing labor day about a month early, getting a start on things. this is his 10th appearance at a monitor breakfast. background, hef was born in pennsylvania, a town i have driven through many times on my way to pittsburgh to see my brother. he followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines of southwestern pennsylvania where he worked his way through college and law school. in 1971, he graduated from penn state and received his jd from villanova and upon graduation joined the legal staff of united mine workers of america and eventually became president at the age of 33. since 1980 nine, he has been working on the afl-cio executive council and has been president since 2009, was just reelected for a third term last all. thank you for coming. now for the ground pools -- we are on the record here. please, no live blogging or tweeting. in short, no