off in ohio with tim ryan. everyone knows why these races matter, control of congress, the first election since the supreme court ended the right to choice, and the premise here is of course the votes will decide the outcome. i shouldn t have to say that, right? the reason i shouldn t have to say that is this is still a democracy. so here we are tonighted in midterms homestretch, and this is america. it s not like many other countries where you have authoritarians or december cots that make it clear they don t intend to follow any outcome except the one where they win. take for example brazil where you have an autocrat who sound likes this. translator: there are only three alternatives for me to be arrested, to be killed, or to be victorious. and i tell those scumbags i will never go to jail. that s how authoritarians talk. he s basically saying the only right outcome is that he wins. that s abroad, but consider why i m showing you this as the first thing in the beat.
that message and to call what some 270 mayors have signed bipartisanly on a letter to say we need to pass into the senate an up other down vote on hr-8. it s very easy. we want an up or down vote on background checks, which 90% of americans agree with. 87% of gunowners in ohio agree we need universal background checks and the time is now. we don t want another city to be like dayton. you heard senator schummer there as i just played saying this is on two people. this is on president trump. this is on mitch mcconnell. you said this can be done. it can be done quickly, and it can save lives. how optimistic are you, mayor, that something can actually be done, that there can be gun reform? well, look, as a mayor you have to stay optimistic. you re optimistic for the future of your community and optimistic for the future of the country. we as mayors are hoping that
out. reporter: yeah. the death toll is rising, complete destruction. people needing help. what are you hearing on the ground? reporter: yeah. well, i mean, the destruction is something i haven t seen before all over this island. we re at abaco island. we re in marsh harbor right now. the people the president was talking about who he said weren t supposed to be in the bahamas is largely talking about haitians who came here after the 2010 earthquake in haiti. there is a settlement of them half a mile away from here, where there were believed to be 7,000 of them living. we have watched bodies come out of there today. so while the official death toll has not increased commensurate to what we were watching, there are body, as you and i were talking about today, the smell of decomposition is strong here. there are people at the dock still trying to get out. i spoke to two parents and their son, an autistic child and they have been trying to get out. they re both government
well, i can only assume that they care more about what gunmakers think and protecting gunmakers than protecting innocent american lives, and that saddens me. but i know there are profiles in courage in that senate, and if mcconnell will just let an up or down vote happen, we could put this all to bed, and the president could sign it. this isn t very hard. this is popular, and it s been popular in places where republicans win as well. so this isn t just a place like in urban communities where it matters. we re seeing it in urban areas because we know the massacres with hit anywhere from synagogues and mosques and churches to shopping malls and movie theaters to great trendy neighborhoods like the district, nobody is safe if we don t start moving on common sense gun legislation. mayor, quickly, are you worried that the momentum around surrounding gun reform
president s base, with these three guys jumping in to primary him? no, i don t think so. if you look at mark sanford and joe walsh, they re basically versions of trump. joe walsh had said many of the same racist things that donald trump has said. joe walsh has a history of saying many of the same thing. we lowered the bar by electing barack obama, our first black president. the only reason that he got elected was because he was black. he said a lot of hateful, divisive rhetoric. he is actually in many ways, his rhetoric and that of other republicans have paved the way for donald trump because donald trump came out and said i m going take this to a whole another level. mark sanford, a lot of the same character issues as donald trump. these guys want to be back on the stage, if you ask me, just like donald trump. the stage. but in fairness to joe walsh, he does run on saying he is apologetic for that. this is an act of contrition leading with the fact he helped pave the way for donal