record on gun control. hold ground on any attack for her fight for progressive values. question sanders how he intends to pay for trillions of dollars in new initiatives. guy, you re shaking nodding your head. i have to tell you, coming up later this afternoon at townhall.com i have a story coming out. on my ride up here this morning on the train, someone very close to clinton world, let s put it that way was having a very loud conversation in my train car. ow oh. another one. about the debate, had very choice comments about the vice president. very choice comments about bernie sanders. talking about the debate and it is very clear they want to go after bernie on gun control because it is very popular issue with liberal base. one bernie is to his left. progun in blue state vermont that is in favor of second amendment gun rights. that is vulnerability they may
abbott s given texas voters reasons to doubt him. i think that s absolutely right. there was a cover of his 2007 album love grenade featuring a naked tied up woman on a food platter with a grenade in her mouth. it s so offensive we can t even show it. so robert, my question to you is, it strikes me that the voters who would be attracted to that you can say it s about second amendment gun rights, but that sounds like a dog whistle to me. but the people who would be attracted to come to an event with greg abbott with ted nugent, if greg abbott doesn t already have those voters in the pocket, he has much bigger problems. so why do this? that s why this has been such a subject of perplexity among the texas political world, karen. because you re right. he s got those votes locked down already. he does not need to do that kind of courting. i think it indicates two things. it indicates first of all that greg abbott really does i mean, he s a very, very conservative dude.
about this. well, yeah, they were. actually, it is interesting. this is being framed today not strictly as the second amendment gun rights kind of issue but it actually has to do with life and defense of yourself. if we have an inalienable light to our life and liberty as the declaration of independence says it only makes natural common sense you should have the right to be able to defend that life as well. shannon: we have to have a quick chat about your friend alvin green running against jim demint for the u.s. senate and now not only dupree weighing in. how do you think alvin will receive the news that there is another hurdle in the way in washington. he probably likes her jumping in the race in a way because she is attacking jim demint. she said she wants to cook his goose. higshe is a big chef in charlt. she wants to cook his goose and bring home the bacon. this is the era of the the tea
here, maybe a couple hundred. is an all day event supporting and protecting second amendment gun rights. these are people from all over the country who say this nation needs to make sure that people who live here can responsibly carry guns. now, there are no guns at this rally, because it s in d.c. and d.c. bans firearms. quite frankly, they have been very adamant about the fact they want this to be a peaceful event. they have urged the people here not to bring this guns at all. as you said, it s a different event over in virginia, they are expecting to have people show up with their guns. they are dealing with all sorts of constitutional issues in addition to the second amendment. monica. tracie, thank you for that. we do have breaking news coming to the newsroom we want to get you up to speed on. this regarding the volcano in iceland. according to airport authority lufthansa granted permission to fly 50 planes back to germany for passengers. good news for some passengers but just a
turns out right now, trust the government. your rally is not one of them. we are seeing more open carry rallies spreading across the country. do you see a ling? yeah, i really do. i m sense ag tone, tenor all across the country, and i think it s a healthy thing. our founding fathers, they told us, they warned us about government. it s not just government, it s big government. when government gets too big, it controls your life. it invades every aspect of your life, along with that the right to keep and bear arms. grassroots ordinary people, doctors, lawyers, farmers everywhere across the country, we need to have a healthy distrust of our government to hold them accountable. all right. founder of the second amendment march today. thank you for your time. thank you, ma am. you have a good day. defense secretary robert gates pushing back against an explosive new york times report. the sunday article claiming an internal memo that gays wrote said the u.s. lacked an effective long