I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime.

We have two big voices tonight making a lot of waves as they take on two of America's

biggest, most systemic and intractable problems. Racism and gun violence. Chelsea Handler is here

and so is Beto O'Rourke in just moments. So what do you say? Let's get after it.

President Trump seems to have a new scapegoat for his own inaction on guns. Guess who?

Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.

We're not going to allow it to be used against a fellow Americans anymore.

Crowd loved it at the debate but now the president is seizing on that moment from Beto O'Rourke

arguing it has thrown a torpedo into his gun reform talks. Quote,

dummy Beto made it much harder to make a deal, convinced many that Dems just want to take your guns

away, will continue forward. O'Rourke argues the only thing stopping us from ending this epidemic

is the president and his quote cowardice. He is here exclusively to make the case. Always a pleasure.

Thank you, Christopher, have a me on. All right, so let's state the proposition. Are you in fact

in favor of gun confiscation? Yes, when it comes to AR-15s and AK-47s, weapons designed for use

on a military battlefield, the high impact, high velocity round that is fired from those weapons.

When it hits your body, it expends all of its kinetic energy, destroying everything that's inside

and I've met those who've survived fire from an AK-47. I've met those who've lost a family member.

That belongs on the battlefield does not belong in this country. So when it comes to those weapons,

Chris, the answer is yes, but when it comes to firearms used for hunting or self-defense,

the answer is no. And I don't want you or anyone else to get into the fear-mongering that some have

fallen prey to saying that the government's going to come and take all of your guns. What we are

talking about exclusively is weapons of war that have no place in our war. I hear you.

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