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In the latter portion of Thursday night’s CNN “town hall” with President Barack Obama on gun control, host Anderson Cooper surprisingly pushed back at the President’s slam on opponents of his executive actions and policies on guns as conspiracy theorists.
After lobbing a number of tough questions at the President, Cooper stepped in when Obama took his latest dig at those who oppose him and flatly characterized them as believing a government conspiracy: “This notion of a conspiracy out there and it gets wrapped up in concerns about the federal government. Now, there's a long history of them. That's in our DNA. The United States was born suspicious of some distant authority.”