not have them. governor martin o malley tore in to the democratic national committee on friday, as you know, accusing the party of rigging the debate process to favor hillary clinton. do you agree with governor o malley? i think rigging is a strong word. i think that at a time when so many of our people have given up on the political process. when 80% of young people did not vote in the last election, 63% of all americans did not vote, i think debates are a good thing. i think love debates. so i would like to see more deba debates. i would like to see groups representing working people have a debate to talk about why the rich get richer and everybody else gets poorer. i think environmentalists deserve a debate so we could talk about how we move aggressively to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel. i think young people deserve a debate. in terms of my idea and other ideas about how we make college education in this country in
1st, a month later. i think voters will sober up and wake up. whatever it might be. that s right, but right now, here s the thing. right now they are doing looking and showing up and listening. they are engaged. i have never seen people so engaged so early. that is going to be a game changer, i think. whether it s the democrats or the republicans. a quick note on the jorge ramos thing. what did you think of trump doing that? when i see trump and sarah palin together, you think the primary is a clot to make hillary clinton president. you couldn t ask for anything more. the trump and ramos exchange is a perfect metaphor for the impact trump is having on the republicans. alienating them. i was in mexico speaking at a panel discussion and 70% of the questions were about donald
liberal and progressive on the issue of gun control. a surrogate for hillary clinton went to new hampshire and said your gun votes have been driven by political expediency and what is your response? let me tell you. i have a lifetime voting record on the nra of d minus. i voted very strongly for instant background checks. i want to see them made stronger. probably the most important thing we can do. number two, i voted in a state, by the way, that has almost no gun control. i voted against the nra and voted to ban certain semi automatic weapons. i voted to eliminate this group hold that allows people to purchase guns without a background check and nogz that, what i believe is we need to do a lot better job in terms of
wednesday morning with the shooting of those two individuals with the local news station. terrible. your democratic rivals have been arguing that when it comes to guns, you are out of step with liberal and progressive primary voters on the issue of gun control. a surrogate for hillary clinton, connecticut governor dan malloy went to new hampshire and said your gun votes had been driven by quote political expediency and this is a dividing line between you and hillary clinton. your response? let me tell you, i have as i understand it a lifetime voting record from the nra of d-minus. d-minus. i voted very strongly for instant background checks. i want to see them made stronger. probably the most important thing that we can do. number two, i voted in a state, by the way, jake, which have almost no gun control, not an easy vote, i voted against the nra, and i voted to ban certain types of semiautomatic weapons. i voted to eliminate this gun
and people want individuals coming in to the country, and they re all for legal immigrati immigration. they are very concerned about illegal immigration, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking we go in to every single community and it comes up the pure politics of it. are you as a republican leader not concerned about the rhetoric that you hear from donald trump? because i have heard many other republicans say they are concerned about it. i think that what he is doing as so many people will say, i identify with what he s saying because he s concerned about the same issues that i m concerned about. that s a good thing. all right. and it s important for people to have those discussions. and i think the fact that you re talking about the three top issues, and he goes on stage and talks about these, national security, job and economic security, retirement security. got to go. thank you so much, congressman.