red flags can t get a weapon like that. there aren t a whole lot of calls i got initially about, you know, complete banning of guns. it s really about the real vitriolic anger of what else does this have to take to happen? it s a shift away from washington to local action. and that s not surprising to me. as you said, a guy from washington, i cover the military. i cover security issues. i ve been through these shootings as well, covering them as well. and everyone has been saying it. we don t expect congress to act. the speaker of the house s first response was just the opposite and not act on gun control, that is. you are seeing something else happening at the grassroots level. i think we ll see if this really is something different that sparks change at the community levels, at the county levels, all the way up. not just on gun control but on everything that s been discussed, school security, mental health. you name it. i want to ask you about the data side of this. we spoke a few
admission at the hearing today. roll this. do you have any doubt that russian interference is driven by putin himself? no doubt about it. no doubt. no doubt. none. bill: there you have that they re buried pretty definitiv. what president obama would say, what could i have done. the american people would ve thought i was tipping the scales. the mindset was hillary clinton was on a trajectory to win. they didn t want to disrupt it. when you think your own team is going to win, you let it slide, let it go. but this is russia. it is affecting the elections. we can t point to a single vote that s been altered along the way, and i think that s an important point. this is done at the county
we have sara with here and robin. robin, do you think to someone who aligns with the democratic party that is going a little far? absolutely, neil. think ellison is much too left for the party. the party needs to understand what the direction of populism in america is. the issues that matter to everyday americans. ellison, i don t think he s our guy. i was really hoping for jamie harrison. he s from my home state of south carolina. i think someone like tom perez, someone that gets it. talking about impeachment, that s sensationalistic and to left even as a democrat. and gina, this comes as a time when the democrats are wondering what will be our new soul, our new direction. you hear from a lot of the sanders folks that are, you know, moving in on the local level, county levels and getting
point a gun at me. so you re prepared to die. better dead than in a cell. absolutely. would you like to be in a cell? no one wants to live their life in a cell. absolutely i m not going to live my life in a cell. so you re prepared to die over what prince exactly? it s about our country. it s about federalism. it s about the government closest to people governs best. what happens is the powers of the government have been those powers have been brought back up into a centralized government. and so the counties and the states, those things that were dealt at county levels and state levels are now so regulated by the federal levels 245 our freedoms and our ability to have contact with the representatives on a one-on-one, face to face basis is gone. it s gone. i have sat down with my county sheriff face to face.
it s about the government closest to people governs best. what happens is the powers of the government have been those powers have been brought back up into a centralized government. and so the counties and the states, those things that were dealt at county levels and state levels are now so regulated by the federal levels 245 our freedoms and our ability to have contact with the representatives on a one-on-one, face to face basis is gone. it s gone. i have sat down with my county sheriff face to face. i sat double play with my county commissioner face to face and, you know, john mccain, he s not going to sit down with me face to face. and if he does, heel promise me lots of thing, but he won t be able to change anything. that doesn t happen. let the states manage and govern the things that pertain to the state. let the counties manage and govern the things pertaining to the counties. and let the federal government go back to managing and