chris, you know, when i talk to gun owners and conservative gun owners who talk about the second amendment as a right, a lot of them tell me that they look at the question of background checks is something where they re supportive in theory of the idea of universal background checks, but they are unsupportive of kcandidates who would vote for them because they worry about a slippery slope of other restrictions on gun ownership. basically, they don t trust that if those were put into law they wouldn t end up having, you know, what they look at as confiscation of all weapons what the nra would look at and say is the future of liberalism on guns. but those people those conservative gun owners who believe in a slippery slope are such a small number. when you look at the overall voter population, am i wrong about that? it s a small number, when you look, even at the breakouts in these questions, even
republicans, even gun owners, support most of this. what i m saying, chris, actually, is that you can hold two ideas in your head at once. you can tell a pollster that you support universal background checks and you can also hold accountable or vote against a lawmaker who votes for those background checks that you say you support. in addition to that, the energy on the side of those who are against background checks and some of these other restrictions is huge. and so, as ken points out, these republican lawmakers are looking at potential primaries. the president of the united states, who is running a base-only strategy for re-election, is concerned that if he does anything on gun control, he s going to lose people that he needs to show up and support him in his re-election, i mean, you ve seen his rhetoric change from right after this shooting and right after previous shootings, i should say, you know, within 24 hours at times. yeah, i m not sure it s not the other way around, ken
and can it come from a place like texas. it s going to come from the american people. i know a lot of conservative gun owners. i m a fairly conservative person myself, believe it or not. they re tired and iffer in not going to do it, we need to put people in offices that will and we need to use the ballot initiative that we ve used across this nation for a lot of good laws and sometimes some bad laws to make it happen. houston police chief art os vad doe, thank you very much for joining us here. thank you, have a great day. up next, it s not often cameras and microphones are invited into cia headquarters and this morning then are and we re there. gina haspel set to be sworn in soon as the director of the central intelligence agency. we re going to bring that you ceremony live. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it s been prescribed to more than a quarter million people.