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High school or get the ged or maybe go to college, and then theyre put in the same pot. yes, their backgrounds will be taken into consideration but if you dont have a standardized test how do you job. >> the probable emis the brown is not being taken into account. so i dont have a problem with the test provided you have to understand some people dont have the same background. >> let me take this further. "no child left behind" do you think it innocent criesing teacher? >> theres no excuse for th...

>> to your point, this evolution were seeing with republicans and same sex marriages, were not seeing that same compromise in the gun debate which is the hot topic today. even on the issue of universal background checks. at least not right now. >> right. you look at a lot of polling on guns and particularly on universal backgrounds where they show 80 to 90% support. republicans are pretty much committed to blocking a lot of that legislation. well see if there is any type of compromise. there is ...

Stab-proof vest is part of every nurses uniform. medical staff deal with the survivors of gang hits, treating up to 50 stabbings a year. >> got his head blown off, thats probably the worst one. but weve had lots of major stabbings, lots of gunshots, lots of people who have been stabbed in through the chest cavity, who we stabilize here and ship immediately to trauma centers for emergency surgery. you dont ask questions. you basically deal with them as patients. if you start digging into their ba...

People out there who dont really cry out im going to shoot loads of people. what can america do to try and identify them? >> thats a great point. thats why we have to be cautious and we have to be very cognizant about what weapons and what type of magazines we have out there and what backgrounds we do. as police chiefs, we do a lot of background checks to make sure that those who we give pistol permits to or registrations for for weapons that we make sure we know who they are. i think that when ...

Shoot loads of people. what can america do to try and identify them? >> thats a great point. thats why we have to be cautious and we have to be very cognizant about what weapons and what type of magazines we have out there and what backgrounds we do. as police chiefs, we do a lot of background checks to make sure that those who we give pistol permits to or registrations for for weapons that we make sure we know who they are. i think that when we also talk about the capacity of the magazine, just...

His lair. what do you make of it? >> well, we certainly wouldnt want somebody like that shooter to have that much arsenal at his disposal, and we must make changes so that we do find out these people in advance and stop that before massacres occur. >> heres the problem, chief. let me just put to you this point. heres the problem, it seems to me, with shooters like adam lanza. how do you know theyre going to be shooters? i can raise alarm bells with hindsight and maybe they should have been spott...

Scene. >> reporter: not left at the crime scene, the murder weapon. according to the indictment, elkins sister sabrina elkins and their mother karimah elkins ditched the .22-caliber revolver in this marsh miles away from the crime scene. tests will determine if the gun pulled from the marsh this week was the gun used to kill little antonio. >> i had to watch my baby die, and i want him to die. a life for a life. >> reporter: thats wests wish shared with cnns piers morgan. under law, not possible...

People have said does it matter what your personal relationship to this issue is into whether you should rule on it? we take chief justice roberts, his first attorney in the courtroom, does that matter in terms of his ability to rule. >> i dont think so. certainly, its not evidence of bias. justices are human beings. they have families. they have religions. they have racial backgrounds. they have had previous jobs. some of them have been active democrats or active republicans. you dont have to b...

Or urban/rural? >> i think a lot of it is urban/rural. but we should be talking about policy terms. the reason were at a debate that 90% of americans can agree on is more of the ambitious policy proposals that 30% of americans had agreed on or 60%, are off the table. were no longer talking about something like the assault weapons back from 94. were no longer talking about real restrictions on magazines. what were talking about democrats and liberals were saying a few years ago, is closing the gu...

They focused on? unfortunately in the last 20 years i would say they have focused mostly on sex. i hope with this pope, theyll focus more on something that brings us together rather than eventually saying youre bad on sex. >> as catholics, we know a pope is human, and we dont have to agree with him on everything, but we have to know hes coming from a right place. >> beyond this conversation going on among catholics, as you look at this catholic moment in american politics, what does he mean? >> ...