what public polls show about wide support for background checks or high capacity magazine bans. they don t match it. so the facts on the hill will have to prove that wrong, because to date, hasn t moved the hill. lauren fox, phil mattingly. thank you. thank you for being with us, i m poppy harlow. it s been tough for you to watch as much as to us. we ll bring this to you best we can. at this hour with kate bolduan starts right now. hello. i m kate bolduan. we begin on capitol hill with the emotional and heartbreaking testimony from an 11-year-old child and also from the parents who had lost their daughter in the texas elementary school massacre. miah testifying via video. the young girl recounting the horror of what she lived through
debate politically has been a long time. the point is that him saying that, sticking to that issue, doubling down on the debate stage does put a standard out there that candidates have to answer to. many of them are moving that direction. we have seen from polling, even though the majority of the country does still favor issues like the assault weapons ban, majority of democrats especially, it is a polarizing issue when you get into questions of buy backs or assault weapons bans or magazine bans, unlike background checks, 90% of the country and 80% of republicans seem to support. as a primary for democrats, it will resonate with people. not an overwhelming majority that made president trump change his mind, but give the party something to rally around to distinguish the democrats in the primary season, whether it causes them problems for taking a stance that may be further than most of the vast majority
is that too far? politically guns, there s huge movement on the gun issue, but does a mandatory buyback go too far? well, we ll find out, because beto is going to campaign on it. i think he and castro are in the same situation last night, they had campaigns running out of money, at 1 and 2% in the polls, so they both went for the risky move. castro managed to blow up both his presidential campaign, which was dormant, and his vice presidential campaign, by attacking the most popular candidate in the party. beto is breaking the rules of gun politics. maybe we re in a new era where those rules don t count anymore. but historically some gun control legislation like background checks, large capacity magazine bans, assault weapons bans, have been fairly popular particularly with swing voters. but beto is taken it to a step we ve never litigated in a presidential election, which is
party is behind that 100%. the president has been in talks with senators about potential gun control legislation and assisting states with implementing their own red flag laws. what are you hoping the committee actually gets done? credit to our chairman. we re going to be having a hearing, marking up legislation on red flag laws, high capacity magazine bans as well limiting more people who can buy firearms if they have a hate crime conviction in their past. my fear though if the president is only going to support red flag laws is this, one that s not enough. if you don t limit what types of weapons are made, you don t know more about who is buying them, you don t give law enforcement more ways to intervene when there are incidents, you re putting a lot on law enforcement. i have two brothers who are police officers. i would hate if we allow these weapons to be in the communities and the only way to protect people is to send law enforcement into dangerous homes and expect that going t
necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation. you can pass common sense laws. to protect our kids and protect our rights. do we really think that adding any more laws to our books would have stopped him? it s been a few weeks since newtown. and, you know, you can t help but feel that the world is a different place. people are proposing assault weapons bans and magazine bans. everybody is talking about how the gun business is going to be suffering. so i have to imagine that right now, doug and kurt are starting to see the impact of that. you know, that people are, you know, kind of rethinking whether or not they re going to buy guns. so i want to see is kind of what s happening with them at their shop and how they re