4200 guns con i confiscated at e airports. and 86% of those weapons were loaded. so to think that you are going to disarm. steve: wow. disarm. that s going to be a miracle. we need to make sure that the public is safe. when you think of things like that. you say there is no way that you are going to be able to disarm the police. steve: joe, this guy is getting a lot of publicity for this statement. data for progress. they say six in ten in that 16th congressional district in new york do not know who they are going to vote for. now this guy is getting a lot of headlines. that s why he is doing it. only way he can garnish votes. go against the police. and honestly, i mean, it s moronic. it s insane to come across with a statement like that that you are going to disarm the police he is going along
or comments about americans clinging to their religion and their guns, the democratic party has in some cases had a history of offending in making why generalizations about people in middle america for the rust belt states and frankly i think joe biden is wise to reject that path and i think he is wise to take on some of the rhetoric. dana: you know vice president biden. he worked for him. i would imagine he was frustrated during the 2016 campaign when hillary clinton said the word deplorable. it was something that he would not have said initially. i think she expressed regret. i think for joe biden it s personal because he is from scranton, pennsylvania, and so when you grow up in a place where they voted for president obama and they voted for president trump you know that tromp voters are not deplorable, they are not racist and bad people, but they were misled and so now this is the
policy positions were anathema to the republican party on trade and a whole bunch of other issues and the voters followed him. if the voters continue to support joe biden it s because in the end they are worried most about beating president trump. they think he has best chance. abortion is going to play a bigger role than usual in terms of the energy on the ground, but it doesn t mean that it s going to be decisive. what do you think, and how does he explain it? well, he first of all, he s very personally religious and has explained it over the years by saying there s a difference between protecting a woman s right to choose versus affirmatively supporting abortion through federal funding and moving your tax dollars to this purpose. he has an explanation for it. he will certainly there will be a pile-on in which ever of those two debates later in this month he s part of. one of the reasons that he s the strongest contender in texas against trump because he s the most experience