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You dont have, like i said the party leads that can pull them one way or another. lets talk about background checks. the plan to expand checks have been flounced in the house. mike thompson from california and peter king from california say that they now have more than 100 cosponsors for the bill. meanwhile, lawmakers voted against a background check in the senate are finding themselves in hot water in their home states. we showed you jeff flakes approval ratings in collapse. rob portman in ohio...

Colombia already have these sorts of laws on their books. you say it has a good shot of passing in the senate now. why? >> well, we have 43 cosponsors and a lot of folks who havent taken a position. i can tell you from my private conversations, theres a lot of sense among members who didnt take a position that this is the right position to be on. its fairness, equality under the law, opportunity for all americans, and the fact that folks can say back home i fought for equality and fairness and t...

Realtime. the cosponsors of the bill, republican congressman mike rogers, who chairs the house intelligence committee and the ranking kmem per of the committee, duch rupert percent berger say they made significant improvements that should satisfy critics including an amendment that would sanitize or remove personally identifiable information and they say there is now more oversight for how the information is used. >> automatic reviews from congress each year to make sure there is no personal inf...

Things. the right to keep and bear arms is there. this has dangerous implications down the road. most of them that are there are saying youre pushing something not really there. im saying im not and the rest of the country knows it. we have 220-something cosponsors and 34 senators are saying we dont want to go with this. >>gretchen: what are the fears? >> all of a sudden you lose your sovereignty. you lose your ability to determine for yourself what your policies are going to be. were going to b...

And i agree with senator cruz, it is constitutional to do such a thing. the supreme court has indicated that pretty strongly, but i dont -- i just dont think it is going to be that effective. id rather my focus on what is going to work and i think that background checks is the most important thing to do. >> and you mentioned two things, background checks and restrictions on trafficking. do you think that those measures could get bipartisan support, and if not, what do you think has a realistic c...

Happen on his watch raises i think series questions about the prudence of going around the country giving campaign-style speeches. >> i think it was a smart move to go to the country and speak to the american people about the issue and not having sequester. i also think its important to have the conversations with the washington lawmakers. it has to be a two-track strategy. you had to do the first 1 to have pressure for the republicans to want to meet with president obama in the first place. i d...

Bipartisan group of senators cosponsoring them. senator collins and senator kirk. both republicans of maine and illinois respectively. senator leahy is leading us. senator kirsten and myself from the northeast also involved as the leading cosponsors. so i think we are on the cusp of a major breakthrough if we can move this bill out of committee and through the united states senate. >> it is amazing it has not been a federal crime before. and i know first hand youve been passionate about this. no...

Pharmaceuticals. but basically its a small company industry, a lot of them are start-ups, so this makes them make hard choices between r & d projects and employees and makes them make tough decision taos. bill dee dee situationsdedee dee situations too. bill: you have republican and democratic senators lob toeupbg havsenators lobbying to have this reversed. do you holdout this will happen. >> we have bipartisan support in terms of sponsors on the bill between donnelly and coats, and franken, and...

But i go back to the oval office and i start watching the cable news networks and it is like we didnt pray. jon: so, what is going on there, cal? sounds like the president wants credit, i guess for hosting or attending the prayer breakfast, and, gets a little upset when we in cable news dont give him his props, i dont know? >> well, jon, this is has been going on since the eisenhower administration. it is not organized by government. it is organized by private people. the presidents is always in...

>> a work visa so they would be able to keep and renew all the way. it doesnt give them a citizenship tract unless they seek that separately, which theyre not prohibited from doing but it gives them a status where they dont have to face deportation. >> do you hope or believe youll get democratic cosponsors on this? >> i think the democrats understand that we need to do something because this is a time sensitive issue. these are young people who are graduating, they go to college and then they ha...