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today, trump s own testing czar said that s not true. we re learning every day, but nobody lies to the american people. we re completely transparent and honest. reporter: four former heads of the cdc warning in the washington post sound science is being challenged with partisan potshots, sowing confusion and mistrust at a time when the american people need leadership, expertise, and clarity. and biden s message today, follow the science. mr. president, please listen to your public health experts instead of denigrating them. do your job, mr. president. mary bruce with us tonight. mary, president trump dealing with two crises at once. the pandemic which you just reported on there and the national outcry sparked by the police killing of george floyd. we know the president was asked by cbs about black americans being killed by police, and here s how that question played out. why are african-americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country? and so are wh
candidate now. you ve supported joe biden and how he has handled this situation with the president with ukraine, now with china. he released his plan. it doesn t call for mandatory buybacks of assault weapons either. you feel not doing so is going to the wind in the polls. joe biden also doing that, guilty of that weakness? here s the distinction. when mayor pete is taking potshots at a plan proposed by the student leaders in march for our lives, when he is disregarding the very real pain that the people of el paso, or midland, odessa or sutherland springs in texas, four communities that have suffered shootings, acts of terror in one state alone, that s what i find to be so offensive and so galling. and for someone who said that we should decide what the right thing is to do and just pursue it, regardless of republicans and what they say, toe allow the talking points to be defined by the nra and the republican
done it. so much of what i m doing relates to others a expense, whether it s r&d, whether it s infrastructure, whether it s jobs. boosting the economy, our plan would create millions of jobs in this country. so you see that as a priority, like a package together? i see a package together that it will touch on a lot of other priorities. climate has to be the lens through which everything that we do. i want to ask you about another issue, which is obviously front of mind right now after the shooting in west texas. a horrible massacre there. there s really interesting polling on gun control right now, gun safety measures that are showing higher levels of support than there have been for a while. and one thing jumped out at me was from quinnipiac poll. do you support requiring a license to purchase a gun? 82%, which it s a very polarized country. i don t get a lot of 82 percents. that s part of your campaign platform. what do you think of that number. when we came out on this, a nu
another issue, which is obviously front of mind right now after the shooting in west texas. a horrible massacre there. there s really interesting polling on gun control right now, gun safety measures that are showing higher levels of support than there have been for a while. and one thing jumped out at me was from quinnipiac poll. do you support requiring a license to purchase a gun? 82%, which it s a very polarized country. i don t get a lot of 82 percents. that s part of your campaign platform. what do you think of that number. when we came out on this, a number of people in the democratic field took potshots at me calling for licensing. it is something that works. it is evidence-based. connecticut did it. shootings dropped 45%. suicides dropped 15%. someone who needs to drive a car. shouldn t you be licensed to own and buy a firearm? you think it s constitutional? absolutely. again, even even with the court s jurisprudence.