there s a cultural divide here, some of it s rural versus urban, some of it s regional. we need to understand each other s point of view. and reach that point where you say, listen, we can disagree about 50 things. are there two or three things we can agree on, for example background checks. you re telling me they re backing down on the background checks? rachel, tell me about this. the race we broadcast on fox, what are the repercussions and possible implications of fox and nra? the nra has had so many controversial ads lately. and gunmakers aren t allowed to broadcast. this is something the networks do themselves. they basically decided they re not going to air ads from gunmakers. and then in comcast, basically cable, then recently took this up as well. it s been a matter of great controversy over when these ads will run, who is going to run them, who decided not to run them. part of the sponsorship deal is at least once an hour the broadcaster has to mention the name of the spon
look, this is a case where, frankly, everybody needs to be kind of steady. feelings run high on all edges. there s a cultural divide here, some of it s rural versus urban, some of it s regional. we need to understand each other s point of view. and reach that point where you say, listen, we can disagree about 50 things. are there two or three things we can agree on, for example background checks. you re telling me they re backing down on the background checks? rachel, tell me about this. the race we broadcast on fox, what are the repercussions and possible implications of fox and nra? the nra has had so many controversial ads lately. and gunmakers aren t allowed to broadcast. this is something the networks do themselves. they basically decided they re not going to air ads from gunmakers. and then in comcast, basically cable, then recently took this up as well. it s been a matter of great controversy over when these ads
rallying against and so was a then senator obama. there s enough to go around on both sides. at the end of the day, look, if we re going to examine the issue, examine parts of it, whether we should be arguing this out in the public, you don t do away with an entire filibuster. be done with it though. you make a good point about the polarization. the assumption was you d have overlapping interests. sometimes people would vote by party. other by geography and other by rural versus urban or north versus south but they would overlap. so you would never get you can t look and say you got 60. 60 would show up in different formulations. parties have become the dominant. when a party that was of course just the segregationist democrats hanging out with the republicans, when we come back, we ll talk more about this. you know, it really is my sense that progressives keep talking about this.