joining mess is eric swalwell, a members of the judiciary and intelligence committees. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. let s talk about guns. the president reversing himself yet again on background checks. president obama was not able to pass any legislation on guns, even when he had the chance to do it, you can t argue with full control of congress, it was obviously a tougher political landscape after sandy hook, but there was certainly a big push for it. if a democrat is able to beat president trump in part because of in, on guns, do they absolutely have to make good on their promises to do something, even in the face of political odds? yes, absolutely, and too many families are counting on the next president to do something. parents are sending their kids back to school this month, and
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more involved in montana, potentially in south carolina and some of these other races that are going to come up in red states? i think that it s definitely all hands on deck time. and i think as you said, though, it s that grassroots enthusiasm that has just been absolutely through the roof. we saw wit the ossoff donations. but we have also seen it with huge fundraising halls from donations in montana as well where democratic rod quist has raised over a million dollars. follow the small money. that s where stuff is really happening and republicans should be afraid. montana, it s interesting. montana is not one congressional district but its whole state. montana has been very happy to elect statewide democratic candidates. they ve had a democratic gornor for more than aecade. jon tester has been reelected more than twice, been reelected for the senate seat. you can look at montana and say donald trump won there by a lot. but it seems very much a reachable goal for the democrats if t
follow the small money. that s where stuff is really happening and republicans should be afraid. montana, it s interesting. montana is not one congressional district but its whole state. montana has been very happy to elect statewide democratic candidates. they ve had a democratic governor for more than a decade. jon tester has been reelected more than twice, been reelected for the senate seat. you can look at montana and say donald trump won there by a lot. but it seems very much a reachable goal for the democrats if they can sort of come up with a big push for it. i definitely agree with that. montana is certainly in reach. and also republicans nominated a candidate who is a very out of touch 1 percenter, while the democrat is this very popular folk musician running a populist campaign. it s almost the perfect matchup that you would want in state like that. and it could definitely be in play. david, the last time you and i talked, one of the things we discussed was the discussi
through huge fundraising from small donations in montana, as well, where democrat raised over a million dollars. i like to say follow the small money. that is where stuff is happening and republicans should be afraid. in montana it is interesting because it is one congressional district but one state. montana has been very happy to elect statewide democratic candidates. jon tester has been reelected for that senate seat. it seems like you can look at montana and say donald trump won by a lot. it seems like very much a reachable goal for the democrats if they can come up with a big push for it. i definitely agree with that. montana is certainly in reach. republicans nominated a candidate who is out of touch one percenter while the democrat is this popular folk musician. it is almost the perfect matchup that you want naphstalt like