is create a pretty major issue for republicans. blue-collar voters in states like wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. think about this, president trump won michigan, and there are over 700,000 registered gun owners in michigan. he is hurting his own party. harris: why is anybody listening to beto o rourke? [laughter] chris: good question. harris: they are not backing him. against the other 2020 democratic candidates. johanna: i have a friend who is a beto person. so they invited me to come. kennedy: oh, that s the one! [laughs] johanna: there are a few! i went to this event with my son because it was grassrootsy, he wasn t using a microphone and he wasn t on stage. harris: was he cussing? chris: he s got to become of course. johanna: afterwards i was like, i couldn t hear him, he was on the stage, he didn t have a microphone. my son was in the back of the car. we want as friends. my son said, i heard him. and we were like, what?
continue to say is we need a nominee in this party who can excite the base of the democratic party and energize folks to come out and vote. he believes he is the best candidate to do that. and i think will continue to show that. he said on the stage we shouldn t lose the way we talk about him. there he was talking personally about another candidate. i don t think this was a personal attack. we re at risk of overextending the metaphss metaphor. we re picking the best player to take the ball down the field. cory wouldn t be in this race if he didn t believe he was the best candidate to take on trump and unify the party. we have to bring this party together. we have to bring this country together, and cory showed last night he s the right candidate to do that. a moment in the debate when beto o rourke said, hell yes, we re going to take your ar-15. taking a more aggressive
jackie, can we just talk about how big of a moment it is here to have an openly gay man make it this far in a race? and to have him talk about it so powerfully during the debate. you read his book, he also talks a lot about how meeting his husband and how much he s learned from his husband and how that enriched his life. but you re right, poppy. this is a reminder of how far we ve come from talking about the possibility of, you know, civil unions and gay marriage and just a few years ago to having this man on stage talking so powerfully about his personal experience. no question. one word that was not mentioned on the stage if at all much, impeachment. on the same day that house judiciary committee voted to progress that. that shows you the difference between probably the vast majority of the voting public at this point. ron brownstein, jackie kucinich, thanks to both of you. still to come friend and colleague of joe biden, senator
standpoint on what are known as assault rifles, semiautomatic rifles, et cetera. do they support a buyback program as opposed to just a ban of future sales of weapons in that category? he does. and he believes we have to have an aggressive program to get guns off our streets. illegal guns off our streets. he s been the most aggressive candidate in this field on gun safety reform. it s something he s been talking about way back since the spring. what he said last night on the stage is really, really important here is that it should not take these issues coming to our communities, whether it be gun control or poverty or violence against tra trans americans. we need an empathy and compassion for our fellow american that extends past our immediate communities to all americans. and that s the kind of president he s going to be and on gun control, look, he will put his record beside anybody and put his plans up against anybody s in this race in terms of his aggressiveness in getting guns o
namely health care and gun control at the debate. but many of them also took aim at the former vice president, joe biden. some on stage, some off stage. joining me to talk about it and a lot more, including guns, is a man who has endorsed the former vice president. a good friend of his, senator chris coons, democrat from delaware who filled biden s seat. thanks for being with me. good morning, poppy. always good to be on with you. you are, obviously, very close and have been for years to joe biden. your children have referred to him as like a grandfather to them. you re very close to his son, the widow of his son, his late son, beau. when you heard attacks on stage last night about his memory, about his age, we heard it from julian castro and then we heard this from cory booker right after the debate. i think that we are at a tough point right now because there s a lot of people who are concerned about joe biden s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line