breast cancer which my mom had. this is something that shouldn t be a political football but it had become one. we have things unique to our area, we re one of the most rapidly growing areas in the country. if you drive to our streets, you will feel that. we need to invest in infrastructure. we have jobs we can t fill because we haven t done enough in job training. > another issue that you have to deal with will be gun violence. mass shootings, sadly. another devastating it mass shooting last night. 12 people killed at a bar in california. give me your stance on gun violence. well, we clearly have to do something. this is a public health crisis in my opinion. and it begins with universal background collection on the sale of all guns. there are loopholes that are open right now that we must close and this is something that i think is consistent with the second amendment, consistent with the supreme court s rulings in this area and something that i think the majority of
they passed they purchased alaska. and we will acquired more property in the west. so america can go on. there s opportunities to collaborate i think on infrastructure, d.r.e.a.m. act, background collection, prescription drugs. we ll seal put stuff on his desk and see if he wants to sign it. i had congressman ted lieu on. wham about when it comes to the affordable care act? will you work to implement some of the things that were stripped or removed? yeah, put in protections for the counties, about 1,000 counties where there s not enough competition. whether it s reinsurance or cost sharing there s bipartisan proposals there. prescription drugs is an area where you can reduce the cost. i have a 17-month-old. i bought tamiflu. the pharmacy clerk looked at me and said good thing you have insurance. it s $5 for you. if you don t, it s $200. that s wrong in america. you mentioned some of the people you felt you did not get,
because it s been driving me crazy. when i applied to be a judge, there was a lengthy very intrusive questionnaire that asked you everyone had you ever lived with, every place you had ever lived and in particular, will you ever taken drugs. we knew then that if you had experimented with anything other than marijuana, in your college days, it would be disqualifying. not because you would be a bad person but because it was a court position a life tenured position and the fbi went into those weeds. the notion that the fbi could not return to that whether he we re not talking about a weed anymore but a serious accusation is just not true. you re saying they could essentially reopen a background investigation or expand on the investigation that they ve already done? right. and these investigations the background collection are unbelievably intrusive. so you go down to the details of people s lives and these certainly are details like any other. there s no reason why they
this very thing that weigh doing is turning a blind eye and acting as if this is not a human and moral issue, we will do something about that in the fall. it s incumbent upon the american people to understand and know that they have a right to just not allow these kinds of things to continue to happen but threw have the power and they have the tools to do something about it. matt, your group was protesting outside paul ryan s office today. what was that about? we were demanding the same thing, thousands and thousands and thousands of millions of kids across this country are demanding which is universal background collection. paul ryan needs to bring a universal background check bill to the floor of the congress. 87% of americans support a bill like that. the only reason that it is not being passed that it s not being brought to the floor is because of nra money. a small group of extremists and
radicals are causing people to die. lucy, you re running for congress now. i first met you years ago after the loss of your son. and you ve been active in this movement. what prompted you to make that move from being an activist and spokesperson to actually running for congress? well, actually, it s been a number of tradition over and over again. but the catalyst for me was parkland. i had just come from colorado spending time with the legislators there. they do really good work with background collection for all gun sales. just there continuing to talk with their legislators and continuing to encourage them to do the good work they re doing. the moment that i stepped off the plane in atlanta, my phone was blowing up over parkland. i could barely get out of the airport, my heart was so heavy and i was so emotionally burdened by the fact that here we go again. and i just decided that our children need support.