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Summer. thats unlikely to happen as leader mcconnell said. as the house passes the background bill this summer or early fall and it goes to the senate and fails, as expected, the house democratic version of a background check bill, could you see a reemergence of toomey manchin. talking to people close to them, they think that ends up as the legislation, if any, on background checks, and the other piece that could be coupled with it is the red flag law which gives local authorities protective mea...

Prevented the -- >> quote, not a single thing you do is going to alter how i operate on behalf of my constituents and the country. we have asked our friend robert costa to stick around for this part of our conversation, and bob, well try not to keep you too long, but we have heard people say tipping point to use the famous mountain gladwell phrase, we have heard people living in a moment, this could be it. several major national magazines have some form of the word enough on their covers. do you...

In dayton that get there in a minute. it could have been so much worse. and yet he still talking to the nra. hes still afraid of them. and i sat across from him after parkland and wrote down nine times he said he wanted to see background checks. we put a video out on my twitter feed of it. nine times he said this. you can watch it. he said it. but what happens? he then goes and meets with the nra the next day, and he folds. and so there is a pattern of this. youre exactly right. when the moment ...

The house. with those pass in the senate and how would you vote on that? >> it depends on whos proposal and whats actually in there. i know senator toomey has a background bill, has a it yet. said he might. weve heard testimony on the so-called red flag laws, lots of different ways to write those laws. i look forward to any proposal. the principles, its actually got to be effective, its got to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the hands of the mentally unstable, its got to protect the sec...

Confirming that president trump has talked about the two members of the congress. the last time the bill was taken up by congress was by president obama when it was narrowly defeated in the senate. president obama said it was a shameful day in washington. we know that president trump has expressed a willingness to be open to expanded background checks in the past. but that legislation has never gone anywhere, andrea. we know that a background bill has passed through the house. now you have democ...

Reading these statements expressing condolence or condemning white nationalism and then hell go back to the same racist tweets and taunts at his rallies. for my colleagues to expect anything different at this point is preposterous. they need to show some leadership. theres a perfectly good universal background bill that has passed the house that is simply waiting to be taken up in the senate. it would do a lot of good. bans on high-capacity ammunition clips, a ban on assault weapons. its not goi...

Years and years of young, angry men going out with assault weapons, with high-capacity ammunition clips and killing people in short order. and even when police respond, its still not enough when youre using that kind of a weapon. and were not powerless to do something about this. we can do something about it. indeed, the house of representatives sent a universal background bill to the senate and it has languished there. mitch mcconnell proud of his status of grim reaper of legislation like that....

Do we know where this rifle was purchased? >> not at this time. recess. >> im calling on the president and the congress to come back in im sure we will find that out later with the help of our federal authorities but right the session, mitch mcconnell, now those are particulars about chuck schumer, lets get back to the investigation that i think work in washington, do the that we need to maintain within background bill that we passed out of the house, ban assault our purview. weapons. >> we will...

What do you think the chances are of penetrating the gun lobby, getting anything passed and signed into law? >> well, that was a particularly low moment of grand disrespect. it was, again, maybe inexplicable to me. what i hope is that we will pass hr-8, which is the universal background bill. and i have confidence we will. you saw the courage and important role that this committee, this chairman of our committee chose gun violence as one of our initial hearings. we will pass that bill and we wil...

That anything is going to come out of this. even that smaller background bill, andersen. >> thanks very much. the question of regulating firearms, arming teachers and what if anything can pass the congress. which seems to be the one question that comes up after every such tragedy. joining us now is florida republican congressman. congressman, thanks for being with us. what do you make of this news that the president appears to be backing away from raising the age limit to buy any gun to 21? >> i...