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Shouldnt be national reciprocity in this bill, at the same time when dianne feinstein is bringing up lets ban all weapons of war -- lets focus on what we can do to get real reform. background check is where we have bipartisan support. >> background checks and fix nics are two different things. are you saying the reforms should stop at fix nics, enforcing what is out there? >> we have to fix what is out there in regards to nics. lets think about the sutherland springs shooter. >> our own reportin...

Going to at least present himself in opposition to a congress that he accused of being in the nras pocket. so everyone appears trying to sort through -- think youve heard a lot of lawmakers use the phrase, well, i think the president meant x. and that is a pretty familiar dance that weve now been doing on capitol hill on a wivariety issues, this one the most emotional, the most controversial and the one where the president was pretty specific on his policy proposal, he was less specific on immig...

The floor. john cornyn had been working on this fix n.i.c.s. bill. clearly it wasnt enough for the president. but anything else might be too much for these republicans. >> casey hu kasie hunt, appreciate that. kelly odonnell, there will be another meeting apparently on school safety today. what do we expect from the president and what do you think well see? >> reporter: two key words. closed press. you think like wh unlike what we saw with lawmakers, there time it wont include cameras. and we di...

But i got to tell you, it shows how this debate is fundamentally shifted. >> that was actually chris murphy. i think we have the dana lash sound bite that we want to play. but i know you have new reporting on their reaction to this. >> right, so ive spoken to people familiar with the nras meeting on this and they are in a bit of an uncomfortable position right now given the fact that there is a president who they strongly support who has been strongly supportive of their second amendment issues ...

As seemingly court some of the democrats on this issue. when we look at what he tweeted, here is some of what he may have been doing to try to turn down the volume a bit by appearing like he is in a listening phase. many ideas, some good, some not good, emerge from the meeting on school safety. background checks are a big part of the conversation. gun-free zones are approach targets of killers. after many years, a bill should emerge. respect the second amendment. so there the president sort of t...

And people ought to offer more ideas and im not sure theyve pass. in the past weve acquiesced to failure and not done things within our power to accomplish like the fix nics bill so i would like to recommend to you and colleagues that we get that done and build on it. we dont stop there. we build on it. and because none of us want to look these families in the face in the wake of another mass shooting and say, we failed to do everything within our power to stop it. >> and john, fix nics has some...

Up here during this debate. >> sunlen serfaty with the latest for us, thank you. our next guest says background checks are the first line of defense in curbing gun violence. congressman leonard lansing of new jersey joins us now. we heard the speaker mention background checks and in terms of things that we need to know more about. you and 18 of your fellow house republicans sent a letter to the speaker asking for a vote on stronger background checks. has he responded to you? >> the speaker ind...

We heard from chuck schumer who said, im quoting here, it would be an abject failure and dereliction of duty if the only thing congress does is fix nics. do you agree if thats all that happens, will congress have failed the american people? >> i want to do more than fix nics. but we havent passed legislation in this regard in quite a few years. and i think thats a good start. but, erica, i do want to do more and i hope that is possible. >> in terms of doing more, the president said yesterday tha...

Legislation can reach the presidents desk. fix nics seems to be the first part of that. i agree with you that there should be more. but lets get the ball rolling to make sure that legislation can reach the presidents desk. >> in terms of getting the ball rolling, we have seen in our polling here in the last week, the american public wants to see something done in the wake of florida. 7 in 10 americans want to see stricter gun laws. thats a sharp jump after what we saw even just after las vegas. ...

With any group, i will support the views that i think are important for the american people, that includes bump stocks. i think they should be banned. it includes fix nics. and it certainly includes making sure that the federal government can study this issue and as you know that has not happened for a very long time. >> that research, even if it were to come back today, obviously we would not have the findings for some time, there has been talk about more immediate action, one of them being rai...