“We need a bulldog in there.” Three Texan voters join Beto O'Rourke at his dinner table for a candid discussion about guns, racism, immigration and more. byronpitts hosts: Watch the full clip:
Just days after a mass shooting claimed the lives of 22 people in an El Paso, Texas Walmart, former Congressman and Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke invited ABC News and three Texan voters into his home for the network's premiere episode of “Around the Table,” a series bringing together candidates and voters for a candid conversation around the dinner table.
Morris is a current Texas Tech college student from Arlington, Texas who says he’d like to see presidential candidates talk more about education and student debt relief. “It would begin with a background check on every weapon purchased and every weapon transferred,” O’Rourke responded. “This is-- perhaps a little bit more controversial. But I think you should also have to have a license for owning firearms.”
“There may be any number of reasons that somebody supports President Trump. And I wanna be very respectful of that,” O’Rourke said. “But I will say that Trump has encouraged the racists in this country,” O’Rourke said he would rather reform current immigration laws and create a family case management program” to keep families together and push immigrants seeking to enter the U.S. to pursue a “legal, safe, orderly process to come to this country.”
“I hope that I've found some common ground with my mom -- in saying that -- whether it's Planned Parenthood or another family planning clinic, in addition to ensuring that -- choice means not only having the right but the access to the provider and the services,” O’Rourke said. “It's also about saving lives in this country and in our communities.”
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