like machine guns or guns with silencers. that was in the year 2000. 900. by the year 2014, it wasn t 900 applications anymore. it was over 90,000 applications. this has become a significant issue. so today president obama naupsed that people using gun trusts to buy restricted weapons he, they will now have to undergo a background collect. that will not be a way around the background check for those restricted weapons. this is one of those things where the hardest thing about it to understand is this wasn t already the case but this wasn t already the case. on the policy level, there s a lot of really interesting specific stuff about what president obama announced today that he could do as president on reforming gun laws. even if congress refuses to do anything themselves. and the policy level, there s a lot of interesting specific stuff. on the political level though, the thing that is remarkable here, of course, is the level of upset caused by this issue. how upset the right gets abo
is now looking to close. with a gun trust, you don t need that law enforcement signature. or fingerprints. or photographs. because legally, it s the trust that owns these weapons. that legal loophole is one of the things that president obama moved to close today. and it might sound like a small thing. once upon a thing it was. in the year 2000 for the whole country, there were a total of 900 applications by corporations or trusts or other legal entities to buy restricted guns like machine guns or guns with silencers. that was in the year 2000. 900. by the year 2014, it wasn t 900 applications anymore. it was over 90,000 applications. this has become a significant issue. so today president obama announced to people using gun trusts that buy restricted weapons he, they will now have to undergo a background collect. that will not be a way around
conversation to the communities across our country and get folks engaged. and to the folks that say they re going to do everything they can to block this, you know, then what, what then? okay, if 30,000 people continue to die every year in this country to gun-related tragedies, then what are the answers? if the folks who say it s not firearms, it s mental health, well the president is proposing $500 million be infused into our mental health system with my group sandy hook promise, that s what we do. we try to bring programs aimed at intervention and prevention to try to get folks who are in emerging mental health crisis the help they need before it leads to violence. if it s not firearms and it s mental health, let s go. the president today talking about that part of his proposal said put your money where you your mouth is. if you want to about it as a
heard that the next national public opinion polls will show him to have reached a peak and to be beginning to decline because he charged today the polls are rigged. he says the polls don t show the full extent of his popularity and that any poll appearing now showing him losing grounds will be a lie. that s what he said. any poll showing him losing ground will be a lie. that was the george wallace for president campaign in 1968. i don t believe those polls, by the way. because both of those pollsters do not like me. i m telling you. now, i m not saying anything that goes on illicitly with polling. okay? i would never ever say that. but both of those polling groups do not like me at all. and i disagree. i don t believe it. parallels between the donald trump campaign of 2016 and the george wallace campaign of 1968 are eerie when you start looking
chambers of the memory haul the fact that donald trump briefly ran for president in 2012 in the 2012 cycle on a different type of super inflammatory beyond the pale platform and he ran basically on the platform that president obama was secretly foreign and that he had a fake birth certificate. we talked last night about the fact that he was winning by running on that platform. the short period of time that he was running, he was winning by accusing the current president of being a foreigner, not being a legitimate president. he really was at the top of the polls for the few weeks in which he mounted that presidential campaign in 2011 for the 2012 psych. people have sort of forgotten that about him as a political figure. the reason we unearthed that for last night s show is because i this i it s a good reminder that mr. trump being popular didn t just pop right now. donald trump has something that republican voters like. they liked the last time that he offered to them only for a short