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>> mitterrand visited him in jail. >> he did? >> yes. >> youre kidding. when he was prime minister? >> it might have been afterwards. people like that because it makes america look bad and makes us look like were the abusers, if you visit a, quote, political prisoner. >> why do you think it is that these celebrities come here, like 30 years after the fact and hold press conferences in washington? i dont get it. >> that plays right into our next topic. >> yes. i guess youre pushing this along. pr...

For background checks on the magazines, getting at the ammunition itself. is that more likely than trying to ban the assault weapons? >> i think background checks are common ground. they can attract bipartisan support, extending background checks universally to all firearms purchases so we close the gun show loophole. 40% of all the firearm sales that occur in this country will be covered by the background check law, but also ammunition, which is really the fuel that drives many of these mass ki...

But i think also some of those weird moments, like the one you cited and an equally weird one, if i may say, when wayne lapierre tried to explain why he was against background checks, which is that the criminals wont comply with them. well, of course the criminals wont comply with them, because they wont go to the dealers or to private sales to buy weapons if they know theyre going to be background checks. and if that law is combined with one that goes after straw purchases and gun trafficking, ...

Which is that the criminals wont comply with them. well, of course the criminals wont comply with them, because they wont go to the dealers or to private sales to buy weapons if they know theyre going to be background checks. and if that law is combined with one that goes after straw purchases and gun trafficking, it can have an enormous effect, not only on firearms purchases, but also ammunition purchases. remember, its against the law right now for felons, fugitives, as well as drug addicts, s...

She has never been a gun control expert or advocate really before this month. its the first time you have ever really heard her even writing or speak being this issue. and the organization she heads, its purpose is to make conservative principles more palatable, nor popular with women. so her idea is to sell ideas to women that will make them more conservative. and being against the violence against women act, which is something she has been, when she made that argument it was because it was cru...

>> gayle trotter spoke vividly about the horrors of violence against women. she wrote opponents say it embraces gender stereotypes by casting women as victims and men as abusers. so in light of her testimony, i thought that was kind of an interesting take. lets take a listen. >> if we ban these types of assault weapons, you are putting women at a great disadvantage more so than men because they do not have the same type of physical strength and opportunity to defend themselves in a hand-to-hand ...

Weird moments, like the one you cited and an equally weird one, if i may say, when wayne lapierre tried to explain why he was against background checks, which is that the criminals wont comply with them. well, of course the criminals wont comply with them, because they wont go to the dealers or to private sales to buy weapons if they know theyre going to be background checks. and if that law is combined with one that goes after straw purchases and gun trafficking, it can have an enormous effect,...

Background checks. everyone agrees that criminal convictions ought to be accurately and fully conveyed to the department of justice. so the background checks can include people who are seriously mentally ill. people who are drug addicts and people who are domestic abusers. so we can keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people. that was one of the common themes. >> what about any advancement on the conversation of banning assault-style weapons or military-style weapons? >> the two sides are fa...

They want to stop the criminals from getting the guns. in my home state of virginia, we know that background checks work. in gun shows, state police arrest numerous individuals. they do work. and they can stop criminals and dangerous people from getting weapons. i find it very, very telling that the commentary as always, youre targeting law-abiding sit zeps. no, were not. were targeting criminals, domestic abusers, terrorists. we want to stop those individuals from getting a firearm and harming ...

Questions over knee calls to mandate universal background checks. william la jeunesse on that story live in l.a. now. william, good morning, what do you have? >> bill it seems to be the one thing that lawmakers a pier t appear to agree on. guns for the deraged is a patchwork of records that the government has treated not with try or the. and it begins with this application to buy a firearm. it is the first line of defense against gun crime, the background check. >> this is to make sure that you ...