period don t hold me a number, whatever it was. but all across the country. and it s not because the gun shops in the cities are selling these guns. they re either shadow gun dealers and/or gun shops that are not abiding by the law. so we re going to do major investigations and shut those guys down and put some of them in jail for what they re doing, selling these weapons. there s also a thing called ghost guns that are being sold now and being used. and so but in addition to that what we have to do is we have to deal with a larger problem of the whole issue of law enforcement generally. we re in a situation whereas much as we need to pass the floyd act and all that, but here s the deal. cops are having real trouble. they re not all bad guys. there are a lot of good guys. we need more policemen, not fe fewer policemen, but we need them involved in community
not a big fan of mine, one you talk about a lot, but if you notice, as they say in the southern part of my state, they ve had an altar call, some of those guys. all of a sudden they re out there saying, let s get vaccinated. let s get vaccinated. the very people before this were saying i shouldn t make fun of it. that s good. it s good. it s good. we just have to keep telling the truth. that s why, for example, my wife just flew to alaska today to do an event in alaska about making sure people understand and get vaccinated, talking about covid, elgts. so it s you know, by the way, there s pockets. if you notice, there s about, what, four or five states that have close to 45%. don t hold me to exact numbers. my home state of louisiana is 36% and there are other southern states. no, but i mean of all the cases, all the cases, a very overwhelming majority of those cases are in four or five states. yeah. and it s just not there s
is wonderful. and because things are so and because things are so crazy out there, it is very hard to get comfortable like i would ordinarily be. for example, i think all of the help that s there providing meals and all the rest, i think they love us. they say don t come in for breakfast, we can get our own breakfast because i like to walk out in my robe and go in. you think i m joking. i m not. you know what i mean? and so it s just a you know, the only place i ve felt like what the office connotes is when
or something. don t hold me to the number but you know? so you had to take there were significantly fewer filibusters in those days. in the middle of the civil rights movement. let me talk to you about that. let me finish my answer because i d tell you what i would do, i would go back to you have to maintain the floor. you have to stand there and talk and hold the floor. you can t just say it now. i understand that. what difference does that make if you hold the floor for a day or a year, what difference does it make? you talked about people and this is important for people who look like me. my grandmother would sit around when i was a kid, 5th grade, had a 5th grade education. i learned that she couldn t read when i was doing my homework. she would tell me stories about people asking her to count the number of jelly beans in the jar. yeah. the soap in so why is protecting the filibuster, is that more important than protecting voting rights, especially for people who fo
end of the economic scale, don t have much access to anything. so we ve taken literally mobile vans and people to the communities, to the hardest hit communities and it s beginning to have some impact. but we have to talk about it more. for example, i was just with i get in trouble because my wife is a philly girl and a philly fan and eagles fan. i just hosted the tampa bay buccaneers and there s a guy, there s a quarterback there. what s his name? anyway, all kidding aside, you know, what we re doing is getting people of consequence who are respected in the community, whether they re ath athletes, whether they re well respected. one of the things i ve been able to get done, i have overwhelming support from the african-american clergy that i come from in my circle of support. they are opening up their