nearly 90 deaths a day in this country by guns. is there any possibility this might be part of the policy conversation going forward? i think the president s own record of saying there s no policy avenue for this number to go down the congress says there s no appetite to bring this up. the congress has no the natural con constituency of the congress the republican majority, there s no pressure from their constituency to put this up. what you saw is the vast silence of the members of congress in terms of issuing statements and so forth after the gun violence and what you saw from presidential candidates the silence as well. everybody could denounce the racism but people were not prepared to denounce it s the pressure against. in this podcast early in the week he talked about this. in a visceral moment the comedian asked him what s going to happen and he says nothing because the nra has control over