president can do. uh-huh. en 0 his own. obviously there s been reaction already from republicans saying they ll try to stop these actions that he s taking any way they can. do you feel these are substantive actions that are going to make a difference? yeah, i think the bigger point here, rachel, is the message that this sends that we are raising awareness of this issue. it s become part of the forefront of our conversation. we need to continue this conversation. we need to bring this 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
familiar to you if you have been following the current race for president this year in 2016. listen to this and see if this rings any bells for you. this was in 1968. his popularity is a river fed by many streams an of discontent. it is wider than the race issue, broader than a southern movement. his support comes from people angry about a lot of things. he s i don t know how to put if. he s got guts. let s put it that way. that s the best way i know on that to stand up against all kinds of criticism and maybe he s not a politics but i m not either. his support comes from people who are angry about a lot of things. maybe he s not a politician but that s to his favor as far as i m concerned. that was 1968. close your eyes and just listen to the news reports from that election, it s almost like they re talking about donald trump, but of course, it s 196 and the man they are talking about then is george wallace, alabama s governor ran for president as an independent in
obviously on fear and anger and a cultive personality buildup around the combativeness of the candidate ca himself. this is wallace country but he ran into one of the worst and one of the loudest protest demonstrations of his campaign so far. you ve got some folks out here who know a lot of four-letter words. but there are two four lit are words they don t know. w-o-r-k-and soap. work and so. that was how george wallace campaigned for president in 1968. wallace finds attack on press and tv is a successful campaign tactic. sound familiar? the ridicule and content mr. wallace expressed for the baltimore sun, the milwaukee journal and the television networks in general got nearly as strong an audience response at a rally. that was 1968.
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 about the president doing anything at all on this issue, and also how strongly and sometimes how strongly upset the president feels about this issue personally. and a key to that is the interview here next.
the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i m back. aleve pm for a better am. george wallace apparently has 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