i think after 26 years of ineffective leadership, people are looking for different leadership. >> tamera, how do you win in a republican leaning district, i could check the talking points, in favor of expanding daca, my guess no wall. you want to ban the ar-15, and raise tionaires how do you do that in a red i sat with the people in the township, we should to take on wereas racism and promoting republicans and democrats -- >> tamera, you went after the deputy mayor, you called him a racist we would disagree on that, we would disagree on that, do you call donald trump a racist. >> bill, don't put words in my mouth, i said he has racist things, i never he -- >> wait do you think he deputy mayor is a racist or not. >> i said what he reposted was racist, i don't know him to make that claim. >> it donald trump a racist. >> i would say that it clear that donald trump and people are around him are not is what i am running asall ofha candidate who will work for all of the people in d bill: a long answer to that question. let me ask, do by point with governor murphy, . >> a lot that speak to resi

. >> thanks for having me.th tamera kand amy walter, thank you very much.just heard a lot, of course. in terms of coverage and rhetoric, democrats on capitol hill says this kind of bill they were going to support, they say it's too watered dowthat it just supports the current background checks they want more. what can happen on guns in congress? t's a very good question and it's one that we don't fully have the answer to yet. there does seem to be some coalescing on the republican side around something related to scale safety but itnot clear what that would be exactly and this smaller more narrow fix nix bill which requires state, federal, local agencietout people into the background check system as they are currentlyo required, give incentives for that. that had been a problem in the texas shooting, that church shooting several months ago.e >>ardins: in the midst of all this, as congress is returning to town, i think can hear their planes landing at washington international airplane, president trump has done something different and gotten outn front. he's

shawna thomas, tamera keith, thank you both. "politics >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: tonight at 9:00 p.m. right here on most pbs stations, "independent lens" tells the story of this country's historically black colleges. jeffrey brown is here with a preview. >> brown: "tell then we are rising" is the story of the nation's historically black colleges and universities commonly known as h.b.c.u.s. the film charged thedir rise an pivotal role as generationing of professional and middle class african-americans and looks at thats to their continued prominence and even in some stence.xi stanley nelson is the film's director. welcome. >> thank you so much. >> brown: why take is on? i godfathe -- i gather it's at t partly personal. >> my parents went to hbcus. there's no way they would have gone to college if it wasn't for hbcus.ed hbcus chahe trajectory of their lives, my life and will change my kids lives down trough the generations. so it's importa me. >> brown: in the film it says the question for african-americans has always been what is the purpose of educat