defended. is it fair to call it a conspiracy? yes. a lot of people believe this deeply, that they just don t trust you. i m sorry, cooper, yes, it is fair to call it a conspiracy. what are you saying? are you suggesting that the notion that we are creating a plot to take everybody s guns away so that we can impose martial law is a conspiracy? yes, that is a conspiracy. i would hope that you would agree with that. is that controversial? and the president repeatedly made the point if we re going to regulate cars to reduce traffic deaths, regulate medicines, even toys, why would we not do the same with guns? michaela? donald trump was pushing his own plan to protect the second amendment at a rally in vermont, trump vowed to make gun-free zones in schools a thing of the past. the event was held blocks from
kyle and her husband for their service. taya will be live on new day later this morning. the town hall on guns came hours after a cnn poll appeared showing most americans support the president s plan. 2/3 including a majority of republicans say they favor his executive orders increasing the reach of background checks and improving enforcement of existing laws. but many people are skeptical. the proposal will have any effect. less than half think it will reduce gun related deaths. many oppose the way the president is making the changes. more than half disapprove using executive action to tighten regulation. the president was making a case, donald trump was promising to get rid of some. at a rally in burlington, vermont, he vowed to get rid of gun free zones in schools and military bases. he called the gun free zones bait for sickos with weapons. we need your guns.
on cnn. you had donald trump with gun free zones and his rally in vermont. listen to this. you know what a gun free zone is to a sicko? that s bait. that s like gun free zone. i will get rid of gun free zones on schools and you have to, and on military bases. my first day, it gets signed. it s bait for sickos. it is interesting. we have looked at the research. they go back to the 90s. joe biden, then a senator. bipartisan support for keeping schools in particular free of guns. this is something you heard from donald trump before. not in quite such colorful language. it is something you heard him say and others on the right. this notion that people are sitting ducks is one of the
he called gun free zones bait for sickos with weapons. we need our guns. whether we like it or not, we need our guns. burlington is bernie sanders territory. vermont is the state he represents in the senate, but he was once mayor of burlington. jeff zeleny has more. reporter: donald trump is used to loud rallies. the one in burlington topped most of them. he was interrupted by protesters again and again by many wearing bernie sanders shirts. take a look at some of the action. trump ruins vermont. get trump out! reporter: it was clear as the evening went along, donald trump
reporter: this point about dangers of gun-free zones is something that trump likes to say often. he also likes to say had the people in paris or san bernardino been armed, there would have been a lot fewer victims in those terror attacks. that rally last night was notable because it was held in the heart of bernie sanders territory. it was interrupt at least eight times by protesters, many of them wearing bernie sanders t-shirts. trump fans were trying to shout them down. protesters chanted things like this is not vermont. trump ruins vermont, get trump out. contentious moments for him there. south korea sending a loud and clear message to kim jong-un. they are resuming their loud speaker propaganda broadcasts across the border. it follows claims from the north that it tested a hydrogen bomb.